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DoEvents - September 2008
Dear Developer Lets do a quick straw poll and see if anyone in the UK actually saw any sun this summer!! Well VBUG has been busy working on the events schedule over the summer period, as well as cracking on with details for the Winter Conference in November. More Conference details to come in the very near future but here's some of the confirmed names so far:
In the mean time feast your eyes on the following events for September!! Have a great month. With very best regards, Christian Mitchell VBUG Events SPONSOR: Be Professional about SharePoint 2007 with these new books from Wrox Professional SharePoint 2007 Design is a quintessential addition to any SharePoint developer’s bookcase. It outlines all of the steps and considerations a developer should understand in order to design better looking and more successful SharePoint implementations.
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The talk will cover the MVC design pattern in outline, and demonstrate usage of the ASP.NET MVC Framework itself with a simple RESTful application Alan Dean has been a professional developer for more than a decade, primarily in the retail sector, and is currently a Senior Technologist at Charteris. An unconventional thinker, he has been involved in REST and the semantic web for 7 years. He is also a committed extreme programmer and one of the Alt.Net UK Conferences organisers. Venue: Castle Gate, Melbourne Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 2JQ Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: TBC More Info: click here VBUG LONDON: CSLA.NET with Andrew Hallmark Date: Wednesday 10 September 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: CSLA.NET is a free, open source business object framework that can help developers of all skill levels to build scalable, maintainable applications that adhere to industry best practices without extended delivery time. Code generation is a technique for automatically creating sections of code to a consistent standard. Both techniques are beneficial in their own right but in combination offer a compelling method of quickly delivering high quality applications. Following positive feedback from the Thames Valley region I continue my inappropriately named "World Tour of Bracknell" by visiting the capital. My aim is to introduce you to CSLA.NET and some of the features that it offers. I will then entice you with the productivity benefits that it can bring in combination with code generation and demonstrate why you should find out more. If you want to put the Rapid back into Application Development but don't want to compromise on quality why not come along and join in? What will you do with the time it saves? SPEAKER BIO: Andrew Hallmark is a Technical Architect for Maritz, a performance improvement company. He's been in software development for 14 years, first programming in Clipper before becoming Microsoft certified. Having delivered solutions of all sizes in VB, ASP and even Access he now most often develops using SQL Server and .NET. Like everyone else, Andrew regularly encounters the need to deliver quality applications with short lead times. By trying to balance the investment required to learn new skills and techniques with the benefits they bring, he constantly strives to deliver cost effective solutions to customers. PLEASE ARRIVE FROM 18.00 READY FOR PROMPT 18.30 START NON MEMBERS FREE TO ATTEND 2 VBUG SEMINARS ONLY Venue: 150 Minories, London, EC3N 1LS Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG Bristol: The ABC's of Windows Communication Foundation with Ben Lamb Date: Wednesday 10 September 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: The ABC's of Windows Communication Foundation Writing a client-server application used to be pain. For projects that were exclusively .NET you could use Remoting but suffered from brittle interfaces. If you wanted to talk to other platforms the choice was webservices which offered a small subset of features. Two different APIs, two different sets of capabilities. This talk introduces Windows Communications Foundation, Microsoft's unified API for anything communications related in .NET. See how it lets you create fast, non-brittle communications channels between your application components and external services. * Advantages of WCF * Callbacks and Avoiding Deadlocks * Differences between Remoting and WCF * Versioning - why you don't want to upgrade all your clients simultaneously * Additional features - reliability, guaranteed message ordering * Streaming By the end of the talk Addresses, Bindings and Contracts should all make sense to you. Please arrive from 18.00 ready for PROMPT start of 18.30. Directions to venue: http://www.bawa.biz/htm/php/driving_directions.php Venue: BAWA , Room 7 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE TO MEMBERS More Info: click here VBUG Brighton: Test 1st ASP.NET develop. Use ASP.NET MVC to build Ajax website Date: Wednesday 17 September 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Asp.net MVC is Microsoft’s new web development model implementing the Model View Controller pattern. You’ll discover how to write an asp.net MVC application, what are the differences from webforms and how to implement AJAX, and how it will help you test more of your application. Please arrive from 18.30 for PROMPT 19.00 start SEBASTIEN LAMBLA is your presenter for the evening (http://serialseb.blogspot.com/). Sebastien Lambla runs Caffeine IT, a .net consultancy, helping the good people of London adopt new technologies, new processes, new methodologies and in general anything that's new and shiny. Specializing in cutting-edge tools, from REST architectures to occasionally connected rich clients, Sebastien has been developing with .net since 2000, and has a secret love affair with javascript. Only VBUG members have guaranteed access to these events Venue: Madgex, Suite 1 Clarence House, 30-31 North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EB Start Time: 7:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG Bracknell: ADO.NET Sync Services / Software as a Service Date: Tuesday 23 September 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Join us in Bracknell for an evening with 2 excellent presentations! Our first speaker John Price willl give a session on ADO.Net Sync Services and Vincent O'Hare will follow by giving a talk on the topic of Software as a Service. Here's an outline of John's presentation: With more and more PC devices appearing in the market place, we have more and more data that needs to be kept up to date, from calendars to contact lists. This is relatively straightforward with basic data but how to you provide the same level of functionality to your own, occasionally connected applications? ADO.NET Sync Services thats how! Venue: Bracknell Leisure Centre, Bagshot Road, Bracknell, RG12 9SE Start Time: 7:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG Coventry: TFS - the answer to all project management problems? Date: Wednesday 24 September 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Team Foundation Server - the answer to all project management problems? Sick of SourceSafe? Is Microsoft's Team Foundation Server the answer to all your problems? In this seminar I will cover the key components and usage of TFS, installation issues, the range of third party tools available and how to write your own tools using the API. The seminar will include demos of cool addins and tips drawn from bitter experience as well as a discussion as to how best to create a continuous integration environment with TFS. I will also look at the changes to TFS in the upcoming Rosario release. Speaker Bio: Richard Fennell is the Engineering Director of the Black Marble Ltd a Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in BizTalk & SharePoint based business automation. As Engineering Director he is responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow the Black Marble to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable's development activity is underpinned by Visual Studio Team System using Scrum as a process model. Richard is an MVP for Team System and a Certified Scrum Master He is a regular presenter at community events in the UK and Ireland (and the rest of the world given a chance) where his most common subject is software testing and the development process. PLEASE ARRIVE FROM 18.00 READY FOR 18.30 START Venue: Elmbank Training, Juniper Room (Ground Floor), Mill Lane, Coventry, CV1 2LQ Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here Third Party EventsDotNetDevNet: An Evening Of Silverlight With Jesse LibertyDate: Tuesday 16 September 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: Refer to website for full details Venue: TBC Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here DotNetDevNet: How to Write Crap Code in C# - Anti-Patterns for Performance Date: Tuesday 23 September 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: How to Write Crap Code in C# - Anti-Patterns for Performance & Being Lazy With Microsoft Windows Powershell with Ben Lamb Venue: BRISTOL Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: More Info: click here About DoEvents
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