Just back from Microsoft's Global Briefing in Atlanta and thought I would do a little update on the upcoming user group events over the next few months. If you are in or near Dublin, Belfast, Galway or Waterford, check out the line-up below... Many of you will already know Rob and Kieran, and will undoubtably be looking forward to their talks - but it's also really fantastic to see top international speakers like Roy Osherove and Benjamin Mitchell coming over to visit... it looks like a great set of talks!
INDA presents: Introduction to Agile Development & Unit Testing Best Practices
Date: Friday, 5th August
Speaker: Roy Osherove
Location: Dublin
Speaker Background:
Roy is the Principal of Team Agile - a consultancy for .NET architecture and Agile development methodologies - training and teaching developers and companies to be more productive and scalable. Roy has spent much of the past decade developing IT solutions for various companies in Israel. He's a Microsoft MVP, holds several MCP titles, written various .NET related articles, some of them published on MSDN, and most of which can be found on his weblog. Roy is also the author of the now famous free regular expression tool, The Regulator, and speaks in various community groups and conferences on topics such as Test Driven Development, Agile methodologies, Regular Expressions and extensible .Net applications. Roy is considered is one of the leading voices for Agile development in Israel and is the founder of the Agile Israel user group.
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
NIMTUG presents: Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0
Date: Monday, 22nd August
Speaker: Benjamin Mitchell
Location: Belfast
Overview:
This talk with be an A-Z of tips and tricks that will save you time and make development easier with Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. We’ll cover how to deal with common real-life hurdles, and how to effectively utilize the .NET Framework and Visual Studio, by presenting a set of tools, tips, tricks, best practices, utilities and ideas that can enhance your productivity significantly. We’ll tour the new features of the Visual Studio 2005 editor for both VB 2005, such as the new Visual Basic lightweight application model for client applications, the My namespace, Data, Settings and Resources, as well as refactoring, IntelliSense improvements, Code Snippets and enhanced navigation.
Visit www.nimtug.org to register or find out more.
INDA presents: ASP.NET 2.0
Date: Tuesday, 6th September
Speaker: Kieran Lynam
Location: Dublin
Overview:
Kieran will show some of the new features, techniques and interesting innovations in the new version of Microsoft's premier web development platform, ASP.NET 2.0. The presentation will have a strong practical emphasis, with plenty of demos! Master pages, navigation controls, authentication controls, personalisation controls and the new data controls will be some of the new features talked about.
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
INDA presents: ASP.NET 2.0
Date: Tuesday, 23rd September
Speaker: Kieran Lynam
Location: Galway
Overview:
Kieran will show some of the new features, techniques and interesting innovations in the new version of Microsoft's premier web development platform, ASP.NET 2.0. The presentation will have a strong practical emphasis, with plenty of demos! Master pages, navigation controls, authentication controls, personalisation controls and the new data controls will be some of the new features talked about.
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
INDA presents: A Developer’s Lap around SQL Server 2005
Date: Thursday, 29th September
Speaker: Rob Burke
Location: Waterford
Overview:
With the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (the database formerly known as Yukon), database developers now have the option to locate their code according to its functionality, to access data in native formats such as XML, and to build complex systems that are driven by the power of the database server. Database development is becoming more integrated than ever before, with all of the tools that developers need available right at their fingertips.
Visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more.
