We are trying something different for our November meetup, our first lightning talk and open discussion event! If you are working on something exciting, been working with a new framework, or even just found something cool you want to show it off, now’s your chance to share and talk about! There will be of course the pizza and drinks.
Thanks to our volunteers we'll have talks about Azure Cognitive Services, Visual Recognition with C# and Python, Google Flutter, Productivity with Code Snippets, and a .NET Micro controller (Meadow F7).
We are trying something different for our November meetup, our first lightning talk and open discussion event! If you are working on something exciting, been working with a new framework, or even just found something cool you want to show it off, now’s your chance to share and talk about! Please get in touch if you are interested in giving a short talk/demo (around 10-15min) please get in touch. There will be of course the pizza and drinks.
Some say that he can answer any question before it’s even been asked it, and that he has already written the next 5 version of C# in Depth, the books are apparently locked in a Redmond vault and will be used to create the official specifications. All I know, is that he’ll be in Aberdeen on 2nd October and you’ll not want to miss this Meetup!
That’s right we have Jon Skeet coming to Aberdeen on Wednesday 2nd October to talk, in depth, about C#8! And with .NET Core 3.0 launching just days before at .NET Conf, the 3 day virtual event co-organised by the .NET community and Microsoft, there will be plenty to talk about at this meetup so you'll hopefully be able to join us.
Also thanks to our sponsor, Brightree, you can grab a drink and few slices of pizza so make sure you turn up on time, and of course if you have any special dietary requirements please send me a message and let me know.
Speaker Bio - Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet is a senior software engineer at Google. He studied mathematics and computer science at Cambridge, is a recognised authority in Java and C#, and maintains the position of top contributor to Stack Overflow.
Agenda – Wednesday 2nd October 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival, registration, pizza and drinks
1825 - 1840: Introduction & Welcome
1840 - 1940: C# 8 with Jon Skeet
1940 - 2015: Wrap up & Catch up
Some say that he can answer any question before it’s even been asked it, and that he has already written the next 5 version of C# in Depth, the books are apparently locked in a Redmond vault and will be used to create the official specifications. All I know, is that he’ll be in Aberdeen on 2nd October and you’ll not want to miss this Meetup!
That’s right we have Jon Skeet coming to Aberdeen on Wednesday 2nd October to talk, in depth, about C#8! And with .NET Core 3.0 launching just days before at .NET Conf, the 3 day virtual event co-organised by the .NET community and Microsoft, there will be plenty to talk about at this meetup so you'll hopefully be able to join us.
Also thanks to our sponsor, Brightree, you can grab a drink and few slices of pizza so make sure you turn up on time, and of course if you have any special dietary requirements please send me a message and let me know.
Speaker Bio - Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet is a senior software engineer at Google. He studied mathematics and computer science at Cambridge, is a recognised authority in Java and C#, and maintains the position of top contributor to Stack Overflow.
Agenda – Wednesday 2nd October 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival, registration, pizza and drinks
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: C# 8 with Jon Skeet
1930 - 2000: Wrap up
We will be back at the TechHub for this talk and continuing our web framework theme.
In this talk we'll be introduce to a front-end framework called Aurelia, and show with examples how it stands out from the ever-growing crowd of JavaScript frameworks. We'll look at the key principles of Aurelia, and demonstrate how they influence the application code in a positive way.
In the demos you will see how to set up a simple application and how to make use of the capabilities of Aurelia. Similarities to XAML make Aurelia very accessible for .NET developers, and you'll hopefully be convinced that for any front-end software engineer, learning Aurelia is worth the investment.
Speaker Bio - Mikko Vuorinen
Mikko is a software engineer at Codify, with passion for web throughout the stack of both simple and complex distributed systems.
He's an advocate of user-centered design and agile methodologies, and strives to keep software evolving. Over several past years he's learned few things about SPA frameworks through work, private projects, by writing a blog, and interacting with the dev community.
Agenda - Thursday 15th August 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival, registration, pizza and drinks
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Aurelia with ASP.NET
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
We will be back at the TechHub for this talk and continuing our web framework theme.
In this talk we'll be introduce to a front-end framework called Aurelia, and show with examples how it stands out from the ever-growing crowd of JavaScript frameworks. We'll look at the key principles of Aurelia, and demonstrate how they influence the application code in a positive way.
In the demos you will see how to set up a simple application and how to make use of the capabilities of Aurelia. Similarities to XAML make Aurelia very accessible for .NET developers, and you'll hopefully be convinced that for any front-end software engineer, learning Aurelia is worth the investment.
