June 24th: KC Web Pros – The Wonderful World Of Web Maps

Our next meeting will be held:

6:30 PM, Wed, June 24, 2009

Centriq Training Center

8700 State Line Rd, Leawood, KS

(West side of State Line Rd, directly across from Ward Parkway Mall)

Sponsor: : YET TO BE DETERMINED

Food and Door Prizes will be provided by : YET TO BE DETERMINED

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Monthly attendance is increasing! We are averaging 35 to 45 people per month. In order to ensure that we have enough food for you this month, please click *REPLY* to this email, and let Ray Harris know if you will be attending. Thanks very much !

 

The topic is: The Wonderful World Of Web Maps (speaker: Kurt Loudon)

1. Introduction to Web Maps Via Google
     Use Google to monitor alarms in a large geographic area.
2. Web Maps Cornucopia Via ESRI
     A. Tour de Flex: Web Maps & how to access some sample code      B. ESRI: Flex API with service area geoprocessing
     C. ESRI: Javascript API with some geoprocessing code (ie how to find service area driving time from a particular location – accesses same ArcObject(COM) code as the Flex API)
     D. http://www.batchgeocode.com/ ; Geocode web page & code…
3. Questions & Answers, etc…

 

Kurt Loudon BIO:

Kurt W. Loudon serves as a Data Systems Architect for Shafer, Kline & Warren, Inc. Kurt is a 17-year technical expert in the diverse field of information technology. Design and development of Databases, GIS, & Web systems are his main areas of expertise, using cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to deliver first-class products and services in formats such as ArcSDE, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Visual Basic, PHP, Google Maps/Earth, ColdFusion, ASP, MS Access, Satellite Forms, ER/Studio, Er! win, ArcIMS, and more! Kurt has a bachelor’s degree in G! eography from the University of Missouri – Columbia. He also has earned a master’s in Public Management & Policy from the top-ranked Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. Kurt has been instrumental in designing, developing, and implementing the integration of GIS, Database, Web, and Asset Management technologies for the following clients: City of Westminster CO; Kansas Department of Health & Environment; Department of Defense; Union County Conservation District; Department of Homeland Security; Tele Atlas; Department of Agriculture; City of North Kansas City MO; Oklahoma Natural Gas; and more.

June 23rd: ICCA-KC – Recession Proof Your Business

June ICCA Dinner Meeting

Click Here to make your reservation online. Walk-ins are welcome.

