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?  In this session we will look at the event driven architecture approach and give you an understanding of how we use messaging to communicate, just what we are communicating about, and how to build a composite UI. Ian Cooper has over 20 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys, Beazley and Huddle delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of OO, SOA, EDA, CQRS and Agile. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group.  

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 maybe needs something layered on top. One such layering is knockout.js. This provides an MVVM programming model for the browser. This talk looks briefly at the basis for MVVM and then into the details of knockout.js. We will cover the data-binding that is at the heart of this toolkit looking for example at how knockout does data updates and computed values. We will also see how knockout can work with your server-side coding. Kevin has been involved in software development for 30 years. Starting out at university on DEC 20s and graduating through mainframes and onto all the versions of Windows. Kevin divides his time between teaching, consultancy and getting his hands dirty with real coding in the real world. Kevin's recent roles involve work as a Technical Architect at ICS systems and at Confused.com where he was responsible for the design and implementation of the new public web site driving 1.6 million quotes through the system in the first month of operation. Kevin's primary areas of expertise are patterns and enterprise architectures in particular web application design and implementation using Model-View-Controller.  

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 guess what? Codebases exist well after the high paid consultants abandon their half baked designs. The majority of codebases are ugly, broken and damn scary to work with and the majority of software development is carried out on those codebases! In this session you'll be joining Johnno Nolan in dissecting and discussing legacy code and with any luck, making some of it better too. Laptops preferred. Language agnostic. Opinions required from developers of all skill levels.   NOTE:- Given the nature of this event, The Wrekin Housing Trust  have very kindly agreed to allow us to hold this event in their big meeting room at their offices in Telford. Furthermore, to get the most from this session, it will start at 18:30 and run until 21:30. Don't forget: different venue, different time! Contact Martin if you've any questions regarding this event      

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 communication; NFC; maps; speech; and in-app-purchase.   A seasoned mobile developer, who now works as a freelancer specialising in Windows Phone apps, Matt is also a recognised community leader and spends time organising 2 user groups plus regularly speaks at many others.   Online Ticketing for Matt Lacey On Windows Phone 8 powered by Eventbrite

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 development team, including the following: The language, or the extra syntax TypeScript adds to JavaScript; TypeScript tooling for Visual Studio; TypeScript in Windows 8 Store apps; Using TypeScript outside Visual Studio and .NET; A look at the TypeScript ecosystem that is already appearing; Appendix A: The Bad Parts If you're working on a JavaScript project of any real size or scope, you owe it to yourself to at least evaluate TypeScript and see what it can offer your team. This talk will get you started. Marks career in software design and development spans three decades and more programming languages than he cares to remember. C# has been his favourite language pretty much since the first public beta, when you had to write the code in a text editor and compile it on the command line.     Online Ticketing for Mark Rendle On TypeScript powered by Eventbrite  

  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 companies like yours, and you probably don't even know it's happening. In this fun, relaxed yet terrifying session we'll explore the cyber landscape, the reality that we're now facing and what you can realistically do about it.      

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 info will be posted here during the run up to the event. All attendees will get to: Huddle around a laptop Write some code Probably get a round of applause when you get your code to build Watch other people write code Finish the night knowing a bit more than you did when you arrived!  I've enabled comments on this page in case you wish to ask questions prior to the event       

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 implementations.  The session will discuss the relative merits of both technologies, and look at how SignalR can give the best of both worlds.   Chris Alcock is a software developer and architect working on the Microsoft .NET stack, plying his trade in the tourism sector.  Chris also maintains the daily .NET news link blog The Morning Brew which aims to be a reputable source for .NET news across the Microsoft and Alt.NET worlds.   

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 touch-centric line-of-business application. Steve will share his experiences in building Fujitsu's first Windows 8 application and share some tips and pitfalls, including integration with Windows Azure using the ASP.NET MVC 4 WebAPI. Steve Morgan (pictured on his daily commute) is the Chief Architect in Fujitsu's Global Windows Azure Centre of Excellence. He's not supposed to be allowed access to code any more, but as a dedicated developer since the age of 12 and .NET evangelist since v1 was in Beta, he refuses to ditch Visual Studio for PowerPoint on anything more than an occasional basis.  

Aaron Gartside and Steve Moran from Greenfield IT Recruitment have stepped up to the plate to take on all comers while discussing the ins, outs and tantrums involved in getting a developer their "dream job"* They'll talk through the complete end-to-end developer placement lifecycle from first contact with an employer, the cv matching process (including recognising the difference between Java and JavaScript), setting up interviews through to the final call on your start day to make sure you made it in ok. Come and be part of a unique event and gain a useful insight into what happens to your cv after you hit "send".Expect banter, beer and pizza and be part of something unique. *tfn