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Welcome to the November edition of
DoEvents.
We're fast approaching our annual conference and we still have spaces left
if you wish to attend. This will be a full day event held at the Microsoft
Headquarters in Reading on the 26th November. During the day, we have some
really interesting content and a great line up of speakers. For those who
are still learning about the .Net 3 Framework, David Ringsell will be doing
an introduction to WPF. We will also have a session on refactoring by Gary
Short and a session on concurrency using functional patterns in C# by
Oliver Sturm. During the conference, there will also be Windows Mobile
Device workshop which will be run by Tony Whitter. Contact the VBUG office
if you wish to find out more or to make a booking!
In terms of regional meetings in November, George Adamson will be doing a
jQuery presentation in London. Elsewhere, VBUG Vice Chairman Rob Blackmore
will be doing a session on code generation using T4 in Nuneaton. More
details about these events can be found below.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference or at an event soon!
Tim Leung
VBUG Chairman
http://www.vbug.net
VBUG Events
VBUG
London: Getting started with jQuery
Date: Tuesday 10
November 2009
Topic:
VBUG London: Getting started with jQuery
Overview:
Getting started with jQuery
George Adamson will be providing an introduction to jQuery, and showing you
how to take advantage of this powerful library in your Web applications.
Summary: Introduction to the jQuery library and the happiness it can bring.
Binding events with unobtrusive javascript; using the css-inspired selector
syntax; chaining; visual effects; easy peasy AJAX in just one line.
Biography: 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.
Please arrive from 6.00pm for a prompt 6.30pm start.
Venue:
Anteo Group, 8-9 Hayne Street, London, EC1A 9HH
Start Time:
6:30 PM
Price:
FREE
More Info:
click
here
T4
and how it can be used with VS2008 for code generation with Rob Blackmore
Date: Tuesday 10
November 2009
Topic:
T4 and how it can be used with VS2008 for code generation
Overview:
T4 is the best kept secret in Visual Studio and allows you to use an
"ASP" like syntax to generate any code file that you require - be
it a class, XAML or anything else! In this session we will look at why you
would want to use code generation and explore some simple examples to show
the power of T4 and how it can help improve your productivity and code
quality.
Venue:
GETEC Centre, George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton
Start Time:
7:00 PM
Price:
Free
More Info:
click
here
VBUG
Reading Windows Mobile Workshop 2009
Date: Thursday 26
November 2009
Topic:
Developing for Windows Mobile
Overview:
Are you thinking of developing for Windows Mobile? Do you want to know how
to create Windows Mobile applications that are more that skin deep? Running
in conjunction with the Annual VBUG Conference, this one-day hands-on
workshop is for you!
With the aid of detailed lab manuals you’ll build a compelling Windows
Mobile application that will show you how to effectively incorporate the
camera, GPS, SMS, Outlook Mobile and SQL Server CE into your Windows Mobile
applications.
The day will start with an introduction to Windows Mobile development which
will be followed by four hands-on lab sessions designed to give you
first-hand experience of using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, the Windows
Mobile SDKs and the SDK tools. All session timings match those of the main
VBUG Conference so you will still be able to network with other conference
attendees during the breaks and over lunch.
For full agenda go to: http://www.vbug.co.uk/Conference/Windows-Mobile-Workshop-2009.aspx
Venue:
Microsoft, Building 3, Thames Valley Park, Reading, RG6 1WG
Start Time:
9:00 AM
Price:
£149/£249 (plus VAT) member/non-member
More Info:
click
here
VBUG
Annual Conference 2009
Date: Thursday 26
November 2009
Topic:
VBUG Annual Conference
Overview:
This years VBUG Annual Conference will be held in Building 3 of Microsoft,
Reading.
Topics to be covered will include:
Concurrency Using Functional Patterns in C# - Oliver Sturm
An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation - David Ringsell
Automating Testing Using Windows Virtual PC - Guy Smith-Ferrier
Refactoring – Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask - Gary
Short
T4 and How it Can Be Used With VS2008 for Code Generation - Rob Blackmore
For full agenda for the day go to http://www.vbug.co.uk/Conference/2009conferenceagenda.aspx
Cost for the event is £149 (plus VAT) for members and £249 (plus VAT) for
non-members
Venue:
Microsoft , Building 3, Thames Valley Park, Reading, RG6 1WG
Start Time:
9:00 AM
Price:
£149/£249 (plus VAT) members/non-members
More Info:
click
here
VBUG
Bracknell: ASP.Net MVC 2.0
Date: Tuesday 08
December 2009
Topic:
ASP.Net
Overview:
Our VBUG Bracknell meeting in December will feature Gavin Osborn from 'The
Edge' usergroup.
Gavin will be talking about MVC 2.0 and with luck, preview 2 should be
released by then.
Gavin assures us that they'll be lots of 'cool stuff' to demo - watch this
space for further details...
