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Feedback from my DDD Scotland Talk on Parallisation

Posted on Wednesday, 11 May, 2011 by Colin Mackay

I got my feedback from my DDD Scotland 2011 talk on Parallelisation. I was actually pleasantly surprised. I guess I was being a little too self critical and the talk went over a lot better than I thought it had. … Continue reading →

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DDD Scotland Parallelisation Talk Overview

Posted on Sunday, 8 May, 2011 by Colin Mackay

Follow Up I was asked a question during the talk I wasn’t immediately able to answer which I’ve now found the definite answer. What happens to parallel tasks running in the background when the application exits? Examples Here are all … Continue reading →

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DDD Scotland: The feedback

Posted on Thursday, 20 May, 2010 by Colin Mackay

I’ll be standing down as chairman of Scottish Developers shortly. I’m not leaving, I’m just looking for a different role within the user group. But as I’m hanging up that particular hat I felt I would add my own personal … Continue reading →

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Event Organisation – The Feedback

Posted on Monday, 23 June, 2008 by Colin Mackay

This is the first post in a series of random thoughts on community events that I’m writing based on my experience running a user group and the Developer Day Scotland conference. In this post I’ll concentrate on receiving feedback. Photo … Continue reading →

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Feedback on Developer Day Scotland

Posted on Tuesday, 20 May, 2008 by Colin Mackay

I was recently one of the organisers for Developer Day Scotland (aka DDD Scotland) in Glasgow. It was on on the 10th of May and was the first of its kind in Scotland. I’ve also just finished putting together the … Continue reading →

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Developer Day Scotland – The scores on the doors

Posted on Monday, 12 May, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Developer Day Scotland was last weekend and went very well. I’ve just finished collating all the speaker feedback and I’ve sent each speaker their feedback information (all anonymised). We had excellent speakers and I want to recognise the best speakers … Continue reading →

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How does the voting work for Developer Day Scotland

Posted on Saturday, 16 February, 2008 by Colin Mackay

Developer Day Scotland is a BY the community FOR the community conference based on the Developer Developer Developer! community conference. We accept sessions from the community on any aspect of software development. When the call for speakers closes we go … Continue reading →

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Developer Day Scotland Session Voting Open

Posted on Monday, 11 February, 2008 by Colin Mackay

The session voting for Developer Day Scotland has opened. Please go and select the sessions that you want to see.  

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JetBrains Sponsors Developer Day Scotland

Posted on Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 by Colin Mackay

JetBrains, the makers of ReSharper and dotTrace, have sponsored Developer Day Scotland with 6 bundles of ReSharper and dotTrace to give away as prizes. That’s $550 worth of software to each lucky winner. Developer Day Scotland, based on the highly … Continue reading →

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Developer Day Scotland – Call for Speakers

Posted on Sunday, 25 November, 2007 by Colin Mackay

It was announced yesterday at Developer! Developer! Developer! 6 in Reading that the call for speakers had opened for Developer Day Scotland. If you are interested in delivering a one hour session on a software development topic then please send … Continue reading →

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