This weekend I attended and presented two sessions at DDD South West.  Thank you to everyone who attended my sessions and the organisers for hosting the event, if you have any questions then please let me know. Slides and code for the two sessions can be found on the posts below.

Creating Extensible applications using MEF

http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2009/05/nxtgenug-cambridge-creating-extendable.html

Dynamic Languages and .NET

http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2009/05/dynamic-languages-and-net-developer-day.html

Labels: Community, DDD, DDDSW

Tonight I gave a slightly modified version of my MEF presentation at NxtGenUG in Cambridge. Thank you to everyone who attended. Slides and code available below. I’ll be repeating the same session, or at least based on feedback, at DDD South West on Saturday.

Download code: Code.zip

The MVC Sample application which I mentioned but didn’t show was taken from http://blogs.msdn.com/hammett/archive/2009/04/23/mef-and-asp-net-mvc-sample.aspx

Labels: MEF, NxtGenUG

Over the past month Ian Cooper, Alan Dean, Sebastian Lambla, Michelle Flynn and I have been discussing the next Alt.Net.UK conference. We feel its time for another conference and this year we are doing it slightly differently.

The plan is:

Friday 31 July Evening 6pm-9pm: Alt.Net Beers: Yes we are integrating Seb's alt.net event to warm you up with a chance to relax with like-minded individuals @ 82 Dean Street, London, W1D 3HA, United Kingdom (Tequila)

Saturday 1 August Day 9am-5pm: Open Space Coding: Alan Dean's Open Space Coding Day event joins our weekend. the emphasis is on writing code over jawing @ 36 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9EU, United Kingdom (Conchango)

Sunday 2 August Day 9am-5pm: AltNetConf: Open Space discussion about the topics that have grabbed you today. Be prepare to be surprised @ 36 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9EU, United Kingdom (Conchango)

REGISTRATION: Opens 13:00 on Tuesday 12th May – Visit www.altnetuk.com for more information.  You don’t need to attend all three events but if you can – that is great! Simply let us know which ones you can\can’t attend so we can plan numbers accordingly.

REGISTRATION UPDATE: As you may have noticed, registration is not open :(  Don’t worry – instead it opens 13:00 on Friday 15th May (Tomorrow!).

A huge thank you to our hosts, sponsors and supporters who have made this possible. Times are hard but they are still willing to help which is great!! Please go check out what they do and the services they offer.

Our Hosts

Our Sponsors

Our Supporters

Any questions, please let one of us know!

Labels: Alt.net, alt.net.uk, Community

This weekend I was in Glasgow presenting my ‘dynamic languages and .NET’ presentation at DeveloperDay Scotland. I demonstrated how you can take advantage of IronRuby as a language, but also how you could host the DLR within your own application to enhance your feature set. I had a great time and the conference was a great success. A massive thank you to Colin Mackay and the others for organising the event, as well as everyone who attended my session.

Slides can be found below, hosted via SlideShare. Code samples can be downloaded here. Photos can be found here.

I was also involved in the Database Testing panel. Very interesting discussion on how to test databases, thank you to everyone who attend the discussion.

One slight disappointment, Gary Short left before giving his IronSmalltalk grok talk - http://www.flickr.com/photos/colinangusmackay/3496808871/

Next up, DDD South West.

Labels: DDD, DDS, DLR, IronRuby