by groupadmin25. November 2015 20:26NDC London 2016 kicks off in less than two months and is a full week event with pre- conference workshops on 11-12 January and the actual conference on 13-15 January. Attendees can expect over 100 speakers, seven conference tracks, workshops before and during the conference in a variety of topics such as:
.NET Framework - Agile - Architecture - Cloud - Database - Design - Devops - Front-End Framework - Fun - Functional Programming - Gadgets - IoT - JavaScript - Microsoft - Misc. Languages - Mobile - People - Programming Languages - Security - Techniques - Testing -Tools - UX - Web and much more...
See the conference agenda and get your tickets here
London {11-15 Jan. 2016} Oslo {6-10 Jun. 2016} Sydney {1-5 Aug. 2016}
by groupadmin3. November 2015 18:35The Talk
For thousands of years we have been trying to find ways to keep information secret and work out what other people's secret information is. Today we have cryptographic algorithms that our own government's security and intelligence organisations claim they can't crack. However, security breaches, compromised passwords, stolen credit card details, etc. feature in the news regularly, and the perpetrators aren't government experts, they're amateurs.
Can you keep a secret? The anecdotal evidence would suggest the answer is a resounding no! In this talk I'll introduce you to some cryptographic principles and show how you can make use of them in .NET and how they can be used correctly.
The Speaker
Owain Williams is the Technical Lead of Giftcloud, a product backed by the creators of Vouchercloud. He has been a professional software developer since 2001 and has worked on a wide range of projects and technology stacks, from small software houses to publicly listed international companies.
He has experience of delivering software into a range of different environments including e-commerce websites, email marketing organisations, public sector customers and open source projects. He was part of the team that first started using the NHS data spine and helped shape the way encryption was used within it. He has also designed and implemented secure systems for several companies.
Born in London, brought up in South Wales, now living with his wife in Bristol, Owain is a well-travelled man and enjoys weekend's away, cooking & eating, loud shirts & colourful trousers and is currently learning to fly light aircraft.
The Meeting
The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 20nd October 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.Welcome Start at 6pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time.
Meeting Sponsor
Our swag meeting give away will include one 3 Day Conference Pass Ticket for NDC {London} 2016, other swags from MS Office Dev, Pluralsight, Telerik and Syncfusion will be part of it.
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by groupadmin27. September 2015 20:55The Talk
Part 1: ASP.Net and Single Page Apps
Part 2: Understanding your website through the Microsoft Edge developer tools
The Speaker
Martin Beeby works for Microsoft where he talks to developers about HTML5, Windows 8 and the web. Martin has been developing since he was 16 and over the past 16 years has worked on projects with many Major brands
Martin has written articles for, and been featured in, .NET Magazine, ZDNet, the Microsoft Developer Network, Ubelly.com and Windows Magazine.
The Meeting
The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 20nd October 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.Welcome Start at 6pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time.
Post Meeting resources
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by groupadmin3. August 2015 11:57The Talk
Windows 10 is a big release for Microsoft. Commodious. Huge. Massive. Colossal. Humongous. ;-)
It’s the end of a journey to unify Windows. It’s the beginning of a journey for developers who want to take advantage of a universal app platform available across all Windows devices.
In this session, we’ll dig into what’s changed in Windows 10 for the Windows app developer. We’ll talk about the Universal App Platform that makes it possible to build code that runs on all Windows devices and about the Extension platforms for code that targets specific device families.
We’ll stay in Visual Studio as much as is possible and we’ll lean towards C# and XAML.
The Speaker
Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft in the UK where he has spent the past few years helping developers understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. Prior to this, Mike spent 3 years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant on developer technologies.
Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies. You can find more of a complete career history over on LinkedIn.
Mike holds a BSc Hons (1st Class) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.
The Meeting
The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 22nd September 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.Welcome Start at 6pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time. |
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by groupadmin24. June 2015 14:37The Talk
We'll be introducing you to visual dictionaries, note-taking techniques , and some suggestions on application to everyday project work.
"Sketchbooks are not about being a good artist, they're about being a good thinker" - Jason Santa Maria
This is not a session about drawing. It’s about listening. No artistic skills are required.
All we ask is that attendees put aside any preconceptions, are willing to participate, open to sharing what they produce and happy to listen to some Serbian dance music.
It will (probably) be fun.
The Speaker
Jo Hopkins & Fred Pensom work at the IRESS UX Team and can be contacted on twitter @iress_ux
The Meeting
The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 28th July 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.
Welcome Start at 6pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time.
