Community developer events venues

Glasgow Caledonian University

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Past events

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Developer Day Scotland

  Sat, 10 May 2008, 09:00 - 17:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Developer Day Scotland is a community event, run by community for community, which is based upon the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! community conference events.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• Internet Information Services 7.0 for ASP.Net Developers

  Tue, 9 Dec 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in 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...

• NHibernate

  Tue, 13 Jan 2009, 18:30 - 20:30 in 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

• Introducing OpenXML

  Tue, 10 Feb 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in 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#.

• Inversion of Control and Testability

  Thu, 19 Mar 2009, 18:30 - 20:30 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Talk Description The architectural design pattern, Inversion of control (IOC) at last appears to be gaining some momentum in the .NET mainstream. Frameworks such as Castle Windsor, Autofac, Structuremap and Spring have given rise to the .NET IOC (inversion of control) container. Robert C. Martin says in his article on the topic of dependency inversion, "High-level modules should not depend on low-level modules. Both should depend on abstractions." An abstraction in this context implies that ...

• Two DBAs walk in to a room of Developers...

  Tue, 14 Apr 2009, 18:30 - 20:30 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Did you hear the one about the two DBAs that walked into a room full of developers? If you want to find out what happened then come along and let Martin Bell and Satya SK Jayanty (our two intrepid DBAs) show you before heading off to the pub to have a good laugh about it all. Talk Description TBC Speaker Biography Martin Bell is a dashing and attractive redhead and you would never guess that he has been a freelance computer consultant in the UK for over 23 years. He?s worked on many relationa...

• Developer Day Scotland 2009

  Sat, 2 May 2009, 09:00 - 17:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  About Developer Day Scotland Developer Day Scotland (DDS) is a community event, run by community for community, which is based upon the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! (DDD) community conference events. Scottish Developers is pleased to bring this phenomenal success to Scotland once again. The very best of the UK speaker community will be presenting on the topics delegates wish to see. Highlights of Developer Day Scotland   Listed below are some of the key highlights of the...

• An Insight into Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Magic

  Tue, 12 May 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  This is a cross technology talk and is suitable for anyone with an interest in the design and development of websites. Abstract In this talk, Michael Briggs (SEO guru) will discuss the art and science of improving the visibility of your clients websites in the major search engines. Do you know how to make sure your website gives the search engines the information they need to maximise your ranking potential? Do you know your canonical meta tag from your keyword density? Genuflect to the Googl...

• Your Application in Pieces – MEF and MAF

  Tue, 23 Jun 2009, 18:30 - 20:30 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  Kathleen Dollard will be talking about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) and the Managed Add-in Frameworkd (MAF) Talk Description Decoupling portions of your application has tremendous payback during both development and maintenance. Your application becomes more testable and flexible and can more easily evolve to meet changing demands. Decoupling your application also allows a new level of partnership with external groups because you can safely incorporate their code in your applicat...

• Credit Crunch Code – Time to Pay Back the Technical Debt

  Tue, 8 Sep 2009, 18:30 - 20:30 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  The TalkTechnical debt is the cost of putting off good development practices. This debt, must be paid back to avoid the “interest payments” becoming crippling. This presentation will focus on a number of common developer (and project) behaviours that can lead to the build up of technical debt in a project, and together we will discuss and collaborate on methods to mitigate against them.The Speaker

• Advanced TDD - An Introduction to Testing Patterns and Behaviour Driven Development

  Tue, 13 Oct 2009, 18:30 - 20:30 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  The TalkThere is more to doing TDD well than just Red-Green-Refactor, and creating a maintainable test suite as well as maintainable production software is vital. In this presentation we will look at common testing patterns, techniques and tools that can help make maintaining the test suite easier. From Shared Fixtures to Stubs and Mocks, we will take a look at common patterns that have been proven to work and the tools that help you take advantage of them.

• Web Application Testing With Selenium

  Tue, 10 Nov 2009, 18:30 - 20:30 in Glasgow, United Kingdom

  The TalkTesting is a fundamental part of the development process regardless of how you approach it however GUI's have always been trickier to test and web based UI's are some of the hardest. JavaScript, AJAX and browser compatibility are all things that make web UI functionality quite difficult and time consuming to test. Enter Selenium, a web application testing framework which makes the creation and automation of complex web user interface tests a joy.