North East Bytes

5 January, 2010 by Leave a comment

If you live in the south east of Scotland and don’t mind crossing the border occasionally there is a new User Groups starting in Newcastle. Here’s the information from Andrew Westgarth (he’s spoken at Scottish Developers in the past):

I’m pleased to announce a new User Group in the North East of England, based around Microsoft Technologies, North East Bytes (NEBytes) – http://www.nebytes.net .  We have decided to start this group in order to help Developers and IT Pros in the community with the constant battle to learn, stay current and broaden their knowledge.

We run monthly meetings every third Wednesday of the month (except on the second Wednesday in December – to allow time for Christmas parties and shopping!) at Newcastle University.  Each meeting consists of two one hour presentations (one Developer topic and one IT Pro topic) and we have refreshments, food, giveaways and prizes.

Attendance at our meetings is completely FREE!! The venue is provided kindly by the University, our Speakers kindly provide their time for free, and we as organisers provide our time for free to organise the events.  We will provide refreshments and we also provide hot food, all we ask is if you would like to partake in the the hot food, please make a small donation towards the cost via the open contribution box at each meeting.

Our Launch event is to be on Wednesday 20th January 2010, we are delighted to have Mike Taulty visiting to cover Silverlight and James O’Neill to cover Hyper-V.  We are really pleased to announce that we are also partnering with SUGUK North East for their first event of 2010 and will be welcoming Steve Smith to cover the Highlights and Features of Sharepoint 2010.  So  we have an action packed evening lineed up, Silverlight, Hyper-V AND Sharepoint 2010!!!! We are really looking forward to this great event and hope to see lots there to help us celebrate our launch!

For more information and full event details see – http://www.nebytes.net
I’m really excited about this new direction and would like to welcome anyone who would like to speak at the usergroup.

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e-Commerce Implementation

5 January, 2010 by Leave a comment

This just in from the BCS:

A BCS Professional Awareness Course in collaboration with Scotland IS.

Four consecutive Tuesday evenings starting 12th January 2010, 6.30 – 8.30 pm.

Cost: £100 for BCS members and Scotland IS Members, £126 for others (both excluding VAT).

Course Overview

Do you want to know how to set up e-Commerce sites?

E-business varies enormously, but it is possible to learn quite quickly how to set up a website that sells physical or digital products. This course, over four evenings, is aimed at computing professionals with some knowledge of HTML, and leads to you being able to:

  • Identify the key elements of an e-commerce project, some typical business models to support,
  • Identify four technical options for building e-commerce solutions
  • Capture essential information needed for an e-commerce project
  • Implement an e-commerce prototype and estimate timescales and costs to implement a full solution
  • Evaluate e-commerce prototypes
  • Recognise typical pitfalls and trade offs in e-commerce development

Presenter David Oxley leads you through technical challenges such as setting up online shopping carts, secure hosting of digital content, digital rights management (DRM), credit-card transactions etc, as well as covering the broader business and customer issues that must be addressed in successful e-commerce.

The BCS Edinburgh Branch has been running Professional Awareness Courses over the years to give local professionals an introduction to new subjects. The course is open to members and non-members. BCS and Members receive a discount on the fees, as do members of ScotlandIS.

For more details and on-line booking go to: http://www.edinburgh.bcs.org/courses/ecommerce.htm

The course is one of a series of Professional Current Awareness Courses aimed at providing greater access to developing subjects for IT professionals.

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Talk on “Augmented Reality” in Glasgow

9 December, 2009 by Leave a comment

This just in from Glasgow BCS:

Our December talk is next Monday evening, 14th December 2009 in Room
L13:18 (13th Floor) Livingstone Tower, University of Strathclyde, 26
Richmond Street, Glasgow.

Yolande Kostee will give our Christmas lecture, "Augmented Reality".

Light refreshments will be available from 6.00pm, and the meeting will
start at 6.30pm.

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SQL Server UG meeting in Edinburgh

19 November, 2009 by 1 Comment

This just in from the SQL Server User Group:

Hopefully everyone who is coming to SQLBits will have recovered by next Thursday. I’ve decided to run a SQL Nugget competition so you can share any  nuggets you have picked up or know. The best one will get a prize. I’ve also decided to put together some observations gained for the news groups and show they are not just useful for posting when you have a problem.
Here is the full itinerary:

  • SQL Nuggets Competition
  • A look into the Newsgroups – Martin Bell

In this session I’ll look at using the newsgroup as source of information, inspiration and perspiration. How you can learn for the postings in newsgroup and forums, if you want to ask a question, the how, why and what to post and I’ll look at some of the posts and how to set about answering the questions.

Agenda

18:30 – 19:00 – Introduction, Networking and Food
19:00 – 19:50 – SQL Nuggets competition
19:50 – 20:00 – Break
20:00 – 20:50 – A look into the newsgroup – Martin Bell
20:50 – 21:00 – Close

Location

Microsoft Office at Waverley Gate
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/about/map-edinburgh.mspx
Registration will be necessary as I have to submit registrations to Microsoft on Thursday morning.

 

You can register here: http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/events/208/SQL-Server-Nuggets-and-a-look-into-the-Newsgroups.aspx

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Glasgow, 3rd December: ASP.NET MVC 2

11 November, 2009 by Leave a comment

[Register]

ASP.NET MVC 1 changed the landscape of developing websites on the .NET platform and ASP.NET MVC 2 is bringing even more to the table. Currently preview 2 features productivity increasing additions like an integrated validation framework, richer model meta data and better object view templating support. In this talk we will look at these and the other additions to ASP.NET MVC 2.

