Salt Lake City Fox User Group is meeting Wednesday, June 5. Meeting location and times are available on our website at www.slcfox.org.

- .NET Session: Creating Windows Applications with Visual Studio .Net
- Inside the FFC: Data Query classes
- Introduction to UML. Jim Densmore from Rational Software will be our featured speaker.

Do lives depend on the software you write? Perhaps not today, but it will happen soon. The development community must write higher quality software, and to do that we must develop an engineering discipline for the process. UML is the visual language of software blueprints. It is accepted, it is standardized, and it is recognized by powerful tools that can render your UML in the source language of choice. Jim's talk will outline the UML and its importance, the basic notation and diagrams, and he will demonstrate its power in conjunction with one of these tools.

Specific topics include:
Object Technology
Why do Modeling?
UML in Context
Modeling Use Cases
Modeling Interactions
Modeling Class Structure
Modeling Object State
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Jim Densmore has been with Rational Software for nearly two years now as a technical consultant, after five years in telecommunications software development and 18 years before that in tactical air combat simulation and other defense decision-aiding systems. He knows it's possible to efficiently develop complete, quality systems in UML because he's done it. Jim is a strong advocate of general aviation and soaring, and swims competitively. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife Linda, two high-school daughters and two cats who tear up the house, as did his son before he was deported to Western State University.