Memphis .Net User Group - February Meeting

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Feb 25, 2015, 2:41:43 PM2/25/15

Date: February 26

Time: 6pm

Location: Microsoft Offices @ 6465 Quail Hollow Rd, Suite 200

RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/memphis-technology-user-groups/events/220271968/

Douglas Starnes is a polyglot ninja in the Memphis, TN area. He has spent the past 8 years developing software in multiple languages including C#, Python, JavaScript and more on mobile, cloud and web platforms. His community involvement includes speaking at conferences such as DevLink, St. Louis Days of .NET, CodePaLOUsa, CodeStock and PyOhio in addition to the .NET and Java User Groups in Memphis. He is the co-organizer of the Memphis Python User Group (MEMPy) and one of the organizers of PyTennessee, the annual state of Tennessee Python conference. He can be found on the web at http://douglasstarnes.com and on Twitter at @poweredbyaltnet.

Presentation - Python and Open Source at the "new" Microsoft

For the past year, Microsoft has been making big investments in technologies outside of .NET and Windows. Many projects have been open sourced, Linux is a first class citizen in Azure and programming languages such as JavaScript and Java are fully supported. Python is another language that Microsoft had been paying attention to even before. With Visual Studio support and an Azure SDK, Microsoft is working with partners in the industry and community to ensure that Microsoft products are the best place to use Python. This presentation will look at how the Python language. It will also show how Microsoft tools and platforms support Python.