June 2009 Meeting

Please join us for a entertaining and interactive session! As always, we’ll have FREE food, drinks, and prizes for attending!

Please join us on July 8th (please note different date) for a special event. We're pleased to welcome Derick Bailey who will lead us through a code-heavy talk on great design practices with the S.O.L.I.D software design principle.

This Month's Topic:

S.O.L.I.D. Object Design Principle

Almost every professional software developer understands the academic definitions of Coupling, Cohesion, and Encapsulation. However, many of us do not understand how to actually achieve Low Coupling, High Cohesion, and strong Encapsulation, as prescribed. Fortunately, there are a set of stepping stones that we can use to reach these end goals, giving us a clear cut path to software that is easier to read, easier to understand, and easier to change. This presentation will define not only the three object oriented goals, but also the five S.O.L.I.D. principle that lead us there, while walking through a sample application.

For more information, please check out the following:

• S.O.L.I.D. Teaser

Meeting Information:

Topic: S.O.L.I.D. Object Design Principle

Speaker Bio:

Derick Bailey is a senior software developer, architect, and technology leader at McLane Advanced Technologies, in Temple, TX with more than 10 years of professional software development experience, and more than 20 years of experience writing code. He has been active in the Austin area community for several years, and is a blogger with the LosTechies community.

You can find Derick online in the following places:
• Twitter
• Blog
• Website

Door Prizes

Make sure to attend, because in addition to our awesome presenter, we have some way cool prizes, including:

CodeSmith Professional v5

MindJet MindManager Pro 8

Balsamiq Mockups

JetBrains ReSharper v4.1

Sponsors

Thanks to our sponsors for this event:

NorthDallas.net gracoiusly thanks Intuit for their continued sponsorship
and support. Without their fine meeting facilities awesome team members, our meetings would not be possible.

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