Our next meeting will be held:
6:30 PM, Wed, September 28, 2011
Centriq Training Center
8700 State Line Rd, Leawood, KS
(West side of State Line Rd, directly across from Ward Parkway Mall)
Sponsor: TBD TBD
Food and door prizes will be provided by : TBD TBD


In order to ensure that we have enough food for you, please click *REPLY* to this email, and let Ray Harris know if you will be attending. Thanks very much !

This month's topic will be two-fold:

(#1) How to Accomplish What Hibernate Does in 20 Lines of Code (speaker: Ray Harris)
-- Learn special techniques to take Rapid Application Development (RAD) to a whole new level
-- Eliminate the need for using NHibernate on ASP.NET projects
-- Special guests will be attending: Gert Haegdorens and Ken Roberts
-- Gert, Ken and Ray worked on the same project where we developed this technique for a parti! cular client

(#2) Perform Geocoding and Distance Calcs on your website and save $10,000 Per Year (speaker: Ray Harris)
-- GOOGLE charges $10,000 per year to use their Geocoding service
-- Learn how to 'roll your own' code to geocode on your own platform
-- Expose this service through Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Ray Harris's BIO:
Ray has been in the IT industry for 16 years. He has functioned as a software analyst, developer, project manager and software architect in the transportation arena; mutual fund financial services arena; health provider and insurance arena; mechanical engineering arena; video, voice and data cable provider arena; and most recently, the IT Benchmarking arena. Ray has experience in all areas of software development and architecture including COBOL/DB2 batch data processing, client server data processing and internet web applications in both the Microsoft .NET and Java/J2EE environm! ents. He was the project leader for several conversions on the! mutual fund data processing environment of DST Systems, including the Russell Funds, (a $2.4 Trillion Investment firm) - creator of the Russell 2000 Index. Ray has experience as the lead java architect on the Suddenlink Inc. (a 1.4 million customer cable company) Customer Selfcare Portal system, and the ITHC Benchmarking system. He was also the technical lead on several other projects: the Wells Dairy Blue Bunny ice cream website, the Burger King restaurant management portal, the HNTB (a $4 Billion Mechanical Enginering firm) Engineering Sales/Marketing/Project management website, the Simon Malls vendor/partner management website, and the QWEST circuit pricing project. Ray is also an instructor at Johnson County Community College and Penn Valley Community College. Ray graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Mathematical Sciences. Ray received his Master of Science degree in Electr! ical Engineering in 1990 from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Currently, Ray is the Lead Software Architect for iTHC, LLC an industry leading IT benchmarking and assessment organization.
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Our website URL is: http://www.kcwebpros.com
See You There !!!
Ray Harris

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