On Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th July Python.ie are running a two day conference PyCon 2010 at the Dublin School of English.

The early bird registration is great value and is open until 31st May.

• Early bird: €40
• Standard: €60
• On the door: €70
• Extra dinner place: €30

 

 

Prodata are bringing Paul Randal & Kimberly Tripp back to Dublin this summer to deliver some intensive SQL training.

The course and dates are:

• SQL Immersion: Dublin 2010

  4 days June 28th - July 1st
  Register 

• Performance Optimization Masterclass

  2 days July 5th & 6th
  €1,299
  Register

• Disaster Recovery Masterclass

  2 days July 7th & 8th
  €1,299
  Register

This event happened last year and received very high praise from all who attended I can't recommend this highly enough to anyone working with SQL Server.

 

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT - REGISTER

BEFORE APRIL 30th & SAVE 15%

Plus NW-MTUG members qualify for an addition 5%

discount! Use code NWUG when registering.

 

I work with Allstate NI and due to expansion we're looking for .Net developers. Check out the careers site for more details or come and meet with us an one of our open days (dates below). If you're a talented .Net developer you should come check us out especially if you like:

    .    Working a 4 Day Weeks while being paid for 5!! 
    .    Duvet days
    .    Money off gym fees
    .    Beer & pizza
    .    Plus loads and loads more benefits.

 

If you don't believe me check this video out.

Upcoming open days at Allstate NI's Belfast and Northland Rd offices:

 

Belfast Office Thursday 29th April 2010 3-7pm Thursday 27th May 2010 3-7pm

Northland Rd Offices Friday 30th April 2010 3-7pm Friday 28th May 2010 3-7 pm

I'll be delivering a session to NW-MTUG on what's new in C# 4.0 on Monday 17th May. You can get all the details on NW-MTUG's site and register here.

I'll cover the main new features with code examples for each:

• Dynamic
• Named & Option Parameters
• Generic Variance

There'll also be a few prizes to give out on the night

I'm organizing a session at NW-MTUG that will be made up entirely of local speakers. Here's the format.

6 speakers

5 mins each speaker

No questions

Topic of your choice

 

For now if you could let me know of sessions you would like to present just give me a  title and a short description feel free to send more than one, send these to me before July 31^st after that I'll create a poll on the groups Facebook fan page and let the group vote on the sessions they'd like to see. This will be based on session title and description so no one company should dominate the evening. Ideally I'd like to see this happen in October or November as this will give me time to sort sponsorship, the voting and will give those people selected to deliver a session time to prepare. Please feel free to forward this invite to anyone you think would be interested in delivering a session.

Just a shout to let you all know of NW-MTUG's next session on 10th March, it's on Using ASP.NET MVC 2 - Introduction to MVC & What's New and will be presented by Martha Rotter. Check out NW-MTUG's site for all the details.

Just a shout to let you all know of NW-MTUG's next session on 1st February, it's on Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Sever and will be presented by Martin Woodward. Check out NW-MTUG's site for all the details.

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with the Irish TechNet team and have your questions on Windows 7 answered. The Windows 7 Road Show will include an overview of what's different in Microsoft's next operating system release, along with great demos giving you the opportunity to demo and win!! The Road show will be held at the University of Ulster's Magee Campus in the MS building at 18:30 on 25th May.

The agenda for the evening will be:

• What's new
• Upgrade path and licensing
• Deployment
• Dave Northey vs. Will Craddock - Windows 7 Demo Shootout
• Public demo contest - prizes at stake for the best Windows 7 three-minute demos! ?
• 'Install Fest' - Windows 7 Release Candidate provided

If you'd like to come along please register for this event on the Microsoft Events site.

The Northwest Microsoft Technology User Group will be holding its first session on Tuesday 7th April at 7:00 pm in the MS Building of the University of Ulster's Magee campus. The building and adjacent car park is marked on the map below.

The session will be "Best Practice for getting a business to adopt SharePoint from day 1" and will be presented by Ciaran Colgan.

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The 9^th International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming will be taking place in Limerick 10^th-14^th June 2008 you can get all the details on their web site http://www.lero.ie/xp2008/home.html

Looking at technologies such as Silverlight 2 and ASP.Net MVC framework the MIX essentials event due to take place in Dublin on 23rd May 2008 at the National College of Ireland my be of interest to some of you. You can get more details and register for free at http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/mix08/register.html

The Irish Microsoft Technology Conference will be taking place on 3rd and 4th April in Dublin at the Cineworld Cinema Complex on Parnell St. It looks like it could be an interesting event tas here are over 40 sessions organised and it's be billed as a mini TechEd.

You can get more details form the web site http://imtc.firstport.ie

It's being organised by Irish Dev  they have loads of other events scheduled this year in a range of technologies, you can check these out here.

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! are holding a conference for the .NET community in Galway's Instatute of Technology on 3rd May 2008. The agenda includes some intersting topics and icludes speakers from TechNet and DevWeek.

Full details can be found at their web site dddireland.com, registrater via Microsoft's events site.

Just a quick shout to anyone who hasn’t heard yet, Microsoft are running launch events for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. And one of the best perks for going is, “you will leave with a promotional kit that includes product licenses for Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008”

Check out http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/events/default.mspx for details on all events or go straight to the Ireland events here, see you there

Your can register for the Belfast event here or you can register for the Dublin event here