2009
09.07
On the 25th of September Scot Alt.Net group will be running an AltNet Beers night with Sebastien Lambla. The event will be held in top bar of Uisge Beatha on woodlands road starting at about 7pm.
Sebastian has been running these events successfully in London for the past year and is now taking it on the road with his Alternative Network.
AltNet Beers is an hour-long time boxed open conference style session where the subjects being discussed will be chosen by the attendants. And of course all this in a pub environment, fuelled with just enough beer to make everybody participate.
Registration is optional, feel free to just come along on the night.
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2009
09.01
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When/Where
Glasgow on 10th November at 18:30
The Talk
Testing is a fundamental part of the development process regardless of how you approach it however GUI’s have always been trickier to test and web based UI’s are some of the hardest. JavaScript, AJAX and browser compatibility are all things that make web UI functionality quite difficult and time consuming to test. Enter Selenium, a web application testing framework which makes the creation and automation of complex web user interface tests a joy.
This session will introduce you to Selenium and explain the core features of the framework before showing you, through live ASP.NET MVC demonstrations, how it can be harnessed in your own web development.
The Speaker
Andy Gibson is an Information Systems Developer for Rockstar North with a background in web application development including ASP.NET MVC, PHP and jQuery. He is always on the lookout for new technologies to play with and loves to learn what he can about things especially in the web development arena.
Keen to give back to the community, Andy has spoken at a number of community events including Developer! Developer! Developer! Scotland and is currently the Tayside Events Coordinator for Scottish Developers.
In his spare time (not that he has much), Andy enjoys table top wargamming, keeping up with the computer gaming industry and drinking malt scotch.
The Venue
We are meeting in Room M402 on the 4th Floor of the George Moore Building at Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA
You can find more information and book your spot here.
2009
09.01
When/Where
Edinburgh: Thursday 24th September, 2009 at 19:00
The Talk
Everybody seems to rediscover the MVC model, and new frameworks seem to appear all the time. Most of those hide the richness of the web. Come discover OpenRasta, a very opinionated framework that help you write MVC-style web applications and data services, using a unified API.
The Speaker
Sebastien Lambla runs Caffeine IT, a .net consultancy / contracting company helping the good people of London adopt new technologies, new processes, new methodologies and in general anything that’s new and shiny. Specializing in cutting-edge tools, from REST architectures to occasionally connected rich clients, Sebastien has been developing with .net since 2000. An out and proud restafarian, Sebastien is the creator and maintainer of the OpenRasta project.
The Venue
We are meeting at the offices of Sinclair Knight Merz, 160 Dundee Street, Edinburgh, EH11 1DQ
You can find more information and book your spot here.
2009
09.01
When
Dundee: Wednesday, 23rd September, 2009 @ 19:00
The Talk
With applying agile methodologies comes changes in many aspects of delivering software. And with any change will come a time when something fails. How to convince the undecided? How to keep everyone calm? How to provide practical solutions to prevent people from reverting back to non-agile practices at the first roadblock? Through examples gathered from personal experience and the community, we’ll explore ways to prevent the boat from sinking at the first spilled glass of water.
The Speaker
Sebastien Lambla is a developer passionate about all things agile. Through years of facilitating the move to agility, be it Scrum, Lean or XP, Sebastien has helped teams deliver better software. A seasoned speaker, Sebastien also delivers training sessions in Europe, and organizes the local alt.net events in London, a community focused on self-improvement.
A developer at heart, Sebastien has created Caffeine IT, an consulting and contracting company specializing in Microsoft technologies. From REST architectures to rich disconnected clients, Caffeine IT has been helping companies develop their products and empower their teams, with a focus on quality. Caffeine IT is also the main sponsor of the open-source OpenRasta REST framework for Microsoft platforms.
The Venue
We are meeting in the Queen Mother Building at Dundee University. After the meeting we normally retire to the bar at Laing’s.
You can find more information and book your spot here.
2009
07.14
From Fluent Interfaces to HORN, Domain Specific Languages are making an impact on the Alt.Net ecosystem. With the arrival of Oslo, Microsoft’s take on how to create Dsls, could they become part of most developes toolkits? In the second Scot Alt.Net we will have a look at two different techniques to creating a Dsl and will take place in Glasgow on 6th August 7pm, Dell Corporation Limited, City Park, 368 Alexandra Parade, Glasgow, G31 3AU.
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
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 at Microsoft in Seattle. You can follow his blog
here.
James Lynch is a Web Developer working for an Edinburgh based company Storm ID for the past year. He follows Agile and Kaizen principles as well as being interested in OSS and functional programming. A relative newcomer to development, bdUnit was James’ first personal project.
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 
2009
06.18
The Talk
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
2009
06.18
Our first proper event, An Evening of O/RM, sold out in 3 days! I’m really chuffed that there was such a great response and would like to take this chance to thank Mike Perrin and everyone else at ScottLogic for supplying the venue!
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.