The only thing better than one user group meetings is two! Therefore, I will be attending this bad boy, as well.
NWA SQL User Group (http://nwasql.org)
Jason Pluenneke will present Power of the SQL GUI from 11:30-1:00 PM on February 11th at Connolly Consulting: (2703 SE Otis Corley Drive, Bentonville, AR). Jason is a founding member of NWASQL and a recognized expert of anything GUI.
Come join the NWA .NET User Group on February 10 at 5:30 PM and learn about Advanced LINQ and Agile Development!
Title: Advanced LINQ
Description: Since its arrival, LINQ has proved its power to me over and over. I find that it speeds up development and leaves behind code that is more maintainable than ever. The goal of this presentation is to show you how even the most complicated algorithms can be left dead simple with a little LINQ to help shine some clarity.
Presenter: Rob Tennyson works for Tyson Foods in Springdale, AR where he is a Lead Programmer Analyst. He has been programming professionally since 2001 and loves all things a good architecture astronaut would love! Sometimes he actually gets real work done too. For more information, see http://robtennyson.us.
Main Presentation
Title: Introduction to Agile Software Development
Description: In this presentation we will learn about what Agile Software Development. We will also take a quick look at the Manifesto for Agile Software Development which guides many of the agile practices. Will wrap up with looking at how an agile team gathers and plans, and accomplishes the work.
Presenter: Jay Smith works for Tyson Foods, Inc. where he is a PMO Architect and Evangelist, and is a former President of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User’s Group. Jay currently serves on the INETA Speakers Committee and works diligently with others on test bed projects to learn new concepts and designs. You can read more about Jay on his blog http://www.jaysmith.us or follow his tweets at http://twitter.com/jaysmith.
Jay regularly presents to user groups on various topic including Design Patterns, Visual Studio 2008, Enterprise Library, WPF, and Unit Testing. He is a registered speaker on Codezone, you can make speaker request through there or contact him directly.
Swag:
Programming Ling
Programming Robotics Studio
Introduction Silverlight 2
Windows Vista Ultimate
Infragistics NetAdvantage
Infragistics Resource DVD
When:
Date: Feb 10th
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over
6:10 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where:
The Jones Center
922 East Emma Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764
Room 228 (Memphis Room)
NetMeeting URL: http://sn.im/b70ve
Link RSVP URL: http://sn.im/b71fh
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Goal #8 of my 2009 Goal List was ditching paid TV and using the internet to resolve those needs. Yesterday I placed the order to cancel my Dish Network subscription and plan to utilize a Gateway M-1624 laptop that my father-in-law dropped. As my luck would have it, he broke the screen but the rest is still intact, including the HDMI out which I am using on my HDTV in the living room.
I started out with a Mythbuntu install and added Boxee, but I could never get the HDMI audio working. I aborted that install and opted for Ubuntu because of the better GUI audio tools (and I not going to using any DVR functionality, anyway). Yes, there is a Boxee Windows version but it is a closed Alpha stage right now (although I did see it on mininova.org). I am going to go from memory here, I got this working a couple of days ago, but it should be close.
1. Install Ubuntu (mine was version 8.10)
2. Update Ubuntu (I had 245 items to install) & Reboot
3. Enable the proprietary drivers (Mine is ATI X1200) & Reboot
4. Install Boxee, per their website
5. Disable the desktop effects (Compiz bad for Boxee)
6. Remove pulseaudio, Install esound
sudo rm /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70pulseaudio
killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install esound
Entire Section Ripped from this website:
http://www.mandladventures.com/2008/11/03/ubuntu-810-hdmi-sound-configuration/For your system to play sounds through your graphics card’s HDMI port, you need to tell Ubuntu to use the graphics card sound system VS your motherboard’s. This is the intuitive change. Go to System > Preferences > Sound. On the Devices tab, change all of the options excluding sound capture (e.g., Sound Events, Music and Movies, Audio Conferencing, and Default Mixer Tracks) to HDA ATI HDMI ATI HDMI (ALSA).
End Ripped Section
(Also make sure to un-mute the device)
sudo asoundconf list
9. Set HDMI as your default
sudo asoundconf set-default-card HDMI
10. Run Boxee as admin
sudo /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop
References:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=538
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=4853
http://www.mandladventures.com/2008/11/03/ubuntu-810-hdmi-sound-configuration/
