Join us on Wednesday, August 20 for our monthly meeting. The meeting will start at 6:00 at the NuSkin NOC located at 1175 S 350 E, Provo. Our topic will be continuous integration and the speaker will be Craig Berntson. Here are some more details on the meeting:

This session will show you how to use Continuous Integration in your daily development by integrating several free tools. Attendees will learn:
- How to implement Continuous Integration methodology into the development process
- How to automate code check out and the build
- How to automate unit testing, code standards checking, documenting, and other needs
- How to report the results of all the automation to the development team

Craig Berntson a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and has been a Microsoft MVP for over 10 years. He wrote the book “CrysDev: A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports”, available from Hentzenwerke Publishing. He has also written for FoxTalk and the Visual FoxPro User Group (VFUG) newsletter. He has spoken at various developer events in North America and Europe. Currently, Craig develops hospital software for a Fortune 100 company in Salt Lake City.

We will be holding our June meeting on Wednesday, June 18, 2008. The meeting will be held at the NuSkin NOC located at 1175 S 350 E in Provo. The meeting will start at 6:00. Our topic this month will be search engine optimization and how to get your web site recognized by the search engines.

Join us on Wednesday, May 21 for our monthly meeting. Jonathan Turner will be speaking to us on Silverlight. The presentation will focus on Silverlight 2 and will cover the following topics (based on time and interest)
- The differences between the different Silverlight versions
- What you need to develop Silverlight applications
- What your users need to use your Silverlight applications
- Creating a simple Silverlight application that includes the following
   - Some of the built in controls
   - Custom handled user interaction (mouse/keyboard input)
   - Simple animation
   - Simple multimedia (sound/video)

Jonathan received a bachelor's and a master's degree in computer science from BYU. His thesis involved integrating machine learning into user interfaces for controlling robots. He has worked for Aradyme Corp. as a software engineer doing data conversion, for Neumont University as an instructor, and currently works for Caselle Inc. as a senior software developer.

Come join us for the March UCNUG meeting. We will be meeting at the NuSkin NOC located at 1175 S 350 E, Provo, UT at 6:00 on Wednesday, March 18. The topic will be data access technologies.

Database access is something that just about every business application (and many others) needs to do. Microsoft has been busy lately coming up with different data access technologies. We will sort through the different acronmyms and talk about each method, when you might use it, when you might not want to use it, and show examples of some of them. Bring your questions and we will try to work through them together.

The meeting will be sponsored by TEKsystems.

Join us for the February meeting. Sean Hokanson will be speaking to us about Logging with log4net. As always the meetings will be at the NuSkin NOC at 1175 S 350 E in Provo. We will start at 6:00 P.M.

log4net is the .NET implementation of the popular log4j Java API for log management and configuration. We will cover the basic concepts of logging with log4net and considerations to take into account when integrating logging. Mostly we'll be looking at code.

Sean was hired as a Senior Software Engineer in the LDS Church's Family and Church History Department in Orem. Prior to that I was a Senior Software Engineer at THINK Subscription (formerly known as Sandlot, formerly known as ZZSoft) in Provo, where he'd been for 13 years.

Our January 2008 meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at the NuSkin Network Operations Center located at 1175 S 350 E Provo. The meeting will start at 6:00.

Ben Miller will be talking to us about the new features of SQL Server 2008 found in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of the product.

Ben Miller is currently a Senior SQL Server DBA for the LDS Church. Previous to that he was with Microsoft as an MVP Lead for 5 1/2 years and a SQL Support Engineer for the year prior to that. Ben has been in IT for over 20 years and started with SQL Server version 6.0. Ben has also been coding ASP.NET since the 1.0 Framework (Visual Studio 2002). Ben enjoys web programming and designing solutions for SQL Server. When he is not programming Ben loves basketball and bowling. He lives in Lehi with his wife and two children.

As some of you have noticed our regularly scheduled meeting falls the day before Thanksgiving. The December meeting would also be close to Christmas. As a result we have decided to cancel those meetings. We will start up again in January 2008.

Have a safe and happy holiday season.