Palm Beach IT Users Group, 15 July 2015

One of our very own, Todd Trahan of SERT Data Recovery (http://www.sertdatarecovery.com/), will be presenting to the group. He’s a local company who has already recovered a few members’ data, and he will be showing us what we can do to prevent further data corruption (or even more loss) on a damaged drive.

This month we will be meeting on Wednesday, July 15^th at Windstream Communications, 7121 Fairway Drive, Suite 101, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33418. Meeting time is still at 6:30 pm, with the presentation starting promptly at 7:00 pm.

Please register at http://www.pbitpros.com so we can accommodate everyone for dinner. For the paid members that can’t make it but would still like to view the presentation, please contact me offline for the GoToMeeting link.

Mark your calendars, you don’t want to miss this meeting!

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Comments after the meeting:

I want to thank everyone who attended last night’s presentation by Todd Trahan of SERT Data Recovery. Judging by the amount of questions that were asked and by how late we stayed, I can safely say that it was well worth everyone’s time. Todd reviewed in detail the process his company has to go through to recover data from a flash drive, hard drive or solid state drive. He also provided us helpful tips and useful guidelines to not only educate ourselves, but our clients as well. Glad we have a data recovery expert as one of our members!

Thanks to Lynne Keane for recommending to pick up dinner from C.R. Chicks, and last, but certainly not least, thanks to Jennifer for continuing to host our user group meetings at Windstream Communications.

Regards,

John Vighetto

Vighetto Networking, Inc.
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Thanks to you John as well as Jen and Todd, not to mention Dave Lord for making the trek up here to blog the events.

Todd delivered a tremendous presentation that truly educated me on the complexity of restoration and why "no one should try this at home". I learned just as much about what someone should not do to give them a better chance of restoration. It was obvious how passionate Todd is about assisting businesses in trouble.

Your Ultra All-Inclusive Telecom Problem Solver,

Lynne Keane

Keane Telecom Solutions, Inc.
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Haven't had so much fun since Norton Utilities and Interleave tweaking!  Thanks everyone!
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Viewers:  (IMHO) If you were NOT at this presentation, please read all of the slides carefully.  Some of them may make your ears burn (but I always do that....)  There was a lot of discussion on each of these points and they are well grounded.
Think about, If you bash up a couple of fenders on a car and the repair cost is almost or more than 'book' value - it is a total.  Yes, it can still be fixed.  A 'new' WD 1 t Blue currently runs at < $50.-- and a 2t is < $ 150.  Now, what is your hourly rate that you are charging.  If possible, image to a new drive before running corrective software - esp ChkDsk/ .  Also, RAID is NOT a backup.

Great presentation, Todd.  Thank You !

Check out the Photo Essay HERE !

Deerfield Beach Coders' Cafe 13 July 2015

Deerfield Beach Coders' Cafe
13 July 2015

CENDYN SPACES™
980 North Federal Highway, Suite 110
Boca Raton, FL 33432    855.545.1290

From the notice:

Coders Cafe - 07/13/2015 - Cendyn Spaces, Boca Raton - 6:30 PM - Visual Studio 2015 Debugging + OzCode - Alon Fliess Chief Architect & Founder - CodeValue

Visual Studio hosts a powerful and capable debugger, but many developers are unaware of some of its most powerful features. In this session we’ll take a deep dive into the Visual Studio debugger as it applied to .NET programs and see some of its interesting and powerful features. We’ll take a look at some of the new features in the Visual Studio 2015 debugger as well. We’ll talk about debugging strategy and leveraging the scientific method to become much more efficient at solving bugs. We’ll also see the OzCode Visual Studio extension that can help streamline and enhance the debugging experience, making debugging much simpler, more efficient and even fun!, a word not often associated with debugging. Super-useful tips for using the debugger will be given throughout the session. Your debugging experience will never be the same.

Alon Fliess is the Chief Architect & Founder of CodeValue. CodeValue is the home of software experts. We build software tools, foundations and products for the software industry. We offer mentoring, consulting and project development services. Alon is also a Microsoft Regional Director (MRD). Alon is an expert in many technologies, including Windows internals, C++ Windows programming (Win32/WinRT), .NET with C#, Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing, Internet of Things (including hardware devices such as Raspberry PI, Arduino, Netduino, Intel Galileo and others and Azure IoT services such as Azure Event Hub and Stream Analytics). Check out his Windows Store Game: http://bit.ly/1SFe4dJ

Join us at Cendyn Spaces in Boca Raton, FL on Federal Hwy south of Glades. http://www.cendynspaces.com/. Sponsored by:Gravity IT Resources and http://codevalue.net/products/ the authors of OzCode. 

