Other Links

The following are miscellaneous links for places that may be of interest to our visitors and customers.

Our Other Sites

These are other sites related to The Tablet UML Company:

• Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting: This is the consulting site for Martin L. Shoemaker, author of Tablet UML.
• The Developer Association: This is a new site for developer tools, where MLS Consulting tools are available for sale. It's also the host site for Tablet UML sales.
• Josh Holmes: This is the web headquarters for Josh Holmes, the instructor for XML BootCamp and also a software developer and trainer. Josh also maintains the Developers Association and is involved in testing, strategy, and planning for Tablet UML.
• Code Visibility: These are tracking and testing tools we're building to support Tablet UML.

Customers

These are some of our corporate customers:

• L & M Precision Machine of Pinckney, MI. L & M is a machine shop that's expanding their marketing to the Web. The Tablet UML Company builds and maintains their Web site.

Associates

These are partners and associates whom we work with and recommend:

• Richard Hale Shaw Group: This is the group of gurus that create and present Richard Hale Shaw's Developer BootCamp seminars.
• IDesign: This is the web headquarters for Juval Löwy, a well-known guru in component technology.
• Emerald Software, Inc: This is the web headquarters for Bill Heitzeg, a software consultant based in Ann Arbor.
• SRT Solutions: This is the web headquarters for Bill Wagner, Dianne Marsh, and Josh Holmes, consultants and mentors based in Ann Arbor.
• Stout Systems Development: This is the web headquarters for John Stout, an Ann Arbor consultant and placement specialist.

User Groups

These are user groups and associations where we're members or occasional speakers:

• The Ann Arbor Computer Society: Now in its eleventh year, the AACS meets every month to discuss almost any topic in computing.
• The Great Lakes Area .NET User Group (GANG): Serving the .NET developer community in Southeast Michigan and beyond.
• The West Michigan .NET User Group: Serving the .NET developer community in West Michigan and beyond.
• The Chicago .NET User Group: Serving the .NET developer community in the Chicago metropolitan region.
• The Omaha .NET Users Group: Serving the .NET developer community in the greater Omaha region.
• The Oklahoma .NET Users Group: Serving the .NET developer community in the Oklahoma City region and beyond.
• The Tulsa .NET Users Group: Serving the .NET developer community in the Tulsa region.
• Southeast Michigan Rational User Group (SEMRUG): A group for users of Rational's tools in the greater Detroit area.
• Ann Arbor IT Zone: A gathering place for the business community to interact with tech leaders so the groups can learn from each other and build better tech businesses.
• West Michigan Information Technology Management Association (ITMA): A Michigan association of IT managers investigating technology to help managers investigate and deploy successful business solutions.
• International .NET Association (INETA): This is a .NET user group support association that provides speakers to explain and explore .NET technologies (and also provides free pizza to go with the speakers). We have an INETA speaker at The Tablet UML Company, and we're also involved in multiple INETA member groups.

Conferences

These are conferences we attend, and we often speak at them as well:

• VS Live: The premier conference for Microsoft developers.
• Software Development Conference and Expo West: A more general purpose development conference, with a strong .NET track.
• Software Development - Best Practices: Focused on process, patterns, modeling, and practices.
• Rational Users Conference: Instruction and presentations on the entire suite of Rational tools.
• UML Conference: Annual conference to advance and disseminate the state of the art in UML knowledge and practice.

Downloads

These are tools, presentations, and sample code, available for download:

• RefactoringSamples.zip: C++ and C# sample code for the presentation Refactor Your Way to .NET.