Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Palm Beach IT Users Group Annual Holiday Party!

Notes from our Organizer:

Just wanted to thank everyone that was able to stop by at Roxy's last night. It was a great turnout, and by judging by the time we all left, it looks like everyone had fun.

Congratulations to Lynne Keane for winning the 50/50 which was a total of $63.00. As always, the other half went to our hostest Heather. She wasn't expecting it, so it was great seeing the expression on her face.

I want to thank Roxy's for hosting our 3rd user group party, and to each and everyone of you for taking the time out of your budy schedules so you could "unplug" for a little while!

Regards,
John Vighetto
Vighetto Networking, Inc.

Check out the Photo Essay !

Wednesday, December 4, 2013


Coders Café - 12/03/2013 - 6:30 PM - Caffeine Spaces .NET Embedded Development - Matt Trask

So you’re a top-notch C# developer. Have you ever considered doing some device programming? How about hardware design? Don’t be afraid – this presentation will show you how to use your existing .NET skills with the Netduino and the .NET Micro Framework to develop applications for the Internet-of-Things.

Matt is best known as a creator and developer of high-performance technical teams. Whether software development, technical support or some new hi-tech adventure, you can usually find Matt's fingerprints on the design of the organization. And on the actual technology. http://www.fladotnet.com/Reg.aspx?EventID=697


See Photo Essay HERE .

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Palm Beach IT Users Group 12 Nov13, Windstream, West Palm Beach, Fl

Starting with comments from PBIT Group Leader, John Vighetto:


"Well, all I can say about last night’s meeting is “wow”. Greg went through the history of the Internet, the history of search engines, and ended up speaking about how to optimize your website. It was definitely a 2--hour fact-filled night. Not only was his presentation informative, but for the people that attended, he offered to analyze their websites for free! I’m sure that we all appreciated Greg’s presentation and all the information that he provided.

I also wanted to thank Jennifer Cohen-Louth for hosting our meetings at Windstream and providing us with a meeting space.

I briefly touched on the new website that Greg has graciously volunteered to revamp for our group. I also quickly mentioned of the new annual paid registration to our group starting January 1, 2014. The annual membership cost will be $200 per member. This will be to offset the costs of the food & beverage supplied at the meetings, possible deposits for future IT superstars to present to our group, etc. More to come on this in a future email.

Please remember that we have our 3rd annual Christmas party at Roxy’s on Clematis for next month. We will start off (or actually end the year) but not having our regular meeting, but we will be having a 2-plus hour MAM (Meeting After the Meeting). More to come on this topic as well.
Once again, I’d like to thank Greg Tammany on his great presentation last night.
Regards,
John Vighetto
Vighetto Networking, Inc.
3965 Investment Lane
Suite A-9
Riviera Beach, FL 33404
Mobile: 561.722.1514
Fax: 561. 828.2232 "
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Linked is a broad overview of Greg's presentation.  Over the past several years I have attended probably six presentations on SEO (Search Engine Optimization).  Some from Greg, others from the Word Press group, FlaDotNet and MS.  If your business has an Internet presence of any kind,  it impacts your business.  SEO is a very dynamic area, changing almost daily.  SEO presentations may help you to keep up in this area.  Don't ever miss the opportunity to attend one.  You will always pick up  something.  Check out Greg's SITE.  See the PHOTO ESSAY of the presentation and a few screen shots.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Coders Cafe - Caffeine Spaces, Boca Raton - 11/05/2013

Here was the invitation:
6:30 PM - Mobile Games with Gamemaker - James Quick - Microsoft Technical Evangelist

In this meeting we will work on designing, coding, publishing and marketing games for Windows and Windows Phone. Rapid Game Development engines allow you to leave Game Mechanics behind and focus on 'playability' aspects. During these sessions we will explore casual mobile game development using a game frameworks, GameMaker. BRING YOUR LAPTOPS - THIS WILL BE HANDS ON!!

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James will have a holiday themed (Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year’s, and Christmas) contest or drawing for a Dell Venue Windows 8 Pro tablet. The plan is to do a drawing for the tablet for every 10 apps that gets published because of the Gamemaker workshop. That means 10 apps gets 1 tablet, 20 gets 2 and so on. May have an additional prize for best Holiday App. He asked me to spread the word about this so everyone will show up ready to work on their app. There might some change the rewards if required.

James Quick is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist working in South Florida to help developers with the latest Microsoft technologies. 