Speaker Bio - Mikko Vuorinen
Mikko is a software engineer at Codify, with passion for web throughout the stack of both simple and complex distributed systems.
He's an advocate of user-centered design and agile methodologies, and strives to keep software evolving. Over several past years he's learned few things about SPA frameworks through work, private projects, by writing a blog, and interacting with the dev community.
Agenda - Thursday 15th August 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Aurelia with ASP.NET
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
Some say that he can answer any question before it’s even been asked it, and that he has already written the next 5 version of C# in Depth, the books are apparently locked in a Redmond vault and will be used to create the official specifications. All I know, is that he’ll be in Aberdeen on 2nd October and you’ll not want to miss this Meetup!
That’s right we have Jon Skeet coming to Aberdeen on Wednesday 2nd October to talk, in depth, about C#8!
Speaker Bio - Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet is a senior software engineer at Google. He studied mathematics and computer science at Cambridge, is a recognised authority in Java and C#, and maintains the position of top contributor to Stack Overflow.
Agenda – Wednesday 2nd October 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: C# 8 with Jon Skeet
1930 - 2000: Wrap up
We will be back at the TechHub for this talk and continuing our web framework theme.
In this talk we'll be introduce to a front-end framework called Aurelia, and show with examples how it stands out from the ever-growing crowd of JavaScript frameworks. We'll look at the key principles of Aurelia, and demonstrate how they influence the application code in a positive way.
In the demos you will see how to set up a simple application and how to make use of the capabilities of Aurelia. Similarities to XAML make Aurelia very accessible for .NET developers, and you'll hopefully be convinced that for any front-end software engineer, learning Aurelia is worth the investment.
Speaker Bio - Mikko Vuorinen
Mikko is a software engineer at Codify, with passion for web throughout the stack of both simple and complex distributed systems.
He's an advocate of user-centered design and agile methodologies, and strives to keep software evolving. Over several past years he's learned few things about SPA frameworks through work, private projects, by writing a blog, and interacting with the dev community.
Agenda - Thursday 15th August 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Aurelia with ASP.NET
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
This will be the our first event in newly opened ONE Tech Hub at Schoolhill, as well as the discussion below you'll learn a little more about the Hub and how they are looking to support the tech community in Aberdeen.
Introduction to Vue.js with ASP.NET
Vue.js is progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces for the web. In this talk we’ll take a look at the basic concepts of Vue starting with the obligatory Hello World and go on to build out components and introducing additional modules before integrating our Vue application into an ASP.NET core project for a better, seamless, developer experience.
Speaker Bio - Douglas Cameron
Doug is a senior software engineer at Brightree and has over 15 years of experience working across a number of Microsoft technologies. Despite being an organiser for Aberdeen Developers .NET User Group he does not consider himself a technical speaker, and does not enjoy writing personal bios, but hopes to inspire other group members to volunteer a topic for discussion at future events.
Agenda - Thursday 20th June 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Introduction to Vue.js with ASP.NET
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
This will be the our first event in soon to be opened ONE Tech Hub at Schoolhill, as well as the discussion below you'll learn a little more about the Hub and how they are looking to support the tech community in Aberdeen.
Introduction to Vue.js with ASP.NET
Vue.js is progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces for the web. In this talk we’ll take a look at the basic concepts of Vue starting with the obligatory Hello World and go on to build out components and introducing additional modules before integrating our Vue application into an ASP.NET core project for a better, seamless, developer experience.
Speaker Bio - Douglas Cameron
Doug is a senior software engineer at Brightree and has over 15 years of experience working across a number of Microsoft technologies. Despite being an organiser for Aberdeen Developers .NET User Group he does not consider himself a technical speaker, and does not enjoy writing personal bios, but hopes to inspire other group members to volunteer a topic for discussion at future events.
Agenda - Thursday 20th June 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Introduction to Vue.js with ASP.NET
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
If there's one challenge with conversational interfaces and bots, that has to be how effortless and smooth the interaction between
the user and the bot has to be.
The user shouldn't even feel like they're conversing with a program.
That's why thinking about how to handle the conversation flow when building bots is an essential task for developers.
In this talk, we will go through how to manage the conversation flow with Microsoft Bot Framework and dialogs.
Speaker Bio - Rabeb Othmani
Rabeb is a developer advocate at Nexmo focusing on cloud communication APIs and has experience building mobile and desktop applications while focusing on producing rich user experience.
