Nick has kindly shared his slide deck on "Moving from SQL Server to MongoDB" from yesterday's presentation. You can find it here:
http://www.slideshare.net/nickhac/moving-from-sql-server-to-mongodb
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
September Talks
This month we have two talks as follows:
Nick Holmes a Court (@nickhac) - Moving From SQL Server to MongoDB
Nick Holmes a Court (@nickhac) - Moving From SQL Server to MongoDB
The problems faced at BuzzNumbers related to monitoring Social Media posts
Why choose NoSQL over SQL Server/MySQL
Why we chose Mongo over other NoSQL solutions
How to design a NoSQL schema if you are used to relational databases
How BuzzNumbers designed a solution that
allows infinite scaleability using low cost commodity hardware and
.NET
Why we still use .NET as a primary development/hosting environment and how we also leverage Open Source where optimal
Lessons Learned.
Brendan Forster (@shiftkey) - Attending BUILD and Developing for Window 8
Brendan is back from the Build conference and has a shiny new tablet, Windows 8 and Visual Studio 11 on it. This is a good time to play with Win8 and have an open discussion about what it all means for us moving forward and what we need to do to roll with the changes.
As per usual, let us know you are coming by RSVPing via the poll on the right of the site.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
August Talks
For the month of August we have two talks, as follows:
Ducas Francis (@ducas) - JQuery Mobile
Philip Laureano (@philiplaureano) - Blind Refactoring
Have you ever wondered if there was a better way to learn refactoring? Martin Fowler's Refactoring book was a great introductory book on how to clean up legacy code bases, but over the years, what I have found missing in that book is one a set of guidelines that links all the different types of refactoring techniques together into one continuous process. In this talk, I will show you how to take almost any code base, and refactor everything from the simplest nested' 'if' blocks all the way to extracting an actual domain/object model to using an IOC container framework. Using a set of repeatable steps, I will show you how easy it is to refactor almost any code base, even if you don't understand every part of the application.
We may also have a different MC than usual since Richard will be at TechEd and James may away as well. If that's the case you'll be in the hands of Brendan Forster - be kind!
As per usual, RSVP via the poll for catering and don't forget to bring a friend! It should be a great night with plenty to see.
Ducas Francis (@ducas) - JQuery Mobile
Building web apps targeted at mobile platforms is becoming increasingly popular, but it can be quite difficult to get your site working on all devices. See how you can use jQuery Mobile to make your MVC apps come to life and easily build mobile experiences that work across all modern phone and tablet operating systems. That’s right… one version of your site CAN work on iPhone, iPad, Android and WP7!
Philip Laureano (@philiplaureano) - Blind Refactoring
Have you ever wondered if there was a better way to learn refactoring? Martin Fowler's Refactoring book was a great introductory book on how to clean up legacy code bases, but over the years, what I have found missing in that book is one a set of guidelines that links all the different types of refactoring techniques together into one continuous process. In this talk, I will show you how to take almost any code base, and refactor everything from the simplest nested' 'if' blocks all the way to extracting an actual domain/object model to using an IOC container framework. Using a set of repeatable steps, I will show you how easy it is to refactor almost any code base, even if you don't understand every part of the application.
We may also have a different MC than usual since Richard will be at TechEd and James may away as well. If that's the case you'll be in the hands of Brendan Forster - be kind!
As per usual, RSVP via the poll for catering and don't forget to bring a friend! It should be a great night with plenty to see.
Friday, July 22, 2011
July Meeting Talks
We have a nice mix of talks this month:
Jason Stangroome (@jstangroome)
PowerShell is built on .NET and uses curly braces but that's where the relationship with C# ends. I'll demonstrate some of the intricacies of PowerShell that give the language its power and pitfalls.
Wiryadi Adidharma (@toocoolfortwitter)
High Performance Web Sites
14 Steps to Faster-Loading Web Sites, with examples for ASP.NET Web Sites.
Pawel Pabich (@PawelPabich)
Unreliable end to end integration tests can cause much more harm than good. So we will have have a look at what constitutes a valuable integration test and how to avoid common pitfalls when writing one (samples in C# Selenium Webdriver).
Please RSVP on the poll to the right.
See you on Tuesday!
Jason Stangroome (@jstangroome)
PowerShell is built on .NET and uses curly braces but that's where the relationship with C# ends. I'll demonstrate some of the intricacies of PowerShell that give the language its power and pitfalls.
Wiryadi Adidharma (@toocoolfortwitter)
High Performance Web Sites
14 Steps to Faster-Loading Web Sites, with examples for ASP.NET Web Sites.
Pawel Pabich (@PawelPabich)
Unreliable end to end integration tests can cause much more harm than good. So we will have have a look at what constitutes a valuable integration test and how to avoid common pitfalls when writing one (samples in C# Selenium Webdriver).
Please RSVP on the poll to the right.
See you on Tuesday!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
July Meeting: Call for speakers!
As things seem to be pretty good with the 3 X 20min short talks format, let's do it again this month. Let me know if you're up for a talk (@jtcrisp) or comment below.
Also feel free to give us the highlights of an awesome DDD talk if you think it'd suit :-)
Also feel free to give us the highlights of an awesome DDD talk if you think it'd suit :-)
Saturday, June 25, 2011
June Meeting
For this months 3x20 talks we have the following volunteers:
Daniel Bartholomew (@dbartholomew) - Continuous Delivery
Peter Gfader (@peitor) - NCrunch
Sam Saffron (@samsaffron) - Dapper
Many thanks to them for putting something together for us.
Don't forget to let us know you're coming by RSVP'ing via the poll on the site as per usual and we'll see you there!
Daniel Bartholomew (@dbartholomew) - Continuous Delivery
Peter Gfader (@peitor) - NCrunch
Sam Saffron (@samsaffron) - Dapper
Many thanks to them for putting something together for us.
Don't forget to let us know you're coming by RSVP'ing via the poll on the site as per usual and we'll see you there!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
June - Call For Presenters
Last month's 3x20 session was great so we're doing it again. :-)
That means, if you're willing to give a 20 minute talk or demo then leave a comment or contact Richard (@rbanks54). If you've never presented before then this is a great way to get started, and we encourage you to do so, and if you're wanting to give a 20-minute cut down version of their DDD Sydney talks then we're happy to be your test bed :-)
That means, if you're willing to give a 20 minute talk or demo then leave a comment or contact Richard (@rbanks54). If you've never presented before then this is a great way to get started, and we encourage you to do so, and if you're wanting to give a 20-minute cut down version of their DDD Sydney talks then we're happy to be your test bed :-)
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