Joseph Guadagno : INETA

A November to Remember

jguadagno — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:57:46 GMT

And no it is not because the Yankees won the World Series (although congrats to them) it is because it has been an awesome month for me personally and professionally.

On the personal front…

My son’s baseball team, which I am an assistant coach, finished the season undefeated in regular season games (end of year tournament in next week). My son hit his first over the fence homerun which was a Grand Slam (technically not November but pretty awesome). My daughter's softball team, which I am an assistant coach, finished the season undefeated in regular season games (end of year tournament in next week).

I get to go to fly back to NY in a few days to see family and friends and wish my mother a happy 60th birthday.

On the professional front…

I was elected to the North American INETA board of directors.

I was elected to the AZGiveCamp executive committee, VP of Operations. As the VP I will oversee the activities of the Logistics, Sponsorship, Technology and Publicity teams.

I put together my first Code Camp, Desert Code Camp.

I am presenting a Bird of Feather session at PDC with Chris Woodruff on “How to Build and Enrich Your Technical and Local Community” on Tuesday Nov 17 from 11a – 12p. Stop by if you want to see how to build your community.

That’s it for now. Hopefully I can relax a bit in December.

Phoenix AZ Community Leaders Unite

jguadagno — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:35:55 GMT

This Saturday, June 13th, 2009, is the next Desert Code Camp. While I am co teaching on session on “Write your first desktop .net app (or, Write you own Twitter Client for .net)” with Saul Mora, I am heading up two community based sessions. the first session is open to the “general public” and is titled “Open forum with Community Leaders”. The intend of this session is to provide an open forum between the community members of Phoenix and the community leaders of Phoenix. So if you are a community leader, or are attending Desert Code Camp, stop by the session and share you thoughts and feedback on the technology community in Phoenix. The second session is a “private invite only” session for the community leaders of ALL TECHNOLOGIES in the Phoenix area. In this session, I want to get the community leaders together to talk about ways we can improve the technology community in Phoenix. If you are interested in this session, please contact me jguadagno [ at ] sevdnug.org, I will forward you the room and time information once it is scheduled.

Tech Events in AZ this week

jguadagno — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:52:00 GMT

WOW , there are a lot of events happening this week in the Phoenix, AZ metro area.

Tuesday, March 10th

11:30 am

TechLunchSouth

Meet up with other technology folks for lunch at Chino Bandido’s for lunch.

5:30 pm

AZGroup Meeting

Part 1. Tim Rayburn will present an intro to WCF. We live in a connected world in which no system is an isolated system. Systems need to be able to talk with other systems, which may or may not be written in .NET. WCFoundation is how Microsoft enables these types of communication. In this talk we will introduce you to the concepts of how to expose services, and how services differ from classes in how they should be designed.

Part 2. Rob Paveza is going to demonstrate a Facebook controls and utility library for ASP.NET developers, and talk about how Facebook applications are constructed and deployed from an ASP.NET perspective. The library is still being developed but will be fully-open source and available on CodePlex around the time of the meeting. Designer support is already built into the controls library, and hopefully we’ll have some LINQ-to-FQL ready to go as well.

Wednesday, March 11th

11:30am	TechTalkLunch	Meet up with other technology folks for lunch at Chipotle’s at 8320 N. Hayden Rd # E109, Scottsdale, AZ 85258
11:45 am	Gangplank Academy	Learn something new (The Gangplank Academy \| Gangplank Phoenix)
4:30 pm	SQL Server User Group Meeting	SQL Server Disk I/O – Defining the Right Architecture for your Enterprise Session Details: In Joe Belson’s Microsoft consulting work, he frequently helps customers identify disk I/O-related bottlenecks that lead to inadequate performance and scalability. He does this with white boarding sessions that result in clear plans for leveraging SAN hardware to help deliver optimal SQL Server performance. During our session, Joe will cover the basics of SQL Server disk I/O, how to determine your disk I/O saturation point, and how to provide simple, concise, and measurable requirements to your SAN engineers.
5:30 pm	Hack Night	Join the folks at GangPlank for hack night.
6:00 pm	Southeast Valley .NET User Group (SEVDNUG)	Introduction to C# 3.0 Visual Studio 2008 expanded the options available to you in C# to include a lot of new features such as Object Initializers, Collection Initializers, Lambda Expressions, LINQ, etc. This talk will be a tour de force of these new features, and will explain how these features can be used to radically speed up your development, and enable option that were not available to you before.

Thursday, March 12th

6:00 pm

Phoenix Connected Systems User Group

Web services allow users to communicate with applications over a network. This works great in intranet and internet scenarios, but what happens when you want to expose or consume a service that is behind a firewall or home/office router? Join Todd Sussman, Connected Systems Practice Lead at Neudesic as he shows you how to expose and consume services across the largest network in the world, even behind a home or corporate firewall using the .NET Service Bus.

Check out the calendar for future meetings at AZGroups.com.

INETA Community Champion Award came today

jguadagno — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:52:42 GMT

Could this weekend get any better. My little girl gets to see High School Musical today, I leave for PDC tomorrow (I have a lot of people to meet) oh and I received box today from INETA. My Community Champion award came in, I received a Letter of Commendation and a nice Award to.

Thanks INETA for recognizing the work I have done for the past year. Next up Microsoft MVP.

Here are the pictures.

Wrapping

Certificate

Letter of Commendation