TIME: Monday Feb 22th, 2010 @ 6PM

PLACE: Oracle Orlando - 7453 TG Lee Blvd Orlando, FL 32822

TOPIC: The Ins and Outs of .NET/Oracle Development

Now recently home from two years at war in both Afghanistan and Iraq as an EOD specialist, JT is an independent consultant working for Campus Crusade for Christ. JT held the title of Application Architect for Seminole County, managing and leading the Architecture Team and was responsible for all architecture relative to all databases and software applications in the county. JT, before the war, ran his family-owned and operated businesses, EaglePower Solutions Inc. and TaylorMade Software Inc. for approximately the past 12 years with his father and sons. JT also serves as the president of the local Oracle User Group (www.cfoug.org) and Director of Education for the local .NET User Group (www.onetug.org) and member of various other groups (JAVA, SQL Server, DB2). JT is a player on the Orlando Rugby Football Club (www.orlandorugby.com) and serves as an officer and their webmaster. JT is scheduled to begin his Computer Engineering PhD program in the Fall of 2010 at UCF.

Mr. Taylor will cover the following useful sub-topics:

* Quick Comparison of Oracle .NET Providers (ADO/EF/Native/3rd Party) and the insider scoops

* Quick comparison of ORMs/Persistence Frameworks that integrate well with Oracle (DevForce/ LightSpeed/ CSLA / EL )

* Quick review of essentials on .NET coding techniques to make connection, fire commands and get and set data and data type conversion (based on Mark William's book)

* Final notes and concerns on installation, setup and configuration of Oracle database, clients, TOAD and other essential tools to be well integrated with Visual Studio 2008/05/03 and backwards compatibility issues.

We have SWAG and raffle books from OReilly, APress, Oracle Press, Wrox, Elsevier, Wiley and others. For those members who have previously won books, all we ask is that a review be written and submitted to the CFOUG board for posting. Please submit that book review to our officers. Many cool prizes are to come this year from sponsors, vendors and publishers.

Remember, if you or someone you know is interested in a topic or has a desire to present, please always feel free to contact any board member. We welcome your ideas, suggestions and feedback! Also, please tell your co-workers and colleagues about us so we can build our membership! Members have privileges to access all PowerPoint presentations from past meetings and special discounts with participating sponsors.

As usual, PLEASE REGISTER for the meeting so we can plan accordingly.

J.T. Taylor, President