An evening with Gojko Adzic on Challenging Requirements

1 November, 2011 by Leave a comment

Challenging Requirements

Wednesday 7th December 2011, 6:30 pm.

Speaker: Gojko Adzic

Room 4.31 (fourth floor), University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB -map (click on Informatics Forum in the list of buildings).

Synopsis

In this presentation, Gojko Adzic talks about common failure patterns with requirements and specifications on agile projects and talks about ideas, patterns and practices for requirements and specifications that lead to much less rework, more consistent specifications with less functional gaps and ultimately happier customers. Learn how to:

  • spot and avoid common failure patterns in requirements/specifications
  • get to the right requirements and specifications
  • focus projects on delivering business goals.
Registration for this event is not required, simply turn up on the night.

About the speaker

Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. He specialises in agile and lean quality improvement, in particular agile testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development. To get in touch, write to[email protected] or visit http://gojko.net.

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SQL Server User Group–Edinburgh meet up

20 June, 2011 by Leave a comment

The SQL Server User Group will be meeting at 18:30 (for 19:00) on 29th June at Microsoft’s offices at Waverley Gate.

Agenda

18:30 - 18:50 - Introduction, Networking and Food

18:50 - 19:40 – How to get throughput of over 1GBytes per second for less than 2.5K using commodity kit - Tony Rogerson SQL MVP

In this session Tony will talk about the recent paradigm brought into play through the NoSQL movement for dealing with high performance, high scalability requirements but at a fraction of traditional costs. Tony will demonstrate a box built using commodity kit and will talk about how it may be used to good effect in a Business Intelligence setting. It will be an open discussion.

19:40 - 20:00 – Break

20:00 - 20:50 – SQL Injection Attacks (and how to prevent them) - Colin Angus Mackay

With recent reports of a man convicted of stealing the details of 130million credit cards by use of SQL Injection Attacks, isn’t it time to find out how to defend your systems against them? In this talk Colin Mackay will show you what a SQL Injection Attack is, what they look like, how they work and most importantly how to harden your application and database security in order to defend your systems against them.

Although the technologies used in this talk are SQL Server and the .NET Framework, the general ideas presented apply to any database that uses SQL as a query language, and to any framework that may interact with that database.

Colin Angus Mackay

Colin Angus Mackay is a software developer specialising in Microsoft technologies located in Glasgow, Scotland. A former Microsoft MVP (C#) for four years running, the Treasurer of Scottish Developers, Code Project MVP for five years running, and has co-organised four DDD Scotland events. While not involved in software related pursuits is an amateur photographer (which generally involves wondering why his camera’s autofocus mechanism chooses the potted plant off to the side rather than the main subject).

20:50 - 21:00 – Close

To register for this event visit: http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/262/Scottish-Area-User-Group-Meeting-June.aspx

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Event in Edinburgh: Lean Startups

25 March, 2011 by Leave a comment

This just in from Agile Scotland:

We’re Back! Our next AgileScotland event takes place on the 18th April 2011 in Edinburgh at 19:30. The subject: Lean Startups.

Lean Startups are the hot new kids on the block - and like all the new hot things it is a ball of hype wrapped round a steely core of good practice.

Gordon Guthrie (CEO/CTO at Hypernumbers, formerly Chief Technical Architect at if.com, currently Convenor of the Scottish Lean Circle) will provide some perspective.

  • Lean Startups are a combination of influences:
  • Japanese quality management like the Toyota Production Systems
  • software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum and XP
  • theories of company building like 4 Steps To The Epiphany
  • practical experience

    • These have been synthesized to address a very specific problem: “I have an idea for a product - how to I get to having a sustainable repeatable business based on that without running out of money”

The evening is organized by Paul Wilson and generously sponsored by his company EdgeCase - providers of rapid sustainable development here in Edinburgh.

If you are interested in joining us then please email me at [email protected]. I’ll book you a spot and send you location details.

Cheers,
Clarke Ching

UPDATE:
The date has now moved to Monday 18th April. The above text has been amended to reflect this change.

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Discovering Startling Things from Your Version Control System

22 February, 2011 by 3 Comments

BCS Event: Monday 11th April, 6:30 pm.

