{"id":1127,"date":"2008-12-18T20:09:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T19:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2008-12-18T22:37:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T21:37:40","slug":"uk-london-the-developers-group-meeting-21012009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"[UK, London] The Developers Group meeting 21\/01\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

What<\/strong>
\nThe Developers Group Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where<\/strong>
\nMicrosoft, Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL
\nclick here for map and directions<\/a><\/p>\n

When<\/strong>
\nWednesday January 21st 11.30 – 6.30
\nwith leader Jason Chapman<\/p>\n

Agenda<\/strong>
\n11:30 Registration (with tea, coffee and bacon or egg rolls, if you\u2019re early enough).<\/p>\n

12:00 Welcome, News and Interactive Discussion<\/strong> – Let\u2019s talk about:
\n\u2022 The latest in Delphi & .NET – problems, questions, solutions; your latest technical discoveries.
\n\u2022 Your programming problems; what progress you\u2019re making with Vista.
\n\u2022 Your favourite – and most hated – tools; the things you want to know more about.
\n\u2022 Your questions\/solutions on what hardware\/software to choose.
\n\u2022 and anything else that\u2019s relevant to the group.<\/p>\n

1:00 Really Getting Started with ECO – Scott Price<\/strong>
\nBOLD was Delphi\u2019s native Object Persistence Framework and much more. When CodeGear ventured
\ninto Delphi.NET, BOLD evolved into its current form called Enterprise Core Objects which is a much
\nmore advanced product these days, including built-in state machine support, temporal object support
\nand many more services now available utilizing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio\/RAD Studio.
\nECO can help substantially reduce your development effort or time when creating new database
\nsystems, sometimes as much as 50-70% in my experience with the data access layers I\u2019ve used in the
\npast. Being model based you draw your domain objects in standard UML, and the tools produce the
\nassociated classes for you to use in your application. ECO then looks after all of the persistence for
\nyou, the evolution of the database structure as your model changes over time, and many more things.
\nHowever, getting started when you are used to doing everything in SQL was quite a steep learning
\ncurve at first, and perhaps I have some helpful pointers of how to get you up and running correctly at
\nfast, so you can start to see the most out of using it swiftly from the start.<\/p>\n

2:15 Encryption and Compression – Cristian Nicola<\/strong>
\nThe session focuses on encryption and compression as general techniques in the context of:
\ncommunication over networks, file storage, memory encryption and database field encryption. We
\nalso then have a look at some of the general security issues and finally evaluate some of the most
\nstandard hacker tools.<\/p>\n

3:30 Tea\/coffee and cake<\/strong><\/p>\n

4:00 Intensive Windows Workflow Foundation – Corrado Iorizzo<\/strong>
\nThe pillars of .Net 3.0 are WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), WPF (Windows Presentation
\nFoundation) and WF (Workflow Foundation). Today we learn how to leverage WF to build your
\nworkflow applications and how to apply a new programming model based on a declarative approach.
\nWF manages the execution of small units of work named activities: see how to compose those basic
\nactivities into higher level units using rules, flowchart, and state machine control flow styles.<\/p>\n

5:15 Find Your Way to the Pub by Silverlight – Pete Sykes<\/strong>
\nPete walks through the development of his nascent \u201cPub Map\u201d Silverlight application which he
\ndeveloped as a test bed and training exercise for trying out some of the techniques needed in a \u201creal
\nworld\u201d Silverlight application. He strenuously denies that he spends so much time in the pubs of
\nBrighton that he actually needs the application himself. The demonstration includes all sorts of good
\nstuff such as data binding, using the HTML bridge to talk to and from the host web page, when to use
\nExpression Blend (look and feel) and when to use Visual Studio (logic).
\n6:30 End (and supper at a local restaurant, if you wish)<\/p>\n

Please book your place as soon as possible by contacting us at bug AT richplum DOT co DOTuk<\/strong>, and no later than Wednesday January 14th. Attendance is free to members of the DG and other participating user groups, \u00a325 + VAT to guests.<\/p>\n

We regret that meeting venues cannot accept phone messages on our behalf, and that mobile phones,
\npagers, etc, must be turned off during all DG events.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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