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March 2020 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Verify is Worth 1,000 Asserts - An Introduction to ApprovalTests.Net
Presenter: Gary Ray
When testing complex systems and objects, particularly in a legacy code base, you can find yourself writing a thousand Assert() statements to check the value of individual properties. What if you could write a single Verify() line that would validate the state of an entire complex object, or verify the full state of a View or Form? What if you could test the diff for a generated report or an image? That is the idea behind Approval Tests, a cross-platform and open source testing framework. The Approval Tests framework and related extensions are available on NuGet, and more information can be found at https://approvaltests.com/
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February 2020 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Video Game Hacking
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
Hack your console and PC games like a pro!
I'll show you how I've created hundreds of my own cheats and hacks for games on PC, NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Master System, Genesis, Gameboy and Playstation. Using standard and custom tools we will try to create a brand new cheat, create a patch for it and run it on real NES or Playstation hardware.
We will talk about memory systems, number systems, data structures, diffhacking, patching, emulation, save states, memcard hacking, memory scanners, trainers, debugging, decompilation and code injection.
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January 2020 Meeting Announcement
Topic: NDepend
Presenter: Nate Zaugg
NDepend is the only Visual Studio extension that is able to tell the developer that over the past hour, the code just written has introduced debt that would cost for example about 30 minutes should it have to be repaid later. Knowing this, the developer can fix the code before even committing it to the source control.
With NDepend code rules are C# LINQ queries that can be created and customized in a matter of seconds. These queries contain C# formulas to compute accurate technical debt estimations.
The default rule-set offers over a hundred code rules that detect a wide range of code smells including entangled code, dead-code, API breaking changes and bad OOP usage.
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November 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Skeeball!
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
See how we built a row of skeeball games using MonoGame, Arduino and ASP.Net Core!
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October 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Scary Gadgets 7
Presenter: Phil Gilmore, Dan Beus, Nathan Zaugg
We will unfortunately be cancelling this month's meeting due to a series of problems including illness, scheduling conflicts, and problematic projects. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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September 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Enterprise Service Bus
Presenter: Nate Zaugg
It could be said that just about every enterprise could benefit from having an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) at the center of their organization. This enterprise-level architecture helps take disparate applications and knit them together in a way that makes sense. In this session we'll discuss the difference between Application Architecture and Enterprise Architecture, the role of an ESB in enterprise architecture, and the benefits of using an ESB between them.
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August 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: MonoGame Fundamentals
Presenter:
This month we'll talk about one of the most interesting programming topics... game development! We will look at the powerful MonoGame framework (formerly XNA), how it works, how it compares to Unity3D, GameMaker and SDL. Then we'll thoroughly cover every single skill you'll need to build a top-notch 2D game of any kind.
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July 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Game Night
Presenter: No One
Come join us for a NUNUG Game night and BBQ! We will be gathering together some of the more common and long standing favorites like StarCraft and Quake. So, if you're looking for a good time with people who have similar interests accompanied by good food, look no further!
We are planning on having StarCraft, StarCraft II, and the Quake collection as games that we will be playing. StarCraft and StarCraft II can be downloaded for free, however Quake will need to be purchased from your favorite game store (it's on sale on Steam until 11:00 AM MST on 7/9/2019 for 50% off). See the full details for links to the download pages.
We will also have 2 VR stations setup playing Star Trek: Bridge Crew.
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June 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: WPF in .NET Core 3
Presenter: Dan Beus
For years the .NET framework was the place to go for quick and efficient Windows desktop development. .NET offers a robust framework with a quick development life cycle. With the advent of .NET Core, projects like console apps and web apps have been moved to a cross-platform runtime with easy to use tools. Windows desktop applications did not get that same level of treatment and were forced to remain solely in the .NET framework arena -- until now. Introducing WPF in .NET Core 3!
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May 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Beginner's Intro to C#
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
Learn to code! We will start from the beginning and go over every basic programming construct in the C# language, including object-oriented programming. That's a tall order, so we'll go as fast as we can and get as far as we can in the time we have.
This is a great meeting for youth to attend if they plan to go to Kids Coding Con this year on June 8th. For those who don't make it to KCC, we will have a followup NUNUG meeting in June where we will cover game development in C# with MonoGame!
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April 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: MCU Roundup
Presenter: Nate Zaugg, Phil Gilmore, Dan Beus
Microcontrollers, or MCUs, are small devices that can be used to interact with physical items in the real world. They are programmable and can be adapted to a nearly infinite number of different projects and situations; they provide an opportunity to automate or simplify tasks in many situations. For this month's presentation, we will be covering a wide gamut of MCUs, explaining how to begin using them for projects on your own. We will even demonstrate some of the more (seemingly) difficult tasks, and show which MCU may be best for your situation.
The MCUs we will be using will cover everything from tiny and basic controllers, all the way up to controllers with built-in WiFi, Bluetooth, and CAN communications. If you have ever wondered how to get a device to do work for you, this presentation is for you. If you haven't, this presentation may inspire you to create something on your own. Either way, it should be fun and educational -- our MCU projects have a tendency to be crazy, so it should at least be entertaining.
