Our next meetup is on next Wednesday 23rd May where Jeremie Laval will be talking to us about Mono for Mobile devices.

He’s going to discuss their platform for iOS and Android devices – MonoTouch and Mono for Android

The event is on in the usual spot – the Central Hotel on Exchequer St – on Wednesday 23rd May at 6.30.

The event is free as always thanks to our sponsors Beam, but don’t forget to register on EventBrite if you plan on attending so we have an idea of the numbers

See you there
Andrew

On the 5th of April Daniel Elliot, a .NET dev, will tell us about his adventure in node.js, HTML 5 and WebStorm building an MMO at Dublin Gamecraft. This will be just a pub meetup (ie no projector) in the Library Bar at 6.30pm (same place as our usual meetings) but straight to the bar. We will have an Alt.net sign for those of you new to the group. Daniel won a prize for for Best Solo effort (no, he wasn’t the only one doing this solo )

In conjunction with the Microsoft, we are going to hold a a Windows 8 Camp in Dublin on March 24th, 2012. (from 9am to 5pm) We will have a short lecture on Windows 8 and some getting started advice going on but the goal is to give you as much time to sling code as possible with experts on hand to help you through issues. More information and registration here

If there’s anything in particular that you’d like to see discussed or if you have any burning questions about RavenDB drop David an email in the mailing list and he’ll do his best to answer it on the day.

It’s on in the usual spot – the Central Hotel on Exchequer St – on Tuesday 21st Feb at 6.30.

Hope to see you all there

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!