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by groupadmin8. June 2015 10:11The Talk
Unit testing helps us when writing any sort of application, however we often we end up writing unit tests for small pieces of logic that don't really matter and sometimes miss out on the bigger picture. We tend to shy away from Web UI testing as the feedback loop is just too slow. In this presentation we will look at a toolset that gives us both end-to-end testing that aims to give us far faster feedback. Welcome to the CasperJS a navigation and testing utility written in JavaScript, which plays nicely alongside PhantomJs, a headless WebKit browser.
The Speaker
Richard started programming during the home computing era with a ZX81. He has been running his own software company called wildesoft.net since 2004 and has a lot of experience delivering Microsoft solutions for all aspects of businesses. He is also the co-founder of Smart Devs a user group based in Hereford.
The Meeting
The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 16th June 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.
Welcome Start at 6pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time.
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Post Event Resources
slides
by groupadmin7. April 2015 16:57The Talk
Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing (ES) have been hot topics in the .Net community since Greg Young's first blog posts and conference talks about them in 2009. In this session, you will learn about the concepts and principles that underpin CQRS and ES and gain an appreciation of when, where and how they could be used.
This is not a .Net-specific talk and no prior knowledge of CQRS, ES or Domain Driven Design is required.
The Speaker
Ian has over 20 years experience designing, architecting and writing software for startups through to Enterprises. Co-founder of CraftyCoders, a principles-focussed user group for the West Midlands .Net community. Active member of the C#, F# and Software Craftsmanship communities in the UK.
The Meeting
The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 19th May 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.
Welcome Start at 6.00pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time.
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Post Event Resources
slides github.com/ijrussell/CQRS-GLNET
by groupadmin24. February 2015 19:15The Talk
Microservices are the new hotness, but many people are unclear on what is a microservice and what is not. Is it consultancy and book-deal hype? Is it just another term to be co-opted and abused by vendors? Is it just re-branding SOA for hipsters. In this talk, Ian Cooper takes us on a journey through the techniques we can use to manage complexity in software showing the evolution from OO to Components to SOA and finally to Microservices.
Having put this new meme in context, Ian will explain the characteristics of a Microservices architectural style, how they relate to and are different from what has come before, and the pitfalls to watch for. He will explain why management, monitoring, deployment and devops culture are just as important when thinking about Microservices as the collection of re-badged and re-branded 4 tenets and DDD advice. By the end of this talk you should be able to understand the Microservices trend and whether or not it is useful for your development.
The Speaker
Ian Cooper has over 20 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group
The Meeting
The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 21st April 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.
Welcome Start at 6.15pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time.
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Post Event Resources
https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6254-there-and-back-again-a-microservices-tale
by groupadmin16. February 2015 13:18The Talk
At TechEd last year, various Scotts and a David announced ASP.NET vNext, the biggest thing to happen to the Microsoft web developers story since ASP.NET 1.0.
It's a moving target as it's still in development but I can guarantee it will cover:
- The Core CLR, the K Runtime, and the project.json file
- How Roslyn fits into the story
- The merging of MVC and Web API into a single, streamlined, uber-framework
- The new features in MVC 6
- An update on Simple.Data 2.0
Look, it's all awesome. Just come and see.
The Speaker
Mark Rendle has been making software professionally for over 25 years, and still enjoys it. He consults on cloud computing and application development, and is the founder of Zudio, a browser-based application for managing data in Microsoft Azure. He is currently working on Simple.Data 2.0, and playing with ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core, Aurelia and EcmaScript 6, as well as Docker and other Linux-y things. He would very much like it if somebody sent him a HoloLens.
The Meeting
The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 17th March 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.
Welcome Start at 6.15pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time.
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by groupadmin4. February 2015 20:50The Talk
All levels of experience welcome, from beginner to expert.
The goal is to use F# and sample data from Kaggle to predict who lives and who dies on the Titanic!
To get the most from the session please try and bring a laptop along with F# installed.
• Install F# on Windows
• Install F# on OSX
• Install F# on Linux
The Speaker
Phil is an active member of the software development community, regularly attending and speaking at user groups and conferences, blogging and contributing to open source projects. He is a co-organizer of the London F# User Group, founding member of the F# Foundation and Microsoft MVP.
The Meeting
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The meeting will open at 6:00 p.m on Tuesday, the 17th February 2015 at the Lecture Theatre, EDF Energy Conference Centre, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3RS. You can arrive from Barnett Way and park at the EDF Energy car park. Conference building is located directly on the left from main reception and it's pass protected. You'll need to sign in for the fire registry.
Welcome Start at 6.15pm and the as usual event at 6.30pm and end at about 9pm. There will be a half-time break with pizza and a quick pub visit afterwards. Please arrive on time.
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