There are an awful lot of excellent .NET speakers lined up for Ireland over the coming months - so be sure you cast an eye over the following set of events to make sure you don't miss out...
Listed below you'll see some familiar names like Kieran Lynam and my colleague Rob (who will be delivering their very popular ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 talks in different venues). Kieran's event is on this Friday in Galway - his talk had over 80 people turn out in Dublin earlier this month, so if you are in the area and interested in web development, I'd really recommend going along. Rob will be speaking next week in Waterford and the following week in Cork.
There are also a lot of new folks who have travelled from near and far to speak to Irish user groups for the first time including Mark Andrews and Tiernan O'Toole (both from the Microsoft European Product Development Centre) who will be speaking in October on SharePoint and Web Parts.
But the highlight of the upcoming schedule has to be INDA's birthday celebrations on October 25th - a day-long conference entitled 'Exploring Cutting Edge Development in .NET Technologies'. Dino Esposito and Ian Griffiths will be travelling in from Italy and the UK respectively to give talks on 'Extending ASP.NET 2.0' and Avalon and Eamon O'Tuathail and Paul Fallon will be covering Domain Specific Languages and Windows Communication Foundation Services. It's really great to see such an amazing line-up of speakers at a single community event!! I am definitely looking forward to it and I would highly recommend the day to any of you out there working with .NET.
More details on the all events can be found below - but you need to visit www.developers.ie to register or find out more information!
INDA Galway presents: ASP.NET 2.0
Date: Friday, 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. 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.
INDA Waterford and INDA Cork present: A Developer’s Lap around SQL Server 2005
Speaker: Rob Burke
Location: Waterford
Date: Thursday, 29th September
Location: Cork
Date: Monday, 3rd October
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.
INDA Dublin presents: SharePoint and Web Parts
Speakers: Mark Andrews & Tiernan O'Toole
Location: Dublin
Date: Tuesday, 11th October
Overview: During this presentation Mark will be talking about the Architectural overview of Share Point, requirements, why you would choose Share Point portal server or Windows Share Point Services, Web parts and their Structure with a development demo (by Tiernan), who will also have a few notes on code security for Web Parts. There will be info on the portal infrastructure, smart connected organizations, and info about connecting the organization.
INDA Dublin celebrates its 1st birthday: Exploring Cutting Edge Development in .NET Technologies
Date: Tuesday, 25th October
Speaker: Dino Esposito, Paul Fallon, Ian Griffith, Eamon O'Tuathail
Location: Dublin
Overview: To mark the end of their first year, INDAhave organised a day long conference on 'Exploring cutting edge development in .Net Technologies'.It will take place on Tuesday 25Th of October in the Morrisson Hotel. The highlights of the conference will include a presentation by world famous programmer, author and regular columnist Dino Esposito on 'Extending ASP.Net 2.0' and a talk by Ian Griffiths from INETA UK on 'Avalon: The Future of Windows'. Other topics covered on the day will include a presentation on 'Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)' by Eamon O'Tuathail and 'Windows Communication Foundation Services' by Paul Fallon. The conference includes a buffet lunch and a drinks and tapas reception at the end of the day.
