Scot Alt.Net and StormId are proud to annouce Scotland’s first [citation required ] F# Code Retreat!

What is a Code Retreat?

The first Code Retreat took place in January 2009 and was created by Patrick Welsh, Nayan Hajratwala and Corey Haines.  Their aim was to create a repeatable, day-long event that was focused on practicing the fundamentals of software development.

How it works?

The goal is to tackle a set problem, in pairs, for 45 minutes with a 15 minute retrospective after.  Everyone pairs off with someone different and the problem is tackled again.

Do I need to know F#?

Knowing a little will help, but not required.

What do I need?

- Passion
- Laptop
- Visual Studio 2010 (msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/bb984878.aspx)

When?

3rd July 2010

Where?

Schedule

0830 – 0900 – Welcome
0900 – 1000 – Introduction to F#
1015 – 1100 – Session #1
1100 – 1115 – Retrospective, break
1130 – 1215 – Session #2
1215 – 1230 – Retrospective, break
1230 – 1330 – Lunch
1330 – 1415 – Session #3
1415 – 1430 – Retrospective, break
1430 – 1515 – Session # 4
1515 – 1530 – Retrospective, break
1530 – 1615 – Session # 5
1615 – 1630 – Retrospective, break
1630 – 1715 – Session # 6
1715 – 1730 – Retrospective, break
1730 – 1800 – Final retrospective on day

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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Speaker
Currently working for Edinburgh based Storm Id, Chris Canal has over 7 years of development experience.  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 and has become an active member of the Scottish Alt.Net Community to share his findings and ideas with like-minded developers.

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 3rd December at 7:30pm.

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

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Speaker

Robert Lewis is a software engineer at Spacelabs Healthcare. He has been writing commercial software since 1998, and programming in C# since 2002. Robert is a proponent of good process for software teams, aided by the right tools.

Location

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 BDD knowledge sharing and discussion.  The event will take place on 4th of November at 7.30pm at ScottLogic, 17 Gayfield Square Edinburgh EH1 3NX.

I have now uploaded the code to the scot alt.net svn repository. You can check out the code at the link below

http://scotaltdotnet.googlecode.com/svn/session_code/ConvertingNumeralSystems

Cheers again to Joe for taking the event and for everyone who came along and joined in the kata

Inversion of Control is one of the most useful practices in an enterprise developers toolbelt and IOC containers can make it the management of these dependanies even easier.

Castle Windsor is one such container that can do a lot more than manage your dependancies. In this we will look at configuring the container, using it in various desktop and web senarios and other features including facilities and interceptors.

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 Castle Windsor knowlege sharing and dicussion.  The event will take place on 3rd of Septtember at 7.30pm at ScottLogic, 17 Gayfield Square Edinburgh EH1 3NX.

Speaker

Colin Gemmell 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.

Location

ScottLogic
17 Gayfield Square
Edinburgh,  EH1 3NX
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Boo

Domain Specific Languages is a topic that is very ‘in’ with developer buzz word popularity. Boo is a statically typed OO language with a Python based syntax. It supports Macros, an open compiler pipeline and has specific features that were explicitly designed to make DSL building easier. This overview will walk through the creation of an English like grammar that can be used to configure business rules for an application and can be reused across other applications with differing rules.

Oslo

It could be argued that the most valuable aspect of Microsoft’s ‘Oslo’ framework is the tooling it provides to create external DSLs. This talk will cover the basics of what is required to create and implement a DSL using Oslo. These steps will include (1) creating the grammar (2) parsing an input (3) deserializing the output to an object graph (3) generating code from the object graph. I will use my own Oslo DSL project bdUnit as an example.

About the Speakers

Agenda

• 7.00 – 7.15 – Welcome
• 7.15 – 7.45 – Boo – Paul Cowan
• 7.45-7.50 – Change over
• 7.50-8.20 – Oslo – James Lynch
• 8.20 – 9.00 – Open Discussion

Location

Dell Corporation Limited,
City Park,
368 Alexandra Parade,
Glasgow,
G31 3AU

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Hope to see you all there

The development of components for use in SharePoint is a complex process, and often seems to fly in the face of what is considered good development practice in a Test Driven Development world.

In this session Richard will show how using some good design practices and tools such as Typemock Isolator you can develop testable components for Sharepoint without even having to have Sharepoint on your development PC.

Speaker Biography

Richard is the Engineering Director of Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the North of England. Black Marble specialises in BizTalk & SharePoint based business automation. As Engineering Director Richard is responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow the company, and their clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable’s development activity is underpinned by Team System using Scrum as a process model. Richard is a Certified Scrum Master. Richard is a regular presenter at community events in the UK and Ireland (and the rest of the world given a chance) where his most common subject is software testing and development process.

Agenda

• 18:30 Doors Open & Refreshments
• 19:00 Welcome
• 19:10 Developer Testing for Sharepoint (Part 1)
• 20:10 Break
• 20:20 Developer Testing for Sharepoint (Part 2)
• 20:50 Feedback and Prizes
• 21:00 Close and Repair to the Bar

Venue

We are meeting the the Broker Suite at the Ramada Jarvis Glasgow City Hotel at 201 Ingram Street, Glasgow, G1 1DQ.

More Info

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/359662761

Session details

Decades after object orientation design altered programming, it’s still evolving, and we’re still learning to use it better. Many changes in the tools we use and how we write applications affect the approach we take to OOD. Some of these changes relate to architecture where new approaches like SOA and the layering revolution behind Silverlight alter the place of traditional OOD within the bigger picture of architecture. Other changes are language improvements that alter the very meaning of the phrase “object” from a design point of view. While touching on architecture, this talk focuses primarily on the effect of language features like generics, extension methods, delegates/lambda expressions, partial classes/methods, reflection, anonymous types, and declarative programming. I’ll the growing role of interfaces as a contractual base in block based development and show a roll your own example of dependency injection so you understand this basic technique more often accessed through a tool. You’ll come away ready to leverage new features while retaining solid overall design.

Speaker Biography

Kathleen is the Chief Technologist for AppVenture (www.appventure.com) where she leads the application generation efforts. She has been a Microsoft MVP for 11 years and is a member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies and writes the monthly column “Ask Kathleen” in Visual Studio Magazine (www.visualstudiomagazine.com). Kathleen is also active in the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, Denver Visual Studio User Group, Northern Colorado Architect’s Group, and IASA Denver.

Venue

We will be meeting at the offices of Baillie Gifford & Co, Calton Square, 1 Greenside Row, Edinburgh.

Agenda

18:30 Doors open
19:00 Introduction
19:10 Rethinking Object Orientation
20:00 Break
20:10 Rethinking Object Orientation
20:50 Fill in feedback & Prizes
21:00 End

More Info

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