Slides and code from DDDSW

I’ve popped my slides and code on my sky drive, they can be downloaded from here:

I had an excellent time, and really enjoyed giving the talk, as well as going to the other talks :)  Guy and the team deserve every kudos going for putting on such an excellent event!  Hopefully I’ll be back next year :)

Upcoming talks and sessions

So I didn’t make it into DDD Scotland either, again the competition was fierce! Worried? Me? Not at all! I’ve currently got 3 sessions submitted to DDD South West! MUHAHAHAHAAA! As before I’ve submitted my intro to PRISM and intro to Workflow 4.0, but this time I’ve also added in a new Unity based session. So vote for me! I’ll get into DDD eventually! :D

In other news I’ve got a few talks lined up at the GL.NET and VBUG User Groups. The dates are:

24th May VBUG Portsmouth – Introduction to PRISM

5th June DDD South West – Hopefully I’ll get in!

16th June VBUG Bristol – Introduction To Workflow

? September GL.NET – Unity & IoC (link and better name to follow)

So what about NxtGenUG Southampton I hear you cry! Well we’ve got a cracking line up coming up over the coming months. Tonight we’ve got Neil Robbins coming down from the big smoke to do his talk on Document Databases.

Then on the 15th April we join in the UK Tech Days launch festivities with our own Richard Costal talking about Silverlight 4, and have a special guest from Microsoft joining us. Details to follow on the special guest!

On the 27th May we have all round Guru Liz Keogh joining us to talk about BDD. This should prove to be an excellent session, because if you have any examples you’d like Liz to apply BDD during the session then submit them to me via email me at JohnMc@NxtGenUG.net and she’ll select the best ones.

Then on 24th June we’ve got Phil Pursglove coming down to discuss Microsoft’s exciting new Velocity technology.

An absolutely cracking line up I’m sure you’re agree! In fact what are you waiting for?! Go register now! :D

DDD8 & DDDScotland

So I didn’t get any sessions into DDD8, which isn’t surprising considering the number of excellent sessions that have been proposed this year.  But it does mean that I get to go to all the sessions I want to and not have to worry about speaking :)

But I’m not out of the running yet, as I have submitted the same sessions to DDD Scotland, so there is still every chance one of my sessions will get voted in.  The voting for DDD Scotland opened today, so go vote for my sessions now! ;)

The voting link is http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/scotland2010/Users/VoteForSessions.aspx.

DDD8 Voting open!

Voting has opened for DDD8, so pop over there now and vote!  http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ddd8/Users/VoteForSessions.aspx

I’ve put in 3 sessions this time:

Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0

Introduction to PRISM

PRISM and MEF, Can they be friends

So if you’re interested in seeing any of these, vote for me! ;)  I’ve also submitted the same sessions for DDD Scotland in May.

PRISM Assault Course and Julys event at Southampton NxtGen

Yesterday I passed the WPF MCTS, YAY! One of the reaons I wanted to get this done is to help me with the PRISM Assault Course I'm currently putting together with Peter Cook (who's blog can be seen here). If there's an area of PRISM you'd be interested in seeing, drop me an email or leave a comment and we'll see if we can work it into the agenda.

We're currently tracking down a venue and sorting out the agenda, but we hope to be kicking off the event in either August or Septemeber. Further details to follow :)

Also this month at NxtGenUG Southampton on the 16th (July) we're be hosting Mike Ormonds ASP.NET 4.0 talk, which promises to be damn interesting as it will be covering all the new exciting areas of the upcoming release.

We're also be having a nugget from Mark Heath on managed Audio wrappers in in .Net.

You can register for the event here.

Slides for my PRISM-tation

Here are the slides for my Introduction to PRISM session that I given at Birmingham and Southampton.

The code examples are to follow.

Thanks to everyone who attended! All comments welcome :)

UPDATE - The code is now up as well :)

Upcoming talks at Southampton & my talks around the country

Next month (14th May) I’m going to be doing a session on the PRISM (Composite WPF & Silverlight). This session will give an introduction to PRISM and give examples of how to use it various excellent features :) Further details and registration can be found here.

I then travel up to Birmingham on the 9th June to bring my PRISM talk to the Brum NxtGen crowd. Further details and registration can be found here. So if you miss the Southampton one in May, come on up to Brum!

On the 18th June we have our excellent friend Guy Smith-Ferrier coming down to do a talk on Internationalising Silverlight. Internationalisation is Guys speciality, so this should be an excellent talk! We’ve also hopefully got a members nugget! Further details and registration can be found here.

Then on the 16th July we complete our visits from the MS DPE team with Mike Ormond talking on ASP.NET 4.0. He’ll be covering such sexy things as AJAX.NET, MVC and Dynamic Data. An excellent speaker with an excellent topic, it should be cracking! Further details and registration can be found here.

In August I’ll be putting in an appearance at the Gloucestershire .Net User Group to do one of my Windows Workflow Foundation based talks. Date and detail to follow :)

Upcoming Sessions at NxtGenUG Southampton

We've got some really exciting sessions coming up in Southampton, so I thought I'd tell you about them.

First off, next week on the 19th Feb we've got Chris Hay coming down to do his talk on all things Azure. You can Register here.

Then on March 19th we have Ian Cooper coming down to do his excellent talk on Nhibernate. You can register here.

On April 16th we have Mike Taulty paying us a return visit, and doing a session on Parallel Extensions in .Net 4.0. You can regsiter here.

And Then I'll be doing a session on PRISM on May 14th. You can register here.

I think we've pretty much covered everyones tastes over the coming months, so if you're not already a member or been to one of our events before come along and check us out :)

DDD SouthWest sessions

I've just submitted 2 sessions for DDD South West, one on WF 4.0 which will be a variant on what I'm presenting at Guy Smith Ferriers Dot Net Dev Net group next Tuesday. Here's the blurb:

A lap around WF 4.0

WF 4.0 was announced at PDC 08, and includes some very sexy new features. We'll take a spin through some of the new features including custom activity creation and WCF intergration to see how WF has evolved.

The second is on PRISM which will be completely new and shiny for DDD South West. Here's the blurb:

Come see my PRISM-tation

PRISM is the latest incarnation of the Composite Application Guidance from the MS Patterns and Practices team. The guidance allows you to build extensible application quickly and easily in either WPF or Silverlight. In this session I'll show you how easy it is to build a WPF application and then extend it with PRISM.

Hopefully one of them will get accepted :)

: UPDATE :

My wife has very kindly pointed out that this is actually our wedding anniversary and her 30th B'day weekend. OOPS! So I won't be going, thank god I didn't forget otherwise that would be really stereotypical and embarrassing! :P