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October 2009, D’Mention Systems proudly announces the launch of the newest web-based business directory, CityZing.biz.

CityZing! provides Tucson area businesses a unique opportunity to gain exposure on the internet while talking directly to consumers.

Your customers are talking… so why not have them provide an online testimonial that other consumers can watch and learn about your business. CityZing! also gives business owners a place to provide Webmercials… to highlight your products and services and talk directly to local consumers… to tell them why they should be doing business with you!

CityZing! officially launched in early October 2009 and already has several listings and people promoting their businesses through online testimonials and webmercials filmed in-house at the video studio of our own Zing Promo Center.

For more information about CityZing! log on www.CityZing.biz and get connected. Basic business listing on CityZing! is FREE so contact CityZing! or D’Mention Systems to get started!

Holiday Special from D’Mention Systems and CityZing! Business Directory:

The holidays are just around the corner, and D’Mention Systems with CityZing! is offering new video solutions to connect businesses with their most loyal customers, vendors, colleagues and clientele. Ask about the Sales Team Sleigh Ride. Film and launch this specialized holiday themed 30 second video on CityZing! to wish everyone warm wishes this upcoming season! Only $ 29.99… includes holiday inspired background and free listing on CityZing! Call (520) 229-8730 to schedule a Sales Team Sleigh Ride at your local Zing Promo Center.

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Desert Code Camp is back again this year, on Saturday Nov 7th, up in Phoenix.

I’m teaching two classes there, plus there are 44 other great events, of all flavors and interests.

This is a completely free event, hosted and taught by real people who have a genuine interest in the topics.

My sessions are:

Intro to Multithreading Patterns with .NET

Every developer will sooner or later come across a time when they need to spin up multiple threads.

For many, this is a black art, best avoided for fear of race conditions, deadlocks and difficult-to-reproduce bugs.

This session will show some of the powerful but very easy-to-use threading objects and helpers in the .NET framework, like BackgroundWorker, Timer, ThreadPool, etc.

This is not an advanced and deep topic on multi-threading, but rather an introductory topic on how easily (and safely!) you can use multi-threading in many of the common cases, without ever having to know anything about semaphores, mutexes, or locks.

In this session, we’ll do several actual live coding exercises to show some of these patterns and approaches from a practical, real-world approach.

Don’t expect to learn the nitty gritty theory of multi-threading, but rather to learn how to solve some very common and typical problems.

Develop a New Love for PHP with Objects

If you’re like many of us, and have mentally relegated PHP to the bin of old and dusty procedural languages, you may want to take a second look.

PHP is growing up, and shedding many of its older bad habits, and has powerful Object Oriented support.

In this session, we’ll explore what a modern developed-from-scratch PHP app can look like, using OO, modern IDE’s, and powerful debugging techniques.

This session will be mostly practice and actual coding, with very little theory. Don’t come expecting a primer to OO, but rather how to express yourself and your love of OO design in the last of all places you’d expect: PHP.

So far there are 41 registrations for the first (.NET multithreading) session and 21 for the second (New love for PHP).

In addition, there’s a very interesting event going on the day before, called TEDx Phoenix that I’ll be attending.  It looks fascinating, and I’m going to give it a try.

If you’ll be going up to TEDx or Desert Code Camp, definitely let me know at andrew *at* dmnsys.com, we can get the Tucson folks together for a lunch during the day.

Andrew Hollamon

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