Dan Rigsby will be presenting "RESTing on the Web with WCF"

.Net 3.5 ushered in a new Web Programming Model for Wcf which extended the library to support REST, Json, and Syndication.  This session will dive into what this new model has to offer and how you can use it to extend the reach and scalability of your applications

Here is some more info about Dan:

Dan Rigsby is a Lead Software Engineer for Interactive Intelligence in Indianapolis, Indiana where he has been since March of 2000. Dan has been an avid .Net developer since late 2001 starting with ASP.Net, but today concentrates on sever side plumbing (Wcf), application architecture, and windows smart client applications. He has also been known to dabble heavily in xml, xslt, databases (his Master Degree focus), and other "buzzword" technologies. Dan is involved on the MSDN forums for Wcf and has reached the level of a 5 star moderator. He is also an officer at IndyNDA and is always eager to help out in the community. As a certified ScrumMaster, Dan has been involved in agile techniques and project management. Read more about Dan and development adventures at http://www.danrigsby.com/ or connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.

Wow!  What a great meeting we had tonight (uh...last night technically)!  Dan Rigsby came down from Indy to talk with us about WCF support for REST, officially titled "RESTing on the Web with WCF".

We had 13 people attend.  I want to say thank you very much to Keller Schroeder for bringing in Subway and drinks for everyone to enjoy!  We all thank you!  As always, if your company would like to sponser the food at one of our upcoming meetings, please contact me.

Thanks to Microsoft, INETA, Culminis, and SAMS Publishing for providing our group with some great give away merchandise.

Here are some of the highlights of tonights presentation:

• visit www.danrigsby.com and subscribe!
• 4 tenants of REST
  • embrace the Uri
  • http verbs are your methods
  • content-type = object model (xml, json, etc)
  • status code = results
• check out www.jquery.com
• WCF now supports syndication out of the box, both RSS and Atom
• Dan's presentation materials are available on our website under the Resources section of our site

Upcoming meetings:

Next month we have two meetings!  Mike Gunderloy will be here on Oct 15th to present Ruby on Rails and then on Oct 21st Illya Williams will continue his discussion about DotNetNuke.

Oct 15th 5:30-7:30PM [Ruby on Rails, presented by Mike Gunderloy]
Oct 21st 5:30-7:30PM [DotNetNuke (development), presented by Illya Williams]
Nov 18th 5:30-7:30PM [SharePoint, presented by Rob Wilson]

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me anytime.

Thanks

Bart A. Robinson
http://www.evansvillednug.org

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