.NET User Group 9 - Building line of business applications with Silverlight

Presented by Rob Fonseca-Ensor from Datacom

Date: Thursday 7 August 2008
Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pm
Catering: Pizza & Drinks (we will have chicken pizzas this time!)
Door Charge: Free!
Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here)

Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car park
Register here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ (please register)

 

Business value with Silverlight: Reading, Writing, Binding, Validating and Visualising your Data. Rob Fonseca-Ensor from Datacom will walk you through the steps to building useful, real world silverlight applications. Learn how easy it is to build a .net rich internet application with Silverlight & REST (via ADO.Net Data Services)

Software Development Meme

Alex has tagged me for this one. I haven't thought of who to tag yet at this moment. Let me see at the end of this.

How old were you when you first started programming?

18. First year of my university, COMPSCI101. It's an introduction to java programming paper. Of course I didn't start programming earlier than that! I am not a geek, I told you guys. :P

Oh wait, does LOGO count? If LOGO does count as programming, then I "started" programming at 14 in St. Stephen's Girls' College.

How did you get started in programming?

If LOGO doesn't count, then it's university. One day I had to decide what are we going to do for my bachelor degree, and I found out that Software Engineering is the only thing I could possibly do. I dislike commerce stuff, not good at nor interested in language, good in science but didn't want to go any further than differentiation and integration. So, I started my SE degree.

What was your first language?

LOGO! Can you believe that I do LOGO before html? Well, if both of these don't count, then it's java, and I touched assembly language before C#.

What was the first real program you wrote?

Pac-man game I wrote in COMPSCI101 is the earliest "real" program I can remember. If you are talking about commercial program, then it's something I better not talk about here in my blog. You can come ask me about that.

What languages have you used since you started programming?

Java, C#, C++, VB6, VB.NET, T-SQL, Action Script (flash), java script, PHP, NAnt script, Mozart Oz, assembly languages, alloy, JSP, pls, 4gl, HTML.

What was your first professional programming gig?

That's the "better not put it here" part. You can ask me.

What's the most fun you've ever had... programming?

I enjoy programming most of the time, but honestly programming is not the bit I enjoy most. I like meeting people, share their ideas, their difficulties or fun part in programming or anything related to their life of programming.

If you ask me what is the most fun part... I think it's when you design and build a thingy to solve other people's problem. Maybe they are your clients, maybe they are your colleagues. Problem solving with programming, is the most fun part, all time.

Who's next?

1. Andre Meurer
2. Rodney Lake
3. Darryl Burling

Wanted to tag Alex James and JD as well, but they are tagged already. :P

Post - .NET User Group 8 - A Tester’s Perspective

It was a great night and we had around 30 people for the meeting. It's a good mixture between developers and testers. Yes, we are trying to break the walls between these two groups, who as Hafiz said, always like having a war between them. Fortunately it's never a big problem in Olympic as we all have fun together and sit around each other. Have to admit that "Strange - it works on my machine!" is one of everyone's favourite lines here. Haha.

By the way, you can download Hafiz's presentation slides here. Oh yeah, sorry that we have removed some animation and it is in pdf format anyway. So less fun for people who didn't come! :D

.NET User Group 8 - A Tester’s Perspective

Presented by Hafiz Vegdani

Date: Wednesday 9th July 2008
Gather at 5:45pm, starting at 6:00pmCatering: Pizza & DrinksDoor Charge: Free!Venue: Olympic Software, 10 Cawley Street, Ellerslie, Auckland (find a map here)
Parking: Free, just park in Olympic Software’s car parkRegister here: Ellerslie DNUG or Dot Net NZ (please register)

HELLO... HELLO... Testing 1, 2, 3... Testing 1, 2, 3...

Did you ever see software testing as part and parcel of the Software Development Life Cycle? Are you aware of the challenges of Software Testers?

Come to our next Ellerslie .NET User Group meeting and find out about:
· QA functions
· UI standards
· Visual Studio Testers Edition at a glance
· How to write and maintain test scripts
· Types of testing
· Test process definitions
· Testing principals
· Attitudes of people

Hafiz Vegdani is a Lead Test Analyst at Olympic Software. He has 8 years experience in software testing.