On Thursday 26th April 2012, Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group welcomed Colin Mackay for a talk entitled “Task Parallel Library”. Full details of the event can be found here.
If you were not able to attend you can see the slides below and you can also download them here.
Task Parallel Library
NOTE: The above slide deck was gratefully converted into the above format using SilverSlide by Mark Mann (@mark_mann), you can find his blog here. Thanks again Mark!
Also, as a gentle reminder, I am eager to collect as much feedback as possible for the event, so if you have not already done so, can you please fill in the survey here.
On Thursday 23rd February 2012, Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group welcomed Matt Lacey for a talk entitled “Getting Started with Windows Phone”. Full details of the event can be found here.
If you were not able to attend you can see the slides below and you can also download them here.
Getting Started with Windows Phone
NOTE: The above slide deck was gratefully converted into the above format using SilverSlide by Mark Mann (@mark_mann), you can find his blog here. Thanks again Mark!
Also, as a gentle reminder, I am eager to collect as much feedback as possible for the event, so if you have not already done so, can you please fill in the survey here.
On Thursday 24th November, Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group welcomed Gill Cleeren for two talks entitled “Windows Runtime and Metro Apps for Windows 8” and “Silverlight 5 for LOB Development”. Full details of the event can be found here.
If you were not able to attend you can see the slides below and you can also download them here, and here. In addition, the code that Gill showed during his presentation can be downloaded here.
Silverlight for LOB Development
Windows Runtime and Metro Apps for Windows 8
NOTE: The above slide deck was gratefully converted into the above format using SilverSlide by Mark Mann (@mark_mann), you can find his blog here. Thanks again Mark!
Also, as a gentle reminder, I am eager to collect as much feedback as possible for the event, so if you have not already done so, can you please fill in the survey here.
On Thursday 13th October, Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group welcomed Mark Rendle for two talks entitled “Functional Alchemy: Tricks to keep your C# Dry*”, and “How to manage your manager”. Full details of the event can be found here.
If you were not able to attend you can see the slides below and you can also download them here, and here. In addition, the spread sheet that Mark showed during the presentation can been downloaded here and the code that Mark was using can be found here.
Functional Alchemy: Tricks to keep your C# Dry*
How to manage your manager
NOTE: The above slide deck was gratefully converted into the above format using SilverSlide by Mark Mann (@mark_mann), you can find his blog here. Thanks again Mark!
On Thursday 25th August, Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group welcomed Jessica Meats for a talk entitled “SharePoint Online: The Good Bits and the Gaps”. Full details of this event can be found here.
If you were not able to attend you can see the slides below and you can also download them here.
NOTE: The above slide deck was gratefully converted into the above format using SilverSlide by Mark Mann (@mark_mann), you can find his blog here. Thanks again Mark!
If you were able to attend the event then if you could take the time to fill out the feedback questionnaire here we would be very grateful, thanks!
On Thursday 7th July, the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group was lucky enough to welcome Chris Eargle (@KodefuGuru), a Telerik Developer Evangelist from Columbia, South Carolina, to do a talk entitled “Secrets of a .Net Ninja”.
Due to the format of this presentation, primarily focused around code demonstrations, there was only an introductory set of slides, so I have not posted them here.
However, all of the code (and much, much more) that Chris talked through on the night is available at his CodePlex Project which you can find here. I am in the process of downloading the latest version as I type 
.
There was no messing around in this talk, we jumped straight into talking about:
- Private Member Inheritance
- Removing the use of Out Parameters
- Extension Method Refactoring
- Advanced use of LINQ, Lambdas and Anonymous Methods
There was a lot of content in this presentation, and there was certainly a lot of food for thought. The sample code helps in cementing how these techniques can be used in your day-to-day programming activities.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go, but some of the guys took Chris to the BrewDog bar for a round of Sink The Bismarck after the meeting, I hope he doesn’t miss his flight back home to the states today!
Big thanks to Chris for taking time to visit the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group.
NOTE: As some of you may have noticed, I have switched from using the #ADNUG hash tag to using #ADNUGUK on Twitter. This is due to the fact that there was a clash with the Austin Dot Net User Group, as well as the Adelaide Dot Net User Group, so if you are ever mentioning the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group can I ask you to use #ADNUGUK.
On Thursday 26th May, the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group was fortunate enough to welcome Gary Short (@garyshort) of DevExpress to do a talk entitled “Refactoring – Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask”.
If you were not able to attend the session you can find the slide deck from the presentation here, big thanks to Gary for giving us a copy of the slide deck. You can also check out the slides here:
NOTE: The above slide deck was gratefully converted into the above format using SilverSlide by Mark Mann (@mark_mann), you can find his blog here. Thanks again Mark!
The presentation was very well received and I am happy to say that outside of the Microsoft event, which we held back in November last year, attendance was the highest that it has ever been!!
The User Group now has over 75 registered members, and attendance at our meetings is averaging around the 20 people mark, which is far better than I ever thought it would be an I started out in this little adventure, so I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has been coming along! The User Group really would be nothing without you guys coming along!
As I mentioned on the night, I am planning on increasing the frequency of the meetings for the User Group. I have decided this for a number of reasons.
Firstly, I have had a lot of interest from speakers who would like to do talks at the User Group, and the bi-monthly cycle meant that I would have to put some speakers off until next year, which isn’t great.
Secondly, I think that a more regular meeting cycle keeps up the level of interest. Based on the show of hands by the attendees on the night, as well as speaking to some other Group Leaders, a regular monthly slot seems to make a lot of sense. If for some reason it doesn’t work for this User Group, then we can easily switch back.
First up for our new monthly slot is Chris Eargle (@KodefuGuru), a Telerik Developer Evangelist from Columbia, South Carolina, who, while over here to do other talks in the UK, is going to stop by Aberdeen and do a talk entitled “Secrets of a .Net Ninja”.
NOTE: As some of you may have noticed, I have switched from using the #ADNUG hash tag to using #ADNUGUK on Twitter. This is due to the fact that there was a clash with the Austin Dot Net User Group, as well as the Adelaide Dot Net User Group, so if you are ever mentioning the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group can I ask you to use #ADNUGUK.
Thanks again to Anthony Jones, who did an excellent introductory talk to Functional Programming on the 27th January 2011. Details of the event can be found here and Anthony has provided the source code that was used during the presentation which you can download from here.
If you have any follow up questions from the event, please get in touch, and I can pass on your details through to Anthony.