November 12th: How to Build Beautiful ASP.NET MVC Apps for Non-Designers with Matt Honeycutt

[Gaines Kergosien]

November 12th: How to Build Beautiful ASP.NET MVC Apps for Non-Designers with Matt Honeycutt

http://www.meetup.com/Nashville-NET-User-Group/events/225582338/

When:
Thursday, November 12th, 2015
5:30 PM

Where:
5410 Maryland Way
Suite 110
Brentwood, TN

IMPORTANT: We will be holding elections for next year's user group leadership. The positions are listed below with brief descriptions. If you are interested in getting more involved and have any questions, email pres...@nashdotnet.org or call my cell at 615-414-9739.  -Gaines 

President - The user group President provides leadership and guidance by setting the meeting agenda and recruiting speakers to present topics relevant to the group's core interests. 

Vice President - The vice president is in charge of sponsorship, including collecting financial donations as well as SWAG items to be given away at meetings. 

Secretary - The secretary facilitates communication among the leadership and members by maintaining social media and capturing/distributing important notes from the leadership meetings.

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How to Build Beautiful ASP.NET MVC Apps for Non-Designers 

Design is hard.  Unfortunately, design is also a critical component of most modern web applications.  Fortunately, current tools and techniques have made it possible for non-designers to build beautiful web applications, leaving even the most design-impaired developers free to focus on their strengths: solving problems and building cool things.  Come learn about some simple techniques and tools you can use to ensure your next web app gets noticed for all the right reasons. 

Matt Honeycutt is a software architect specializing in ASP.NET web applications, particularly ASP.NET MVC. He has over a decade of experience in building (and testing!) web applications. He’s an avid practitioner of Test-Driven Development, creating both the SpecsFor and SpecsFor.Mvc frameworks. He has served as the lead developer on numerous multi-million dollar software projects and enjoys finding elegant solutions to difficult problems. As life-long learner, Matt remains dedicated to expanding his knowledge of all things related to development. He holds a Masters of Science in Computer Science, and he’s published papers in research journals and conferences on topics ranging from data mining and machine learning to human-computer interaction. Matt lives with his wife and three children in beautiful Tennessee, where he spends his days as a freelance software developer, as well as an author for Pluralsight. When he's not busy cranking out code or chasing down his kids, Matt enjoys helping others hone their development skills. He blogs at trycatchfail.com, and he is a frequent speaker at software conferences in Tennessee. 

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Agenda

• Vaco opens the meeting space shortly after 5pm so feel free to arrive early

• 5:30pm - Food arrives (first come, first serve) 

• 5:45pm - Nominations open for the elected positions

• 6:00pm - Votes are collected for election and presentation begins

• 7:00pm - Presentation ends, election results are announced, share job opportunities and candidates (60 seconds)

• 7:30pm - Drinks and networking at Cross Corner Bar & Grill (330 Franklin Rd)