October 2006

Issue 3.4

Forward to a Colleague

 Expert's Corner


 
Jim White
Intertech Director of
Training and
Instructor

While the leaves are changing in Minnesota, nothing has changed about this month's Software Developer continuing to deliver real, practical content and advice.

In this month's newsletter you'll find information on our fourth and final FREE Oxygen Blast.  It's being delivered by yours truly and is on Using Hibernate in Your Application Data Access Layer.  Seating is limited.  Register today.  Also, in this month's edition, you'll find:

  • Guidance for climbing the corporate ladder

  • Design patterns for Service Oriented Architectures from our publishing partner Apress

  • Leadership tips for programmers leading programmers from our publishing partner Apress
  • An article from Andrew Troelsen, Intertech Partner, on building robust UIs in Mono
  • An article from Intertech's CEO/Founder, Tom Salonek, on e-waste and what we can do to help

Finally, if you're in the Twin Cities and use or plan on using VSTS or TFS, register for VSTS MN, a user group dedicated to helping VSTS thought leaders share best practices (details below...).

Happy Autumn,
Jim White
Intertech Instructor

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Join Us October 18th For The Premier Meeting of the Visual Studio Team System Minnesota (VSTS MN) User Group

When: 3rd Wednesday of each month — 5:00 to 6:30

Where: Microsoft, 8300 Norman Center Drive, Ste 950, Bloomington, MN 55437

  • Learn field-proven best-practices for VSTS and TFS installation and configuration
  • Share techniques to optimize VSTS features.
  • Explore 3rd party products that extend and customize VSTS in a non-sales environment.

Register today!

Sponsored by Intertech and Microsoft, VSTS MN is for architects and technical thought leaders responsible for enterprise development using Team System or Team Foundation Server.


 

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If you're in Minneapolis/St. Paul, register for our FREE HIBERNATE seminar on November 17th from 9:00 to 11:00. 

There are many object-relational mapping tools and frameworks.  Why does the Hibernate open source framework standout?  This seminar teaches you the basics of how to use Hibernate to query relational databases and persist your Java objects. Come learn how and why Hibernate is influencing many application architectures and look at the good, the bad and the ugly with regard to Java persistence options.


 

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