Slides and code from DDD5 are now available over here. Audio and video to follow.
Also, we’ve created a group over at the social networking site Facebook. Please do join the group if you are a Facebooker!
Technorati Tags: DDD5, Facebook, UK Community, developer event
If you’ve heard about the buzz behind Mix07 in Las Vega, but couldn’t quite make it over there, you’ll perhaps be pleased to know that it’s coming to the UK:
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mix07/
Registration is now open!
Help out the NxtGenUG boys by answering a few simple questions over here:
http://www.nxtgenug.net/Mix07UK/
Technorati Tags: MIX, MIX07, MIX 07, UK Community, Microsoft, NxtGenUG
I noticed on Steve Lamb’s blog, the day after I fired off a Facebook invite to him, that he has some security concerns with the Facebook registration mechanism. And rightly so. Were it not for a large element of honesty, it’s remarkably easy for me to sign up to Facebook and pretend to be somebody else.
Steve’s right to question this issue, it and many others have been on my mind for a while now: why do we have so many social networking sites and why do people sign up to them? What’s the attraction? What do we get back from them? How are they improving the quality of our lives? Are they adding any value to the community?
And if you don’t believe this, how do you know that this person is who they say they are? I’m sure that there are clues…but I could easily upload a picture of a celebrity, use their name and basically pretend to be them. Now there’s an experiment! Incidentally, both Steve and I would appear to be “one person removed” from the aforementioned person! [Update, it seems that Steve knows the aforementioned celeb! Or does he?]
Craig Cockburn also has similar concerns:
Did you know that if you upload your date of birth, hometown, occupation and High School info to a social networking site such as this one that you are giving a potential thief more than enough to commit identity fraud?
Anyway, I’m still writing the blog post that I mentioned here, expect this topic to be raised in that post too.
Technorati Tags: social networking, facebook, security concerns, steve lamb, craig cockburn
http://www.zimakki.com/wiki/24thJuly07GeekDinner.ashx
Check out the guest list – Dr.Neil Roodyn could be making an appearance – not to be missed!
Technorati Tags: zi makki, geek dinner, dr neil, dr neil roodyn
I’m busy preparing a post about the sheer profusion of social networking sites that are now available.
In the meantime, Robert Scoble makes reference to it [the number of social networking sites] when he links to some recent usage stats.
Technorati Tags: Social Networking, Social Network Sites, usage statistics, Robert Scoble, myspace, facebook, bebo, orkut
Call For Speakers and Helpers!
What
SQL, SQL, SQL and more SQL
On the 6th October 2007 the UK SQL Server Community will be holding a day long conference full of SQL content. There will have 20 sessions covering everything from Maintenance plans through CLR stored procedures to Data Mining.
Cost
Free
More information
http://www.sqlbits.com/
Technorati Tags: SQLBits, call for speakers, UK SQL Server Community
Check out this 2-minute survey:
http://www.my3q.com/home2/173/michellecstai/britishqueue.phtml
What I like about this survey is the fact that once you’ve completed it, you can view all the results.
Technorati Tags: queue, waiting in line, service point, queue jump, queue jumping, patience
In this, the eighth Community podcast, I’m chatting to Ben Hall and Chris Gaskell. This podcast was recorded after the DDD5 GeekDinner…it was rather late, many beers had been consumed (but not by me, I might add!) Huge apologies to Ben – a combination of over-zealousness, a wet floor, no grip whatsoever from my shoes, bar stools and me ending up flat on my back…and I took Ben out too, he ended up on the floor! Amazingly, I was sober, having had a mere two pints over many hours. Anyway, in this show, Chris and Ben get vocal about the benefits of attending a developer event like DDD5 and they promote their respective local user groups, NxtGenUG and VBUG.
Download the podcast here. Transcript to follow.
I have a new podcast feed available too, you can subscribe to it here – and it works with Apple’s iTunes!