Click here to see the Photo Essay

Palm Beach IT Users Group, 09 June 2015

From John Vighetto, group leader

I wanted to thank everyone who was able to join us last night. There were several discussions that were entertaining, and from what I saw from the group's interaction with each other, people had a good time.

As always, thank you Jennifer for hosting our user group meetings!

Regards,

John Vighetto

Vighetto Networking, Inc.

http://www.vighettonetworking.com

A very enlightening meeting, exploring the many nuances of the new Win 10 screen and its capabilities.  The Slides may seem a bit bare, but there was extensive discussion on each of them.  Check out the PHOTO ESSAY  HERE .

Deerfield Beach Coders' Cafe 04 June 2015

Coders Cafe Special - 06/04/2015 - Cendyn Spaces, Boca Raton - 6:30 PM - Rock’in with Russ! How We Built the Jethro Tull App Using Xamarin Forms - Russ Fustino

Join Microsoft MVP and Raygun Community Evangelist Russ Fustino in this hot off the metal session as he shares insights into the trials, tribulations and joy of building the Endorsed Jethro Tull App. Share the excitement as Russ “tells all” about creating his Jethro Tull app. The app is now published for Android and iOS, Windows Store and Windows Phone. How did he do it? Is Xamarin Forms the real deal? See how he used Raygun during the development cycle to help debug errors and some weird bugs for the Xamarin Forms Endorsed Jethro Tull app.

Russ Fustino is a Microsoft MVP and Raygun Community Evangelist. He is a well known speaker and developer world wide and especially in Florida.

Cendyn Spaces in Boca Raton, FL on Federal Hwy south of Glades. http://www.cendynspaces.com/. Sponsored by www.raygun.io and Gravity IT Resources

 This was the Plan for the June 4th meeting.  How did it go?  Check out the PHOTO ESSAY and see for yourself !  (IMHO, really great new venue and facilities ! )

Deerfield Beach Coders Cafe - 05/19/2015 - 6:30 PM - Microsoft Azure Web Apps - Dave Noderer - Computer Ways, Inc.

Join us to take a pass through the new Azure Web Apps. Renamed from Websites recently but with some interesting features. Will touch on creation, language support, scaling, deployment slots, backup and Visual Studio online. If you have been wondering what all this Azure cloud stuff is.. stop by and see it in action.

Did you miss it?  Check out the Photo Essay to catch some of the Highlights!

Palm Beach IT Users Group Mtg, 12 May '15

I would like to thank everyone that made it out to the presentation last night. Nick Wolf of Datto presented some very lucrative opportunities to the group, as well as showcase the new features and products that they will be coming soon.

Thank you Nick for presenting the Datto product line in conjunction with the Storage Craft features. Thank you also for providing food and beverages for the group! For anyone wishing to contact Nick directly, here’s his contact info:

Nick Wolf

nwolf@datto.com

203-529-4269

http://www.datto.com

Last, but certainly not least, thanks always to Jennifer of Windstream for hosting our user group meetings (thanks to Lynne Keane as well for assisting in the coordination of getting the food to the proper suite)!

Regards,

John Vighetto

Vighetto Networking, Inc.

Please click on Photo Essay to see more of the meeting and details!

Palm Beach IT Users Group, 14 April 2015

Meeting at and sponsored by:

Comcast

3450 Northlake Blvd, Ste 100
Palm Beach Gardens, Fl 33403

From PBIT Group Leader, John Vigetto:

It was great to see the turnout of people that we had. Also good to see new faces who have joined the group (Lester Malaga of Laptop Online) and former members coming back (Sam Bennet).

Chris of Memory for Memory provided a detailed and informative presentation with regards to the amount of recycling that should be done by everyone. Chazz of the Worth Avenue Group explained how we all can benefit from insuring our electronic devices through his company as well as provide us with residual income. Thanks to the two of you men for your presentations!

I also want to thank Matt Somach of Comcast for providing us with a place for our meeting last night. He was able to coordinate this at the last minute and we sincerely appreciate his efforts and generosity.

Last, but certainly not least, I want to thank Lynne Keane for the suggestion of using a local restaurant in town (Giorgio’s) for our meal last night. I think everyone enjoyed the pleasant surprise of not having to eat Panera box lunches one more time!

I will be posting our next month’s meeting within the next few days. Visit our website for more information at http://www.pbitpros.com.

Regards,

John Vighetto

Vighetto Networking, Inc.

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And fro our colleague, Lynne:

Awesome event last night. Thanks John for all you do to put together these events!

Your Ultra All-Inclusive Telecom Problem Solver,

Lynne Keane

Keane Telecom Solutions 

 

Check out the Photo Essay and see what happened.