Deerfield Beach Coders' Cafe 13 August 2015

Coders Cafe - 08/13/2015 - Cendyn Spaces, Boca Raton - 6:30 PM - Advanced AI with Project Teddy - David Crook - Microsoft Technical Evangelist

Two technical evangelists on a quest to build an open domain conversational engine, code named: Project Teddy. Project Teddy uses crowd sourced annotations of twitter conversations, Hadoop, Azure, Machine Learning, MVC, F#, C# and embedded systems. This presentation gives an overview of project Teddy in its current state, where it is going and insights discovered. We will walk through the architecture and show off some of the code.

Sponsored by Gravity IT Resources and Microsoft DX East Region. Check out Azure and Visual Studio 2015

David is a Microsoft Technical evangelist based in Pompano Beach, Florida. As a technical evangelist, David primarily focuses on technical presentations leveraging the Microsoft Stack focused on data analytics and machine learning. David also sits on the board of advisors at Wake Tech, where he was an adjunct professor for 1 year. Prior to becoming an evangelist, David was a developer consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services where he was an ALM Ranger and focused on Development Operations with Hybrid Data Centers and Agile Methodologies. 

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This month's presentation was by Adam Schwartz over Linux Desktop and Server Operating Systems.  Your current machine doesn't want to upgrade to Win 10?  Do not despair, it may run for years more on Linux.  You can also run Linux with Windows in a dual-boot or Virtual Machine status. Check out Group Leader John Vighetto's comments:

I want to thank Adam Schwartz for an excellent presentation on the Linux operating system. Adam briefly went through the history of Linux came to be, it’s components, many of the different variations/versions currently available, and went through partial installation in a virtual instance to show everyone how easy it actually is to install, setup and configure.

Due to the many questions asked and the enthusiasm of the people who attended, we will be planning a future Linux “load fest” where people can bring their laptops and either a blank CD to burn an ISO of a flavor of Linux or a USB flash drive to install a test version of Linux to boot from either the CD or flash drive. More of this to follow.

Thanks as always to Jennifer of Windstream for continuing to host our user group meetings, and from the sound of it (actually there was no sound but silence), everyone enjoyed the dinner from C.R.Chicks once again.

Thanks to everyone that attended, and to those who couldn’t attend but watch the presentation live on GoToMeeting.

If anyone in the group wishes to see a presentation on a specific topic, vendor, technology, etc., please contact me at your earliest convenience and I will try to get this lined up for one of our presentations as quickly as possible. Remember, this is not my group, it’s ours; but I need input from everyone for new topics.

Until next month, hoping everyone has a great time, make a lot of money, work smarter not harder, but most of all, have fun in what you do!

Regards,

John Vighetto

Vighetto Networking, Inc.
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Thanks to John, Jennifer and Adam for an awesome evening. I had no idea how much information is out there and Adam showed how it can be compatible with any other operating system plus all the options to get this content. While the "load test" is beyond my skill set and knowledge base, it's important for me to understand what my clients and prospects are working with or considering.

Thanks to this group, many years ago I knew what a thin client was way before some of my co-workers. :)

Your Ultra All-Inclusive Telecom Problem Solver,

Lynne Keane

Keane Telecom Solutions, Inc.

(561) 531-0136

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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 !

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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. 

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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!