Join us on March 22nd @ Noon for Agile Project Management: Working smarter, not harder with Thomas Boxall!

So you have decided to start an Agile project. What now? How do you get started? How do I organize my team? How to I track my work? With this session I will give you the building blocks you need to set up an Agile project, manage the work throughout your project, coordinate with your clients, and provide some helpful tools you can inject in any project you encounter. I’ll be covering all the tools we use at Lexcom Systems Group as part of the Lexcom Development Methodology to help us deliver on our projects (including when to not run a project as an Agile project). If you don’t plan to start and manage your own Agile Projects, I will also be covering helpful tools to track your productivity, and improve your efficiency. The key to success in today’s IT industry is to use the right tools for the job. I hope to expand your toolbox and make you better equipped to handle the ever changing challenges we all face in our day to day jobs.

Speaker: Thomas Boxall
Thomas Boxall started his IT career with the Canadian Forces as a Signal Operator, where he was proud to serve a Tour of Duty in Afghanistan in 2004. In 2007, Thomas began working for ISM Canada, and IBM company. At ISM Canada, Thomas was first introduced to Agile, RUP, and TDD. Even with Waterfall based projects, Thomas was able to improve the reliability of his code by implementing Agile practices. In 214 Thomas moved to Lexcom System Group to pursue his goal of becoming an IT Architect. While at Lexcom, Thomas has become the manager of Application Development, and was instrumental at defining the Lexcom Development Methodology (a semi-dynamic mixture of Agile Project Management, and Lean Software Development) that is used on application development projects to date.

Location: Regina Public Library Theater (map)
Date: Tuesday at noon, March 22th, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on February 24th @ Noon for API Documentation: A Survival Guide with Melissa Kendall!

That thing you’ve put off until the last minute. No one wants to talk about it, but it’s there – the elephant in the room. The API is complete, and now someone has to make documentation for it. Join a developer turned Technical Writer to learn how API specification formats (Blueprint, Swagger and RAML) can be used to generate, automate and test your documentation.

Speaker: Melissa Kendall
For a Technical Writer, Melissa had an unconventional career path – a degree in Computer Science followed by two years of web development at iQmetrix. An opportunity to create developer-facing API documentation presented an irresistible opportunity to combine a passion for development with a love of writing and organization. A few months later, the iQmetrix Developer Portal was born, and the rest is history.

Location: Regina Public Library Theater (map)
Date: Wednesday at noon, February 24th, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on November 26th @ Noon for High performance apps using DoneJS with Adam Barrett!

Learn how to build the fastest single page applications with DoneJS (http://donejs.com). This talk details some most important performance techniques used in single page applications like: server side rendering, progressively loading optimized bundles, and use of content delivery networks. We will discover how DoneJS solves these problems while building a simple real-time chat application. As a bonus, I will show how to build the web application to a mobile and desktop application with DoneJS.

Speaker: Adam Barrett
Adam Barrett (@adamlbarrett) is an experienced mobile developer with a love for JavaScript and the mobile web. Adam has worked for successful Saskatchewan companies like Itracks, Zu and GB Internet Solutions as a front-end and mobile developer, and now works at companies like Apple and Walmart labs as a consultant for JavaScript and front-end development. When he's not discussing prototypal inheritance or which framework is better, Adam is always up for a board game or a talk about movies.

Location: Regina Public Library Theater (map)
Date: Thursday at noon, November 26th, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on December 3rd @ Noon for Get Your Code to Production Using TeamCity with Barry Tran!

Companies everywhere are implementing DevOps into their development team. We're going to learn how we can leverage some of that DevOps mentality to make builds and deployments easier using TeamCity. In a half hour, we'll have automated builds, tests, and deployments set up for a simple console application.

Speaker: Barry Tran
After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in Engineering Physics, Barry Tran decided he liked computers better. Currently working at iQmetrix on the DevOps team, when he isn't automating processes he probably plays too much video games and board games for his own good.

Location: Regina Public Library Theater (map)
Date: Thursday at noon, December 3rd, 2015
Cost: Free

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12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on May 26th @ Noon for High Traffic Web Apps Without 1000's of Servers with Tim Borgares!

