Hi,
Our next meetup is on next Wednesday 23rd May where Jeremie Laval will be talking to us about Mono for Mobile devices.
He’s going to discuss their platform for iOS and Android devices – MonoTouch and Mono for Android
The event is on in the usual spot – the Central Hotel on Exchequer St – on Wednesday 23rd May at 6.30.
The event is free as always thanks to our sponsors Beam, but don’t forget to register on EventBrite if you plan on attending so we have an idea of the numbers
See you there
Andrew
Note: We have updated this post since the event and moved it to the 5th of April since we were clashing with another interesting event : The Javascript Disruption.
On the 5th of April Daniel Elliot, a .NET dev, will tell us about his adventure in node.js, HTML 5 and WebStorm building an MMO at Dublin Gamecraft. This will be just a pub meetup (ie no projector) in the Library Bar at 6.30pm (same place as our usual meetings) but straight to the bar. We will have an Alt.net sign for those of you new to the group. Daniel won a prize for for Best Solo effort (no, he wasn’t the only one doing this solo 
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In conjunction with the Microsoft, we are going to hold a a Windows 8 Camp in Dublin on March 24th, 2012. (from 9am to 5pm) We will have a short lecture on Windows 8 and some getting started advice going on but the goal is to give you as much time to sling code as possible with experts on hand to help you through issues. More information and registration here
For our February meetup, David Walker will be taking us on a tour of RavenDB. He’ll cover the basics of RavenDB, what it is, and how you get started with it, and then quickly move on to discuss how it compares to using SQL and an ORM and some of the implications for how you model and implement you solutions to best make use of it’s strengths.
If there’s anything in particular that you’d like to see discussed or if you have any burning questions about RavenDB drop David an email in the mailing list and he’ll do his best to answer it on the day.
It’s on in the usual spot – the Central Hotel on Exchequer St – on Tuesday 21st Feb at 6.30.
Hope to see you all there
Hi all,
We’ve had to change our scheduled January talk on mobile development by James Hughes, as James’s wife is going into labour shortly! We wish them all the best. Hopefully we can reschedule his talk for some time later in the year, as we know there was a lot of interest.
In it’s place, we’re going to be discussing Semantic Versioning and Dependency Management. Same time, same place i.e. January 18th, 6.30 in the Central Hotel
Jacob will be introducing Semantic Versioning and talking about the concept of breaking changes in .NET. This will then continue into an overview of Nuget and how it allows you to simplify your dependency management as well as simplify the publication of packages for others to integrate into their projects. This part will also show how to integrate dependency management into your build automation process.
After this we’ll open it up to the floor for a general discussion on the topics. Will be very interesting to hear how others are managing the issue
Hope to see you all on Wednesday
In January we have James Hughes coming down from Belfast to give us a talk on all things mobile:
Mobile, How Do I Develop Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Mobile development is a bit like writing web apps back in the browser war days – full of decision anxiety, volatility and platform specific issues. There is no one true answer yet most people think there should be. This talk will cover the popular(ish) options from native all the way to web solutions (and all the mashup magic in-between). Oh yes and some opinion as well.
The talk is going to be about mobile development across multiple platforms and should appeal to all developers who are curious about the mobile space, regardless of their programming background and preference. Expect some lively discussion about experiences and frustrations 
We had a good turnout for the last talk, and since James is making the trip from Belfast we hope we can repeat the success.
Date is January 18th at 6.30 in the Central Hotel
Register on EventBrite.
By jacob | October 26, 2011
On Wednesday the 23rd of November we are planning to talk about REST and ASP.NET MVC. As usual it will take place in Central Hotel in Dublin City Center. Note that the time is 6:30PM this time.
You can sign up at EventBrite.
Many websites claim to be RESTful when they use a pretty URL structure. ASP.NET MVC makes it very easy to set up a website with pretty URLs and return web pages or JSON. But REST is more than simply keeping your site structure clean and returning JSON. This session will go through some simple changes that makes it possible for a an ASP.NET MVC site to make it observe RESTful principles making it accessible both as web site and a web service. The changes will tie into a sample for writing LINQ queries directly to a RESTful service.
See you there, and don’t forget if there is a topic you want covered in the following meetup talk to us either in person or through the discussion group
On Wednesday the 12th of October we are meeting up at 7pm in the Central Hotel
For October we are trying a slightly different approach
- Vim the basics, plus a little more.. By Cormac McGuire
Last year a programmer friend of mine told me she was using vim to do all her development. I couldn’t understand why anyone would do that to themselves. Surely black screens for coding were for the 80s. Then I learned how to use it…..
Vim is fast, easy to use once you understand it, massively configurable and perhaps most importantly available on pretty much every *nix and linux server out there.
I’ll be showing the basics of vim, what the modes are and how they work. How to insert copy, paste and navigate from the comfort of your keyboard. We’ll also look at how to get your vim looking and feeling the way you like it. Vim also has a surprising amount of plugins. I’ll show you how to install these and pimp out your vim.
- Code Kata: Grzegorz Caban will be driving the String Calculator Code Kata.
See you there, and don’t forget if there is a topic you want covered in the following meetup talk to us either in person or through the discussion group
Hi all:
September wont be an average month:
Make sure you register as spaces are limited
- With Ruby Ireland and Python Ireland we organized bringing Alvaro Videla (co author of Rabbbit Mq in action) for a talk about Messaging Patterns with RabbitMq registration and more details here http://rabbitmq.eventbrite.com/
When 5th September 7pm
Where: Central Hotel
- Also on the 17th of september from 8AM (yes that early) with the other groups ( python ireland, javascript ireland and ruby Ireland) we have a code retreat check http://codingday.org for more detials
Thanks to the sponsors of both events for this:
Alphabetically
- Aveclabs (www.aveclabs.com)
- DemonWare (www.demonware.net)
- Python Ireland (www.python.ie)
- RenaissanceRe (http://renre.com/)
- Ruby Ireland (www.rubyireland.com)
- TreeMetrics (http://www.treemetrics.com/)
There might be more during the month… we ll keep you posted
Cheers
Andrea
Unfortunately we’ve had to cancel our July meetup. Sorry for the late notice. But we’ll be back in August!
In the meantime, please check out our Google Moderator site and vote on the talks you want to hear or add proposals of your own
Thanks
UPDATE: Sorry, but we’ve had to cancel this meetup. We’ll be back in August!
Our next meetup will be on 20th July at the Central Hotel on Exchequer St where we’ll be discussing some of the pain points around dependency management, and how NuGet and a little ILMerge can help out.
Some topics we’ll be covering:
- NuGet basics
- Creating your own NuGet packages
- Setting up your own NuGet package source
- CI integration
- Semantic Versioning and how NuGet can facilitate
- Limiting diamond dependency problems with ILMerge
Hope to have a discussion also about how others are managing continuous CI builds and versioning.
Event is free as always, but please let us know if you plan on attending by registering here
Hope to see you there!
