Past Events

Build Modern PHP Applications

January 8, 2013

PHP has changed a lot in the last few releases. We’ll introduce some of the recent and upcoming changes, some of the new tools and frameworks they have enabled, and how you can utilize them to improve your PHP projects. As an example, we’ll walk through development using the Symfony2 framework. Read more about Build Modern PHP Applications

Discuss JavaScript Patterns

December 5, 2012

We’ll talk about making javascript behave similar to other language people are more used to using. How to create constructors, inheritance, namespaces, modules, private/public properties, callbacks, etc. A primer for the introduction to nodejs I’m hoping to give in February which requires understanding of these patterns. I’ll have some examples/notes but with how many people signed up to attend I know to have significant JS experience it would be foolish not to have this more discussion based. Read more about Discuss JavaScript Patterns

OWASP SD Chapter Meeting

October 17, 2012

WHERE University Center North (4801 N. Career Avenue - the building on the northwest corner of campus) - Room 149 AGENDA Refreshments will be provided by SDN Communications. The October 2012 itinerary will be as follows: Networking/Introductions Chapter Business Josh Stroschein will be presenting on hacking .NET applications (or disassembling .NET clients). This presentation will look at decompiling .NET applications for purposes such as security audits and spy/ad-ware analysis. The goal will be to decompile, alter and optionally recompile . Read more about OWASP SD Chapter Meeting

Mike Benkovich presenting: Cross-Platform, Cross-Device, Connected-Apps Oh My!

October 9, 2012

Mike Benkovich is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft and will be in town to talk about cross platform cross device connectivity in applications. Today’s users don’t live on just a workstation or a laptop. With the proliferation of laptops, smart phones, and tablets people work from a variety of forms and clients. Building applications that can leverage a consistent view of identity, data and services will enable the workforce to be productive wherever they are. Read more about Mike Benkovich presenting: Cross-Platform, Cross-Device, Connected-Apps Oh My!

South Dakota Code Camp Q&A

September 20, 2012

Anyone interested in speaking, attending, or sponsoring is welcome to come and ask questions. People interested in or already committed to speaking can get together and hone what exactly they’d like to cover on their topics, or help someone come up with a good topic. South Dakota Code Camp is November 10th. More information is available at - http://southdakotacodecamp.net Read more about South Dakota Code Camp Q&A

VS 2012, Web API, and jQuery

July 24, 2012

John Petersen is in town. He’ll be talking about Visual Studio 2012, Web API (the largest addition to asp.net mvc in v4). John is an MVP, writes for CODE Magazine and CodeBetter, and has spoken at many other events. It’ll be awesome to him in town. The jQuery portion of this is being rescheduled, but Q&A related to jQuery is still an open topic for questions after the presentation. Blend Interactive is on the second floor above Child’s Play toys. Read more about VS 2012, Web API, and jQuery

Knockout JS

April 17, 2012

Kwen Peterson will be presenting some JavaScript goodness, starting with KnockoutJS, maybe more. Some sort of food should be provided, open conversation about who is doing with with JS or other tools/processes/topics people would like to talk about to follow. Read more about Knockout JS