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North Texas PC News 3RD SATURDAY SIGS MEET AT King of Glory Lutheran Church www.ntpcug.org 6411 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway Dallas, Texas June 2012 Prez Sez VOLUME 32 • NUMBER 7 by Bill Drissel [email protected] In this Issue.... At http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/05/22/introducing-mozilla- Prez Sez ..........................1 webmaker, you will find Mozilla’s introduction to Mozilla Web- maker - a toolset that Mozilla hopes will make everyone into a Special Interest programmer. Mozilla writes, “We’re kicking off Mozilla Webmaker Groups (SIGs) .................2 with something special: a massive summer learning campaign. It’s called the Summer Code Party (https://webmaker.org/events), News from the will run all summer long, and kicks off June 23.” Northwest.........................6 They plan to furnish tools and sample projects. They hope to Advertising Rates ..........10 form local communities with events, meet-ups and coding ses- sions all over. “Summer camps, day camps, summer schools, Tips and Tricks – Digital public libraries, recreation centers, neighborhood groups, your Photography .................11 kitchen table — anyone with a willingness to make, learn and engage using the open building blocks of the web.” NTPCUG Member Websites ........................18 The website opened on June 6th, and there is already one event scheduled in Dallas, on June 30th at 8:00 pm. See the NTPCUG Monthly link below for details: Flyer ...............................19 LEARN WEBNOW at https://donate.mozilla.org/page/event/ detail/kitchentable/w5k. Volunteering ...................19 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012 NTPCUG Elected If you are interested in the weather, there is a marvelous dis- Officials .........................20 play of tornado tracks available, with severity emphasized. See http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com/2012/05/tornado-tracks.html. Emeritus Members, Board of Directors, Calendar, --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing Address ............21 There’s another group of dinosaurs who don’t notice the smart little mammals eating their eggs: textbook publishers. Peer-reviewed textbooks are available on line at: • http://openstaxcollege.org (Rice University) • http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/disci- plines/2/titles • https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks (U of Minnesota) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) ... Sessions with presentations, discussion, and exchanges of information All SIG meetings at King of Glory Lutheran Church, 6411 LBJ Fwy in Dallas (between Preston & Hillcrest, north side of LBJ), normally the third Saturday of each month.. Building Web Sites — 8:00 am Schedule Alan Lummus [email protected] Below is our schedule for the next few months. This month will be open topic, so bring your projects and ques- Building an tions. Application Using Visual Studio .NET Developers – 10:00 am Debugging in Visual David Tuc Goodwin 6/23/2012 [email protected] Studio (Hour 16) Stark Building a Windows Shawn The .NET Developers SIG meets 7/21/2012 at 10:00. We are doing an Ongoing Application (Hour 17) Weisfeld Series – Learning C# 2010. Using Data Binding Tuc and Validation (Hour 8/18/2012 To provide a good structure, we are fol- Goodwin 18) lowing a book: Teach Yourself Visual C# 2010 in 24 hours by Scott Dorman, ISBN: Building a Web David 9/15/2012 0672331012, SAMS Publishing. You can Application (Hour 19) Stark find it at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon, or Nerdbooks. Diving Deeper There are also a few useful web sites: Programming with Shawn 10/20/2012 http://bit.ly/csharpbook Attributes (Hour 20) Weisfeld http://geekswithblogs.net/sdorman Dynamic Types and Language Tuc 11/17/2012 http://bit.ly/csharpfacebook Interoperability (Hour Goodwin Shawn Weisfeld has recorded many of 21) our presentations here (http://www.drown- Memory Organization David ingintechnicaldebt.com/ShawnWeisfeld/ and Garbage Collection 12/15/2012 Stark archive/2010/09/26/hour-2-of-teach-yourself- (Hour 22) c-4.0-in-24-hours.aspx) and on his blog (http://www.shawnweisfeld.com/). Understanding Threads, Concurrency, Shawn 1/19/2013 There have also been a complete article on and Parallelism (Hour Weisfeld Chapter 3 – Understanding Classes and Ob- 23) jects the C# Way. The interesting thing is that CoDe Magazine has a web page devoted to Next Steps: Silverlight, PowerShell, Tuc this particular chapter of this particular book 2/16/2013 at their web site (http://www.code-magazine. and Entity Framework Goodwin (Hour 24) com/Article.aspx?quickid=100193). 