Venue:
Bracknell Borough Council (Function Room), Easthampstead House, Town
Square, Bracknell, RG12 1AQ
Start Time:
6:30 PM
Price:
TBC
More Info:
click
here
Advanced
TDD with Chris Canal
Date: Tuesday 08
December 2009
Topic:
Advanced TDD
Overview:
There is more to doing TDD well than just Red-Green-Refactor, and creating
a maintainable test suite as well as maintainable production software is
vital. In this presentation we will look at common testing patterns,
techniques and tools that can help make maintaining the test suite easier.
From Shared Fixtures to Stubs and Mocks, we will take a look at common
patterns that have been proven to work and the tools that help you take
advantage of them. We will also take brief look at what Behaviour Driven
Development is and the problem it tries to solve.
Venue:
GETEC Centre, George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton
Start Time:
7:00 PM
Price:
FREE
More Info:
click
here
VBUG
Bristol: Getting Started with jQuery
Date: Tuesday 15
December 2009
Topic:
Getting Started with jQuery
Overview:
Getting started with jQuery
George Adamson will be providing an introduction to jQuery, and showing you
how to take advantage of this powerful library in your Web applications.
Summary: Introduction to the jQuery library and the happiness it can bring.
Binding events with unobtrusive javascript; using the css-inspired selector
syntax; chaining; visual effects; easy peasy AJAX in just one line.
Biography: 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.
Venue:
BAWA, 589 Southmead Rd, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG
Start Time:
6:30 PM
Price:
TBC
More Info:
click
here
SuperChristmas
in Newcastle
Date: Thursday 17
December 2009
Topic:
SuperChristmas
Overview:
In partnership with SuperMondays, Thursday Fizz, Girl Geeks, and Refresh
Teesside, VBUG are proud to announce:
SuperChristmas is the Christmas party that brings our organisations
together to round off an excellent year and to set the scene for 2010. The
party will start at 7:00pm on Thursday 17th December 2009 at Hoults Yard.
Tickets are on sale for £7.50. You can buy them from the link below.
The ticket price includes a hog roast, ceilidh dancing, and as much free
beer/wine/soft drinks as the budget will allow...all served in a farm house
theme decked out with bales of hay!
Everybody is welcome, so please do invite your friends ... there will be no
presentations on the night so leave your laptops, notebooks and netbooks at
home!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Venue:
Hoults Yard, Walker Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE6 2HL
Start Time:
7:00 PM
Price:
£7.50
More Info:
click
here
Special Offers
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Link: http://www.greymatter.com/mcm/Visual-Studio
Third
Party Events
Dotnetdevnet:
Tuesday 3rd
November 2009 - Credit Crunch Code with Gary Short
http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/Meetings/tabid/54/EntryID/38/Default.aspx
Gary travels from the deepest and
darkest depths of Scotland to give us a good ticking off for writing poor
code (just kidding, Gary).
Technical debt is the cost of putting
off good development practices. This debt, must be paid back to avoid the
“interest payments” becoming crippling. This presentation will focus on a
number of common developer (and project) anti-patterns that can lead to the
build up of technical debt in a project and, having identified these
behaviours, we’ll look at techniques to firstly quantify and then to
mitigate against them.
Entity Framework in
.NET 4 with Eric Nelson - Thursday 3rd December 2009
http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/Meetings/tabid/54/EntryID/39/Default.aspx
Microsoft Developer Evangelist Eric
Nelson returns to The .NET Developer Network to tell us all that is new in
next year's Entity Framework in .NET 4.
This presentation offers an in-depth
discussion demonstrating the new capabilities of the Entity Framework that
will ship with Visual Studio 2010. The second release of the Entity Framework
focuses on addressing two primary customer scenarios: Domain-Centric
application development (TDD/DDD) and the traditional Data-Centric Web
application "Forms over Data". This is an in-depth feature
overview covering: N-Tier, T4 Templates, POCO, FKs, Mapping, Metadata, etc.
SBUG
mini-meeting: 3rd
Nov 2009 8pm - Hello Global 360
Global 360 are a new partner who have joined the user group and have
contributed a few interesting ideas and suggestions for the user group.
The plan is at this short online
meeting they will do a small introduction to who they are and what they do.
From here we can suggest things that user group members would be interested
in knowing more about and one of the Technical Architects from Global 360
will do a deep dive BPM session at a future SBUG event (most likely start
Dec).
The meeting should take about 30 mins +
time for any questions afterwards.
Registration: http://sbugminihelloglobal360.eventbrite.com/
The Developer Group:
Monday November 16th 11:30-6:30 at TVP
- Aspect Oriented Programming
- ShareToo Virtual File
Servers
- Windows 7 and Server
2008
- Filing for the Tax Office
www.richplum.co.uk/meetings/20091116.pdf
Please contact joanna@richplum.co.uk by 9th
November to book. Free to VBUG and AUG members.
About DoEvents
DoEvents is the UK events bulletin for developers.
VBUG support meetings are FREE to our Members and their guests (Online
meetings are MEMBER ONLY Events). For more information about membership
please visit: http://www.vbug.com/members/Membership-Benefits.aspx.
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