DoEvents - September 2009
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Welcome to the September issue of
DoEvents. During the past few months, we've been working hard on organising
the VBUG conference 2009 and are proud to announce that it will take place
on 26th November. We'll be putting together some great content and will
keep you posted as things develop.
Following the recent VBUG elections, I'm delighted to have been awarded the
role of VBUG Chairman. Having worked with Chairman Andy Westgarth for the
past 2 years in my capacity as Vice Chairman, it's a privilege for me to
continue serving the group in a high level capacity. During Andy's term as
Chairman, he contributed greatly to the group and has done a fantastic job.
He will continue in his role as VBUG North East Coordinator and can now
devote more time towards building up the active community in his region.
This month, his meeting in Newcastle features a line up of 3 presentations
which I would highly recommend to those in the area.
The second phase of the VBUG elections will be focused on the role of Vice
Chairman. Robert Blackmore and Sam Morrison (current VBUG London
Coordinator) are standing for this role and I would encourage VBUG members
to place their votes by emailing Nicky Gordon at Nicky@vbug.com.
During the month of September, we have further events organised in London,
Bristol and Bracknell. These cover the topics of NHibernate, Windows
Presentation Foundation and SQL Server respectively. Remember to keep an
eye on the VBUG website for further upcoming events.
We hope you enjoy the rest of the summer and hope to see you at an event
soon!
Tim Leung
VUG Chairman
VBUG Chairman
http://www.vbug.co.uk
VBUG Events
VBUG
London: An Introduction to NHibernate
Date: Tuesday 08
September 2009
Topic:
VBUG London: An Introduction to NHibernate
Overview:
An Introduction to NHibernate
Mike Hadlow will give a comprehensive introduction to NHibernate.
NHibernate is the leading .NET object-relational mapping tool. Now in
version 2.0, it supports many poweful features to help you build relational
persistence for complex domain models. Find out how NHibernate can help you
remove the tedium of hand coding a data access layer and free you to
concentrate on real features. We'll also be looking at Fluent-NHibernate
which provides powerful convention-based mapping support.
Mike Hadlow is a Brighton based freelance .NET developer. He's been
building enterprise applications since 1997, and since 2002 with .NET. He
is a regular speaker at developer events and writes a popular developer
blog, code rant [http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/]. He's also the author of
the open source eCommerce application Suteki Shop[http://code.google.com/p/sutekishop/].
Please arrive from 6.00pm for a prompt 6.30pm start.
Venue:
Anteo Group, 8-9 Hayne Street, London, EC1A 9HH
Start Time:
6:00 PM
Price:
FREE
More Info:
click
here
An
Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation by David Ringsell
Date: Wednesday 16
September 2009
Topic:
An Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation
Overview:
Windows Presentation Foundation provides a radically different approach to
creating User Interfaces. By employing XAML to design the UI, a much rich
user experience can be provided. Sound and video can easily be included.
Using XAML as hierarchical and declarative mark-up language allows the
creation of much more versatile & exciting screens. This is a big leap
forward from the previous way of working with Windows Forms.
This talk will employ accelerated learning methods to improve participants
understanding and recall. We will use mind-maps and communications
exercises to make the talk more fun.
I have worked for many years as a Microsoft technical trainer. I am
currently getting requests to deliver training in WPF. I use accelerated
learning on a daily basis, as I learn and train new stuff.
This talk will employ accelerated learning methods to improve participants
understanding and recall. We will use mind-maps and communications
exercises to make the talk more fun.
Content
* Why use WPF to create your user interface?
* How to use XAML to build rich and dynamic screens?
* The WPF content model
* Layout with panels
* Data binding
* Styles and templates
Venue:
BAWA, 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, BS34 7RG
Start Time:
6:30 PM
Price:
FREE
More Info:
click
here
VBUG
NEWCASTLE: The Three 'Softies!
Date: Wednesday 23
September 2009
Topic:
Overview:
For our September meeting we are very pleased to be able to welcome a
stellar line up of technical presentations and speakers.
Presentation 1
Dan Oliver:
A Pre Sales Architect within Microsoft UK’s Speciality Technology Unit with
some 14 years’ experience of Microsoft-based solutions primarily in the
virtualization and systems management fields. Dan has a background that
covers a broad spectrum of industry sectors ranging from Financial ,
Telecoms, Partners, Legal, Professional Services and Healthcare. Dan has
also had the opportunity to work as a Chief Technology Officer for the
Faculty of Advocates in the Scottish Legal Sector.
Session:
The Dynamic Desktop Experience – Windows 7, Windows XP Mode, App-V, MDT,
MDOP and System Center
Abstract:
Windows 7 offers Microsoft’s customers with an opportunity to deliver a
platform that releases new capabilities that deliver real business benefit
and significantly reduced cost of ownership. The challenge for most
companies is that deploying and migrating desktops is time consuming and
traditionally offers service continuity risks with Application
Compatibility that can prevent progress. This presentation will show
capabilities, architectures and strategies that allow companies to move
forward cost effectively to the benefits of a modern operating system.
