September 2009 Chapter Meeting
Walk-ins are welcome.
Topic: September 2009 Chapter Meeting - Breakfast Networking Meeting

Who: Independent Computer Consultants Association - Kansas City Chapter
What: September 2009 Breakfast and Chapter Meeting
When: Tuesday September 15th, 2009
Networking: 7:30 A.M. – 9:00 A.M.
Where: Perkins Restaurant
11200 West 87th Street, Lenexa, KS 66214 (I-35 & 87th Street)
Click here for map and directions
Free parking is available in the restaurant's lot.
Speaker: None

* Breakfast meeting pricing!!! *
• Pay for your Breakfast Order only. No chapter fees.
• Walk ins are welcome
Non-members are encouraged to attend.
More information available online at: http://www.icca-kc.org/

September Access SIG on 9/16/09 @ 6:30 pm, 2nd floor, Regnier Center.

Presentation 1: Silvia Siren
Introduction to Macros, what they are and how to start using them, along
with an overview of the Send Object action.

Presentation 2: Janet Gelsinger
Importing CSV files

We've reserved the meeting room at the LACKMAN branch of the Johnson County library for our October 8 meeting. This starts at 7pm and we expect to have a short set of demonstrations (VRay for Maya, Archer background, member portfolios) followed by a long social. Bring your images and animations to show your portfolio to the other members - Jim will bring a laptop and projector.

Jim's firm has been working hard on a new series that airs this fall on FX called "Archer." They hope to bring a couple of shots to demonstrate a little of our work on this new show.

address:
Lackman Library
15345 W. 87th St. Pkwy.
Lenexa, Kan. 66219

link:
http://www.jocolibr ary.org/template s/JCL_InfoPage. aspx?id=1866

The next AgileKC Meeting will be held on Wednesday September 23, 2009

at 6:30 PM at the Pizza Shoppe in Overland Park.

Topic: Agile 2009 Conference in Review

Agile 2009 took place in Chicago on August 24 - 28, 2009. Mark

Randolph and Martin Olson both attended and will share their thoughts,

highlights and review of the conference. As agile processes gain

exposure and become more mainstream the community continues to grow.

Some of the fundamentals remain unchanged while other practices are

gaining more traction. Come join us and share your insights and

reflections.

We'll also have a round table discussion for the group to address any

challenges or questions posed by the group. In the past, this has

been a beneficial exercise for attendees to work through specific

issues they are having implementing an agile practice in their

environment.

SharePoint Meeting 9/8/09 at 7 PM JCCC Regnier

Karen Sorensen of Johnson County Wastewater will be presenting on the subject of best practices for file management under Sharepoint.
FILES IN SHAREPOINT- UPFRONT DESIGN FOR SUCCESS:
Has anyone had problems with the way the files had been named.
Have you had conflicts with other systems such in Outlook or sharing files with folks outside their network? How SP files are or would be shared and archived.
For example, any plans for an extranet. There are legal issues involved.
In some cases you might consider what to do in case of a law suit.

Karen Lynne Sorensen is currently the Internet Projects Coordinator at Johnson County Wastewater. She has worked for private industry ranging from Boeing and Northrop to hospitals and environmental cleanup companies. In addition, she has worked for major colleges in the KC metro area helping faculty to integrate technology into their curriculum.

Event Overview

By now most developers and architects are aware of cloud computing and several people have heard of Microsoft Azure, which was announced at PDC 2008 last November. While many of the fundamental concepts are relatively easy to understand, lingering issues relate pertaining to how to apply cloud computing to specific scenarios. What is it? When should I use it? How does it apply to my job? Join us as we review some of the lessons Microsoft IT has learned through Project Austin, an incubation project dogfooding the use of Microsoft Azure as a platform for supporting internal line-of-business applications.

In this event we will start by reviewing cloud computing architectures in general and the Azure architecture in particular. We will then dive deeper into several aspects of Azure from the developer’s and architect’s perspective. We will review the Azure roles (web, web service and worker); discuss several Azure storage options; review Azure security and identity options; review how Azure-based applications can be integrated with on-premise applications; discuss configuration, deployment and scaling Azure-based applications; and highlight how development teams can optimize their applications for better management and monitoring.

Event ID:
1032420969

To sign up, go to http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032420969&culture=en-US

Event Overview
Cloud computing and, more specifically, Microsoft Azure are questions on the minds of IT professionals everywhere. What is it? When should I use it? How does it apply to my job? Join us as we review some of the lessons Microsoft IT has learned through Project Austin, an incubation project dogfooding the use of Microsoft Azure as a platform for supporting internal line-of-business applications.

In this event we will discuss why an IT operations team would want to pursue Azure as an extension to the data center as we review the Azure architecture from the IT professional’s point of view; discuss configuration, deployment and scaling Azure-based applications; review how Azure-based applications can be integrated with on-premise applications; and how operations teams can manage and monitor Azure-based applications.

We will additionally explore several specific Azure capabilities:
· The Azure roles (web, web service and worker)
· Azure storage options
· Azure security and identity options

Event ID:
1032420938

To sign up, go to: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032420938&culture=en-US