Community user groups

Scottish Developers

Events coming up

• Dec 9

  Internet Information Services 7.0 for ASP.Net Developers

  Glasgow, United Kingdom

  One of the biggest and best new features of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista is Internet Information Server 7.0.  IIS 7.0 is the latest and most significant release of Microsoft's Web Server. With this release comes a new extensibility model which gives developers more options than ever before, more diagnostic tools with which developers can debug and locate issues. During the session Andrew will investigate the new architecture, look at extending, configuring and developing for IIS7, ta...

• Jan 13

  NHibernate

  Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Chris Canal will be talking about NHibernate. Talk Description TBC Speaker Biography TBC Agenda 18:00 Doors Open 18:30 Welcome 18:40 TBC 19:30 Break 19:40 TBC 20:20 Feedback and Prizes 20:30 Pub (back bar at Waxy O'Connor's on West George Street) Venue Room M126 of the George Moore Building at Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA

• Feb 10

  Introducing OpenXML

  Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Over the course of 60-75 minutes Craig will introduce OpenXML and will demonstrate how he is incorporating it into one of his line-of-business applications. Code examples will be written using C#.

Past events

• Functional Programming in C#3.0

  Wed, 26 Nov 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Dundee, United Kingdom

  The newest version of C# introduces a number of language features that finally make it very easy to employ a functional style of programming.

• Red! Green! Then What?

  Tue, 18 Nov 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  So by now everyone knows about TDD (you do know about TDD right?) and the Red, Green, Refactor mantra, but what's this refactor thing? How do you do it? What should you refactor? Why should you refactor? In this presentation I'll show you the how, what and why's of refactoring. There'll be little by the way of slides and a lot by the way of code examples. By the end of this presentation you'll have a good understing of the principles of refactoring and you'll be eager to get to work on Monday...

• Using Git in a team

  Wed, 12 Nov 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Dundee, United Kingdom

  Git is a distributed version control system developed by Linus Torvalds. Distributed means no central server, everyone involved in a project has their own copy of the *complete* repository - all the files, all the history. Git also makes it very easy to create branches and merge the branches back into the main trunk. This talk will introduce you to Git and show you what you need to do to enable Git to work over the wire and how your team can synchronise their repositories with each other. Sp...

• Look! There's my Data! Virtual Earth san Javascript

  Wed, 29 Oct 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Dundee, United Kingdom

  Colin Angus Mackay will be showing the new Virtual Earth ASP.NET server side control and demonstrating what you can do with it without resorting to Javascript.

• An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

  Thu, 16 Oct 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  In this session we'll take a look at the drivers behind MVC, the architecture of a typical ASP.NET MVC application, new features in ASP.NET that make it possible and we'll build a simple ASP.NET MVC application to explore the key concepts.

• An overview of ALT.NET Technologies

  Tue, 9 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  An attempt to raise both awareness and interest in technologies that have evolved from other sources apart from Microsoft.

• An Introduction to Oxygene and its Parallel Coding Features

  Wed, 6 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Dundee, United Kingdom

  Barry Carr talks about Oxygene (formerly known as Chrome). It is an advance .NET (and Mono) language by RemObjects influenced by Object Pascal. Oxygene has all the features of C# plus several more powerful features unique to itself.

• Functional Programming in C# 3.0

  Tue, 8 Jul 2008, 18:30 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  The newest version of C# introduces a number of language features that finally make it very easy to employ a functional style of programming. However, from the perspective of an imperative programmer, there are lots of questions surrounding functional programming.

• What is Functional Programming?

  Wed, 11 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Dundee, United Kingdom

  This presentation aims to provide you with insights into what Functional programming is and show you how functional languages can help you develop systems for multi-core machines.

• LINQ to XML - Everything but the kitchen sinq

  Tue, 10 Jun 2008, 18:30 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Colin Angus Mackay will present a comprehensive talk on the new XML classes in .NET 3.5 and the LINQ language feature in C#3.0

• Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008

  Thu, 3 Apr 2008, 18:30 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  The Scottish Developers "Heroes Happen Here" Community Launch of Visual Studio 2008 with Mike Ormond.

• The Grok Talks

  Tue, 11 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  The evening will be a smorgasbord of subjects packaged in to short 5 to 15 minutes talks with lots of interaction as well. The subject area of software development is too large for everyone to know everything, so this is a fantastic taster for learning a little bit about stuff you don't know much about already.

• Business apps with WPF - the full monty - Featuring Oliver Sturm

  Wed, 5 Mar 2008, 14:00 - 17:00 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  This double session walks you through the whole process of creating a business application with WPF, focusing on how it saves you development time.

• Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell

  Tue, 12 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  In this session we will show how continuous integration, the automated building and testing of projects whenever files are checked in, can be used to improve the quality of any software development project.

• My Favourite Patterns

  Wed, 16 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Top speaker Gary Short presents his favourite patterns. If you missed this highly acclaimed presentation at DDD then this is your chance to see it.

• SQL Server Evening

  Wed, 14 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  FREE Joint event with the Scottish SQL Server User Group with 2 speakers. Frank Kerrigan: Introduction to Microsoft Reporting Services Steve Phillips: SQL Server Managed Objects (SMO)

• db4o: An Embeddable Database Engine for Object-Oriented Environments

  Wed, 10 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Jim Paterson describes the key features of db4o, and shows how to save objects in the database, use the db4o query mechanisms, control transactions and object activation, refactor databases, replicate data to a relational database and use db4o in a web app. You will also find out about extensive the developer resources provided by the db4o community.

• Astoria and XBAPs

  Wed, 3 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Guy Smith-Ferrier will be delivering two sessions on Wednesday 3rd October in Edinburgh: Microsoft Codename "Astoria" AND Using ClickOnce and XBAPs To Deploy Windows Forms and WPF Applications

• The Agile Enterprise and Independent Software Vendors

  Wed, 12 Sep 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Agile software engineering is not the same across the enterprise and ISVs. In this talk we'll look at some of the different ways in which agile software engineering principles are applied in the enterprise and in ISVs; where it's easy, where it's hard, and how to make it just that little bit less painful for everyone.

• SQL Server 2005 - XML and XML Query Plans

  Wed, 6 Jun 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  In this presentation Martin Bell, will be looking at the different ways to create XML query plans such as T-SQL statements, SQL Profiler and DMVs. He will look at using XML schemas and the schema used for XML Query Plans. Methods of loading XML Query Plans into a database including SSIS, CLR and T-SQL statements will be demonstrated. XML Query Plans with be analysed using XQueries to show how you can monitor and detect performance issues.

• Introduction to AJAX

  Wed, 2 May 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  The demonstration will end with a code example showing use of AJAX to enhance user experience, and a question-and-answer session. The excitement around AJAX ensures this is a "must attend" session for anyone involved in web design and development.

• Web Security Conference Day for Windows Developers

  Thu, 12 Apr 2007, 09:00 - 18:30 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Scottish Developers have secured the support of two consultants from Charteris plc, a respected IT and Managemant Consultancy and Microsoft Gold Partner. Barry Dorans and Chris Seary are security specialists who regularly speak on subjects relating to the securing of web applications.