Whether it’s smart phones, smart watches or smart cars, people using technology more frequently all the time. Designing highly scalable services and applications is more important than ever before. You won't find a definitive StackOverflow answer to tell you how to choose hardware and write code that can handle loads of traffic, but in this session Tim will share some practical insight from helping GasBuddy handle it's exponential growth over the last few years. Tim will highlight how GasBuddy grew in scale and architecture while tackling some of the common misconceptions about what it takes to make high traffic work.

Speaker: Tim Borgares
Tim Borgares is a Lead Developer with GasBuddy (@teamGBIS) responsible for heading up development on a variety of projects in crowd-based and software as a service spaces. A self-proclaimed data enthusiast, Tim loves to bring data and business decisions together through fast-paced software development. Some of his work includes high-performance data cleaning, location data processing, and responsive and predictive gas price analysis systems.

Location: Regina Public Library Theater (map)
Date: Tuesday at noon, May 26th, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on March 31st @ 7:00 PM for Practical JavaScript with Adobe's Peter Flynn!

Learn pragmatic techniques for building JavaScript apps that are robust, maintainable, and fast. Explore new tools that can improve your coding productivity, and take a peek at what's coming down the road.Peter Flynn, lead contributor to the Brackets open source project, will discuss:• Writing cleaner code via modules, type annotations, and frameworks• How to use the powerful performance tools built into modern browsers• Code editor innovations that help you work faster and with fewer mistakes• Tools and habits to make the most out of JSLint and JSHint• How to track bugs and performance problems on end users' browsers

Video Series
The Regina Tech Community video series is an opportunity to watch broadcasts from leading conferences around the world, review, and discuss the content with your industry peers. Every few months we'll be highlighting a video from a different conference based on the subjects our members ask for on their feedback forms.

Location:Beer Brothers Private Room - 1841 Scarth Street (map)
Date: Tuesday at 7:00 PM, March 31st, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
7:00 - Doors Open
7:10 ~ 8:10 - Practical JavaScript video
8:10 ~ 9:00 - Discussion and networking

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Join us on February 25th @ 5:30 PM for Vili Bogdan on Developing for SharePoint using the new app model!

With SharePoint 2013, we saw the introduction of a new way to build SharePoint applications that brings SharePoint development more in line with mainstream web development. We'll be taking a brief look at the history of SharePoint development and we'll be focusing on what the new app model brings (benefits and drawbacks). We'll finish with resources to get you started on your journey to build SharePoint apps, using the new app model and moving away from deploying server-side code on the SharePoint servers.

Speaker: Vili Bogdan
Vili Bogdan is a SharePoint consultant with DevFacto Technologies Inc. and is based in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has been working with SharePoint since 2007 and holds the MCSE: SharePoint and MCSD: SharePoint Applications certifications, as well as the SharePoint 2010 certifications. He has been working with multiple clients to stand up SharePoint environments, guiding clients in how to solve business problems using out of the box functionality and building customizations when needed

Location: Innovation Place - 10 Research Drive, Rotunda (map)
Date: Wednesday at 5:30 PM, February 25th, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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6:00 ~ 6:05 - Welcome
6:05 ~ 6:55 - Part I
6:55 ~ 7:10 - Break
7:10 ~ 8:00 - Part II

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Join us on February 26th @ Noon for Chad McCallum on Taking Advantage of HTML5!

HTML5 has been around for awhile, but there hasn't been a whole lot of websites taking advantage of it. Let's take your average traditional website and HTML5ify it - we'll show how adding features like drag & drop, geolocation, cache, workers, and more can help improve the performance and usability of your existing site.

Speaker: Chad McCallum
Chad McCallum is a Saskatchewan computer geek and ASP.NET MVP with over 8 years of .NET experience. After graduating from the Computer Systems Technology course at SIAST in Saskatoon he picked up contracting until he could pester iQmetrix to give him a job, where he's been for the last 8 years. He had a brief stint in Vancouver working on interactive retail software. Since then he's come back to Regina, SK where he started HackREGINA, a hackathon organization aimed at strengthening the developer community while coding and drinking beer. His current focus is ecommerce websites using MVC5 and JavaScript. Between board games and beer, he tries to learn a new technology every week - you can see the results on www.rtigger.com

Location: Regina Public Library Theater (map)
Date: Thursday at noon, February 26th, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on January 29th @ 5:30 PM for Adam Barrett on Solving Problems With Web Components!

