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Gary Short

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• XAF – Distributed Pair Programming and Fast Prototyping

  Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 13:58 by garyshort

  Using XAF recently reminded me of my Smalltalk days in the early ‘90s, more on why that was at the end of the post, but for now let’s talk about pair programming. You know about pair programming right? It’s a practice in eXtreme Programming whereby two programmers sit at the same keyboard and work on [...]

• How to Increase your Number of Twitter Followers

  Posted: 22 Jun 2009 at 13:45 by garyshort

  Recently a friend of mine (@Ben_Hall) noticed that I’d increased my number of followers on Twitter and asked me how I had done it. I replied that although what I’d done was simple I couldn’t explain it in 140 characters and that I’d write a blog post, so for Ben (and for you if you [...]

• Removing Slowness from Visual Studio 2010 (Dev10)

  Posted: 19 May 2009 at 15:11 by garyshort

  Yesterday I downloaded Dev10 from the MSDN site and installed it on my Win7 VM on my Mac. The first thing I noticed was that it ran like a three legged dog – that is to say, it was slow. Hmm, I thought (I actually make that noise when I think) I have this [...]

• NxtGenUG Manchester you Say?

  Posted: 31 Mar 2009 at 21:57 by garyshort

  NxtGenUG are again well chuffed to announce the start of the seventh UK region, this time in Manchester. The group is being run by local developers Steve Robbins and Andy Wilkinson .  The group will have it’s first meeting on 20th May 2009 between 7.00pm and 9.00pm in the  Pennine House, Carrs Road, Cheadle SK8 [...]

• SodThis.com – What Happens When Two Techies Can’t Shut Up!

  Posted: 25 Mar 2009 at 14:38 by garyshort

  So being evangelists for Developer Express, Oliver and I can talk – those of you who know us know we can really taaaaalllllkkkk. So, with that in mind, what else could we do but start our own podcast (Sodthis.com). Not only did we start it but we’re on our second podcast already! The [...]

• Microblogging for March 10 2009

  Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 12:17 by garyshort

  Recently I said @JMBucknall Does he now? How exciting; I need to get me one of those! (View) @JMBucknall Yeah, I heard a rumour you’d okay’d it too. (View) @fkerrigan "Lawful reason or reasonable excuse" is all your need. I need a usb drive for work m’lud (View) @fkerrigan you know you want [...]

• DDD South West Registration is Open!

  Posted: 03 Mar 2009 at 10:19 by garyshort

  Go! Quickly! Stop reading this and register now! Registration for DDD South West is now open. Be able to tell your grandchildren that you were there at the very beginning. Remember, there can be only one first time. DDD South West is a free one day technical event on Saturday 23rd May 2009 at Queens College, [...]

• New NxtGenUG Branch!

  Posted: 18 Feb 2009 at 13:28 by garyshort

  The NxtGenUG guys have opened another branch, here are the details "NxtGenUG are well chuffed to announce the start of the sixth UK region this time in Hereford. The group is being run by local developers Ryan O’Neill and Richard Wilde.  The group will have it’s first meeting on 17th March 2009 between 7.00pm and 9.00pm [...]

• Developer Day Scotland and Belfast Voting…

  Posted: 12 Feb 2009 at 10:10 by garyshort

  …has opened; so if you want to hear me speak then pop along to the following URLs and cast your votes in my favour; if you don’t then you might end up having to listen to Barry Dorrans speak. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/belfast/Users/VoteForSessions.aspx http://developerdayscotland.com/main/Voting/tabid/81/Default.aspx Technorati tags: Developer Day Belfast, Developer Day Scotland, [...]

• The Latest CodeCast Podcast…

  Posted: 30 Jan 2009 at 10:51 by garyshort

  … (episode 10) is available now at http://www.code-magazine.com/codecast/ where we are talking about various Developer Express tools including CodeRush, RefactorPro and DXCore. Technorati tags: CodeCast, Coderush, RefactorPro, Podcast

• Ever Wanted to Speak at a Community Conference?

  Posted: 27 Jan 2009 at 15:20 by garyshort

  Well now is your chance! The DDD South West Call For New Speakers is now live and we are looking for proposals from new speakers who would like to speak at DDD South West on Saturday 23rd May 2009 in Taunton. The offer is open to ‘new’ speakers who meet the following requirements:- You must live in [...]

• DDD Belfast – Call for Speakers Open!

  Posted: 13 Jan 2009 at 09:28 by garyshort

  The title says it all really. The call for speakers in now open for Developer Day Belfast. You can find out more about the conference at this site, and the session submission page is here. Technorati tags: DDD Belfast, Community

• Scottish Developers Dundee – JQuery Talk all Welcome!

  Posted: 12 Jan 2009 at 09:56 by garyshort

  Date and Time Wednesday, February 04, 2009  7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location Queen Mother Building Dundee University Nethergate Dundee DD1 4HN Abstract A new client-side framework has been taking the internet by storm, many have already been mesmerised by the power of such a small javascript [...]

• How to Install Windows 7 Beta on an Acer Aspire One Netbook

  Posted: 10 Jan 2009 at 15:05 by garyshort

  Having access to MSDN via the MVP program, I downloaded the beta version of  Windows 7 as soon as it became available, with the idea of loading it onto my Acer Aspire One netbook (an nice little Christmas present to myself!). With the software downloaded there was just one issue to overcome, how do you install [...]

• A trip to Las Vegas in January 2009

  Posted: 23 Dec 2008 at 13:29 by garyshort

  I’m taking a trip to Las Vegas between January 17th and January 25th 2009.

• More Recruiter Suckage

  Posted: 02 Dec 2008 at 22:42

  One more time for the hard of understanding, I am an engineer, but I’m a *software* engineer and if you’d read my CV you’d know that. Certification Engineer/Verification Engineer/Stress/Jar 21/Aerospace: My large aerospace client requires a Certification engineer, to work o

• Emails that don’t Inspire Confidence

  Posted: 02 Dec 2008 at 09:41

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• Functional Programming in C# 3.0

  Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 15:40

  Just a reminder that Oliver Sturm will be giving a talk on the above subject tomorrow (Nov 25) between 7pm and 9pm, the details are as follows:- Abstract The newest version of C# introduces a number of language features that finally make it very easy to employ a functional style of programming.

• Is Pipex (Tiscali) the Worst ISP in the UK?

  Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 15:25

  On September 16th I received a letter from Pipex telling me that they were going to be moving some account management servers, this move would commence at the end of October (a suitably vague date) and would be completed by November 30th. This letter detailed the changes (they were all administrativ

• Tired Booth Babe After PDC

  Posted: 30 Oct 2008 at 05:41

  Like most of use, Erica is beat after the three days of the PDC Technorati Tags: PDC08