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March 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Modern C#
Presenter: Nate Zaugg / Dan Beus
The upcoming release C# 8 boasts the largest set of new features we've seen in years! We'll discuss features like Span, ValueTask, Recursive Patterns, Index / Range, Nullable Reference Types, and many others. These features allow us to do more with less code, and also allow us to create more performant and efficient code. They bring useful features from other languages into C#
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February 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: No Meeting This Month
Presenter: None
There will not be a meeting for the month of February due to it being the same night as Valentine's day. We will continue our regularly scheduled meetings in March. See you then!
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January 2019 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Reinforcement Learning
Presenter: Bruce Nielsen
Reinforcement Learning is a fascinating form of Machine Learning that allows an agent to learn from real world feedback over time rather than requiring labeled “desired outputs”, as is required in the more popular “Supervised Learning”. This makes Reinforcement Learning ideal for many types of tasks where we can’t reasonably come up with natural or expert labels/outputs.
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Nov 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Do the Impossible with Blazor and WebAssembly
Presenter: Nate Zaugg
The C# Language is a fantastically productive language, but doesn't run on a browser....or does it? We'll take an in-depth look at Blazor, C#/.NET in the browser. Utilizing .NET and Razor code Blazor could well be the future of web development, so you better figure it out early!
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Oct 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Scary Gadgets 6 - There's something in the air...
Presenter: Phil Gilmore, Dan Beus, Nathan Zaugg
Our 6th annual Halloween special. Don't miss it. They don't like it when you miss it.
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Sept 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Docker for Devs
Presenter: Nathan Zaugg
The majority of new projects written these days target Docker. It's easy to see why with the rise of DevOps, Microservices, and the cloud. Come and learn the basics of Docker -- how to get started, how to make it work with your project, and how to host these containers in your infrastructure.
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Aug 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Windows Command Line Workshop
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
We will learn to use the Windows command line as a group from the ground up. We won't learn everything, but you'll learn enough to make the command line a staple in your everyday work and hopefully even put it on your resume. This is a workshop so bring a laptop.
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July 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Lightning Storm!
Presenter: Phil Gilmore, Daniel Beus, Nate Zaugg
Join us for a series of short, shallow discussions on various technologies. It's hard to keep up with everything that's out there. Lightning talks can give you the skinny on things you haven't had time to look into on your own, giving you enough insight to know where to spend your precious study time.
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June 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Azure Cloud Computing
Presenter: Troy Fillerup
Cloud computing is becoming more and more popular by the day.
Everyone wants to put everything in 'The Cloud'. We will be exploring
a little bit about Azure from a .NET developer perspective. We will
have some demos on how to implement CI/CD and how Azure scaling and
deployment works. If time permits, we will also look a little into
the IoT capabilities that Azure provides.
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May 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Node-RED
Presenter: Daniel Beus
Node-RED is a programming tool for working with hardware devices in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) style. It allows developers to create work flows for everything from websites to integrated devices using a series of connected nodes designed in a browser. The Node-RED interface can make learning to work with hardware much more simplistic and can get novices started much more quickly. It can also be used by professionals that want to have a better way of quickly designing projects without all the boilerplate a normal project may incur.
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April 2018 Meeting Announcemnt
Topic: Mocking Frameworks
Presenter: Daniel Beus
Everyone knows they should test their code, but it can be a pain to try to create test versions of all your dependencies. Having to rewrite much of your code just to have test versions is time consuming and problematic. Mocking frameworks to the rescue!
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March 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Patterns in C#
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
We will cover most of the OOP patterns from the Gang Of Four (GoF) book, Design Patterns, from a C# perspective. We'll look at the problems that they solve and the problems they introduce. This should be a good introduction to good practices for novice developers and a fun exercise for veteran software geeks.
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February 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Aspect Oriented Programming with PostSharp
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
Software development is expensive and complex. AOP can reduce development costs by taking code generation to a whole new level. Write code that produces new code and weaves it into your code at compile time or runtime.
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Jan 2018 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Assertion Libraries
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
We have hopefully convinced everyone of the importance of unit testing and inspired everyone to use it in their daily work. But testing is only useful if the tests work and are maintained. Assertion libraries are an easy way to make tests more readable and readable code is more maintainable. We'll do a comparison between Shouldly, Fluent Assertions, NFluent and NSpec.
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Nov 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Building a ChatBot in the Cloud
Presenter: Mike Erickson
In this presentation we will use Amazon Lex and AWS Lambda to build a ChatBot front end that will support a natural English conversation with the bot.
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Oct 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Scary Gadgets 5
Presenter: Phil Gilmore, Daniel Beus, Nathan Zaugg
Sounds, Sensors, Senses, Surprises!
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Sept 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Game Night!
Presenter: N/A
Game night! A good old-fashioned LAN party and more! The old (StarCraft), and the new (VR gaming) converge. Folks may decide to play other games as well.
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Aug 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Embedded C++ Development for the Game Boy Advance
Presenter: Richard Thomson
In this presentation, I'll give an introduction to embedded development using C++.
