I catch a lot of crap from my peers about the length of my posts and their apparent lack of reasonable brevity. Well complain no more, because my pal Dan has totally jumped the shark with his pair of matching Longest Posts Evar:

Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Forms Based Authentication (FBA) Walk-through - Part 1

and the sequel to the bestselling novel:

Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Forms Based Authentication (FBA) w/MySites Walk-through - Part 2

Heck, even the titles are huge.

Please join us on Monday, March 5th at 6:00 PM for the monthly Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET User Group meeting.

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This month we have two speakers:

Paul Lockwood will be presenting Semi-Advanced Production Debugging - a brief discussion on little known debugging techniques including WinDbg and the sos.dll.

About the speaker:

Paul maintains a weblog at http://www.dotnetworkaholic.com/.

Also speaking this month is Eric Engler who will be presenting ASP.NET AJAX: Beyond the UpdatePanel. This session will provide an overview of ASP.NET AJAX. Eric will briefly cover the basics of ASP.NET AJAX, and then he'll drill down on some of the less commonly known, but very powerful aspects. Among the subjects to be discussed will be:

• The parts of the AJAX Distribution
• UpdatePanel - a brief obligatory overview
• The ScriptManager
• AJAX Control Toolkit: design of server-side control extenders and custom controls
• JavaScript: how to use objects in a non-OOP language
• AJAX Client Library: micro sized version of the .NET Framework written in JavaScript
• ASP.NET AJAX Application Services
• Calling Web Services from the Client
• Debugging AJAX applications

About the speaker:

Eric is a Senior Software Engineer at ZC Sterling, a real estate insurance and tax servicing company in Atlanta. He has over 20 years of experience programming many languages, on many platforms. His current focus is on Visual Studio and C#, including all types of applications: Windows, Web, and middle-tier. He holds a MCSD.NET certification.

Website: http://www.EricEngler.com

Thanks go to our sponsor Intellinet (www.intellinet.com) for graciously providing refreshments during the meeting.

This month's agenda (Monday, March 5th)

    * Networking starting at 6:00
    * Announcements at 6:15
    * Paul Lockwood – Production Debugging at 6:30
    * Break at 7:00
    * Eric Engler – ASP.NET AJAX at 7:15

We will be meeting at the Microsoft Regional Headquarters at the Sanctuary Park complex in Alpharetta (Mansell Rd. Exit). The meeting begins at 6 PM so folks can mingle, however the announcements and presentations are not scheduled to begin until 6:15 PM.

For more information on this month's meeting, please visit our website at:

http://www.atlantace.com/

If you are not familiar with the meeting location, please print out the driving directions for reference:

http://www.atlantace.com/MeetingLocation.aspx

**** A CALL FOR SPEAKERS ****

If you have a topic that you would like to present to the group, please contact me to discuss your ideas. We have lots of available time slots in the coming months, and our group is a fantastic place to hone your public speaking skills and to contribute back to the user group community.

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NOTE: You have received this message because your email address was registered at the Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET website at http://www.atlantace.com/ or the Atlanta C# Developers Group website at http://www.atlantacsharp.org/.

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Thanks, and I hope to see everyone at this month's meeting!

Keith Rome
MCPD-EAD MCSD MCDBA MCAD

For those who know me well, this will be old news.

As of last Monday, I have been a consultant with Wintellect. This new position gives me the opportunity to "get in early" and help shape a consulting organization from the ground up. I will also get to continue building my technical and management skills and perhaps have a chance to get in on some more exciting projects that leverage the newest technologies.

My two years at Intellinet were a great employment experience, and I would definately recommend them to prospective employees and clients without hesitation. I still have many good friends there. Frank Bell and the Intellinet EMT have managed to build a great working environment, and they have some of the best technical specialists in the region. I wish them the very best, as it was a very difficult decision when I decided to move on to this next phase of my career.

I used to love Berry 411 for my old Intellinet-supplied BlackBerry. But now I have a T-Mobile Dash (Windows Mobile 5) and need a good local business search / mapping tool.

Lucky for me, Windows Live Search for Mobile went final this week... and it is awsomely better than Berry 411. And by Awsome, I of course mean Totally Sweet.

If you have a Windows Mobile 5 phone, you can install it directly from http://wls.live.com/.

At this month's Atlanta Cutting Edge, I presented a short talk on basic project management and estimation using PERT techniques. This is a topic that I find most developers (and managers too!) tend to ignore because they assume it woul dbe uninteresting or perhaps "fake science". Quite the opposite is actually true, and it can be astounding how much positive impact some of these techniques can bring to a software development project.

So if you were there and requested the slides, or if you were simply not able to make it, here they are.