Central Arkansas Refresh Meeting
Just a heads up, the Central Arkansas Refresh Group is going to have our second meeting this next week (Tuesday, March 31) at the Starbucks located at 9401 N. Rodney Parham Rd. in Little Rock. The start time is 6:00pm and we expect the meetup to last about 2 hours but with all of the networking that went on last week it’s hard to say what time we all need to tell our families that we will be home. Also, if you haven’t already, please RSVP on the Facebook Event page so we can kind of get an idea for headcount…
Our Facebook group has grown to over 55 members now and continues to grow each week. The group is open to everyone interested, our goal is to have a diverse crowd, here’s a little bit more from our website about the group: (compliments of David Kinkade, who is also promoting the group on his blog)
The Central Arkansas Refresh Group consists of technically minded professionals who make their living on the web — bloggers, software developers, graphic artists, social networking enthusiasts, photographers, videographers, marketing and media gurus, and website owners.
Centered in Little Rock, the Central Arkansas Refresh group launched in February 2009 to serve as a hub for education, networking and the sharing of ideas among like-minded web professionals.
The group is organized around the principles of the Refresh movement:
The Refresh Manifesto
- Let’s Gather Great Minds
- Let’s Share All Of Our Knowledge
- Let’s All Grow And Learn
- Let’s Promote Local Talent
- Let’s Be More Than We Think Can Be
- Let’s Make Our Cities Better
Membership is open to all interested web professionals, programmers and new media enthusiasts. Visit our Facebook page now to get involved.
Interested in being a corporate sponsor for the Central Arkansas Refresh Group? Visit our sponsors page for more information.
Facebook | Refresh Group Meeting
IDE / Code Generators for ASP, .NET…
I was talking to my brother in law today, he recently took a position with a development firm in Oklahoma that is involved in a large Governemnt project. His background is in Java programming and had gotten pretty proficient with it but in his new job he is having to work with ASP.NET and SQL Server. Having to shift gears like that would make a lot of programmers heads spin but he’s going to get up to speed very quickly with ASP.NET I think.
Developers today have many IDE Choices for developing software, Visual Studio, The Eclipse Project, just to name a few. In some cases the actual software required to write software can be had for free, as is in the case of Eclipse. I have used several of these development environments in the past and for the most part they all do exactly what they are supposed to do. Of course most developers will have their own particular tool that they have used for years that they prefer over everything else.
While we were talking I asked him what IDE they used at his new firm for developing their applications, he was telling me that they use Microsoft Visual Studio. I told him a little bit about PHPR (phprunner) and how I have really embraced this software. Software like PHPR is what I consider to be “second generation development environments”. The reason I say that is because they allow us (developers) to rollout applications and updates to projects in a lot less time. I was telling him that Xline, the company that produces PHPR also have ASP and ASP.NET IDE solutions that could dramatically cut down his development time as opposed to using Visual Studio. I also shared with him how the company supported the software and how helpful the entire community was when it came to supporting each other. I think that we are going to sit down this weekend and download a trial of ASP.NET Runner and give it a test drive
I think that sometimes I get so wrapped up in the PHPR IDE that I sometimes forget to mention to folks that they (Xline) also have the same tool available for ASP and ASP.NET. If you are looking to get into ASP or ASP.NET programming be sure to click on the links above.