Topic:	Recession Proof Your Business — GROW and OWN More Market Share While Everyone Else Downsizes
Who:	Independent Computer Consultants Association – Kansas City Chapter
What:	June 2009 Dinner & Chapter Meeting
When:	June 23rd, 2009 – 4th Tuesday of the month. Networking: 5:30PM Dinner : 6:30PM Program : 7:30PM
Where:	KC Masterpiece Barbecue & Grill 10985 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS 66210 (I435 & Metcalf Ave.) Click here for map and directions Free parking is available in the restaurant’s lot.
Speaker:	Alan Boyer
To be covered:	The secret to growing a business in any economy. Discover why businesses believe that they will lose business in a recession like this (wrong headed thinking). It’s the belief that causes them to lose business, NOT THE ECONOMY. How to grow a business to ANY SIZE rapidly during ANY ECONOMY. Grow your business BECAUSE of the RECESSION; don’t be at the mercy of it. How to market your business like you’ve never marketed before The secret to not only GROWING, but to take your business to places most people can’t imagine, while reducing the number of hours. How to design a DREAM business that makes more than most people ever dream about, and do it in less than 6 hours a week. While everyone else is complaining about the recession and losing clients, now is the time for you to OWN a larger market share.
More about our Speaker:	Alan Boyer’s main purpose in life is “exploding business results” by 5-10 times every time he touches one, even if he touches that business owner only one and briefly, even if he isn’t a client. At this point about 80% of his clients double their entire business, revenues, profits, clients, efficiency, in 4-8 weeks. In fact, he has a $100,000 This Year OR ELSE mastermind group, with a guarantee that they will make either their first $100,000 or an additional $100,000. Within the first 1 ½ months they are on track. Carpet cleaner is on track to an additional $60,000 Web developer $70,000 a month (not a year, a month) Sign company owner is trying to figure out how to hire people to keep up. A Mary Kay lady who got only 1 new client from her website ALL of last year, within 2 weeks was already getting 72 times more people than she did all of last year. A consultant made his first $50K sale in 3 weeks, and acquired two VERY LARGE clients, Logitech, and Coca Cola. He had not been able to get ANYTHING prior to this even though he had hired other “experts.” Although Alan’s clients range from single proprietors on up through companies like Saudi Arabian Oil, Aramco, his main focus is helping coaches, consultants, and highly technical companies such as engineers and IT consultants. His education is in electrical engineering, software development so he understands what is missing from most of the highly technical thinker’s businesses. There is a thinking pattern that just plain gets in the way, and how to turn that around Quickly! He’s found that their technical focus frequently gets in the way of the breakthroughs they need in reaching more clients, and how to apply the way they think that will cause them to leap forward by a factor of 5 to 10 times within weeks. He’s been to the top executive level in large international corporations, and owned his own small businesses. Been there, struggled, and turned them around. One of his larger clients who was in the World Trade center and got a major setback, went from 1 new major client a month to 51 a day. Stop and figure what that business multiplier is . .. and within such a short time!!! He’s worked with some of the top marketing coaches in the world and will share some of those concepts with you. So, if you’d like to learn some of his secrets that he shares with thousands of his followers be sure to come to the ICCA dinner.

* Dinner meeting pricing!!! *

• $25 for both members and guests that reserve online by * June 20th AT NOON *, $30 at the door
• Students with a valid student ID are always $20
• Walk ins are welcome

Pre-payment online by credit card (for on-line reservations) or payment by check at the door are preferred. Non-members are encouraged to attend.

More information available online at: http://www.icca-kc.org/

Click Here to make your reservation online.

June 16th: Windows/Freeware SIG – Your favorites

At this month’s meeting we are going to let you do the talking. The subject is favorites. What is your favorite software, utility, application etc. Where are the best places to find the best hardware, software, bargains. When you go shopping for you computer needs whatever they may be, do you have favorite sites or stores you frequent first?

What methods do you do/use to find the best price at the time? When you decide to get/purchase an item/program you do not normally purchase or possess little knowledge where do you go to educate yourself before you make your commitment. You get the idea. If you want, send links or subject matter to diabill@sbcglobal.net so they can be incorporated into an agenda.

 

If you have comments about this subject forward those also and I will incorporate them also before the meeting.

Hope to see you there.

 

Meeting Date: 6/16/2009 from 6:30pm to 9:30pm

Where: New Horizons Computer Learning Center Metcalf South Shopping Center 96th & Metcalf, Overland Park, KS (Please enter the door of Metcalf South on the lower level of the shopping center on the West – You will find New Horizons inside the center area.)

Room: 6 see a map at

www.newhorizonskc.com

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Catalog of Classes: http://www.newhorizonskc.com/catalog/index0.htm

June 11th: SQL Server SIG – Understanding the Procedure Cache

Topic:	Understanding the Procedure Cache
Date:	Thursday, June 11, 2009 @ 6:00 pm
Speaker:	Bill Graziano
	Bill Graziano is a partner in ClearData Consulting and and a SQL Server MVP. He specializes in SQL Server performance tuning, database administration and database application development. Bill serves on the Board of Directors of PASS and is a regular presenter at their annual conference. Bill is a founder of SQLTeam.com, a web site for SQL Server professionals and has taught classes in SQL Server, Visual Basic, MSF and Windows Server.
Note:	Understanding the Procedure Cache: Writing Efficient, Reusable Queries When is a query plan reused? When will dynamic SQL give better performance results than stored procedures? What are the benefits of a compiled query plan? When should you turn on forced parameterization? What is the most efficient way to write SQL for reports that might have wildly different WHERE clauses? Why is my stored procedure very slow somtimes? How effecient is the SQL from LINQ? How effecient is the SQL from ORM tools?
Sponsor:

 

General:	We have meetings on the second Thursday of every month. Our group meets at the Johnson County Community College Regnier Center. Our normal room is room #236 but check the visual displays when you arrive to confirm.
	In an ongoing attempt to make the content presented useful to our members we start each meeting with a short Q&A session. Unless noted in the meeting notes the schedule for each meeting will be:
	6:00 – 6:30 – General Q&A session & Announcements
	6:30 – 7:30 – Presentation(s)
	7:30 – ?? – Door prizes and Question & Answer session
Location	12345 College Blvd Overland Park Kansas 66210-1299 913-469-8500 Once you arrive the Regnier center is the red brick building next to the large white building. Parking is available under the center as well as on three sides. Once inside please check the room displays as the college frequently changes our room assignment. If you cannot find us please call Neil Watkins @ 913-515-1404 http://www.jccc.net/home/site.php/welcome/maps/fullcampus

June 9th: Sharepoint SIG – Implementing a Dashboard

Eyual Getahun of CJK Software will be presenting at the Sharepoint Heartland Users Group on Tuesday June 9th.

 

He will demonstrate how to implement a Dashboard using Sharepoint.

Meeting is open.

 

Meeting starts at 07:00PM and will be held at a meeting room which will be posted

 

On Lcd Screens in the Regnier Center of Johnson County Community College. It is usually on the 2nd floor. The College is located in Overland Park Kansas on 12345 College Blvd. Additional information can be found on the HUG web site www.HUGKC.org

 

If you are interested in Sharepoint come and share with us.

June 17th: Access SIG – Crosstab queries. Functions

ACCESS SIG  — June 17 – 6:30 pm – 2nd floor of Regnier Center @ JCCC

Presentations:   Beginnner:  Building Crosstab queries – Lisa Friedrichsen 

 

(We’ll learn about crosstab queries in general – why and how — and we’ll also try to recreate Silvia Siren’s report that averaged the number records for each number of groups of records.  But this time, we’ll use a crosstab query and see how far we get – that was a brilliant suggestion by Jim Hamilton!)

 

 Advanced:   VBA 101 – Your First Function / Your First Sub – Lisa Friedrichsen

 

Please come prepared to volunteer for a presentation sometime this year.

Lisa will bring some textbooks that you can review in case you want to present a lesson from a textbook.

 

Future meetings:  July 15, August 19, Sept 16, October 21, November 18, December 16

 

Need Database Help?:  Please also email Lisa @ lfriedrichsen@everestkc.net or lisalfri@jccc.edu if you have a database that you would like to present for review.  That is always very educational.

 

fyi….the survey says….. “I want to learn more about”:

 

·         Holes in existing Access knowledge

·         Access in general 

·         Database-web integration 

·         .net coding 

·         More VBA skills 

·         VBA coding 

·         SQLServer, structuring, documenting, and organizing projects,

debugging and trouble shooting

·         Access VBA, wikis 

·         Teaching strategies 

·         Access in general 

·         Tools to measure searches on Internet 

·         Open to any good, new ideas

May 26th: .Net SIG – Exploring SQL Server Reporting Services

May 2009 Meeting

Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 – 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Topic: Exploring SQL Server Reporting Services
Come get a look at what SQL Server Reporting Services can do. And get some ideas of what it can do for you. We’ll look at how the reporting environment is managed, how reports can be created and deployed, and a trick or two for getting the results you want in your reports.

Presented By: Timothy Wright
Timothy is currently a Software Test Engineer at CertTech LLC, but has also worked as a network consultant with particular focus on Microsoft technologies. During his time in the networking world he also took up ASP.NET Web Development as a hobby and everything associated with it including Microsoft SQL Server.

