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Data Mining Reading Group - A Research Paper a Week, Keep the Dementia Away

As a new year resolution for 2009, on Jeff's pursuance, we have started a Data Mining Reading Group here in Monrovia with friends where we review a research paper every week from a peer reviewed journal. The papers studied pertains to KDD, Machine Learning and Data Mining areas. So far we have covered four papers including Page Rank, Netflix Collaborative Filtering, Map Reduce and Data Mining top 10 Algorithms.

The blog for the data mining reading group can be found here where you can see the links to the papers. Further details and possible meeting proceedings will be added to the blog as it progresses. Comments and paper ideas welcome.

If you live in Pasadena / Monrovia Area, have interest in Data Mining / Machine Learning / KDD and would like to join the group, feel free to drop me a line.

Generic | Research & Development

1/29/2009 11:29:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate - ASP.NET Session Timeout and FAQ's

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate 1 now available for download and RTM is coming in Feb according to Scott Guthrie. woo hoo!

Note to Self - Two great ASP.NET Links.

ASP.NET Session Timeouts

ASP.NET FAQ's by George Shepherd

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1/27/2009 7:15:19 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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Teaching Programming WCF @ UCSD Ext. 1/24/2009 - 2/7/2009

I will be teaching a three day WCF course at the UCSD Extension campus on Lusk Blvd, San Diego. The first class is this coming Saturday. If you are interested, further details and enrollment information can be found here.

Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

CSE-40114 Credit: 3 units

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a new object model for building distributed applications using .NET 3.0. WCF was designed to expose the current multitude of Windows remoting APIs (web servcies, MSMQ, Com+, peer-to-peer) using a single unified object model. In this course, attendees will examine the overall WCF object model, binding choices, host options and the use of declarative markup to specify the underlying infrastructure.

Section ID:     068791
Time/Dates:    Sa, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 1/24/2009 - 2/7/2009 (3 mtgs.)
Location:    Room 110, UCSD Extension Sorrento Mesa Center, 6925 Lusk Blvd, San Diego

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments about the course. For enrollment, here is the link.

Events | Generic | Web Services

1/22/2009 4:11:18 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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Do I need a Enterprise Service Bus? - SGV.NET Meeting on 21st Jan 2009

San Gabriel Valley .NET User Group's next meeting is on 21st January and the topic of this month's talk is "Do I need a Enterprise Service Bus?" delivered by Kevin Orbaker, Director Connected Systems at speakTECH. This is the first meeting of year 2009 and with an excellent speaker and enterprise centric topic, it will be quite informative for our attendees.

Talk abstract and speaker's bio are as follows. If you live in the San Gabriel valley area and are a .NET Developer or know someone who does, please spread the word. For details, please visit the website www.SGVDotNet.Org

Abstract: Enterprise applications rarely live in isolation; in today's highly integrated world, application can't do much that is very useful without working with other applications. Service-Oriented Architecture addresses the trend of integrating applications so that they can work together and accelerates it, breaking each application into parts that then must be integrated with each other. The SOA model may seem simple, but it introduces two significant problems; How does a consumer find a particular service to invoke, and secondly, how do these services get invoked quickly and reliably.

These questions are addressed by the Enterprise Service Bus. But the mere mention of an ESB creates more questions than answers. This session will discuss the why's and why not's of the Enterprise Service Bus, what it is and when you need it.

About the Presenter
As an Integration Practice Manager at speakTECH, Kevin Orbaker helps client to create seamless information sharing to enable business optimization and total information transparency through integrated systems and automated application process. Kevin is a member of the Microsoft CSD Virtual Technology Specialist team. He has extensive architectural and implementation experience with Microsoft's Enterprise Service Bus guidance. Kevin has years of integration experience with multiple technologies, including EDI, HL7, and Host Integration. Kevin has consulted for a variety of industries, ranging from commercial and residential real estate, entertainment, technology and public institution.

Meeting Agenda:

    * 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
    * 6:30p Presentation Starts
    * 7:30p Break
    * 7:45p Presentation Resumes
    * 8:45p Raffle

Directions: Park in parking structure at 570 E Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016 . Meeting is across the street in 605 E Huntington Dr. Once parked, use the overhead walk way to get to the building. The meeting will be right inside the door after the walk way.

This is a Green Dot sponsored event. There is no entry fee and the event is free for attendees.

Events | Generic

1/19/2009 10:50:01 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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geekSpeak recording - REST and the Windows Azure Services Platform with Adnan Masood

Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet.

geekSpeak recording - REST and the Windows Azure Services Platform with Adnan Masood

In this geekSpeak webcast, Adnan Masood illustrates how to create and host services in the cloud. Adnan highlights key features of the platform software development kit (SDK), addresses how to implement RESTful interfaces (available remotely and from the data center), and describes how to run Microsoft ASP.NET Web applications or Microsoft .NET code in the cloud.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Lynn Langit and Lindsay Rutter. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Events | Generic | Web Services

1/19/2009 10:19:28 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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Speaking at OC.NET User Group - Developing Services in the Azure Clouds

Update: The presentation material (slide-deck, source code and HOL PDF) can be downloaded from the following links.

Tonight I will be speaking at the Orange County .NET User's Group in Irvine on Developing Services in the Azure clouds. Following are the meeting details from OC.NET's website.

January Meeting Summary:

Date/Time:         January 13th, 6:00PM
Presenter:    Adnan Masood
Topic:    Developing Services in the Azure Clouds
Give aways:    Software components and books
Location:    QuickStart Technologies, 16815 Von Karman Avenue, Irvine, CA 92606


Session Abstract: Microsoft's Azure Services Platform is a cloud platform (cloud computing platform as a service). It provides a wide range of internet services that can be consumed from both on-premises environments or the internet. It is significant in that it is Microsoft's first step into cloud computing following the recent launch of the Microsoft Online Services offering. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet. In this presentation, Adnan Masood illustrates how to create and host services in the cloud. Adnan highlights key features of the platform software development kit (SDK), addresses how to implement RESTful interfaces (available remotely and from the data center), and describes how to run Microsoft ASP.NET Web applications or Microsoft .NET code in the cloud. The presenter will discuss the concepts and implementation details surrounding cloud computing, development fabric, SQL Services, .NET Services, worker/web role etc.

Meeting Agenda:
    * 6:00p Mixer/Networking/Pizza
    * 6:30p Presentation Starts
    * 7:15p Break
    * 7:30p Presentation Resumes
    * 8:45p Raffle

Events | Generic

1/13/2009 8:30:21 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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