Main Meeting: **Cancelled!** Going realtime w/ SignalR - Derik Whittaker
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Sorry... Cancelled due to slippery weather
If we can figure out a way to reschedule this presentation we'll let you know asap.
Going realtime w/ SignalR
One of the historical issues w/ HTML applications is the its lack of a stateful connection between the client and the server. In the past it was very common to solve this problem by either running a timer loop in javascript and make some sort of remote call to check for changes, or worse yet by refreshing the active page on a regular interval.
With the adoption of HTML 5 and WebSockets it is now possible to get near real time communication between the server and client in a much more elegant way. In this session we will explore what problems SignalR solves and how to solve them. By the end our journey you will know how you can utilize SignalR to build a real time quiz application to communicate between your server and browser based applications.
Derik Whittaker is a Software Architect who specializes in all things .Net. Derik has been building enterprise systems on top of the .Net technology stack for over 14 years and along the way has picked up a thing or two about how to create enterprise scale software systems.
During his 14 year career Derik has worked in many different industries ranging from Marking, Healthcare, Retail, Insurance, Automotive and Online Entertainment. Currently Derik is working for a Technology startup (orgspan.com) in Durham North Carolina leading their windows phone and windows modern UI application development. Derik believes that the job of a developer is more than just turning syntax into working 1’s and 0’s. He believes that our job is to produce a system which gets out of the users way and allows them to do their job better.
Derik has been awarded the Microsoft MVP in C# for the past 6 years. Along with being an MVP he is also a member of the ASPInsiders group. Derik is also a Pluralsight Author with multiple course under his belt. He is a community leader, helping to organize events such as Chicago Codeapalooza, Chicago Code Camp and the Raleigh Code Camp.
Outside of his day job you can find Derik hanging out with his beautiful wife Tiffany and his 2 awesome boys Brendan and Ryan.
Meeting Agenda:
5:30-6:00 - Welcome/Food
6:00-6:15 - Announcements
6:15-7:45 - Presentation
7:45-8:00 - Give-aways
Thank you to February's Main Meeting sponsor!
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