Speaker: Michael Feathers, Chief Scientist at Obtiva Corporation.

University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB - map (click on Informatics Forum in the list of buildings).

Synopsis

The industry is awash in an epidemic of bad code. We all know what bad code looks like - it’s opaque and impenetrable. But, we spend little time trying to figure out how it got that way. We assume it’s tight schedules or lack of discipline, but perhaps there’s more.

In this talk, Michael Feathers will relate several things that he’s learned by taking a longitudinal view of a system - by issuing queries of a code base and relating the results back to events on a team. The more we know about how we behave as teams in our code, the more likely we are to be able to control our development well enough to hold bad code at bay.

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Event: Developing applications for iPhone, iPad and other iOS devices

27 January, 2011 by 1 Comment

There is an upcoming event in Edinburgh on the 9th March at 18:30 on the topic of “Developing Applications for iPhone, iPad and other iOS devices”

An introduction to iPhone development for beginners or those who are casually interested and want a leg up the learning curve

The iPhone, iPad and their iOS relatives are becoming an increasingly popular and important platform. More and more developers are looking into what the platform can offer and how to harness its power for
their products.

In this presentation, an experienced iOS developer provides a boot-strap in iPhone development. The talk is an overview of how to get started as an iPhone developer. You will gain an understanding of the platform, the tools, and the core technologies, including:

  • The main languages: Objective C/C++
  • Using the Xcode IDE, and various deployment/testing tools
  • Common iPhone/Mac OS design patterns, idioms, and practices
  • Becoming a native: how to "think in iPhone"
  • An overview of the libraries and facilities that exist
  • Limitations of the development environment.

We’ll see the pros and cons of iPhone development. You will leave with an understanding of how to deploy your applications on the device, and whether it is the right platform for you to target

All details can be found at http://www.edinburgh.bcs.org/events/2010-11/110309.htm

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Application Lifecycle Management event in Edinburgh

25 October, 2010 by Leave a comment

This just in from Microsoft. They are holding a free event in to ALM on the 9th November

Here are the details:

Event Overview

This key event enables technical decision makers and heads of development to quickly grasp the exciting new features in the Visual Studio 2010 range. To see, with the benefit of experience from customers and our ALM technology partners, how you can increase your productivity, increase collaboration across roles, gain increased predictability and visibility to de-risk investments and increase returns on investment in software development.

Agenda

09.30 - 10.00     Arrival /Registration

10.00 - 11.10     Welcome/Keynote - Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010

11.10 - 12.10     Agile development with Visual Studio 2010

12.10 - 12.40     Lunch

12.40 - 13.50     Testing with Visual Studio 2010

13.50 - 14.50     Build Automation with Team Foundation Server 2010 and Lab Management

14.50 - 15.05     Break

15.05 - 16.05     Understanding, defining and controlling architectures with Visual Studio 2010

16.05 - 16.15     Wrap up and Close

To register for the event use this link: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032459202&Culture=en-GB

 

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Event: SQL Server User Goup meeting in Edinburgh

29 September, 2010 by Leave a comment

This just in from the SQL Server User Group:

Tony Rogerson SQL Server MVP, http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson

Implementing Heirarchies

In this session Tony will show a number of techniques for implementing hierarchies using relational methods with T-SQL, non-relational methods will also be reviewed specifically XML and HierarchyId. Aggregation problems will also be discussed as well as dealling with multiple hierarchies.

Tony Rogerson has been working as a developer/database professional since 1986 working mainly with DB2, since 1993 he has worked with Microsoft SQL Server. He went freelance in 1997.

Allan Mitchell, SQL Server MVP http://sqlis.com/sqlis

StreamInsight

StreamInsight is Microsoft’s first foray into the world of Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Event Stream Processing (ESP).  In this session I want to show an introduction to this technology.  I will show how and why it is useful.  I will get us used to some new terminology but best of all I will show just how easy it is to start building your first CEP/ESP application.

The meeting is scheduled for Thursday 7th October at Microsoft’s offices in Edinburgh. More details here: http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/227/Implementing-Hierarchies-using-TSQL-and-the-HierarchyId-type-and-understanding-aggregation-problems-Tony-Rogerson-Complex-Event-Processing-StreamInsight-Allan-Mitchell.aspx

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