Thursday,June 13, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (CT)

Irving, TX

We will have two great 75-minute session this month so we will kick off the first one a bit earlier than usual so that we can have a 10-minute break between the 2 sessions.
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Session 1 – 6:15 PM
Parallel Pitfalls – Mark Smith
Microsoft included the Task Parallel Library and Parallel Framework (PFx) in .NET 4.0 to try to make it easier for developers to take advantage of modern multi core machines. At first glance it appears they succeeded, however, as with most things, it's not as easy as it looks! Come learn some of the problems and solutions on how to architect multi-threaded applications using .NET that will scale your algorithms as you throw new hardware at it!

Speaker Bio:
Mark has been involved with software development for over 20 years, starting on mainframes (IBM VM/SP) and moving on to OS/2 and finally settling on Windows. He has extensive experience consulting for large companies, providing architectural and debugging help, performance tuning and design advice. He currently works with Microsoft Research on large dataset analysis, designing algorithms to take advantage of multiple cores to process and visualize large biological sequences. He also consults for Wintellect, helping their clients to design, debug and improve their .NET and Windows Store-based solutions, and teaches for DevelopMentor, where he is the author of their WPF, Blend, Surface and Windows 8 courses.

Session 2 – 7:40 PM
Building Killer Single-Page Applications with Durandal – Brian Sullivan
Building Killer Single-Page Applications with Durandal – Brian Sullivan JavaScript has come into its own as a language for building large, rich applications. Browser improvements have made it lightning-fast and a healthy ecosystem of libraries has risen up around it. Still, building Single-Page applications on your own can be a daunting task. That's where Durandal comes in. It leverages existing libraries like Knockout and RequireJS for data-binding and dependency management, and layers on additional features needed by real-world applications like compositional UI. Come see how Durandal can help you create web applications using state-of-the-art practices and tooling.

NOTICE: As announced at our December meeting, starting in January there will be
an *optional* annual fee of $30 to become a DDNUG member and be able to attend all
our meetings. We believe the value we provide to our member is much greater than
that amount and we hope that you will agree with that and obtain your annual memberships.
The Dallas .NET Users Group is a non-profit organization and we will provide you
proper receipt for your payment. Checks can be written to Dallas Dot Net USers Group,
we will also be able to take cash and credit/debit card payments.

Non-members will still be able to attend our meetings but there will be a mandatory
fee per meeting for non-members starting Q2/2013.

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