It is hard to describe how game changing discovering rails has been for me. The ethos and methodology is expressed in a frictionless development environment that is articulated in each rails project. Convention over configuration is a culture I thought I was practicing in .NET.How wrong I was….

I would like to share my findings and report back to the .NET community of what can be learned from rails and possibly to a lesser extent ruby.

Speaker

Paul was born in bred in Belfast before leaving for the mainland in 2004.  He now runs his own business in Glasgow where he hopes to create a developer centric environment that creates great software. He previously spent 4 years working for twentysixlondon, working as a technical architect where he worked mainly on public facing websites such as the Volvo Ocean Race, Waitrose, Closer and Abercrombie And Kent

The Volvo Ocean Race website tracked a round the world yacht race through ten months of race time. During race time, the website was updated with live race and telemetry boat information in as real time as possible.

Before twentysixlondon Paul spent his career working for Fujitsu in Belfast where he worked on numerous government projects.

Paul’s hobbies include Boxing.

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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It appears there might more standing room if anyone missed getting a spot and would like to come along.  If you are interested, please leave a comment or send me tweet, @chriscanal

It should be an awesome evening, I’m excited to see what Paul and Colin have to say, and I hope everyone leaves with a good impression of how they can get up and running with NHibernate quickly and easily.

ScottLogic, a leading financial software and consultancy company based in Edinburgh, have been kind enough to offer the use of their premises for an evening of O/RM knowlege sharing and dicussion.  The event will take place on 2nd of July at 7pm, 17 Gayfield Square Edinburgh EH1 3NX.  All are welcome!

The agenda for the evening is as follows:

7.00 – 7.30 Paul Cowan – An Introuction to NHibernate
7.30 – 8.00 Chris Canal – FluentNHibernate
8.00 – 8.10 Break
8.10 – 8.40 Colin Gemmell – NHibernate vs Entity Framework – which is best?

After the meeting we will retire for a beer and some heated discussion.  If you are planning to attend, please let us know by registering at the Scot Alt.Net Edinburgh EventBrite page (http://altdotnetedinburgh.eventbrite.com/).

About the speakers

Paul Cowan has recently started his own business Cutting-Edge Solutions.  He is a keen advocate of iterative development, test driven development, continuous integration and modern techniques.  Paul is a regular committer to the horn open source project.  He recently gave a presentation on horn at the Dsl DevCon at Microsoft in Seattle.  You can follow his blog here.

Chris Canal has worked at a Web Developer for the past 7 years. Starting with procedural languages like ASP and PHP, he quickly moved onto the .NET Platform when first released. A great believer is continual–improvement, Chris is constantly looking for new technologies, tools and methodologies that will help in creating robust and maintainable software applications. Having felt the pain of using Microsoft “Demoware”, Chris has become an active member of the Scottish Alt.Net Community to share his findings and ideas with like-minded developers.

Colin Gemmel is a Web/Application Developer working in the Medical Faculty of Glasgow University for the past 3 years. An avid follower of agile principles and practices he is always happy to pass on his views of software development to anyone that will listen. Colin is also a regular participant of the Scottish Alt.Net Community