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Yes, and that's what happened !  James gave us an introduction to the Game Maker interface while we all downloaded and installed it.

From there, we all walked through the construction of a actual playable game!  Lotsa Fun !

Check out the Photo Essay with a few screen shots HERE .

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Palm Beach IT Users Group 08 Oct 13, Windstream, West Palm Beach, Fl

Join us at our next meeting and attend Manuel Palachuk’s The 10 golden Rules of PSA. Here’s a brief description of what Manuel will be covering:
Whether you’re a one person shop or 50, you must have some guidelines of how you plan to break down the work into an organized fashion and how you will communicate with the client along the way.
You don’t have to be an MSP or use a PSA to work efficiently and be profitable but you do need a system and a method. These ten golden rules can be the seed for your own system if you have none, or you can adopt them in whole. Either way, this is your opportunity to take your service delivery to the next level. Join our guest Manuel Palachuk for this interactive conversation that starts with the unbreakable rules of the service ticket and end with communication with the client.
This meeting will be held back at Windstream Communications on 1641 Worthington Avenue, Suite 140, West Palm Beach, Florida  33409, and we’ll be meeting at our normal time of 6:30 pm. Presentation will start promptly at 7:00 pm, so please register soon so that we not only have enough seating, but enough food and drink as well.
Also in attendance will be Mr. Adam Rozenzweig of Cartridge World, who will briefly talk about his business and who will also be providing us with food and refreshments for the evening.
For everyone that will be attending, please provide a warm welcome to Ms. Jennifer Cohen-Louth, who will now be our new hostess at Windstream (don’t worry, I’m sure that Lynne will still be visiting us every once in a while).
One final item; we will start to present (and depending upon the presenter’s acceptance, will also record) future meeting presentations. Check back frequently to find out what other new and improved things will be implemented.

That was the invitation and here is the summary from our Organizer:

I want to thank everyone who attended (both physically and remotely) our meeting last night. Manny’s presentation was great and on point with what we do and how we run (or should run) our businesses.

Question for the remote attendees; how was the presentation from your end? Were you able to hear everything clearly? Please provide us with some feedback and please be brutally honest as we are trying out several products and want to use the best one based upon member feedback.

Thank you once again Manuel Palachuk for your presentation, thank you Adam from Cartridge World for your presentation and the pizza & sodas, and last but not least, thank you Jennifer for continuing to host our user group meetings at Windstream!

By the way, it was great to see Lynne Keane from that other telecom company show up last night, too!

Regards,
John Vighetto
Vighetto Networking, Inc.
3965 Investment Lane
Suite A-9
Riviera Beach, FL 33404
Mobile: 561.722.1514
Fax: 561. 828.2232

We tried an experiment with remote attendees that couldn't make the meeting.  This is expected to be expanded further in the future. 

Check out the Photo Essay with a click !

Friday, October 4, 2013

NSU Hosts FBI Presentation on National Cyber Security Awareness

Nova Southeastern University's FBI Special Presentation on National Cyber Security
Awareness.
Event Details: Thursday, October 3 at 6:00 p.m. Nova
Southeastern University Carl DeSantis Building, Knight
Auditorium Hall, Room 1124 3301 College Avenue Fort
Lauderdale-Davie, FL 33314

No photo essay this time.  Active FBI Agents apparently remain a bit camera shy. Regardless, a great presentation on the subject matter.  Amazingly conducted without Power Point!

NSU remains one of the area's most gracious hosts in the area for this type of event.  Light snacks were very excellent, Thank You!

Also, kudo's to :

For his continued support to the IT community in South Florida.

Did you miss it?  You still have time to make the next three events this month!  See the poster above.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Deerfield Beach Coder's Cafe at Caffeine Spaces, Boca Raton, Oct '13

Coder's Cafe - Caffeine Spaces Boca - Tuesday 10/01/2013 @ 6:30 PM - Cloud Deployment Options Today - Jess Coburn - Appliedi.Net

There’s not a one size fits all cloud solution today and likely never will be one. As you look to deploy your web application, there's more than one path to the cloud. In this presentation we'll review how you can deploy many of the Azure services yourself, with the same tools, the same technology and even the same user interface but in your datacenter, on your servers and customized to your unique business needs and we’ll go over some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with that.

Also come and check out Caffeine Spaces, a collaborative workspace in the EDC Incubator at FAU in Boca.


Ok, that was the invite announcement.  Did you miss it?  check out the Photo Essay and see what happened.