http://www.vbug.co.uk/events/ en-gb Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:28:58 GMT http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-4Thought-Spring-Conference-Birmingham.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-4Thought-Spring-Conference-Birmingham.aspx Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:09:05 GMT Date: Thursday 29 April 2010........With the imminent release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .Net framework 4, VBUG announces VBUG4Thought, a spring conference to help to celebrate and highlight these new products. This conference is ideal if you wish to learn about the new enhancements, features and capabilities of VS2010 and .Net 4. The conference will also give you an overview of how you can apply these technologies in new or existing projects. As usual, we'll be featuring key speakers from the UK and abroad in order to give you expert, impartial and informative advice. Hadi Hariri and Eric Nelson confirmed as speakers. More to come... http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Bracknell-Test-Driven-Development-to-save-time-money-and-your-sanity.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Bracknell-Test-Driven-Development-to-save-time-money-and-your-sanity.aspx Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:06:46 GMT Date: Monday 1 March 2010........Originally, this meeting was scheduled for January but was postponed due to snow. Richard Hopkin has kindly rescheduled his Test Driven Development session for March and we look forward to seeing him. How many bugs does your software have? How much time will it take you to fix those bugs? The normal answer to these questions is many and forever, that is unless you are practicing Test Driven Development. NxtGenUG Oxford coordinator Richard Hopton walks through what it is, some guidelines to follow, how to get started implementing it in new projects as well as tips to help apply these same techniques to existing applications. Richard Hopton started his long-term relationship with development at the tender age of 8 when writing text adventure games on the BBC at school, followed by several years of dabbling in Amiga games and demos. He moved onto writing applications in Delphi until 2008 when C# became his language of choice, and .NET his new spiritual home. Richard is a regional coordinator for NxtGenUG Oxford and works as a development team leader for SalesAchiever, an independent software company specialising in producing a market leading industry-specific CRM solution written in C# and WPF. http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Bristol-Streamline-your-Web-Development-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Bristol-Streamline-your-Web-Development-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:40:11 GMT Date: Wednesday 31 March 2010........Microsoft's MVC-based web development framework has stirred up the .NET world - but would you want to use it? What's wrong with classic ASP.NET, and how does MVC do better or worse? In this session we build a small application, comparing the development experience with classic ASP.NET. See MVC architecture, clean URLs, domain-driven design (DDD), tight HTML, and simple ajax at work. We'll also make use of the new features coming soon in ASP.NET MVC v2, including strongly-typed UI templating and model validation. Steven Sanderson is an independent software developer living and working in Bristol, UK. He's sometimes an author or a presenter, but is mainly a programmer with interests in web development, security, and agile principles and practices. Steve recently wrote Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Apress), the best selling and top rated ASP.NET MVC book on Amazon. He's a member of ASPInsiders, and regularly blogs and releases open-source code at http://blog.stevensanderson.com/ http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Portsmouth-Content-TBA.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/March-2010/VBUG-Portsmouth-Content-TBA.aspx Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:34:02 GMT Date: Monday 29 March 2010........Topic to be confirmed - watch this space! http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/VBUG-Portsmouth-Content-TBA.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/VBUG-Portsmouth-Content-TBA.aspx Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:23:28 GMT Date: Monday 22 February 2010........First up, a Happy New Year to the Portsmouth Group members! Come along to meet the newly reformed Portsmouth posse, to network amongst your software peers, share ideas, tricks and tips, and perhaps win a few goodies along the way. We're keenly interested in finding out what you guys would like to see presented to please feel free to drop me (Andrew Kidd) a line with ideas, and I'll see what strings I can pull at Microsoft, etc. http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/VBUG-London-Real-World-MVC-Architectures.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/VBUG-London-Real-World-MVC-Architectures.aspx Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:53:15 GMT Date: Tuesday 23 February 2010........********** NOTE: Anteo Group have relocated. New venue details below ********** Real World MVC Architectures So you have drunk the kool aid and decided that MVC applications are a better way to build your web applications, kissed goodbye to a page based architecture and learned to love JQuery. From here on everything is just gravy, right? As ever with would-be silver bullets you have bought off one set of problems but are now at risk from another set. In this presentation Ian Cooper will talk about his experience from building MVC applications for the last 2 years, discussing gotchas like the Fat Controller and God Service, and asking what a Front Controller is and why it might mean you fall in love with the command pattern. Speaker: Ian Cooper has over 15 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys and Beazley delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of the benefits of OO and Agile. He is test-infected and contagious. When he is not writing C# code he looks after the London .NET user group - http://www.dnug.org.uk - which he founded. Blog: http://codebetter.com/blogs/ian_cooper/default.aspx/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/ICooper Any code samples will be in C# Please arrive from 6.00pm for a prompt 6.30pm start. ********** MICROSOFT AZURE AWARENESS WEEK ********** This event will be part of Microsoft's Azure Awareness Week. If you are interested in learning more about Azure, Microsoft will be providing a brief overview of the platform and showing you how you can get involved! Plus there will be the chance to win lots of great prizes! *********************************************************************** London VBUG events are made possible with help from our sponsors: Anteo Group. http://www.anteogroup.com/uk/ http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/VBUG-Scotland-Get-Going-with-jQuery.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/VBUG-Scotland-Get-Going-with-jQuery.aspx Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:58:01 GMT Date: Thursday 25 February 2010........A fast paced introduction to jQuery and it's benefits: Applying jQuery to your pages with Progressive Enhacement (PE); The CSS-like selector syntax; Binding and handling events; Effects; Plugins and Ajax. Heck, then we'll do some more ajax. If needed we'll chat about closures, JSONP, cross-domain issues and solutions. Lots of code and demos along the way and very few boring slides! http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/Getting-started-on-AJAX-with-jQuery.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/Getting-started-on-AJAX-with-jQuery.aspx Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:59:58 GMT Date: Wednesday 17 February 2010........An introduction to AJAX and it's benefits; how to use jQuery to handle your AJAX; 'hijaxing' and progressive enhancement with jQuery and AJAX. We'll work through a bunch of examples to post and get data from various sources. The mere mention of jQuery gets George all enthused. He's a contract front-end web developer who loves Usability, UX, IxD, web dev and full on JS. He has spent many years working on accessible, standards compliant sites with progressive enhancement and unobtrusive javascript. Recent works include sites and web apps for BBC Doctor Who and other BBC sites, Nationwide, Waterstones, HMV, and Comet Electricals, with bucketloads of jQuery. You can read George's blog on web development and usability at http://blog.softwareunity.com/ and his tweets may be followed at http://twitter.com/GeorgeAdamson. http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/VBUG-Bracknell-Windows-Server-Dublin.aspx http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/February-2010/VBUG-Bracknell-Windows-Server-Dublin.aspx Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:04:59 GMT Date: Monday 15 February 2010........For our February meeting in 2010, find out more about Windows Server AppFabric with Santosh Benjamin. Windows Server AppFabric is , a set of extensions to the Windows Application Server that “make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on Internet Information Services (IIS). .NET 4 Workflow Services are the new way to build SOA and WCF services using workflows and Windows Server AppFabric provides the enterprise grade host.In this session we will look how .NET 4 Workflow Services are built and and how they can be deployed and managed using Windows Server App Fabric. We will also look at caching capabilities in AppFabric that provide high-speed access, scale, and high availability to application data.