News and Events
December 03, 2009 Meeting
“Plugging Memory Leaks with ANTS Memory Profiler” - by Brandon King
Automatic memory management in .NET makes development a lot easier; however, it's still easy to introduce memory leaks into your application. For example, in a complex application, it's easy to forget to unregister event handlers, and these are notorious for holding on to objects which you don't need to keep in memory any more. This typically leads to an increase in memory usage, which can lead to your application exhibiting poor performance, or even running out of memory and crashing, if it remains unchecked and unresolved. This is where a memory profiler becomes necessary.
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BIOGRAPHY
Brandon King is the owner of Peleta Software, an Independent Software Vendor that builds custom software for clients. Brandon has over 13 years experience in both software development and database administration. His specialties are C#, SQL Server and ASP.NET with a special interest in composite applications and smart clients. Brandon helped found the Ozarks .NET User Group in Harrison, Arkansas, and enjoys mentoring new developers and promoting technology in his local community.
November 03, 2009 Meeting
“3D Modeling” - by Dona Bailey
See pictures from the event here!
Okay, a lot of us grew up during the 70's and 80's, so this is going to be huge...
Dona Bailey, the designer and programmer of the video game Centipede, is coming to the Ozarks DNUG in Harrison, AR, on Tuesday, November 3rd. She will give a presentation on 3D Modeling and take questions about her days at Atari.
Here are links to a few articles about Dona...
Dona's Wikipedia Entry
An Interview with Dona
Dona at the Women in Games International Summit
Designing a game that impacted the whole world, using just Assembly language and the 6502 processor...I'm amazed and can't wait to hear Dona's stories!
BIOGRAPHY
Dona Bailey is a game programmer responsible for creating in 1981, with Ed Logg, the video game Centipede. Centipede is one of the first video games to incorporate Artificial intelligence (AI). She was one of the only female game programmers in the industry at that time. As a highly successful arcade game produced by Atari, Centipede also earned a name for itself for being the first game to begin luring women into the video arcades across the United States.
Dona Bailey currently teaches in the department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, including a class geared specifically toward students training in game design.