Level: 100
Presentation 2
Conrad Sidey:
A Solution Architect within Microsoft Consulting Services with some 17
years’ experience of Microsoft-based solutions primarily in the
infrastructure field. Conrad has a background that covers a broad spectrum
of industry sectors ranging from Financial and Insurance, Manufacturing,
Aero-Engineering, Defence, UK and European Government Agencies, Power Generators,
Retail and Brewing. Conrad has also had the opportunity to work with large
scale outsourcing services providers.
Session:
Novell and Lotus Notes – Migrating to Microsoft
Abstract:
The business value of implementing Microsoft technologies like Active
Directory, Exchange 2007 and SharePoint are clearly understood within
Microsoft. For our customers that are still running their organisation on
technologies like Novell and Lotus Notes they are starting to gain an
understanding of the value of migrating to Microsoft technologies. The
purpose behind this presentation is to provide the technical community with
an insight into leading a project and architecting a solution to migrate
environment that are running both Novell Netware and Lotus Notes. The presentation
will discuss envisioning & planning of a Novell and Notes migration
project, approaches to undertaking the migration depending upon the
business drivers, providing an overview of the approach we are taking in
migrating a UK Local City Council while providing coexistence, as well as
presenting a number of migration & coexistence recommendations or
lessons learnt from the project.
Level: 200
Break
Presentation 3
Richard Diver:
A Premier Field Engineer with 10 years experience implementing and supporting
a range of Microsoft technologies, specialising in Active Directory, Server
Platform and Virtualisation.
Session:
Implementing the “Black Box” – Performance Monitoring and Analysis for
proactive and reactive support, server baselining and capacity planning
Abstract:
All current versions of Windows come with a free tool that can prevent
server downtime and solve many mysteries – Perfmon!
A little bit of practice with this tool can really help to solve issues
with servers that may not even be performance related. Working at the OS
level, you can find cause to most performance bottlenecks regardless of
server function (Exchange, DC, Web etc).
This is something that has even more focus in future versions of Windows; a
brief overview of these benefits will be shown also!
Level: 300
Wrap up Q&A with all presenters at the end.
Venue:
Room 118, Claremont Tower, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1
7RU
Start Time:
6:45 PM
Price:
FREE
More Info:
click
here
SQL
Server with Colin Leversuch-Roberts
Date: Monday 28
September 2009
Topic:
Microsoft SQL Server
Overview:
Join us in Bracknell for an evening of SQL Server with Colin
Leversuch-Roberts.
Colin has 18 years of database experience and has worked with SQL Server
since v6.0. He began with a development background and has now worked as a
production DBA for around 12 years. He tends to specialise in performance
tuning and optimisation, as well as the usual code and index tuning.
Further areas that he covers includes hardware and storage.
More details can be found on his blog here...
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/
During the evening, we also have a copy of Nevron Chart for .Net to give
away worth $299.
The meeting begins at 18:30 for a 19:00 start. For those travelling by car,
free car parking is available at the Council car park. When you get to 'The
Ring' in Bracknell, follow the directions for the 'Easthampstead House' car
park.
Venue:
Bracknell Borough Council (Function Room), Easthampstead House, Town
Square, Bracknell, RG12 1AQ
Start Time:
6:30 PM
Price:
TBC
More Info:
click
here
Developer Product News
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For more information go to http://www.greymatter.com/information/special-offers
Grey Matter chosen
to pilot Microsoft ISV Licensing Scheme
Grey Matter is proud to announce that
it’s been chosen as the sole distributor to pilot Microsoft’s Indirect
Channel ISV Royalty Licensing Scheme in the UK and Ireland. The scheme
allows qualifying ISVs to include Microsoft licensed products in their software
packages. This new indirect channel doesn’t involve minimum quantities and
the Microsoft Authorized Distributor does most of the administration, which
is where Grey Matter comes in. Microsoft’s Simon Aldous commented, “Grey
Matter has a proven track record in supplying product and advice to the
Software Developer Community and we believe that this will provide a solid
foundation upon which we can build an efficient and effective route for
ISV’s to engage with Microsoft from a Royalty licensing perspective.“ For
details visit http://www.greymatter.com/mcm/Microsoft-ISV-Licensing
To find out more click here.
Third Party Events
Monday September 21st Developers Group
meeting, Microsoft Reading
* PRISM - John McLoughlin
* ASP.NET MVC - Rob Bracken
* SQL Server - Brian Long
* Simple Apple App - Joanna Carter
Full details on www.richplum.co.uk/meetings/20090921.pdf
Free to DG, VBUG and AUG members -
please contact joanna@richplum.co.uk
no later than Monday September 14th to book a place.
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