San Gabriel Valley Developers Group

Last night (November 18, 2010) I had the privilege of presenting at the San Gabriel Valley Developers Group run by Adnan Masood and Richard Trinh. I gave my usual presentation on MVC and EF, and decided to jazz it up with some jQuery and Ajax. There was a wide variety of expertise in the group, so everyone got something out of the presentation. About half were really interested in the Ajax, the other in the data layer and what EF can provide. There was even some time to dig deep into EF, pretending there was a rogue DBA who kept changing the database schema and how EF can keep up with it. Lot's of fun.

As usual, I peppered the members with questions, and tossed out the famous ComponentOne carabineer key chains. Two people actually got my references to POCO and EF Contexts "remaining the same)" to late '70's bands. There was a great back and forth with the members and a ton of great questions. A win-win all around.

Adnan and Richard do a bang up job of running the group, and deserve big pats on the back for all they do. If you are ever in Monrovia, CA on the 3rd Wednesday of the month and need to get your geek on, this is the place to be.

Here's some pictures.

ComponentOne Studio Winner, Richard Chin with Adnan Masood

Happy programming,

James