2 Digital Photography — 10:00 am Linux Installation Project – 9:00 am Spike Smith, NCE The Linux Install Project helps users with [email protected] their Linux install or configuration problems. June is a great month for reviews of Bring your machine and we will help you get it your choice topics. Bring your ques- running. tions, prints, files, cameras and fire away. Making Money on the Internet — 9:00 am New cameras are great in being ready to Alan Lummus shoot a typical photograph without any instruc- [email protected] tions beyond inserting a battery and memory This month will be open topic, so card. bring your projects and questions. Their opening default shows gratifying re- Microsoft Access SIG —11:00 am sults. Let’s go on from here. Larry Linson Come visit our monthly SIG at 10:00 am for [email protected] Jim Wehe sharing techniques for taking better pictures. [email protected] Digital Photo Editing Software — 11:00 am Spike Smith, NCE [email protected] It has been a while since we surveyed the We usually spend a majority of our group for current version usage, so we will ask editing time with post processing of attendees to report their current Windows ver- photographs, correcting old photos, and condi- sion, current Access version, and any problems tioning digital files. This month, we will create a they would like the group to address in June or step-by-step tutorial for a logo with five change- a later meeting. able elements. The Book 2010 file has been expanded to This project will also assist as a tool for mak- make searching that file easier. ing various graphics other than just a logo. We Access has changed in menu appearance but can use it with that unique photo album for the concept remains stable. Aunt Agnes where she will definitely appreciate 1. Tables record data. having most unique colorful cover pages and 2. Queries select fields of interest. appropriate page designs. 3. Reports enable printing of the selected fields. Internet — 11:00 am 4. Forms are helpful to display many fields Glynn Brooks [email protected] (usually all) on the computer screen for a se- lected record. The urge to share photos and other The file format change in Access 2010 has large files with friends and family mem- made it difficult to import files from previous ver- bers has never been greater. In this session sions but we are told that is possible. we’ll discuss the web services that help with On Friday, May 25, and Sat, May 26, Daisy file distribution. We’ll also look at some new and I attended the WASP (Womens Air Service features in Dropbox that are aimed at sharing Pilots) reunion in Sweetwater, TX. Attendees albums of photos. were very interesting and pleasant. The Mu- Investors - 1:30 pm seum Director has plans to greatly expand the Gil Brand museum. 33 former WASP’s of the 200 still living [email protected] came from many states with individual military We will have our usual Q&A ses- escorts. We will bring copies of the one page sion. Bring your questions and experi- program. ences in investing and share with the In May 2012, SIG Co-Leader Jim Wehe group. built on the demonstration reporting features 3 of Access 2010 by adding reports to the data http://www.asp.net/web- pages Install WebMatrix and retrieval-by-query in that database. Time from here. When permitting, we’ll also have a discussion period you install it, you to talk about topics you’d like to see in the next get WebMatrix, few months. a lightweight Coming attractions: We solicit your sugges- version of IIS-7 (IIS Express), tions for topics. and a contained Our list of suggested, but not yet presented, database topics includes: management • VBA: When, where, and how to use it (we system (SQL Compact) are covering some of these topics right now) http://www.asp.net/web- • More about the look and feel, and the fea- A WebMatrix pages/pluralsight video-based tures and functions, of Access 2010. tutorial series • Access and the Web from Pluralsight We need to know what topics you’d like to http://weblogs.asp.net/ scottgu/archive/2010/07/06/ Scott Guthrie’s hear, see, and learn. Come to the meetings and introducing-webmatrix.aspx blog introducing let’s discuss them. Write some suggestions, WebMatrix add your contact information so we can explore http://msdn.microsoft. details if what you want isn’t clear to us, and com/en-us/library/ Starting Web hh145669(VS.99).aspx Development give them to Jim or Larry. with Microsoft A continuing call for presenters: We want WebMatrix – a you to show us a Microsoft Access database comprehensive you created and use, a tutorial on an Access- (but long) tutorial related topic, other Access- or Office-related fully developing a website in material, or to contact a friend of yours who’d WebMatrix be a good guest speaker. If you need help con- And, if you get real serious about WebMatrix, structing the presentation, see Jim or Larry – you can download WebMatrix Beta 2 from here: we’re not from the government, but we’re here http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/next/. to help. This Saturday, we’ll be doing some hands-on Valuable prizes: Thanks to Microsoft for walkthru’s using WebMatrix to explore some of their generosity through the User Group Sup- the standard tasks you would need to be able to port Services organization.