Agenda for DDD Scotland 2010

We have finally got all the speakers confirmed and the agenda sorted out for DDD Scotland 2010. Subject to any last minute changes this is is:

Time

Room A (80)

Room B (40)

Room C (40)

Room D (40)

08:45-09:20

Registration

09:20-09:30

Housekeeping

09:30-10:30

HTML 5: The Language of the Cloud (Craig Nicol)

Contractual Obligations: Getting Up and Running with Code Contracts (Barry Carr)

WCF Data Services (Iain Angus)

Team Foundation Server 2010 for Successful Project Management (Martin Hinshelwood)

10:30-10:40

Break

10:40-11:40

Exception Driven Development (Phil Winstanley)

Real World Application Development with Castle Windsor and ASP.NET MVC 2 (Chris Canal)

Get Going with jQuery (George Adamson)

T4 and How it Can Be Used for Code Generation in Visual Studio 2008/2010 (Rob Blackmore)

11:40-12:00

Break

12:00-13:00

Web Standards are Broken, and it’s Getting Worse (Sebastien Lambla)

A Guided Tour of Silverlight 4 (Mike Taulty)

Commercial Software Development Is Easy, Not Going Bust Is the Hard Bit (Liam Westley)

Defensive Programming 101 (Niall Merrigan)

13:00-14:30

Lunch time: Grok Talks

Lunch time:
Local Open Source Incubator

Lunch time: Sponsor talk

Lunch time: Sponsor talk

14:30-15:30

Getting Started with Behaviour-Driven Development Using Cucumber (Steve Sanderson)

Silverlight – Real World Gotchas (Ray Booysen)

What ASP.NET (MVC) Developers Can Learn from Rails (Paul Cowan)

Developments in MultiCode and Concurrent Programming with .NET 4 (Barry Wimlett)

15:30-15:40

Break

15:40-16:40

Real World MVC Architectures (Ian Cooper)

Cloud Coffee – A Year Developing on Windows Azure (Dominic Green)

C# on the iPhone with Monotouch (Chris Hardy)

Domain Specific Languages – What Are They and Why Should You Care? (Mark Dalgarno)

16:40-17:00

Closing

DevExpress sponsor Developer Day Scotland

Scottish Developers are please to announce that we have signed up DevExpress as a sponsor for DDD Scotland 2010:simple-logo-200

DevExpress engineers feature-complete Presentation Components, Reporting Systems, IDE Productivity Tools and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows and Web in the shortest possible time.

Developer Day Scotland: Session Voting Now Open

If you are planning on attending Developer Day Scotland 2010 the session voting is now open. We have many excellent session proposals to choose from across a wide range of topics. If you are planning on going we then this is your chance to influence the agenda.

Developer Day Scotland will be held on Saturday 8th May 2010 in at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Developer Developer Developer: UK Community Events

November Newsletter

Welcome

With Christmas just around the corner we’re celebrating the year with two geek dinners. The first in Edinburgh on the 4th December and the second in Glasgow on the 12th December. There are only a few places left as most went when we announced them on Twitter.

If you are on twitter you can follow us @scottishdevs.

If you were signed up to our Advanced TDD event which we had to cancel at the last minute then you may be interested to know that it has been rescheduled and will be on 8th December.

We announced our annual conference, Developer Day Scotland (part of the DDD community conferences), this month too. It will be on the 8th May 2010. The call for speakers is now open, so if you have any sessions (60 minutes) that you’d like to give then please register on the site and submit your session. In the new year we’ll be opening the sessions up to voting so you can have your say on what sessions you want to see. For those on twitter you can follow @dddscot to get the latest news about the conference.

If you run a user group, or just know of an event that would be of interest to software developers we’re always keen to hear about it. Let us know by sending an email to support@scottishdevelopers.com

Regards,
Colin Mackay, Chairman, Scottish Developers

Our Upcoming Events

4-December-2009 @ 19:30 in Edinburgh
Edinburgh Geek Dinner – Amber Restaurant
Registration Required

8-December-2009 @ 18:30 in Glasgow
Advanced TDD – An Introduction to Testing Patterns and Behaviour Driven Development
Registration Required – Cost FREE

12-December-2009 @ 21:30 in Glasgow (Meeting in the pub from 19:00, meal at 21:30)
Glasgow Geek Dinner – La Tasca
Registration Required – Cost: Price of meal

ALT.NET Meeting – 4th December

The next ALT.NET meeting will be on the 4th December at Waxy O’Connor’s at 7PM in West George Street, Glasgow.

Space has been booked and there will be a sign to show you the way.

Topics for discussion include:

  • BDD
  • DDD
  • The horn open source project

More information on the Scottish ALT.NET user group on their google groups: http://groups.google.com/group/scotaltnet

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