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July 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Micro Services
Presenter: Nate Zaugg
Introduction to Microservices:People have gone crazy about Microservices in the past couple of years! With the rise of PaaS / the "Cloud", our goal has been to write software that scales appropriately with demand. Microservices holds the key to scalability, but only if they are done correctly. Learn about the tenants of Microservices and how to architect an enterprise system.
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June 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Machine Learning with TensorFlow
Presenter: Stephen Knotek
Machine Learning with TensorFlow
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May 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Updating Web Data with SSIS
Presenter: George Ray
Why are there so many songs about APIs and what’s on the other side?
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April 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Party
Presenter: Scott Golightly
We're going to get together and learn about some of the awesome new features of Visual Studio 2017. We'll try to answer the standard "why / when should I upgrade" questions as well.
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March 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Introduction to Big Data Part 1
Presenter: Nate Zaugg
Nathan Zaugg will begin his multi-part series on working with Big Data.
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February 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Lightning Storm
Presenter: Nate Zaugg, Phil Gilmore, Daniel Beus
We will have a series of short lightning talks about a variety of topics. There is sure to be something for everyone.
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January 2017 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation
Presenter: Bruce Nielson
Quantum Mechanics and Computation is a very difficult subject that can’t possibly be covered in depth in a single presentation, but this presentation will help you gain enough intuition for these subjects that you can better sort fact from fiction. What can we really do with quantum computers that we can’t do with a regular computer?
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December 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Making Sense of Cloud Computing
Presenter: Nate Zaugg
We'll discuss microservice architecture, containers, service buses, streaming, data storage, and more.
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October 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Scary Gadgets 4
Presenter: Phil Gilmore, Daniel Beus, Nathan Zaugg
Wearables, Winduino, Arduinode, and Nerdtacular Lighting
We talk about how to mix programming with micro electronics to make your Halloween activities more unique. We cover a spectrum of technology and we're covering more this year than ever before!
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August 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: .NET Core - The Missing Introduction
Presenter: Nathan Zaugg
The ASP.NET team has invested a lot of work into porting their platform to the new .NET Core, making possible along with it Console applications, and others. Come learn the why's and hows of the .NET Core technology.
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July 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: 3D Modeling
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
Learn to use free CAD tools to create 3D models which you can bring to life on a 3D printer. I will focus on 3D modeling as it pertains to fabrication - CAD or 3D printing - using easy-to-use free tools. I will show all the concepts you need to know to make any model you want.
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June 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Intro to Debugging with WinDbg
Presenter: Erik Olson
WinDbg is Microsoft's tool for debugging managed and native apps as well as their kernel. It can help solve computer and application crashes, and it can give you a window into what your frameworks are doing under the hood.
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May 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Lightning Talks
Presenter: Phil Gilmore, Nathan Zaugg, Daniel Beus
Lightning Storm - a series of Lightning Talks: Encryption, Compression, Regular Expressions, You're doing it wrong: Async & Await... and more!
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April 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Angular 2
Presenter: Bryan Hadlock
What's so great about Angular 2? Come to NUNUG and see!!! If you are a newbie to Angular. AWESOME!!! You won't have to relearn anything.
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March 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: C# 6.0 Tour
Presenter: Troy Fillerup
Troy Fillerup will introduce us to the latest version of C# with a tour of the new features version 6.0.
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February 2016 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Tools, Tips, & Tricks
Presenter: Ad Hoc
We'll be doing something a bit different this month. The audience will be invited to come up, plug in and show us their favorite tools, tips, tricks, tool chains, processes, test beds, cheat sheets, whatever you want!
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December 2015 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Introduction to Unity3D Part 2
Presenter: Tony Pitman
Last year we had Introduction to Unity3D. This is meant to be a review and follow-on presentation.
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October 2015 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Scary Gadgets 3 - Controlling a Halloween Prop with Raspberry Pi & Win10 IoT
Presenter: Phil Gilmore, Nathan Zaugg, Daniel Beus
We will use Windows 10 IoT on a Raspberry Pi and program it to control a Halloween Prop.
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September 2015 Meeting Announcement
Topic: ASP.NET 5
Presenter: Scott Golightly
ASP.NET 5 is a major change from previous versions of ASP.NET. From the new cross platform .NET Framework to the opt-in nature of modules to the different tools that are bundled with ASP.NET 5 there is a lot to learn.
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August 2015 Meeting Announcement
Topic: Windows 10 & Visual Studio 2015 - First Look
Presenter: Nathan Zaugg
We're going to go over the awesome new features of both the Windows 10 OS and Visual Studio 2015.
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July 2015 Meeting Announcement
Topic: IronPython for .NET
Presenter: Phil Gilmore
.NET has always been a Multi-Language paragon. Over the years we have explored C#, F#, and Delphi Prism. Python is a little different. We will explore what we can do with it.
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June 2015 Meeting Announcement
Topic: EcmaScript 6
Presenter: Daniel Beus
JavaScript (based on the EcmaScript standard) has become a widely used and well structured language in recent years, and most development opportunities in today's market will likely involve writing some web code. This meeting will focus on the newest syntax and how it can make code much more readable and usable.
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