The Twin Cities .NET User Group will be celebrating it's 50th meeting on Thursday, May 4th! What an amazing run it has been. Special thanks to Farhan Muhammad, our .NET User Group leader and community big timer. Without Farhan, the Twin Cities User Group would not be on of the biggest, best, and most active user groups in the country.

To show what a great job Farhan is doing, the 50th anniversary meeting should totally rock with folks from Dow Jones Labs will be talking about their web site. The official blurb...

Topic: Real world AJAX Enabled Web 2.0 Solution for the Financial Market
Over the past 6 months Dow Jones Labs has been working on aggressive AJAX based Web 2.0 powered products to bring financial news and tools to any website in the world. Check out www.marketwatch.com and watch the stock information update real-time with the market without any user input. Make sure to try it when the stock market is open.

This presentation will include real-world examples of financial applications created as mash-ups, and a deep dive into the grab bag of technologies powering it. We'll explore LiveQuotes which uses a thin-client Javascript library along with a asynchronous threadless web solution to drive over 10,000 requests per second all day, everyday. Much more than a simple display technology, LiveQuotes is in reality a distributed publish-subscribe data distribution model at Internet scale. Technologies covered: C#, .Net 2.0, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON, SOAP, EBML.

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