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Developer Day Scotland - ALT.NET Open Spaces

Chris Canal — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:40:10 GMT

I'm attending this weekends Developer Day Scotland in Glasgow and I'm trying to organise an ALT.NET meet/Open Spaces. I've left it really really late, but hopefully I'll be able to get something together.

When I say "I'll", I'm hoping this will soon be "we'll". So, any other ALT.NETters attending DD and interested in having a short session? Colin, one of the organisers, has been kind enough to offer a room over lunch for it. If your attending and your not sure what ALT.NET is, feel free to join in, the more people the better. Yes, I am worried about sitting in a room myself for a hour!

If you are an ALT.NETer, please contact me if you want to help out or host/suggest something. Email me at chris dot-thing canal at-thiny e4ums another-dot co and-another uk

Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB - £14 on Amazon.co.uk

Chris Canal — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:55:18 GMT

As you may or may not have seen, a few people have been blogging about Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB on Amazon.com being $16. Being in the UK, I thought I would check it out. Turns out its just as cheap: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-ASP-NET-3-5-VB-Programmer/dp/0470187573/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1210067583&sr=11-1

I've just ordered mine :)

ALT.NET Geek Code Generator

Chris Canal — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:36:39 GMT

Scott Hanselman has been spending some time making an interesting ALT.NET Greek Code Generator. Just check some boxes and create your very own ALT.NET Geek badge, now in Silverlight!

New to Design Patterns?

Chris Canal — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:34:51 GMT

Have all your Desgin Pattern woes solved and more: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

As a general rule of thumb, keep in mind that your code instantly gets 270-890% better when using design patterns (unless, of course, you are programming in Perl or Assembly). Note also that design patterns let you score big time with the ladies at parties (unless you abuse Dependency Rejection pattern), increase the size of your member, make you a better driver, and level you directly to OT9.

Made my chuckle!

On a totally different note, now long till Developer Day Scotland. If your in Scotland and have signed up, shame on you! Get signed up now, should be an interesting day. Also, like to point out the Scotland ALT.NET User Group again. Looks like a meet on the 28th May is set to g oahead. I'm due to be on holiday then, so I'm not going to make it, but I'm really looking forward to attending future events. I think raising the developer education level in Glasgow is really long past due. There are too many developers out there that take the word of Microsoft as gospel won't try any of the fantastic OSS projects out there!