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Sydney Mobility

Welcome to another action packed week of mobility here in (not so) sunny Sydney! On the back of a successful Office Developer Conference there are a series of events lined up for this week that are worth attending if you are working in the mobility area. By mobility I mean everything from being a developer...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 11-04-2007
What do Victorian .NET SIG attendees and Ben Cousins have in Common?

A: They're both "users" in the eyes of the government.... Ok, so not a great joke but I had to post about this as it is a true sign that political correctness has gone a step too far. When Victoria .NET was established, the Melbourne .NET User Group and the Australian Developers .NETwork...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-18-2007
Perth IT Life

Here's a bit of a what's on in Perth this week in the IT scene (feel free to leave comments about activities I've forgotten): Weekly coffee @ Tiger Tiger - 1:30ish today Silicon Beach House open day - today from 4pm Port80 Mini-talks @ Flying Scotsman - Wednesday from 6pm Perth .NET Community...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-01-2007
Australian Microsoft Developer User Groups

Back in 2002 when I, with the help of Power Business Systems , started the Perth .NET Community of Practice there was a lot of emphasis being placed on building the community by Microsoft. All around the country the DPE team worked with user group leaders to help support the groups wherever possible...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-14-2007
Perth IT Communities on Facebook

Recent additions to Perth IT Facebook scene include: The Silicon Beach House The Perth .NET Community of Practice (don't forget the presentation and geek dinner this week) CSharpZealot I'm sure there are more great groups out there so please feel free to comment or link to them!

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-04-2007
Perth .NET Community of Practice: Nick Wienholt on Code Generation

Next week Nick Wienholt will be in town to present his session on Code Generation. The details are (full details on the user group site here ): Real-World Code Generation with Nick Wienholt Topic: Real-world Code Generation with Nick Wienholt Venue: Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth Date/Time...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 08-28-2007
User Group Library in Use

It's great to see that not only is the Perth .NET Community of Practice library growing (thanks to Mitch who is really working with the book publishers to get access to more books), it is actually being used. At the moment we have 10 books out of a total of 37 on loan to user group members. Recent...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 07-31-2007
Perth .NET - Introducing Graeme Foster

Despite being a relatively new import into the Perth .NET community, Graeme Foster has already volunteered to present at the next meeting of the Perth .NET Community of Practice. Whilst the last session was dedicated to all the new coolness that Microsoft is bringing us in the UX space there are still...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 07-14-2007
User Group Library

The Perth .NET Community of Practice has recently updated the list of books available in their library and is experimenting with an online system for managing it. Head across to the user group announcements blog for more information. In the process of tidying up there are a couple of give aways that...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 06-15-2007
Perth Ignores Concurrency

Last Thursday the Perth .NET Community of Practice was privileged to have Joel Pobar deliver a double session on concurrent programming and the new Dynamic Language Runtime. For anyone who has used concurrency in an application they will appreciate the added level of complexity it can add. Through a...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 06-10-2007

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