Hi there
Our next meetup is on Wednesday 27th of April at 7pm in Trinity Capital Hotel
Sean and Gareth will be walking us through how they use IIS Express and Selenium to unit test the JavaScript in the enterprise application they are working on.
Please register
See you there
For the March meetup Alan McGovern will continue from Jeremie’s Mono talk last month and give us an overview of his experiences using C++ Interop for developing Moonlight. Afterwards, if we have time, we will go around the table and let people give a quick talk about their pet projects that for one reason or another is still stuck at the drawing board.
The meetup is on the 23rd and as usual the meetup will be at Trinity Capital Hotel on Pearse Street at 7 PM.
There is also a new list where we are collecting suggestions for talks. So if you have something that you want to hear about, then please let us know, so we can make future meetups as interesting as this one – http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=5be7e&t=5be7e.40&f=5be7e.171ff4
For organizational purposes please pick up a ticket. It’s free, but it’s nice to know how many will be there.
Bart de Smet is comming to Dublin this 14th of March, to the Radisson Blue
You can register for this event here
This is the event description:
Rx: your prescription to cure asynchronous programming blues
Asynchronous, event-driven “reactive” programming is way too hard in today’s world of development tools and frameworks. The huge amount of manual and error-prone plumbing leads to incomprehensible and hard to maintain code. As we reach out to services in the cloud, the desire for asynchronous computation is ever increasing, requiring a fresh look on the problems imposed by reactive programming. Centered around the concept of observable data sources, Rx provides a framework that takes care of the hard parts of reactive programming. Instead of focusing on the hard parts, you now can start dreaming about the endless possibilities of composing queries over asynchronous data sources, piggybacking on convenient LINQ syntax. In this session, we’ll cover the design philosophy of Rx, rooted on the deep duality between the interactive IEnumerable interface and the new reactive IObservable interface in .NET 4. From this core understanding, we’ll start looking at various combinators and operators defined over observable collections, as provided by Rx, driving concepts home by a bunch of samples. Finally, we’ll have a look at recent work done on the field of integration with the new C# 5.0 and VB 11.0 “async” features, including support for the “await” pattern and the IAsyncEnumerable interface. Democratizing asynchronous programming starts today. Don’t miss out on it!
Hi all:
Our next meetup is the Wednesday the 23rd of february at 7pm in Trinity Capital Hotel, where Jérémie Laval will be showing us how to contribute to Mono. If there are other lightening talks they will just happen spontaneously. Registration
On other news, we’ve been logo-less for too long, with the kind assistance of Jacob, we have now our new logo. Hope you like it 
(if you think you can do something else, please do send us your suggestion)
So our next meet up is in the Trinity Capital Hotel
Our Next meetup is on the 19th of January – 7pm in Trinity Capital Hotel
For Registration and more info http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1195193857
Agenda:
Jacob Reinmers will do a lightining talk on IISExpress
Damian Hickey will do a lightining talk on PSake, the powershell based build system
See you there
The past 14th of December, along with other user groups, we organized a Quiz “The quiz for techies that wanna read real good and do other stuff real good too!”
I hope everyone had as much fun as Declan ( who turned into a penguin for the occasion).
I hope I can get some more pics from that night, if you have some, send it my way.
So, since this is probably the last post of the year I want to wish you Happy Holidays!!! and hope next year is …. (fill the blanks with your wishes) For the group, I wish we keep meeting up and growing a really useful and encouraging community of Software Developers.
Next meetup will be 19th of January (tho I ll post later again about that) save the date 
All the Best.
Andrea Magnorsky (aka roundcrisis)
along with other user groups we are organizing this awesome occasion
“The quiz for techies that wanna read real good and do other stuff real good too!”
Tis the season to be jolly. Want a madcap techie twist to a pub quiz? We even have prizes for the winners, and even a raffle where proceeds go to Focus Ireland. Join people from Dublin ALT.NET, ILUG, Python Ireland, Ruby Ireland, TOG.ie, Ubuntu-ie (and more) for a night of laughter, fun and free food.
When: Tuesday, 14th December 2010 (19:00)
Where: Karma Stone, Wexford Street (formerly Cornerstone, and opposite DIT)
Registration:
Entry Rules:
This is a FREE event. Food will be provided, but you buy your own drinks.
Raffle: There will also be a raffle on the night, proceeds will go to Focus Ireland ( http://www.focusireland.ie )
Prizes thanks to our sponsors:
Venue and free food thanks to Karma Stone.
Thanks,
/// Andrea (Dublin ALT.NET), Declan (Ruby Ireland), Jefrey (TOG.ie), Mike (Ubuntu-ie), Vicky (Python Ireland)
Hi all:
Two events comming up.
This Wednesday the 17th of November at 7pm I m talking about CQRS/ES in our monthly meetup. I will go through and introduction, an example as we discover the benefits and problems when dealing with systems that use this pattern. Registration here
For a more entertaining event, Saturday the 20th of November we have Irish Open Spaces Coding Day IV (the last one this year) please do come along registration and topic suggestion thread here. People that are registered and attend have the chance to win a secret awesome prize [prize monetary value circles the 3EUR mark]
Our next meet up is in the Trinity Capital Hotel the 20th of October – 7pm
Please Register
Clive Foley will do a lightining talk on DSLs.
Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are part of every day life for developers. From SQL to HQL, make to ant and XAML to HTML there are literally loads of little languages helping to solve problems.
While DSLs are not new, interest in them is rising. Recently some industry leaders are starting to formalize patterns and practices around their development and use. Companies such as JetBrains and Intentional Software have released tools to aid in the design and development of DSLs.
DSLs are also apart of a new paradigm in software, namely language oriented programming which many believe will be the next major shift in software development. With language oriented programming, programmers make use of DSLs rather than general purpose languages
This talk will cover a number of points:
If you were at the last meeting you’ll know that we’ve been searching for the right venue for our regular monthly meetings. We started meeting almost 2 years ago and after changing venues several times it was becoming obvious that we were going to have to start thinking about paying for a room. Which brings me to the news.
We’re very pleased to announce that BEAM Financial Solutions have agreed to cover the cost of a room for the next twelve months. Venue is the Trinity Capital Hotel. On top of the room BEAM are also very kindly providing us with a projector for year.
If you’ve come to any of our meetings you’ll no doubt have heard of BEAM as several of our most active members work there. BEAM are a startup software company who are pioneering the development of financial trading solutions for the cloud. What’s more they’re currently looking for two more developers to add to their team so take a look at their careers page and give them a shout if you think you fit the bill.
