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Thursday, November 11, 2010 from 6:30 PM, Theatre Royal Bar

Windows Phone 7 is the new phone from Microsoft which it will launch in October 2010 with big hopes of gaining significant share of the smartphone market.

Developing for Windows phone has a very short learning curve for .NET developers thanks to the supported frameworks (Silverlight and XNA) and the familiar development environment (Visual Studio and Expression Blend). Although it is easy to develop applications on this platform, creating one which provides a good user experience is not so straightforward.

In this talk, Gergely Orosz will demonstrate how to create a simple application for Windows Phone 7, placing particular emphasis on how to bring provide a good WP7-specific user experience. He will also be talking about porting existing applications to WP7. The finished application will be deployed to a WP7 developer device for a demonstration.

Speaker:
Gergely Orosz works for Scott Logic as a financial software developer and has a background in Silverlight and .Net development. He is currently building a few applications for WP7 in his spare time.

Location:
Thanks to Microsoft for providing the location for this event.
7.00pm on Thursday 30th September 2010
Microsoft Edinburgh
Waverley Gate
2-4 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh EH1 3EG

Come along for some beer and much geekery…

Book your spot:

An evening of polite discussion, beerage and heated debate. Bring your opinions!

Screenmedia is looking for a talented .net developer to join our development team to assist on a variety of up and coming web and mobile web projects. If your passionate about new technology and would welcome the opportunity to work within a creative agency please drop us an email with some information about yourself and a CV to info@screenmedia.co.uk; we’d love to hear from you.

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of C#, Umbraco, XSLT, SQL Server, ASP.Net MVC, SOAP, REST and jQuery. Additional knowledge of (X)HTML, CSS, xUnit/nUnit technologies will also be beneficial.

The preferred candidate will also have:
• Experience developing with open source content management systems, preferably Umbraco.
• Excellent knowledge of modern software development best practice
• Experience of AJAX and associated technologies
• At least two years commercial experience using C#.Net
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
• An eye for detail, and an enthusiasm for ensuring that work is delivered to the highest possible standard.
• Experience working in a creative agency

About Screenmedia
Screenmedia is a Bafta award winning digital communications studio based in Glasgow. We produce engaging interactive content, creative design and technology solutions across web, touch screen and mobile. Our clients include Channel 4, BBC, Museums Galleries Scotland, NHS Scotland, National Library of Scotland and The Forestry Commission. At the core of our client service is a passion for research & development using new and emerging digital technologies.

Silverlight is the new hot topic within rich internet application development. But what is it exactly? How can it be used with existing .NET web applications? Is it an alternative to Flash in all scenarios?

In this talk Gergely Orosz will be giving a brief overview of what Silverlight is, how it works and what potential it has. He will show how to develop a simple application where he will introduce the key concepts of Silverlight development and highlight the differences and similarities with traditional WinForms/WebForms development.

Speaker:

Gergely Orosz is working for Scott Logic as a financial software developer. He has a background in enterprise content management and web development. He has been using Silverlight since version 1.0 and was awarded 3rd place on the Microsoft Imagine Cup world finals for a solution partially built on Silverlight 2 Beta in 2008.

In light of some recent events, such as the man who was convicted of stealing
130 million credit card details through a SQL Injection attack, it is
imperative that developers understand what a SQL Injection Attack is, how they
are carried out, and most importantly, how to defend your code against
attack.

In this talk Colin Mackay will demonstrate a SQL Injection Attack on an
application in a controlled environment*. He’ll show you where the vulnerable
code lies and what you can do to harden it.

Although this talk uses C# as the application language and Microsoft SQL
Server 2008 as the database engine many of the concepts and prevention
mechanisms will apply to any application that accesses a database through
SQL.

Speaker

Colin Angus Mackay is a Software Developer from Edinburgh, now living in Glasgow. He is a Microsoft MVP (C#), and has keen interests in sticking data on maps. He has worked with Microsoft Visual C++ since about Version 2.1. He has been playing with the .NET Framework and C# since it was in beta but has been using it commercially since late 2002. He originally started programming when he was about 9 years old, on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with an amazing 48K memory! Naturally he went for a computing degree. After leaving university he co-founded a company that developed a GIS product but he is now working for an digital agency in Glasgow.

Location

Scottish Developers have been kind enough to help organise a venue for use and have arranged for Equator to let us use their board room. Due to size of the room, we have to limit the available spots to 12. The presentation will take place on the 4th February at 7:30pm.

Equator,
Ground Floor,
Moda, 144 Elliot Street
Glasgow, G3 8EX

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Unfortunately Paul has had to pull out of giving this talk due to other commitment.

We are going to try and find another speaker for that night and will post something as soon as we can.

Sorry to all of those who signed up.

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