Smart Nerd Dinner: Injecting F# Analytics Into C# Business Apps with Jamie Dixon

Nerd Dinner is the canonical example of a MVC application and is very familiar to web devs who want to learn MVC the Microsoft way. You can see the walkthrough here (http://nerddinnerbook.s3.amazonaws.com/Intro.htm). For everything that Nerd Dinner is, it is not terribly smart. There is no business rules outside of some basic input validation and just simply wire frames the database.

The talk is going to take the Nerd Dinner forms over data and inject some analytics to the application. We will make the UI much more intelligent about who is using it and we will start predicting attendance of upcoming dinners. The session will use javascript, C# and F#. Basic statistics will be used.

Our Speaker

Jamie Dixon has been writing code for as long as he can remember and has been getting paid to do it since 1995. He was using C# and javascript almost exclusively until discovering F# and now combines all three languages for the problem at hand. He has a passion for discovering overlooked gems in data sets and merging software engineering techniques to scientific computing. When he codes for fun, he spends his time using the .NET Micro framework with Netduinos and the Kinect. Jamie has a BSCS in Computer Science and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2014 He is the Chair of his town's Information Services Advisory Board and is an outspoken advocate for Open Data. He also is involved with his local .NET User Group (TRINUG) with an emphasis on data analytics, machine learning, and the internet of things (IoT).

Jamie lives in Cary, North Carolina with his wonderful wife Jill and their three awesome children: Sonoma, Sawyer, and Sloan. He blogs weekly at jamessdixon.wordpress.com (https://jamessdixon.wordpress.com/) and can be found on Twitter as @jamie_Dixon (https://twitter.com/jamie_dixon).