May Meeting
Due to Pirates schedules and the ineptness of the current board of directors, there is no meeting this month.
April Meeting
March Meeting – You Don’t Know JACSHT
If 50,000,000 Elvis fans can’t be wrong, then 25,000,000 websites (and every single browser) are pretty close to a sure thing. Since its release in 2006, jQuery has gained a tremendous following–so much so that in 2008, Microsoft made the decision to replace its then 20-month old ASP.NET Ajax framework with jQuery for all future client side programming libraries. Despite not having an official standard, HTML 5 is becoming the standard for cross-browser, cross-platform web applications. And although it historically has been implemented differently in every browser, CSS is essential for using and styling HTML elements. In this session, we’ll look at the fundamentals of this technology triumvirate, explore some of the main features of each, and see how to start new or enhance existing applications. This will be a technology agnostic talk, so whether you develop in WebForms, MVC, Ruby, Java or PHP, there’s something in this session to be learned.
About our Speaker
For an entire decade, Rich Dudley inhabited cubicles at several companies in the same office park, eventually leading a team of developers building data warehouses, web-based BI applications and integrating mission critical systems. Today, as a Technical Evangelist for ComponentOne, Rich travels the country sharing new technologies with an eye toward the usefulness of these technologies to the poor souls still in their cubicles. Rich has been working with Azure since the early beta days, with Windows Phone 7 since before you could leave one in a bar, and is co-author of “Microsoft Azure: Enterprise Application Development” from Packt Publishing (http://bit.ly/msazurebook). Follow Rich’s blog at http://c1.ms/c1_richd, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/rj_dudley.
We’ve Been Hacked!
So you might have noticed that the site was down for a couple days. And you might now notice it doesn’t look right. That would be because somebody at some site (it appears to be called superfeedr of the .com variety) thought it would be amusing to try and hit the site nearly 200,000 times in a roughly 24 hour period. It would appear to be a search engine robot of some sort that some schmuck didn’t take the time to develop correctly (or at least thought that adding code to throttle it was a bad idea). I am assuming no malicious intent, yet.
Anyway, I am working to put the site back up. It appears that it will be hard to recover the past (I’m not sure what happened to the database – its MySQL and my knowledge of it is very limited, but it is quite broken), so don’t expect to see that come back anytime soon. 
Yes, we should have backed it up occasionally, but you know what they say about the cobbler’s children…
So, watch this space for a forthcoming announcement about our March meeting, and hopefully the site will get back up to speed shortly.
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