We’ve had to change our scheduled January talk on mobile development by James Hughes, as James’s wife is going into labour shortly! We wish them all the best. Hopefully we can reschedule his talk for some time later in the year, as we know there was a lot of interest.

In it’s place, we’re going to be discussing Semantic Versioning and Dependency Management. Same time, same place i.e. January 18th, 6.30 in the Central Hotel

Jacob will be introducing Semantic Versioning and talking about the concept of breaking changes in .NET. This will then continue into an overview of Nuget and how it allows you to simplify your dependency management as well as simplify the publication of packages for others to integrate into their projects. This part will also show how to integrate dependency management into your build automation process.

After this we’ll open it up to the floor for a general discussion on the topics. Will be very interesting to hear how others are managing the issue

Hope to see you all on Wednesday

Mobile, How Do I Develop Thee?  Let Me Count the Ways

Mobile development is a bit like writing web apps back in the browser war days – full of decision anxiety, volatility and platform specific issues.  There is no one true answer yet most people think there should be.  This talk will cover the popular(ish) options from native all the way to web solutions (and all the mashup magic in-between).  Oh yes and some opinion as well.

The talk is going to be about mobile development across multiple platforms and should appeal to all developers who are curious about the mobile space, regardless of their programming background and preference. Expect some lively discussion about experiences and frustrations

We had a good turnout for the last talk, and since James is making the trip from Belfast we hope we can repeat the success.

Date is January 18th at 6.30 in the Central Hotel

Register on EventBrite.

You can sign up at EventBrite.

Many websites claim to be RESTful when they use a pretty URL structure. ASP.NET MVC makes it very easy to set up a website with pretty URLs and return web pages or JSON. But REST is more than simply keeping your site structure clean and returning JSON. This session will go through some simple changes that makes it possible for a an ASP.NET MVC site to make it observe RESTful principles making it accessible both as web site and a web service. The changes will tie into a sample for writing LINQ queries directly to a RESTful service.

See you there, and don’t forget if there is a topic you want covered in the following meetup talk to us either in person or through the discussion group

For October we are trying a slightly different approach

• Vim the basics, plus a little more..   By Cormac McGuire

• Code Kata: Grzegorz Caban will be driving the String Calculator Code Kata.

See you there, and don’t forget if there is a topic you want covered in the following meetup talk to us either in person or through the discussion group

September wont be an average month:
Make sure you register as spaces are limited

• With Ruby Ireland and Python Ireland we organized bringing Alvaro Videla (co author of Rabbbit Mq in action) for a talk  about Messaging Patterns with RabbitMq registration and more details here http://rabbitmq.eventbrite.com/

When 5th September 7pm
Where:  Central Hotel

• Also  on the 17th of september from 8AM (yes that early) with the other groups ( python ireland, javascript ireland and ruby Ireland) we have a code retreat check http://codingday.org for more detials

Thanks to the sponsors of both events for this:
Alphabetically

- Aveclabs (www.aveclabs.com)
- DemonWare (www.demonware.net)
- Python Ireland (www.python.ie)
- RenaissanceRe (http://renre.com/)
- Ruby Ireland (www.rubyireland.com)
- TreeMetrics (http://www.treemetrics.com/)

There might be more during the month… we ll keep you posted

Cheers

Andrea

In the meantime, please check out our Google Moderator site and vote on the talks you want to hear or add proposals of your own

Thanks

Our next meetup will be on 20th July at the Central Hotel on Exchequer St where we’ll be discussing some of the pain points around dependency management, and how NuGet and a little ILMerge can help out.

Some topics we’ll be covering:

• NuGet basics
• Creating your own NuGet packages
• Setting up your own NuGet package source
• CI integration
• Semantic Versioning and how NuGet can facilitate
• Limiting diamond dependency problems with ILMerge

Hope to have a discussion also about how others are managing continuous CI builds and versioning.

Event is free as always, but please let us know if you plan on attending by registering here

Hope to see you there!

Our next meetup will be on the 8th of June. Richard Dalton has kindly offered to do a talk for us. See details below.

For organizational purposes, don’t forget to pick up a ticket. Event is free as always, but it’s nice to know how many will be there.

See you there!

The Missing Link – Pushing Through The Pain Of TDD
Richard Dalton

If you’ve ever watched a skilled Test Driven Developer in Full flow it’s a
thing to behold. They move swiftly and assuredly taking multiple tiny
steps in places where you perhaps see only one large step, if you see any
steps at all.

When the job is done you’ll feel like it was all so simple and logical
that surely you could have gotten there too, but for some reason it never
seems to go to plan. You find yourself wondering how many more books and
articles you need to read, how many more presentations and Kata videos you
need to sit through before it all “Clicks” for you.

This session focuses on the pain that TDD practitioners encounter after
the first flush of success.  It’s about the challenges we face as we move
from simple contrived examples to making TDD work for “Real” problems, and
the “Aha!” moments that move us on to the next level.

The Irony of TDD is that it promotes the idea of tiny incremental steps,
but for most of us learning to practice TDD our focus is on the magicians
out on the horizon. This session will pull you back to reality and give
some closer targets to aim at.

When you leave this session, the magicians will still be a long way out in
front, but you’ll be a couple of steps closer, and hopefully you’ll have a
renewed sense of optimism that you can get there.

A bit late but tonight we were thinking of doing something where everyone participates instead of the usual presentation of a topic.

We are going to try a round table pitch from everyone about a project you would have liked to do but never had the time (or other reason) to move forward with. Maybe someone else is sitting with a similar idea.
The meeting is scheduled for 7:00 PM on the 18th of May and as usual it will take place at the Trinity Capital Hotel on Pearse Street.

We will also discuss Gar’s open source project

For registration follow this link

The event will take place at the Westbury Hotel in Dublin center over two days, during work hours:

Tuesday, 10th May from 13:00 to 17:00 – Windows Phone App Accelerator
Specifically for registered developers whose app has failed to pass certification. Jeff will help you get over the line.

Wednesday 11th May from 9:00 to 17:00 – Windows Phone Developer Boot Camp
Deep dive training on developing for Windows Phone. To attend you should preferably be a phone developer or have an app in the making.

Wednesday evening there will be a more general introduction and overview of the Windows Phone development platform for those who want to get started on developing for the phone.

The events are free, but you will need to get in touch with Dave Northey (daven@microsoft.com) to get your attendance registration.