So you know what web components are, and you’ve learned a bit about how to use them, but what’s the big deal? How is this going to improve my life as a web developer? If you’re already a web component dabbler, or if your interest was peaked at the Intro to Web Components talk, come to this session for a deeper dive into a component driven web. Learn about writing components, testing components, potential best practices, and how get your feet wet without jumping right in. If web components are the future of coding the web, we may as well start thinking about how to use them.

Speaker: Adam Barrett
An experienced mobile developer with a love for JavaScript and the mobile web, Adam has worked for successful Saskatchewan companies like Itracks, Zu and GB Internet Solutions as a front-end and mobile developer. When he's not discussing prototypal inheritance or which framework is better, Adam is always up for a board game or a talk about movies.

Location: German Club (map)
Date: Thursday at 5:30 PM, January 29th, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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6:00 ~ 6:05 - Welcome
6:05 ~ 6:55 - Part I
6:55 ~ 7:10 - Break
7:10 ~ 8:00 - Part II

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Join us on January 20th @ Noon for Adam Barrett on Intro to Web Components!

The way forward is clear. The browsers, the frameworks, the IDEs, they all agree, it’s going to be Web Components FTW, when programming for the web. But what are Web Components? What is the point of them? Learn how to code the new standard of web development, the technologies involved and the problems they solve. Come and find out why Web Components are the future of coding the web.

Speaker: Adam Barrett
An experienced mobile developer with a love for JavaScript and the mobile web, Adam has worked for successful Saskatchewan companies like Itracks, Zu and GB Internet Solutions as a front-end and mobile developer. When he's not discussing prototypal inheritance or which framework is better, Adam is always up for a board game or a talk about movies.

Location: Regina Public Library Theater (map)
Date: Tuesday at noon, January 20th, 2015
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on December 4th @ Noon for Paul Everton on Code Reviews!

Have you ever felt that your development process is lacking that certain “je ne sais quoi”? Do you feel like it needs some sort of review? Come and find out not only the “hows” and “whys” of Code Review but also how to use tooling to 10X your Code Reviews!

Speaker: Paul Everton
Paul started out as small time developer adding back end code to custom websites. He then moved on to managing software builds for a major medical hardware manufacture. He’s now a DevOps evangelist for the Azure Infrastructure Group at iQmetrix. His approach to DevOps is to implement tools, automation and processes that will allow all employees to collaborate, iterate and execute on building amazing products. You can usually here him talking about the builds and all its associated accouterments.

Location: SaskTel Auditorium - Cornwall Center
Enter the SaskTel Auditorium through the Cornwall Center Food Court - directly across from Opa!, beside the parking pay stations
Date: Thursday at noon, December 4th, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on November 20th @ Noon for Johannes Lindenbaum on Dev Ops Tools!

This will be a short overview of Developer Operations (DevOps) tools that many small companies are using to gain insight into slow/failing infrastructure, and quickly identifying bugs and crashes in Mobile Apps. The talk will be an introduction to NewRelic and Crashlytics.

Speaker: Johannes Lindenbaum
Johannes Lindenbaum is Mobile Lead at 7shifts Employee Scheduling. He wears too many hats developing the iOS and Android apps, as well as managing servers and infrastructure. His past includes development positions at SaskTel Laboratories, and zu communications.

Location: Regina Public Library Theater - Map
Date: Thursday at noon, November 20th, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on November 5th @5:30pm for Jeremy Tkachuk on Android Application Development!

Topic: Android Application Development using Eclipse with the Android SDK plugin
Jeremy is excited to be joining the Regina Technology Community on Wednesday November 5th to discuss Android Application Development using Eclipse with the Android SDK plugin. Topics covered will include Google Maps modules, Google Places modules, and how to process and integrate the two together. Source code will be included upon request (source code will also include initial Eclipse configuration).

Speaker: Jeremy Tkachuk
A recent SIAST graduate, Jeremy Tkachuk is a mobile application developer specializing in Android development currently working for Lexcom Systems Group Incorporated.

Location: Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert Street - Map
Date: Wednesday evening, November 5th, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
5:30 ~ 6:00 - Food and social - please register if you are joining us for dinner
6:00 ~ 6:05 - Welcome
6:05 ~ 6:55 - Part I
6:55 ~ 7:10 - Break
7:10 ~ 8:00 - Part II

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Join us on October 21st @ Noon for Adam Barrett on Modern Modular JavaScript!

