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DoEvents - July 2008
Dear Developer OK so now past the half way mark of 2008, only 178 days until Christmas Day! Some more interesting figures for you…. 64 days until Ramadan So what can you do to pass the time even quicker?! Come along to 1 of the 8 VBUG technical seminars this month. Yes 8 events ladies and gentlemen! We at VBUG have been working our proverbial socks off to end the 1st half of the year on an exceptiopnal high note!. Don’t forget we take a well earned break in August, returning even bigger and better in September! So you know the drill; choose your favourite topics / events, register to attend on line for free, turn up, learn lots, network and have a jolly good evening! Just for good measure we also include a listing of 3rd party events too! Have a good month. With very best regards, Christian Mitchell VBUG Events SPONSOR: Sharpen up on C# 2008 with Wrox! Beginning Visual C# 2008 is aimed at novice programmers who wish to learn programming with C# and the .NET framework. The book starts with absolute programming basics. It then moves into Web and Windows programming, data access (databases and XML), and more advanced technologies such as graphics programming with GDI+ and basic networking.
Professional C# 2008 prepares you to program in C#, and it provides the necessary background information on how the .NET architecture works. It provides examples of applications that use a variety of related technologies, including database access, dynamic web pages, advanced graphics, and directory access. Beginning C# 3.0 offers a lot of guidance, in a format that readers find intuitive to follow. Written for those with no prior programming experience who want a thorough, yet easy to understand, introduction to C# and Object Oriented Programming. Order online at Computer Manuals and save up to 40%. VBUG EventsVBUG Brighton: THIS EVENT IS FULLDate: Thursday 03 July 2008 Topic: THIS EVENT IS FULL Overview: THIS EVENT IS FULL Venue: Madgex , Suite 1 Clarence House, 30-31 North Street, Brighton, BN1 1EB Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: THIS EVENT IS FULL More Info: click here VBUG London: Test 1st ASP.NET develop. Use ASP.NET MVC to build an Ajax website Date: Wednesday 09 July 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL PRESENTATION 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 18.00 for PROMPT 18.30 start Sebastien Lambla is your presenter for the evening. 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. Venue Address - 150 Minories, London EC3N 1LS FREE access to VBUG members and their guests. Non members can only attend several events for free Venue: The Anteo Group , 150 Minories, London, EC3N 1LS Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG Newcastle: F# with Oliver Sturm Date: Wednesday 09 July 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Taking efficiency one step further - F# Microsoft Research describes F# as "a scripted/functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language". Combining all those aspects in one language is certainly not an easy task, but they've done a good job of it. F# is interesting both as a language to actually consider for your projects and as a source of features that might make it into the mainstream .NET languages tomorrow. The session uses many examples to give you a good general overview of F#. To complement the introductory session, Oliver is going to show some more advanced samples from his talk “Data Handling in F#” and there will also be room for Q&A as well as discussion. Venue: Castlegate, Melbourne Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2JQ Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG Coventry: Securing Web Services with WCF with Chris Seary Date: Wednesday 09 July 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: WCF offers a strong array of tools for adding security to all boundaries of your application. Chris will guide you through implementing WCF security, and also what sort of protection is the best choice for each scenario. When is it best to use message level security (WS-Security) instead of SSL? Why use application security instead of IPSec? How do you provide integrity? Chris has answered these questions for large scale enterprise applications in government, banking and defence. The session will go into deep technical detail, and offers plenty of sample code for your own implementations. Chris Seary works as a Senior Developer for an IT and management consultancy, Charteris plc(http://www.charteris.com). He has worked with many different Microsoft technologies, and for the last few years has specialised in the security aspects of enterprise-level .NET systems. He regularly contributes to forums, writes articles and white papers, and has a blog devoted (mainly) to IT security (http://blog.searyblog.com/). PLEASE ARRIVE FROM 18.00 FOR PROMPT 18.30 START Venue: Juniper Room, Elm Bank, Mile Lane, Coventry, CV1 2LQ Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG Bournemouth: Go With the Flow. Understanding WWF with Ben Lamb Date: Tuesday 15 July 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Changing business requirements are the bugbear of the application developer. The Windows Workflow Engine allows business rules to be modelled in a graphical environment, possibly by a business analyst rather than the developer, making changes easier to accommodate. This talk explains the concepts behind Windows Workflow Foundation and demostrates its use. All code samples demonstrated will be making use of the .NET Framework version 3.0. For a preview of the slides and sample code please visit: http://www.benlamb.com/talks/#workflow PLEASE ARRIVE FROM 18.00 READY FOR PROMPT 18.30 START Venue: TBC Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG Thames Valley: How to spend more time at the pub (and other fun places!) Date: Tuesday 15 July 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: CSLA.NET is a 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, usually through the combination of a generic template with a specific entity model. Both techniques are beneficial in their own right but in combination offer a compelling method of quickly delivering high quality applications. In this session I will explain what CSLA.NET is all about and demonstrate how, by combining these two techniques you can free up time for other pursuits (or other projects). If you want to explore an interesting technique that encourages good architectural practice or find out what code generation is and how it can help you with repetitive tasks then come along and join in. 