Speaker
Currently working for Edinburgh based Storm Id, Chris has over 7 years of development experience.  A great believer is continual–improvement, Chris is constantly looking for new technologies, tools and methodologies that will help in creating robust and maintainable software applications and has become an active member of the Scottish Alt.Net Community to share his findings and ideas with like-minded developers.

Location
Equator,
Ground Floor,
Moda, 144 Elliot Street
Glasgow, G3 8EX

[Register]

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Next SQL Server UG Meeting

24 September, 2009 by Leave a comment

This just in from Martin Bell at the SQL Server User Group:

I’ve just put up the meeting details for an User Group Meeting on the 8th October. Rob is going to be talking about useful tools for performance analysis and showing you how to use them, I’ll be following with an introduction to powershell. Check out here for more details:

http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/events/202/SQL-Server-Performance-Analysis-Tools-and-Powershell.aspx

Don’t forget that the early bird offers for SQLBits will finish on the 30th September. We have a great line up for the Thursday and Friday including a keynote speech by Donald Farmer. Make sure that you vote for the sessions you want to see on the Saturday; session voting will close on the 4th October. There is still a chance to win a free ticket to all 3 days of the conference by entering our Mug Shot competition. For more see www.sqlbits.com

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SQL Bits V – Session Voting Open

22 September, 2009 by Leave a comment

If you are thinking about going to SQL Bits V, here’s your chance to influence the agenda.

This is just a quick note to tell you that voting is now open for SQLBits V. If you go to http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx (making sure you’re logged into the site) you’ll be able to pick the ten sessions that you most want to see, and the top-rated sessions will make it onto the agenda. You aren’t obliged to vote, and if you vote for a session you aren’t obliged to attend it on the day, but voting will help us work out what topics you’re interested in.

We’d also like to point out that our ‘mug shot’ competition is closing on September 28th. If you’d like to win free entry to the training day of your choice on Thursday November 19th, free entry to the 2008/R2 day on Friday November 20th and free hotel accommodation on the Thursday and Friday nights, all you need to do is upload a photo of you and your SQLBits mug in an unlikely (but safe-for-work) situation. More details here: http://www.sqlbits.com/Competition.aspx

– SQL Bits Organising Committee.

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VBUG Annual Conference

18 September, 2009 by Leave a comment

The 2009 VBUG Annual Conference is to be held at Microsoft, Reading on Thursday 26th November.

The cost is £149 (plus VAT) for members and £249 (plus VAT) for non-members.
This year we have organised a one-day event due to the current economic climate but we have put together what we think will be a great day with well-respected presenters from within the community.

For the full agenda and details of how to register/book go to http://www.vbug.co.uk/Conference/VBUG-Conferences.aspx
Please pass on the details to any colleagues who might be interested.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Regards
Nicky Gordon
VBUG

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Glasgow UX Book Club : 8th Oct

10 September, 2009 by Leave a comment

Glasgow User Experience Book Club

The UX book club is valuable for anyone who wants to start or increase usage of user experience techniques in their projects.

UX design is about the need to understand the motivations, behaviours and tasks of your audience and align your research, design and development strategy to support them.

Find more information on the official wiki page: http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=glasgow

Agenda

If you haven’t read the book don’t sweat it, you can still come along and join the the discussion and give your opinions about what we should be reading next.

The outline of proceedings:

  • Welcome and introductions

  • Opinion on the book

  • General UX chat, as time allows

When

Thursday, October 08, 2009 from 18:30 – 20:30 [Sign Up]

Where

Good creative
106 Hope Street
The Loft
Glasgow, G2 6PH

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Dundee’s Software Freedom Day Event

7 September, 2009 by Leave a comment

Software Freedom Day – Dundee – September 19th 2009
http://www.softwarefreedomdaydundee.org.uk

Information Line – 01382 848950 – List of talks, directions and other useful details about the event.

“The University of Abertay Dundee Linux Society” and the “Tayside Linux User Group” have long been establishing their names within the local Free and Open Source Community, as centres of support and advocacy for people from all walks of life.  This September we will be showcasing some of the best that our local community has to offer.

On the third Saturday (19th) of September teams from all around the world will celebrate Software Freedom Day:

“Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality software in education, in government, at home and in business – in short, everywhere! The non-profit company Software Freedom International  coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, give-aways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.”

http://softwarefreedomday.org/SoftwareFreedom

This is a real opportunity for people in Dundee and surrounding areas wishing to find out more about FOSS, its culture, its ethics and more importantly how to get started with it. Talks and Practical demonstrations throughout the day , for the novice computer user to the technical evangelist – you are sure to find something to interest you. The event is completely free and open to everyone;

10am – Short Welcome and Introduction to the Dundee Software Freedom Day Event
10.15am – What is free software, and why is software freedom so important?
10.45am – Freedom and Control
11.15am – Free and Open Source Software for Windows
11.45am – Free and Open Source Software for Students
12.15am – Free and Open Source Software in Business

Break for Lunch – (1.00 – 1.30)

1.35pm – Podcasting, from Mic to Audience
2.00pm – Free and Open Source Concepts in Security
2.30pm – SSH (Secure Socket Handler) The Beginners Guide
3.00pm – Basic introduction to building games with blender
3.30pm – Games and the Open Source community
4.00pm – VoIP and Open Source – A look at H.323 (4.00pm)
4.30pm – Thanks and Goodbye, a short wrap-up of the event

http://www.softwarefreedomdaydundee.org.uk/talks

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