Let’s talk about the three major JavaScript module systems: CommonJS (CJS), Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD), and ECMAScript 6 modules (ES6 Modules / Harmony Modules). We’ll talk about the basics of modular JavaScript, the benefits, some specific module loaders (RequireJS, Browserify, StealJS), and tools for browser optimization and server consumption of modules regardless of which module definition syntax (CJS, AMD, or ES6) you use.

Speaker: Adam Barrett
An experienced mobile developer with a love for JavaScript and the mobile web, Adam has worked for successful Saskatchewan companies like Itracks, Zu and GB Internet Solutions as a front-end and mobile developer. When he's not discussing prototypal inheritance or which framework is better, Adam is always up for a board game or a talk about movies.

Location: iQmetrix Condo, 1841 Scarth Street - Map
Date: Tuesday at noon, October 21st, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
12:00 - Food & social - please register if you’ll be joining us for lunch
12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on September 24th @5:30pm for David Drever on PowerShell!

Topic: How to Bake Your SharePoint environment Without Getting GUI
As veteran SharePoint users will know and those new to SharePoint will soon learn, the installation and configuration of a SharePoint environment can be a “click and wait” heavy process. The configuration process is very user intensive and time consuming, sometimes resulting in misconfigurations that require more work to change than the initial setup in order to get things right. So what if we could do the entire setup including configuration of the farm and deployment of site collections, sub sites, pages, lists and libraries as well as implementation of custom solutions and placement of web parts on a page all with one double click?

This session will be a deep dive in to Microsoft’s PowerShell scripting and how it can be used to build an entire SharePoint environment in minutes. I will discuss PowerShell itself, xml configuration options, configuring your SharePoint farm with scripting and implementing a SharePoint environment through PowerShell scripting. While this session is geared more towards the ITPro side of SharePoint, developers and power users will also benefit from the information in this session.

Speaker: David Drever
David is a SharePoint and .NET Developer with Solvera Solutions. David has been working with IT for 14 years with the last 4 focused in the SharePoint platform. David holds a Bachelor of Science: Computer Science degree from the University of Regina and has a MCTS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development certification.

Location: Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert Street - Map
Date: Wednesday evening, September 24th, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
5:30 ~ 6:00 - Food and social - please register if you are joining us for dinner
6:00 ~ 6:05 - Welcome
6:05 ~ 6:55 - Part I
6:55 ~ 7:10 - Break
7:10 ~ 8:00 - Part II

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Join us on September 9th @12:00pm for David Paquette on Modern Web Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Web Essentials!

Topic: Modern Web Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Web Essentials
In this action packed session, we will take a tour of the tools available for modern web developers in Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Web Extensions. JSHint, LESS, SASS, Minification, Bundling, Node.js, Chrome, FireFox and much more: The depth and breadth of functionality available might surprise you.

Speaker: David Paquette
David is as passionate about hands-on software development as he is about engaging others in striving for quality software that solves real-world business problems. David has several years of experience in developing software solutions for energy and agricultural companies, where he has always been a strong advocate for agile best practices. He is an independent consultant, specializing in .NET development. He has led the development of both commercial products and internal systems. David enjoys staying on top of the latest technologies, and in his spare time has built and published Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps.
David is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET/IIS and has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan. He is active the software community and enjoys presenting at local events and conferences.


Location: iQmetrix Condo, Suite 3 - 1821 Scarth St
Directions: Access the condo via the elevator beside the Beer Brothers entrance, and follow the signs to the 3rd floor.
Date: Tuesday at Noon, September 9th, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
12:00 - Food & social - please register if you’ll be joining us for lunch
12:15 - Welcome
12:20 - Presentation
12:50 - Q & A, wrapup, networking

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Join us on May 7th @5:30pm for Mike DeFehr on SQL 2014!

Topic: SQL 2014 Launch
SQL 2014 is available on April 1. What's new? Hekaton for one - AKA In-Memory OLTP. I'll spend a lot of time talking about Hekaton as it is one of the most key new features in 2014, but we'll also take a look at the updatable columnstore, cloud integration, backup encryption, delayed durability and partition indexing. SQL 2014 is a huge step forward in taking the SQL platform to the Enterprise level. Come see it first-hand in this fun and demo-intensive session.

