Monthly Archives: September 2007

Sessions submitted for DDD6

Posted on Saturday, 29 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

I’ve submitted three session ideas for Developer Day 6 in Reading. A 60 minute session on recruitment (which has been a recent theme on my blog and other places), a grok talk on taking the panic out of the presentation … Continue reading →

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Glasgow: 14th November: SQL Server Evening

Posted on Sunday, 23 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Held in Room 16 of the Continuing Professional Development Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA Wednesday 14th November: Glasgow Joint event with the Scottish SQL Server User Group Speakers: Frank Kerrigan and Steve Phillips Frank Kerrigan: Introduction … Continue reading →

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Rant: I’m so frustrated I can’t even think of a title!!!

Posted on Saturday, 22 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

  My copy of IT Now, the magazine of the British Computer Society arrived earlier this week. I’ve only just got around to reading it. Their careers section got me thinking. There is a link to http://www.jobstats.co.uk in there and … Continue reading →

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DDD6 – Proposed Sessions

Posted on Friday, 21 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

It is now possible to propose a session for DDD6. It has only been open for a few hours and already there are a few good sessions available. Now I’m in a quandry. If this is the quality of all … Continue reading →

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Video promoting UK Community Events for Developers

Posted on Friday, 21 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Video: UK Developer Community   Transcript: Dot Net Dev Net Scottish Developers Sharepoint User Group UK Geek Dinners MS Web Dev Agile Scotland Next Generation User Group… NxtGenUG VBUG Mobile Mondays Guy Smith-Ferrier: So the UK community has a number of … Continue reading →

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Community Update

Posted on Thursday, 20 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

I’ve been a bit busy recently, so I’ve finally got round to blogging about upcoming community events. As it has all stacked up it is all going in one post. October: Guy Smith-Ferrier will be talking to the North East … Continue reading →

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Scottish Developers Agile Event

Posted on Tuesday, 11 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

Final reminder of the Scottish Developers event happening on Wednesday September 12th in Glasgow. Details can be found here: Agile Enterprise And ISVs

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Oddball statistics about my blog

Posted on Thursday, 6 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

As I’ve mentioned before I’m using Google Analytics to see what people are interested in on my blog and website. Some of the statistics are beginning to settle down now. So, here are some interesting stats (well, they are interesting … Continue reading →

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What are developer forums for?

Posted on Thursday, 6 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

An interesting question. One that seems to have an obvious answer. But there have been a couple of people in the last week that seem to have asked a forum full of random software developers a question they should be … Continue reading →

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What is a DAL? (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, 5 September, 2007 by Colin Mackay

In my last post about the DAL I presented a very basic DAL based on a static class. This is fine for small applications, but for larger applications the limitations will soon start to show themselves. In this post I’ll … Continue reading →

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