Related posts:
Podcasting – great advice
001 – Community Podcast – Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG
002 – Community Podcast – Ravi Nar – VistaSquad
003 – Community Podcast – Guy Smith-Ferrier – DotNetDevNet
004 – Community Podcast – Barry Carr, Gary Short, Hamish Hughson – North East of Scotland User Group
005 – Community Podcast – GeekDinner/DDD5 – Adrian Sutcliffe
006 – Community Podcast – DDD5 – Mike Scott – Gary Short
007 – Community Podcast – GeekDinner/DDD5 – Four Cool Guys
Technorati Tags: Ben Hall, Chris Gaskall, NxtGenUG, VBUG, podcast, Community, UK Community, UK IT Community, User Group, user groups, DDD5
In this, the seventh Community podcast, with no sign of James Bond, I spend a while chatting to four pretty cool guys – I’ll let them introduce themselves. This podcast was recorded at the DDD5 GeekDinner, at the Riverside in Reading…it was late, a few beers had been consumed! In this show, we plug DotNetRocks, discuss the merits of travelling to DDD and face-to-face meetings. Craig also demonstrates his total command of the Polish language…with apologies, of course, to Artur Wasnik.
Download the podcast here. Transcript to follow.
I have a new podcast feed available too, you can subscribe to it here – and it works with Apple’s iTunes!
Related posts:
Podcasting – great advice
001 – Community Podcast – Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG
002 – Community Podcast – Ravi Nar – VistaSquad
003 – Community Podcast – Guy Smith-Ferrier – DotNetDevNet
004 – Community Podcast – Barry Carr, Gary Short, Hamish Hughson – North East of Scotland User Group
005 – Community Podcast – GeekDinner/DDD5 – Adrian Sutcliffe
006 – Community Podcast – DDD5 – Mike Scott – Gary Short
Technorati Tags: David Vincent, Artur Wasnik, Mark Dicken, Tim Leung, James Bond, Polish, podcast, Community, UK Community, UK IT Community, User Group, user groups, DDD5, DotNetRocks
Much that I don’t like rocking the boat, I have to admit, I agree with Phil’s comments about excess MSDN language content DVDs. It seems that most of us here in the UK have an MSDN DVD mountain -Phil has a good photograph to demonstrate this!
I’d like to see the money that could be saved being ploughed into UK Community Events, perhaps being used to purchase 8 * HDD camcorders for community use? (such as this, or this, or this)
Technorati Tags: plip, msdn, waste, excessive, Community, Community Events, UK Community Events, dvd mountain, MSDN DVD mountain
In this, the sixth Community podcast, I spend a few minutes chatting to DDD5 attendee Mike Scott and DDD5 speaker Gary Short. We discuss the worth of DDD as an event and we think about getting AutoCAD out to redesign the Memphis room to make it bigger.
Download the podcast here. Transcript to follow.
I have a new podcast feed available too, you can subscribe to it here – and it works with Apple’s iTunes!
Related posts:
Podcasting – great advice
001 – Community Podcast – Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG
002 – Community Podcast – Ravi Nar – VistaSquad
003 – Community Podcast – Guy Smith-Ferrier – DotNetDevNet
004 – Community Podcast – Barry Carr, Gary Short, Hamish Hughson – North East of Scotland User Group
005 – Community Podcast – GeekDinner/DDD5 – Adrian Sutcliffe
Technorati Tags: Mike Scott, Gary Short, podcast, Community, UK Community, UK IT Community, User Group, user groups, DDD5
Author of .NET Internationalisation, Guy-Smith Ferrier will be coming to Scotland in October!
If you are interested in seeing any of the sessions below, please let us know by voting here. Session abstracts are available at the aforementioned link.
Microsoft Codename “Astoria”
10 Things To Know Before Internationalizing An Application
Internationalizing ASP.NET
Internationalizing ASP.NET AJAX
How To Give Great Presentations
Internationalizing WPF Applications
Automating Testing With Virtual Server 2005
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks
Replacing Reflection With Introspection
Introduction To Windows Workflow Foundation
Exception Handling Strategies In Windows Vista (Using Windows Error Reporting)
Planning Your Internationalization Strategy
Using ClickOnce and XBAPs To Deploy Windows Forms and WPF Applications
Deploying Internationalized Applications Using ClickOnce
Creating Custom Cultures
Writing Custom FxCop Rules
Technorati Tags: Guy Smith-Ferrier, Scottish Developers, Community, Developer Event, Astoria, Internationalisation, Intenationalization, Automating Testing, Virtual Server 2005, Introspection, Custom Cultures, FxCop, XBAP, ClickOnce, WPF, Windows Workflow Foundation, Visual Studio 2005, How To Give Great Presentations, dotneti18n, i18n, Exception Handling, Windows Vista