When: Tuesday 14th September 2010, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm
Where: UWE (University of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) - Room 2Q49
What: Double Bill: How To Manage Your Manager and Real-world Dynamic .NET
Who: Mark Rendle (the guy who gave the grok talk on the Visual Studio add-in for VI at DDD South West 2), voted Top Speaker (By Knowledge Of Subject) at DDD South West 2 for his session on 10 Tricks To Keep Your C# DRY.
Why: Because you owe it to yourself to get the best out of your manager. And to get the best out of the dynamic type. Also because Mark comes with a very high level of energy and enthusiasm and he will be sure to keep you interested all the way.
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Abstract for How To Manage Your Manager:
Developers and managers generally don't understand each other. Developers know the arcane languages of machines and are motivated by inexplicable forces. Managers seem to spend half their time in meetings and the other half emailing each other Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. The result is that both sides end up frustrated, feeling that the other is stopping them from doing their job to the best of their ability. In this talk, I will share some of the things I've learned in 20 years of being managed,
including:
- How to get the PC you want, with the two big monitors and a decent CPU.
- Also, how to get extra software, training, and even sent to conferences.
- How to adopt best practices, like TDD, pairing and daily stand-ups even though your manager doesn't know what they are, and probably doesn't care.
- How to earn the respect of people who seem to actively like wearing suits.
- Maybe, possibly, how to respect them just a little bit.
Abstract for Real-world Dynamic .NET
This talk takes a look at the new dynamic features in .NET 4, and aims to cover the things which rely on this feature (such as COM interop in Silverlight 4); highlight someneat use-cases that will be useful across a range of projects; and maybe show that dynamic can grant some of the "I wish I coulds" that crop up in day-to-day programming. We'll also take a look inside IronMock, a mocking library which uses embedded IronRuby within a C# project to achieve results that were previously only possible with the System.Reflection.Emit library.
Bio:
I’ve been wrestling computers for nearly thirty years, professionally for twenty. I think I’m winning. I’ve been an enthusiastic user of the .NET Framework and C# since the first public beta. I’m currently a Senior Software Architect with Dot Net Solutions, where we work with the bleeding edge of all parts of the Microsoft stack, producing web, smart client and rich internet applications. I’ve been exploring Azure since the early CTP days, and have created AzureKit, an open-source Codeplex project which provides a light-weight wrapper around the Table Service REST API.
