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Community, Developer Events, Podcasts

027 – MIX07 – Jim McNiven and Chris Hardy – Viral Marketing

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Welcome to podcast #027. I’m talking with Jim McNiven and Chris Hardy. Apart from discussing the MIX07 event, we discuss Jim’s session about viral marketing.

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This podcast:

Resources & Related Posts
MIX in Las Vegas
Scott Lovegrove interviews Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan
NxtGenUG chaps on Mix07, including mentions of Scott Guthrie, Robby Ingebretan, Simon Peyton Jones
026 – MIX07 – Men Of Iron – Michael Foord, Dave Verwer – IronPython, IronRuby, the DLR
019 – MIX07 – Danny Thorpe – on Borland, Google, Windows Live and .NET
018 – MIX07 – Scott Lovegrove on Windows Live Services
017 – MIX07 – Hugh MacLeod – the inspiration behind the Blue Monster

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Community, Developer Events

Write a limerick and win FREE WPF training!

Those boys over at the NxtGenUG want you to get creative! They’re asking you to write a limerick about Guy Smith-Ferrier! The first line has to be “There was an MVP called Guy”…

Here’s my starter for you:

There was an MVP called Guy

Whose book about Internationalization was welcomed in Shanghai.

In the south-west, he created the DotNetDevNet user group,

Which is proving to be a great scoop.

He’s an MVP, of that we can’t deny.

There was an MVP called Guy

Who had an interest in Popfly

Or was it Silverlight?

To be honest, both might overexcite

But I know Guy, he’ll give both a try.

If yours is good enough, you could win a place on this WPF course! Send your entries to enquiries@nxtgenug.net

Check out the meeting details over here.

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.net, Community, Developer Events

Free Developer Event – 1900: Tonight, 3rd October, Edinburgh, Astoria and XBAPs

As part of his 4 User Groups in 4 Days, acclaimed author Guy Smith-Ferrier is in Edinburgh tonight – he’ll be talking about Astoria and XBAPs.

Further information can be found here:

http://snipurl.com/astoria_and_xbaps

This event is free, you need only turn up, collect your goodie back, sit back, relax and enjoy the event.

This event has wearable and readable swag being distributed!

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Community, Developer Events

DDD6 – there’s still time to submit a session!

If want to speak at the UK’s premier developer community conference, there’s still time for you to submit your masterpiece!

We’re looking for four types of submission:

Micro-Presentation (6 mins)Micro-presentations are inspired by the runaway success of Pecha Kucha – the “20 slides/20 seconds each” presentation format created in Japan a few years ago. It’s an incredibly exhilarating, creative experience for both presenters and the audience. Presentations are auto-timed; presenters are up against their own wits and skill to talk for 20 seconds before before their slide automatically moves to displaying the next!

Grok Talk (10 mins)
Grok talks are basically a short presentation on anything you like! Be it a new feature you have found in whatever IDE you use or a new website that has changed your life or a new design technique that you think the world should use.

Presentation (60 mins)
Presentations are the normal style of presentation, with the speaker talking on a topic, generally with slides / demos.

Double Presentation (120 mins)
Same as presentation but double-length, giving the speaker the chance to deep-dive on a topic or technology.

Visit developerday.co.uk and submit your session!

In fact, here’s the schedule:

  • Sunday 7th October 2007: Call For Speakers Closes
  • Monday 8th October 2007: Session Voting Opens
  • Friday 19th October 2007: Session Voting Closes
  • Friday 19th to Sunday 21st October 2007: Speakers Notified Of Results (we’ll be very busy lining up the agenda!)
  • Tuesday 23rd October 2007: Schedule Published
  • Wednesday 24th October 2007: Registration Opens
  • Saturday 24th November 2007: DDD6 – Event Day!

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General

OS/2 – who said this?

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Clearing out the loft, I found an old book from 1988. History is amazing, I found this page to be a very interesting read; it’s astonishing how things have panned out since then.

Can you identify the author? Leave a comment. What are you thinking?

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Development

Cleared out the loft, found some old code!

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Way back in the early 1990s, I found myself writing some code using the C language. I was using an Acorn Archimedes at the time, a machine that was very advanced for its day.

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. And programmers were real programmers. We didn’t have any of your namby pamby frameworks to rely on, we were men of steel, we worked a bit and byte level, heck, we even had to perform our own memory management. We didn’t even have an IDE, we used the command-line compiler with builds performed via a makefile. Winning a byte here or there was a real boon, especially as our target machines had only 1MB, 2MB or if we were lucky, 4MB of main RAM available. But we had to code to the lowest common denominator, so we found ourselves working to a minimum spec of 1MB. None of the luxuries of today, no sir.

I’m clearing out the other side of the loft next weekend, may be I’ll find some old COBOL that I wrote?!

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.net, Community, Developer Events, Podcasts

026 – MIX07 – Men Of Iron – Michael Foord, Dave Verwer – IronPython, IronRuby, the DLR

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Men Of Iron, Top: Michael Foord; bottom: Dave Verwer

Welcome to podcast #026. I’m talking with Michael Foord and Dave Verwer about IronPython, IronRuby, Ruby On Rails and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). Michael runs until 15:30, then it’s Dave. Recorded live at MIX07, there is a little bit of background noise, apologies for that!

If you’re wondering why you might want to use dynamic languages, you should listen to this podcast to learn why.

The future’s bright, the future’s Python and The future’s bright, the future’s Silverlight! – two quotes that appear in this podcast…

Michael Foord’s session
The web was built using dynamic languages. Their plain-text format made it easy to mash up scripts to create the next great app. Similarly, dynamic languages will find a home in Silverlight applications. Silverlight can be easily deployed, which means that a wider range of dynamic languages will be used in building browser-hosted applications.In this demo-centric talk, you will see dynamic languages interacting with each other, the browser DOM and traditional Javascript. This unprecedented level of integration is possible because of the new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and the Silverlight browser plugin. Rich internet applications can be created using existing tools combined with the power of Silverlight.

Dave Verwer’s session
With the introduction of the DLR, dynamic languages are getting their day on the .net platform but why would you even consider a language like Ruby over C# or VB.NET? At a first glance Ruby code on the CLR can look very similar to code written with existing CLR languages but that there is so much more to discover about this beautiful language, this session will show you what delights await you as Ruby makes its debut on the CLR. The session will also give an overview of the progress made so far by the IronRuby team and discuss some of the interesting issues that are being raised during its implementation.

Podcast feed – subscribe here!

This podcast:

Resources & Related Posts
Scott Lovegrove interviews Danny Thorpe and Angus Logan
NxtGenUG chaps on Mix07, including mentions of Scott Guthrie, Robby Ingebretan, Simon Peyton Jones
027 – MIX07 – Jim McNiven and Chris Hardy – Viral Marketing
019 – MIX07 – Danny Thorpe – on Borland, Google, Windows Live and .NET
018 – MIX07 – Scott Lovegrove on Windows Live Services
017 – MIX07 – Hugh MacLeod – the inspiration behind the Blue Monster


Michael’s book
Michael’s company, Resolver Systems

Dave’s company, Shinydevelopment
rubydoes.net

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