Ellerslie .NET User Group Website is revived!

http://ellerslieusergroup.net.nz/

Ellerslie .NET User Group 22/12/2011 C# 5.0

Hello everyone,

After 9 months pregnancy and 2 months learning to be a mum, I am back and yes, Ellerslie .NET User Group is time to revive! Right before Christmas and Christmas holiday we will have a talk about C# 5.0 by Alex Davies, Software Engineer at Olympic Software. Hope we can meet up after not seeing each other for so long! A good geeky event right before the holiday season! Yay!

Again, really look forward to meet you all, register to let me know aye!

Date: 22nd December 2011 Thursday Same time, same place. which is... Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm Catering: Pizza & Drinks Door Charge: Free! Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here) Register here: jacqc@olympic.co.nz Title: C# 5.0 C# 5.0 brings two new keywords to assist in writing responsive asynchronous applications. We will have a look at the existing problems of synchronous code and how we can utilize the new language features to improve your applications to make them respond faster and perform better. Speaker: Alex Davies, Software Engineer at Olympic Software NZ Ltd

Cheers,

Jacqualine Chow
Business Development Evangelist

DDI: 09 980 3999

Mobile: 029 770 0999

www.olympic.co.nz

What if Visual Studio had Achievements?

From http://blog.whiletrue.com/2011/01/what-if-visual-studio-had-achievements/ Author: rudi

What if Visual Studio supported achievements, just like games on Steam, Xbox or PS3? Bragging to your coworkers about which one you’ve just unlocked, imagine that! Here’s a little proposed list for some of them. .NET / C# flavored, of course.

• Falling Down – Created a new SharePoint project
• Job Security – Written a LINQ query with over 30 lines of code
• The Sword Fighter – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with zero code changes
• Shotgun Debugging – 5 Consecutive Solution Rebuilds with a single character change
• The Mathematician – Defined 15 local variables with a single character name
• The Academic – Written 1000 lines of F#
• Spaghetti Monster – Written a single line with more than 300 characters
• Wild One – Mixed tabs and spaces for indentation more than 5 times in a single line
• The Organizer – Created a Solution with more than 50 projects
• The Portal – Created a circular project dependency
• The Multitasker – Have more than 50 source files open at the same time
• The Code Keeper – Uninstalled Resharper because it made you redundant
• Pasta Chef – Created a class with more than 100 fields, properties or methods
• Procedural Programmer – Created a method with more than 10 out parameters
• Steam Powered – Added Visual Studio as a Steam game
• The Poet – Written a source file with more than 10,000 lines
• The Enterprise – Build Solution took more than 10 minutes
• Highway to Hell – Successfully created a WCF service
• The Explainer – Written a comment with more than 100 words
• TPS Reports – Created a Crystal Reports Project
• Rage Quit – ALT+F4 after a failed bug fix
• Ooooh Shiny – Written 100 extensions methods
• Look Ma – Written an infinite Fibonacci generator using yield
• The Engineer – Killed a zombie with The Wrench
• The Architect – Created 25 Interfaces in a single project
• The Right Way – Test method is longer than the tested method
• The Defender – Checked every argument for null exceptions
• Pokemon Programming – Caught all the exceptions
• Black Magic – Implemented a RealProxy
• Gimme back my ASM – Used ILGenerator
• I’m Sorry – Created a new Visual Basic Project
• The SEO Expert – ASP.NET MVC Routing table with more than 100 routes
• The Matrix – Windows Forms with more than 100 controls
• The Daredevil – UpdatePanels nested more than 3 layers deep
• Just a Test – Nested multiline C-style comments that caused a compilation error
• Warm Bath – Successfully consumed a non .NET SOAP web service
• Old School – Defined more than 100 static objects
• The Cloner – Copy-pasted more than 50 lines
• The Dependency – Referenced more than 30 projects
• Paying the bills – Imported a Visual Basic project
• First Hit – Included a Codeproject.com library into your project and it actually compiled
• Paula – Define a firstname field with value Brillant
• Every Option Considered – Created an enum with more than 30 values

Inspired by Steam Holiday sales and Battlefield Bad Company 2. Odd web coding exposed on the mostminimalistic company page possible. Enjoy.

Ellerslie .NET User group 17/10/2010

Hello everybody! Haven’t contact you all for so long! It’s my bad, too much happened in the last half a year. Anyway, here Ellerslie User Group is, we are starting up again!

Date: 17th November 2010 Wednesday. Same time, same place. which is... Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm Catering: Pizza & Drinks Door Charge: Free! Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here) Register here: register@ellerslieusergroup.net.nz Join us at your Ellerslie for the Tech.Ed 2010 Express Roadshow presented by Ryan Tarak (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nzstudents/). We will demonstrate how you can leverage your existing skills to build applications for the Windows Phone platform, hear about the next release of Internet Explorer and much more. In addition to the exciting technology demos, we will have giveaways and prizes to be won also.

Hope to catch up with you all on the day, so please register and come!  (Come on the day even you didn’t register though, haha)

Cheers,

Jacqui

Olympic Software NZ Ltd - We are Hiring!

Olympic Software is looking for new blood! We are hiring graduated software engineers and computer scientists who are smart and enthusiastic and devoted.
What we would love to see in you:

• Interested in solving problems
• Love to learn
• Stand up to challenges
• Team player
• Willing to communicate
• Customer focused

As a medium size company we employ wide range of technologies in delivering variety of solutions of different sizes. Some commonly used technologies/languages include

• MVC
• AJAX
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• ASP.NET/C#
• SharePoint
• Microsoft Dynamics
• MSSQL
• MS Office Integrations
• etc…

You will experience a lot working with us the Software Engineering team.
If you would like to join us please send your CV to jacqc@olympic.co.nz to apply.
And check us out on Facebook!

Jacqualine Chow
Business Development Evangelist | Olympic Software NZ Ltd | 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand | DDI +64 9 9803999 | Mobile +64 29 770 0999 | jacqc@olympic.co.nz