Speaker: Michael DeFehr
Michael DeFehr is an independent SQL Server consultant doing business through MDD Solutions Ltd. based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His career has focused on database administration and development using Microsoft SQL Server.

A SQL Server MVP, Professional Engineer and Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional in both Database Development and Administration, Mike has spent the past 15 years producing and maintaining database solutions. Mike specializes in the relational and storage engines and his solutions emphasize performance and simplicity.

Mike is the chapter president of the Winnipeg SQL Server Users Group.

Location: Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert Street - Map
Date: Wednesday evening, May 7th, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
5:30 ~ 6:00 - Food and social - please register if you are joining us for dinner
6:00 ~ 6:05 - Welcome
6:05 ~ 6:50 - Part I
6:50 ~ 7:05 - Break
7:05 ~ 7:50 - Part II

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The Regina Technology Community welcomes Cliff Janzen!

Topic: Web Application Security
This demo-laden talk will cover:

• A quick introduction to IT Security
• What is web application security
• The OWASP Top 10 critical security flaws
• Demos of:
  • Command Injection
  • SQL Injection
  • Cross-Site Scripting
  • Cryptography

Speaker: Cliff Janzen
From the early days of Commodore PET and VIC-20 technology has been a constant companion (and sometimes obsession) for Cliff. In 2008 Cliff's years in IT operations led him to the world of IT Security where the wide diversity of topics has him constantly thirsting for knowledge. Cliff is currently the Manager of Information Security Delivery for rSolutions.

Location: Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert Street - Map
Date: Tuesday evening, April 8th, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
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6:00 ~ 6:05 - Welcome
6:05 ~ 6:50 - Part I
6:50 ~ 7:05 - Break
7:05 ~ 7:50 - Part II

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The Regina Technology Community welcomes Blake Heisler and Chris Schwan!

Topic: Case Study - The Lean Law Practice
Today's law firm and law department professionals are faced with new challenges to maximize efficiency across departments. They must develop and employ strategies based on client perspectives and connect legal costs to the value received.

Working closely with the legal community, Lexcom built a cloud-based virtual office allowing firms to reduce:

• Technology and communication costs
• IT overhead
• Employee costs

they did this while maintaining:

• Existing applications
• Client confidentiality, and
• Reliability 

Join us as Chris and Blake discuss the details of the case.

Speakers:
Blake Heisler, Senior Technical Engineer
Blake has over 8 years of experience and has a broad depth of knowledge working in enterprise IT environments. Blake holds an Engineering degree from the University of Saskatchewan and has been with Lexcom for almost 4 years. His specialty is virtualization and he has architected environments as large as 1200 VMs.

Chris Schwan, Accounts Executive
Chris graduated from the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan in 2003. After working in public employment for several years he transitioned to a consulting role at Lexcom. He is now the Accounts Executive and manages Lexcom’s Canadian accounts. His speciality is ensuring that clients have proper expectations and that they remain extremely satisfied with Lexcom and all it can offer.

Location: Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert Street - Map
Date: Tuesday evening, March 4th, 2014
Cost: Free

Schedule:
5:30 ~ 6:00 - Food and social - please register if you are joining us for dinner
6:00 ~ 6:05 - Welcome
6:05 ~ 6:50 - Part I
6:50 ~ 7:05 - Break
7:05 ~ 7:50 - Part II

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The Regina Technology Community welcomes Greg Hutchinson!

Topic: Graphviz - Graph Visualization Software
This talk will cover:

• Introduction of Graphviz: Why would you use graphviz?
• The dot language: Graphs, Nodes, Edges
• The different programs that come with Graphviz
• The Java Bindings with Practical Examples
• Graphviz in Wikis/Sharepoint (Why?)
• Actual uses from Farm Credit Canada

Speaker: Greg Hutchinson
Greg Hutchinson is currently the Principal Application Developer at Farm Credit Canada. He has been developing software for over 30 years using technologies ranging from 8085 Assembler and C to Smalltalk, and Java. More recently, his primary focus has been incorporating best practice methodologies to streamline the software development process, increase the productivity of developers, and improve code quality while also making it more stable and robust.

Location: Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert Street - Map

Date: Tuesday evening, February 11th, 2014

Cost: Free

Schedule:
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6:00 ~ 6:05 - Welcome
6:05 ~ 6:50 - Part I
6:50 ~ 7:05 - Break
7:05 ~ 7:50 - Part II

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