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Rush Street Neighborhood Grill 1229 East Stone Dr. Kingsport TN
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Next Meeting

Tue. July 20th @ 6:00pm
meetings held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month since Feb of 2009

Next Topic:

'5 Classic Patterns in Everyday Code' with Michael Wood

Co-Founders

Tim Corbett and Tom Pardue

The Tri-Cities.Net Users Group

Our goal is to give developers in the greater Tri-Cities area a forum for exchanging ideas regarding .Net development. Meetings held on the third Tuesday of every month at the Rush Street Neighborhood Grill. For more information please click here or our e mail is info@tricitiesug.net.

Coming Events - Next Metting: July 20th

Topic: 5 Patterns in Everyday Code

Patterns are an important tool to use as architects and developers. They provide a common vocabulary for us to design with, as well as a common approaches to a common problems. Come learn about you can use the Command, Decorator, Adapter, and Factory patterns in your everyday code. We'll even talk about how to make your code deal with Wookies using Software Patterns.

Guest Speaker: Michael Wood

Michael Wood is a Microsoft Practice Director for Strategic Data Systems in Centerville, OH, but lives across the river in Kentucky. He describes himself as a problem solving, outdoorsy, user group leading, dog-loving, blog writing, solution creating, event planning, married, technology speaking, father of one kind of guy. When he's not living up to that title he's an avid reader, (horrible) violin player and gamer. Michael is a Founding Director of the Cincinnati .Net User Group as well as the founder of the Cincinnati Software Architecture Special Interest Group. He is also a founding member of the software architecture web resource nPlus1 (http://nplus1.org ), instigator of the informal code pairing Bitslinger events in Cincinnati and a Microsoft MVP in Client App Dev. You can catch up with Mike on his blog at http://mvwood.com/blog and on twitter under the handle @mikewo.

This meeting is sponsored by TEK Systems