Last Saturday, the 11th Of September we had our 3rd IOSCD. It was great fun, the code , which is the whole purpose of the day, is all available here.
The sessions
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It was great to have some hardware to play with, people really seem to get a good kick out of that, there was a Netduino and two Lego NXT.
Some of the sessions included: Ruby on rails app for the book club assistance (called and_on_that_basis , no idea why), netdruino hacking with some sort of Rx , and then using Rx over the wire, finally i was working on something called Code Shapes.
Once Again thanks to Jetbrains for sponsoring the event (we gave away a license for one of their products ) and Enterprise Ireland for hosting it.
Just wanted to let everyone know about the third Irish Open Spaces Coding Day which is being held this coming Saturday 11th Sept from 11AM in the Enterprise Ireland office in East Point Business Park.
The idea is to just get together to work on something, anything, in an environment with other developers. Without the presure of providing business value, or any of the other things that we have to do for our day jobs. Basically coding for the fun of it. Which, for most of us, is the reason we got into programming in the first place. If you have some pet project you’ve been wanting to work on, come along and see if you can get some others to give you a hand and spend the day bashing out some code. Don’t worry if you don’t have a project to work on. You can always join someone else with something they’re doing.
Jetbrains have once again been very kind and given us a few licenses to give away on the day. And Microsoft are lending us a couple of Windows Phone 7 phones for people to play with. So if you’re into mobile app development it would be the perfect opportunity to see what you can do with these devices.
You can get more info at http://codingday.org and if you’re thinking of coming please register.
If you do have a project it might be a good idea to send a quick note to the list so anybody interested in helping out can get their machines set up ahead of time.
Thanks to Enterprise Ireland for hosting this event
Windows Phone 7 is launching shortly. Martha Rotter will introduce you to the new and unique platform while walking you through building phone applications and games from scratch using Visual Studio 2010 and Blend 4. We’ll also cover the new Windows Phone Marketplace, how to deploy applications, etc.
This is a 300-level talk and there are prizes and giveaways for both ALT.NET and MTUG Dublin members. We’ll also talk about the Ireland and Northern Ireland app-building contest and lab days so that you can test and deploy your Windows Phone 7 applications. If you have an app you’re working on and you’d like to try it out on the night, please let Martha know by e-mailing her at martharo@microsoft.com and she’ll take care of it.
Note: Some people I talked to about this were interested in actually playing around with a phone, there are going to be devices present on the day (none to give away, sorry) .
For registration please click here
On Wednesday the 18th of August at 7pm, in Trinity Capital Hotel Jérémie Laval , who I think works on Mono, will be presenting to us a talk on Parallel FX
Please register.
Abstract:
Multicore computer are now part of our everyday life. Most desktop and laptop machines out there bundle a dual-core processor, quad-core processor or even 8-cores processor by default. This multiplication of the number of core on the same chip is destined to become the way for microprocessor manufacturers to remain competitive.
However, developers were a bit left out in this process, having written sequential programs for ages whereas they were now required to change their mindset and parallelize their program to keep them efficient across new processor revisions which isn’t an easy step to take.
That’s why we now see the creation of framework designed to help programmers to take advantage of this new kind of processor architecture by hiding away the parallelization challenge under easier primitives that they are used to. ParallelFx is one of such framework for the Mono and .NET world. By providing several new parallel constructs and concurrent data structures, it allows Mono applications to enter painlessly in this new multicore era.
This talk will cover several points :
- An introduction to what Mono is
- What the multicore revolution is all about
- How ParallelFx addresses these new challenges
- Opening to future perspective like GPGPU
Hi there
So our next meet up is in the Trinity Capital Hotel
the 21st of July at 7.00pm
After a lot of blog activity regarding the .Net ecosystem (OSS and from Microsoft) we need to ask ourselves Why .Net? Since this is a topic likely to be a bit controversial, links to reasonable blog posts can be posted here for reference, and the topic might be moderated by someone (maybe Mark?) Are you coming? Please register!
August is looking good too, follow the mailing list for more news.
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We are just about to finish the mythical DDD by Eric Evans, it was hard work, but I think I speak for all when I say
a) I m glad it s over
b) Its possibly the best way to read the book ( please comment and disagree with me if you feel like it)
The good news is that we are starting a new book “7 Languages in 7 Weeks”
To come to the book club simply check our calendar for the time and date, lately we have been meeting in Trinity Capital Hotel, every Tuesday at 7pm, if you are interested please subscribe to our mailing list.
Cheers
Andrea
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May’s meetup was BDD, thanks again Jon and Ruben for your presentations. It was really useful to see the usage of Specflow and Subspec, and be able to discuss BDD with everyone.
Our next meetup concurs with Epicenter, a good oportunity to catch up with people. If you are comming please register .
NOTE: Venue Confirmed Trinity Capital Hotel
Thanks to everyone that came to the last meetup, I think deployment is a really big subject, and ti would be great to get more knowledge in the area.
I would still like to see capistrano in action in the hands of an expert, push it to the limits. And we definitely need better tools in the .Net space ( or to learn about them if they are out there and we are not aware of them), What is everyone using?
Anyway, moving on…
Behavioour Driven Development is the topic of this meetup
- Jon Hurd is going to talk about Cucumber
- Ruben Bartelink is going to introduce us to SubSpec
Registration link
I hope everyone had a good time at IOSCD last Saturday the 24th of April.
Thanks to our Hosts: the Open Source Labs at UCD and our sponsors JetBrains, Manning and Microsoft for their support
The sessions were:
- Oook!
- Rx
- Cucumber with Iron Ruby
- pLinq and Mono
- Mongo Db (a bit of a comparison between .net implementation and a ruby implementation)
- shytecode ( saw this in the repo, not sure how far it went)
Please add a comment here for any relevant info and particularly if you wrote a blog post about it
To everyone that came Thanks a million and also I invite you to please let us know how can we make the event better by sending us some feedback ( we ll email you a form in the next few days), however if you feel teh urge to say something now, dont restrain yourself adn add a comment 
Also there this idea of having virtual meetings monthly? bi-weekly? using some sort of video conferencing facility, thoughts on thsi one highly apreciated.
Thanks again for coming along, and looking forward to the next one, should be in a few months.
Hi all:
Crazy times, volcanoes going off, sunshine for a few consecutive days in ireland 
This month we are rediscovering(?) Deployment.
Diego Veralli will be talking about Capistrano,
Andrea Magnorsky will go through some terminology on deployment
Hopefully this presentations short 20 min will be followed by a heated discussion on the subject and surely some war stories ( you can cry too its okay)
If you are coming sign up using this link
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/628424635