Rabeb has presented at many prestigious software conferences such as VSLive, DevSum, Oredev, African Women In Tech Conference, NDC London and Women Who Code Connect, and is no stranger to user groups having spoken at groups in the UK and US.
Rabeb is passionate about cutting edge technologies and the impact technology has on people. She also advocates to bring more women into engineering an organises the Women Who Code Bristol meetup and has helped organise technology events and conferences.
Agenda - Wednesday 27th February 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Managing the Conversation Flow within a Bot
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
How to Create a System of Immutable Infrastructure
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When applying updates or configuration to a server, it can be a lengthy and troublesome process, which may result in changes having to be reverted. In this talk, we will look at how we can use tools like Packer, Chocolatey and Terraform to help create a system for deploying Immutable Infrastructure.
Switching to a system of Immutable Infrastructure means that new machines are provisioned and swapped out with existing machines, which can then be destroyed.
With this system, machine updates and configuration are done as part of the build process, rather than after the server has been provisioned.
This helps to reduce inconsistencies between servers, and as a result, improves the reliability of the deployment process.
Speaker Bio - Gary Ewan Park
Gary has over 10 years experience working as a developer on technologies such as ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, SharePoint, Silverlight, and many others. Throughout his career, Gary has always looked to see how things can be automated, using the mantra that if you do the same thing more than twice, it is time for automation. In 2017 he was awarded a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. His day job has him working for Chocolatey Software, Inc.
In his spare time, Gary contributes to a number of Open Source projects including Chocolatey, Boxstarter, Cake, Cake-Contrib, GitVersion, and GitReleaseManager.
Gary is a founding member of the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group, that holds monthly sessions on any topic related to the Microsoft .Net Technology Stack.
Location: TBC
Agenda - Thursday 24th January 2019
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: How to Create a System of Immutable Infrastructure
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
After the success of our “.NET and Natter” in the summer I thought it would be good to have a Christmas Catch Up as our last event for 2018. No agenda for this event, just a catch up and general geek out on all things .NET, some food and a drink or two. Venue will be BrewDog Castlegate and we have a space booked from 18.00 but please turn up when you can.
Christmas jumpers completely optional, but there might be a prize for the geekiest themed jumper. Please keep your RSVP up to date as we will be limiting number to ensure a suitable venue.
After the success of our “.NET and Natter” in the summer I thought it would be good to have a Christmas Catch Up as our last event for 2018. No agenda for this event, just a catch up and general geek out on all things .NET, some food and a drink or two. Venue to be confirmed depending on numbers (open for suggestions) but it will be in the city so might provide you an opportunity to grab those last minute presents on the way.
Christmas jumpers completely optional, but there might be a prize for the geekiest themed jumper. Please keep your RSVP up to date as we will be limiting number to ensure a suitable venue.
After the success of our “.NET and Natter” in the summer I thought it would be good to have a Christmas Catch Up as our last event for 2018. No agenda for this event, just a catch up and general geek out on all things .NET, some food and a drink or two. Venue to be confirmed depending on numbers (open for suggestions) but it will be in the city so might provide you an opportunity to grab those last minute presents on the way.
Christmas jumpers completely optional, but there might be a price for the geekiest themed jumper. Please keep your RSVP up to date as we will be limiting number to ensure a suitable venue.
"How I Made £500 Betting During Royal Ascot Week And What That Can Teach You About AI" should be the title for November's meeting but unfortunately meetup doesn't allow for longer titles.
We'll have Gary Short introduce us to some serious AI concepts and demonstrate how to build a model used to predict which horse will win a race explaining the weaknesses along with techniques to mitigate against them along the way.
Speaker Bio - Gary Short
Gary Short is a Data Solution Architect for Microsoft. He specialises in machine learning and “big data” on the Azure Platform, but has an interest in data science, in all forms, especially computational linguistics and social network analysis. Gary also loves creating clickbait headlines in his spare time.
Agenda - Thursday 22nd November 2018
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Artificial Intelligence for Fun And Profit
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
For the last 4 years, DigitalOcean (in conjunction with GitHub) have been running an event called Hacktoberfest. It is a month long event where you are encouraged to contribute to Open Source Projects (hosted on GitHub) and in return you get some cool swag (typically a t-shirt and some stickers). All you have to do is submit 5 pull requests to projects on GitHub during the month of October. Registration for the event is completely free. More information on this event can be found here: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group as pleased to announce that they will be supporting this years Hacktoberfest by inviting a small number of people to join them at the Codify offices for an evening of Open Source Hacking. The idea is simple, whether you are a seasoned veteran of contributing to Open Source Projects or you are doing it for the first time, come along to this event, come along to see how things are done.