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 18.30 READY FOR PROMPT 19.00 START Venue: Bracknell Leisure Centre, Bagshot Road, Bracknell, RG12 9SE Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG SCOTLAND: F# with Oliver Sturm Date: Wednesday 16 July 2008 Topic: VBUG TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: Taking efficiency one step further - F# Microsoft Research describes F# as "a scripted/functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language". Combining all those aspects in one language is certainly not an easy task, but they've done a good job of it. F# is interesting both as a language to actually consider for your projects and as a source of features that might make it into the mainstream .NET languages tomorrow. The session uses many examples to give you a good general overview of F#. To complement the introductory session, Oliver is going to show some more advanced samples from his talk “Data Handling in F#” and there will also be room for Q&A as well as discussion. Oliver Sturm is an experienced software architect, developer, trainer and author, with a strong background in various different fields including system and framework architecture and design, process modeling and user interface design. He is a C# MVP and he works for Developer Express as a Technical Evangelist and Lead Program Manager for the Frameworks Division. Venue: Alba Innovation Centre, Alba Campus, Livingston, EH54 7GA Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here VBUG Manchester: Where’s my data? An intro to Spatial Queries in SQL Srv 08 Date: Thursday 24 July 2008 Topic: VBUG MANCHESTER TECHNICAL SEMINAR Overview: It is reckoned that 80-90% of data has a spatial component to it. But what do we do with it now? At best, we constrain it to postcodes. Well, that would be great if we were delivering letters, but the majority of us aren’t. In this session we look at Spatial Queries in SQL Server to see how it works and what can be done with it. Here's what Gary Short said about the session when he saw it: - "Colin MacKay's Spatial Data talk last night really rocked! If you get the chance to see it you should." Colin Angus Mackay is a software developer specialising in Microsoft technologies located in Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Member of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers, Member of the British Computer Society, a Microsoft MVP (C#), a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer, a Core Member of Scottish Developers, Code Project MVP for four years running and while not involved in software related pursuits is an amateur photographer, cyclist, map maker and is also the Vice President of Education for South Side Speakers, the Glasgow South Side Branch of Toastmasters International. And if all that wasn’t enough he is also organising Developer Day Scotland. Venue: TBC Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here Third Party EventsSUGUK - NEWCASTLE - MOSS Architecture Whiteboard SessionDate: Thursday 03 July 2008 Topic: MOSS Architecture Whiteboard Session Overview: John Timney (MVP & MOSS Principle Consultant at Capgemini) and Philip Hunter, (MOSS Technical Lead from BT) will be hosting an open forum whiteboarding session on MOSS, WSS and best practice for architecting platforms using these products. Although we cannot guarantee being able to answer every obscure question, we'll do our best! Participation is welcomed and expected from the audience, especially when the hosts get themselves in a mire and need rescuing. This is not death by powerpoint not product central, its an opportunity to ask your questions about architecture, platform sizing, backup and recovery, server virtualisation, publishing, database sizing, central admin, DNS, IRM, records management, support strategies, how best to handle Requests for Change. No topic is off the cards and we expect a healthy discussion to determine what might be a good architecture for your specific requirements, and what issue you might face in deploying MOSS or WSS either for your own compnay, or for customers. Come along, sit yourself down and take part! 2 hours of free consultancy. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE - NOW 3rd July 2008 Venue: BT Innovation Place, Riverside Park, Innovation Place, Metro Centre, Gateshead, NE11 9DJ Start Time: 6:30 PM Price: TBC More Info: click here DotNetDevNet: How To Give Great Presentations with Guy Smith-Ferrier Date: Tuesday 08 July 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT Overview: How To Give Great Presentations & Top 10 Tips For Internationalizing ASP.NET Applications with Guy Smith-Ferrier Venue: BRISTOL Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: More Info: click here Scottish Developers: Functional Programming in C# 3.0 Date: Tuesday 08 July 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT IN GLASGOW Overview: Visit the website for further details. Venue: TBC Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here NxtGenUG: Simon Sabin - The SQL ... Date: Tuesday 15 July 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT IN BIRMINGHAM Overview: Visit the website for further details. Venue: TBC Start Time: 7:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here Vistasquad: The Fellowship of the Ring Date: Wednesday 16 July 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT IN LONDON Overview: Vista Squad "The Fellowship of The Ring": Quite possibly the greatest event you’ll ever attend. The lineup: LINQ TO XML (Mike Taulty, Microsoft) What’s new in Windows Server 2008 (Matt McSpirit, Microsoft) Venue: Microsoft , London Start Time: 6:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here NxtGen: MOSS - "Tales From The Front" Date: Thursday 17 July 2008 Topic: THIRD PARTY EVENT IN SOUTHAMPTON Overview: Visit the website below for further details. Venue: TBC Start Time: 7:00 PM Price: FREE More Info: click here About DoEvents
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