Shropshire Dev Net

So you have decided to break up that monolithic application into services, after all it worked for Amazon, right? Perhaps you want to embrace the DevOps model, perhaps you want to scale your development. But just how do all those services talk to each other, and how do you build a UI on top of them?... [More]

Client side development in the browser is becoming more and more important. Clients expect highly interactive applications that respond quickly to changes. To manage this developers have to cope with the demands of JavaScript. While jQuery is a fantastic tool, sometimes it feels too low-level and ma... [More]

If you believe the blog and twittersphere we're all writing sleek well designed, SOLID, test covered, behaviour driven, pluggable, perfomant, immutable, asynchronous node.js in sharded erlang on our ubuntu phones. If you aren't then apparently you're some form of knuckle dragging neanderthal. But gu... [More]

In a demo packed session, Matt will show all the exciting new features of Windows Phone 8. Starting with an overview of the platform and why you may be interested in developing for it, he'll then cover the key new features: multi-resolution support; notifications; camera "lenses"; app to app communi... [More]

Mark Rendle, speaker, MVP and author of Simple.Data and Simple.Web is back to talk about TypeScript, the language for application-scale JavaScript development - [http://www.typescriptlang.org/] Mark will be discussing the impact of TypeScript to you as a developer and particularly as a member of a ... [More]

  Don't panic, its Phil Winstanley talking about Lions and tigers and hackers.. In recent months there has been massive media focus on the Stuxnet and Flame Cyber weapons, malware is an increasing issue and industrial espionage is occurring every day throughout the UK against... [More]

Wax on, wax off... We're gonna run a code dojo, organised by Sensei Martin Evans - 10th dan grand master in "No Can Do"! All attendees are invited to take part in a number of exercises in coding, refactoring and test-first development. The format of the event is still being worked out but more i... [More]

In this session we will explore the key concepts of new 'HTML5' WebSockets standard, looking at its implementation on both the client and server, before moving on to look at the use of SignalR for connectivity and RPC between server and client, looking at both browser and alternative client implemen... [More]

Please note the change of date When Fujitsu decided to launch it's Windows 8 tablet at the Microsoft World Partner Conference in Toronto, it seemed like a good idea to use it as an opportunity to showcase their application development capability and Windows Azure expertise with a native Windows 8 t... [More]

Richard Costall - Silverlight MVP and Co-Founder of the NextGen User Group visits the Shire with tales of his foray into MVC with some tips, tricks and best practices learnt while working with MVC/Razor. This highly regarded speaker has delivered this talk around the country to rave reviews. If you... [More]