There will be a short introduction on some "best practices" in terms of getting started with Open Source, and after that it will be a case of getting "stuck in" and creating some pull requests, which will get you on your way to getting some free swag.
In addition to the Hacktoberfest goodies, it is also possible to get your hands on a limited edition Microsoft t-shirt by contributing a pull request to a Microsoft Repository. More information on this offer can be found here: https://open.microsoft.com/2018/09/18/hacktoberfest-2018-microsoft/
Due to the size of the venue, we are intentionally keeping the number of spaces quite low. Can I ask that you only register for the event if you intend on completing the Hacktoberfest event.
Agenda
17:30 - Doors Open
17:45 to 18:00 - General Introduction
18:00 to 18:30 - Workshop: how to contribute to open source
18:30 to 20:00 - Hacking on some open source projects together
Please ensure you keep your RSVP up to date and if you have any questions, comments, or special requirements (eg dietary or accessibility) please get in touch.
Please note, there is no parking at the venue but there is parking available at Golden Square, Denburn and Chapel Street.
What’s better than a free virtual conference all about .NET? A free virtual conference all about .NET in the company of awesome people of course!
Join us, in person, to watch the .NET Conf Day 1 Keynote and sessions at our first Aberdeen Developers .NET User Group watch party kindly hosted at Codify’s office.
We’ll be streaming the event live from 16:00, but don’t worry if you can’t join us for the Keynote as we’ll be tuned in all evening, just make sure you arrive before around 1830 if you want to grab some of the pizza! As well as pizza our hosts will kindly be providing some snacks and beverages throughout the session, thanks Team Codify!
Throughout the session we’ll also have some great stuff to give away, a .NET knowledge quiz, and of course there will be plenty of time to chat and catch up with friends, new and old!
Agenda
15:45 - Doors Open
16:00 to 21:00 - .NET Conf 2018!
18:30 - Pizza Time!
21:00 - Session Close
Please ensure you keep your RSVP up to date and if you have any questions, comments, or special requirements (eg dietary or accessibility) please get in touch.
Please note, there is no parking at the venue but there is parking available at Golden Square, Denburn and Chapel Street.
What's life like for a "full-stack" developer on the Microsoft stack these days? In this slide-light, code-and-questions-heavy session, Mark Allan will build an app from end to end to find out.
We'll set up a CosmosDB database to store our data, then use Azure Functions to process it and expose an API. Next we'll use modern reactive techniques with Reactive Extensions to connect everything up to our UI. For the demo we'll use Xamarin, but the same principles apply to any UI, whether web, mobile or desktop. Finally, just for fun, we'll instrument and deploy it using Visual Studio App Center.
Hopefully there’ll be something for everyone!
Speaker Bio
Mark is an Azure MVP and Xamarin Certified Developer based on the beautiful North Coast of Ireland. He's been a professional developer since the 1980s and freelance since 2000, working on a myriad of projects for everything from local startups and councils to multinational corporations and federal government departments. While something of a technology omnivore, particularly if it's new and shiny, he currently tends towards Xamarin and ReactJS front-ends sitting on top of scalable Azure services, using a functional and reactive approach. You can find him on Twitter, LinkedIn and most other places as MarkXA.
Mention blockchain and most folk will probably think more about cryptocurrencies and mention how they regret not buying a few dozen bitcoin back in 2011, but there is more to blockchain than missed millions and some funny named currencies. So, join us for an introduction into some of the core concepts of developing a smart contract on top of a blockchain demonstrated with a simple blockchain application.
This will not be concerned with crypto-economics, or price speculation, but will focus on the technical and development opportunities in the ecosystem. We will cover the general blockchain basics that are required to understand the challenges associated with developing for this platform. This will be demonstrated by showing you how to write and test a smart contract, and then deploy it to the Stratis blockchain.
Speaker Bio - Andy Watt
Andy started coding on a Commodore 64, and hasn't really stopped since. Early highlights of his coding career included wiling away time at school programming his TI-83 calculator to play Snake and Blackjack.
Andy has worked as a software engineer, developing technically innovative solutions for oil and gas applications and in 2017 Andy co-founded EdgeFund where he is able to combine many years of experience as a software engineer with a passion for crypto currency.
Agenda - Thursday 20th September 2018
1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Blockchain Development with C#
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw
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