 

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June 4th: KC Office Geeks – SharePoint Designer Workflow

KCOG June Meeting – Howard Davy (TBD)

Centriq (8700 Stateline, Suite 200, Leawood, KS 66206)

6/4/2009 5:45 PM

6/4/2009 7:15 PM

Speaker: Howard Davy Bio: Howard Davy is presently a SharePoint developer with Massman Construction.  His duties include site collection development, work flows and web part development.  He’s responsible for the SharePoint servers and the administrative duties for Massman. Howard started his professional career in the US Army, repairing radar and electronics systems.  Upon his discharge from the service, he began working as an electrical engineer working with control and instrumentation systems for various pumping applications across the US. Howard has been working as a software developer since he graduated college with a Bachelors of Science in computer science in 2000.  His first job out of college was developing expert systems and knowledge engineering for a company specializing in artificial intelligence applications primarily for military applications.  He spent several years developing different software projects of varying types before settling on a position at Fort Leavenworth.  He spent three years developing NET applications and SharePoint for the military at Ft. Leavenworth.  Last August he accepted his present position with Massman Construction. Howard has lived in Kansas City for 6 years.  He’s married and has a daughter.  His hobbies include photography and creative writing.   Topic: SharePoint Designer Workflow Howard will be speaking on the development of workflows within the SharePoint (MOSS) environment.  His topic will include design and implementation strategies, SharePoint Designer as a development tool and a review of working systems.  It will also include a look at site security and on-the-fly security management using workflow technology.  It will also include a look at workflows that are already in use in a real world environment. Sponsor: TBA, food will be provided at the meeting. Registration: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=138707 *By registering for the event you are entitled to one prize ticket and by submitting an event evaluation you are entitled to another prize ticket.  Only one prize per person.

June 3rd: Agile SIG – Fundamental rules for software productivity

The next meeting for the group will be Wednesday June 3, 2009 at the Pizza Shoppe (6:30pm).  The topic will be:

 

Meeting Topic: Fundamental Rules for Software Productivity

 

What would appear on your list of fundamental rules for software productivity? What would top your list? How would you defend your answers?  Our own Mark Randolph has been invited to speak at the USDA on that topic and has asked for our help in sharpening his wits.

Mark’s list is available via the Google Agile KC Group and will be discussed on the 2nd.

Please! Come argue with him!

 

Mark Randolph currently works for the Prince of Wales Tribal Enterprise Consortium (POWTEC) and is assigned at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a Senior IT Specialist where he actively advocates for the adoption of Agile Programming methods. Mark has been a Certified ScrumMaster for 3 years. On his last job, Mark was responsible for piloting Scrum (an Agile Programming method), arranged training for 12 team leads, and organized and ran 7 Scrum teams, not all of which were successful (a humbling and instructive experience). Mark has also published articles on the Scrum Alliance web site.

 

We’re also looking for people who want to present a topic and a list of topics the group at large would like to see presented.  So if you have some thoughts on either topic please post them.

May 20th: Access SIG – Learning Access and Meeting Planning

The Access SIG meets Wed, May 20th at 7:00 pm, 2nd floor of the Regnier Center @ JCCC.

The evening will consist of two parts:

Beginner Lesson:  Lisa Friedrichsen – Using the Northwind database to teach yourself Access.

 

Advanced Lesson:  Lisa Friedrichsen will conduct a member survey of skills and desires.  She’ll use this information to help set the agenda for the rest of this year’s meetings.   

 

One idea I had for future Advanced Lessons is to invite members to bring Access issues to the meeting, and let the group debug them.  We started doing this one evening, and I thought the effort was not only very educational, but also very helpful to the member. 

 

So please, every meeting, if you have a database that is giving you trouble in any way, please bring it to the meeting.  If we have time, we

will debug it as a group.   If this turns out to be a popular activity,

we’ll schedule these “debugging” sessions as a regular part of the Advanced lesson portion of the evening’s activities.

 

I will also bring along a couple of my favorite Access textbooks, and we can work through some of the advanced lessons such as combo box coding or unravel messed up relationships if we have time.  Now how fun is that?!