Many of us have been doing Object Oriented Programming (OOP) since their first "hello World" program or just forgot the concepts behind functional programming.

The goal of this meetup is to help you get started with functional programming or refresh your memory without going over elementary details.

* Functional programming is when functions, not objects or procedures, are the fundamental building blocks of a program

http://www.meetup.com/KCDevelopers/events/39631312/?a=ea1_lnm&rv=ea1

November 2011 KCSEM Event
Having trouble understanding what you might need to do to gain visibility in the search engines? KCSEM will be reviewing websites in quick collaborative sessions to provide insight on what you might want to consider as next steps in getting your site a presence for desired terms. We ask that site URLs be submitted to KCSEM in advance of the site clinic to help us preview the sites to be reviewed. Don’t have a site? Or don’t want yours’ reviewed? That’s fine! Come anyway, and learn key aspects that may help your site to perform well in search engine results and network with a bunch of nice, smart folks. DemandCon is KCSEM’s November event sponsor. Co-founder Shawn Elledge will be on hand to discuss the next DemandCon conference and why you should be there.

The Wheat Room at Barley’s Brewhaus and Restaurant
6:30PM
16649 Midland Drive
Shawnee, KS 66217
(913) 268-5160

Hey everybody. This is going to be the first official meetup of this group. Hope everyone can make it. And I hope we can make this a regular thing.

http://www.meetup.com/KC-Video-Game-Developers/events/41338302/

The next KC R user group meeting is 2 weeks from tomorrow... Saturday,
December 3rd at 2pm.

We're going to try having it in a conference room on the second floor
of Cherry Hall at UMKC (5030 Cherry St Kansas City, MO). Parking is
available just behind the Administration building off of Oak. Here's a
google map.

(Thanks, Bob!)

So far we have two people signed up to present a short topic:
Me on the text mining package
Steve on creating models inside a loop

I think it would be fun to get a few more people to show a little
something.

We currently meet every Thusday in our new shared work space. Meetings start at 7pm and are open to all those interested. If your interested in seeing what we're all about, come on a Thursday to see all the current projects. When you get here just give us a call and we'll come let you in. The number down in the cave is (202) 621-2252.

Meetup link.

After a huge success as the second SharePoint Saturday event in what has become a world-wide phenomenon, SharePoint Saturday Kansas City is back for its fourth year on Saturday, December 10th, 2011. We set the standard. Now we’re back, bigger and better, to show that Kansas City is a leading center for Information Technology and SharePoint Professionals.

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided throughout the day. Vegetarian options are available by choosing Yes on the questionairre. For attendees who stay until the very end and turn in an event survey there will be prize drawings for various items. In the past these items have included an XBox 360, Books, and gift certficates from various vendors and sponsors. Wireless internet is also available. We will send out a form 1-2 weeks prior to the event with the wireless internet form. You can also access the form at our website.

Thank you for your interest in SharePoint Saturday Kansas City!

For more information please visit our website at http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/kc or email us at [email protected].

Sign up here.

A Day with Microsoft Virtualization, Hyper-V, SCVMM 2012 and SCOM 2012…Oh My
Event ID: 1032498170
Doubletree Overland Park 10100 College Blvd
Overland Park Kansas 66210-1462
United States

Register by Phone: 1-877-MSEVENT 9AM-7PM EST M-F
Meal: Yes
Click here to register.

Presenter(s): John Weston and Kevin Remde.
Language(s): English.
Product(s): Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Azure, Windows Server and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Audience(s): IT Generalist.

· Are you currently a VMware administrator?
· Are you looking to understand what cloud (public, private, hybrid) is and what it can do for you?
· Have recent industry announcements made you want to take a look at alternative ways to take your datacenter to the next generation?
· Do you want to learn about the next set of Microsoft Virtualization technologies?


If you answered yes to any of those questions then come spend an exciting day with your Microsoft TechNet IT Pro evangelists. You will take a technical look at how the Microsoft Virtualization technologies can provide you the Cloud on Your Terms?


Microsoft virtualization technologies provide you a solid foundation for delivering IT as a Service to take your business to the private cloud. Our Private Cloud solution is not just about virtualization. We offer strong management capabilities, using which you can holistically manage all of your services and applications, which is where you’re true business value lies, not in VMs or physical servers. Using our solution, you can get deep application insights and therefore deliver business SLAs with confidence. Microsoft offers virtualization that spans from desktop to data center to the cloud. We offer a comprehensive and customer-centric solution with more choice, flexibility, and cost savings than VMware.

In the morning session we will take a look at the Microsoft virtualization technologies including Hyper-V, SCVMM 2012, SCOM 2012 and all the products to take your DC to the next level. Hyper-V offers best-in-class performance for Microsoft workloads (SharePoint, SQL Server, and Exchange) and you can rely on Hyper-V to virtualize Tier-1 data center applications with confidence. System Center 2012 provides a common management offering full visibility and control for your IT pros across your hybrid environments. At the same time, we continue to empower your application owners with self-service to make sure they can deliver agile app experiences to their businesses. System Center 2012 technologies, you can take advantage of existing datacenter investments with 3rd party integration and provides your infrastructure cross platform management and automation from the metal up. We know that you have made existing investments in your datacenter, and we can integrate and extend upon existing systems.


In the afternoon session you will be allowed to explore the technologies on your terms:

· Do you want to install some of the technologies and take it for a test drive like?
o Windows Server 2008 R2
o Configure Hyper-V for best Practices
o Configure a test environment (networking , a DC VM, a VM for SCVMM)
o Download, install, and fire up SCVMM 2012


· Are you looking to take a Microsoft Certification exam? Exams we can talk about:

o 70-659 TS: Windows Server 2008 R, Server Virtualization (Hyper-V + VMM)

o 70-400 TS: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring


· Or do you just want more Technical nuggets?


We are here for you in the afternoon, and will be there to help answer the questions you really care about!