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Video: SOLID Design Principles with Ian Cooper

Ian Smith has kindly edited and uploaded the SOLID Design Principles talk done by Ian Cooper at our January meet. View on ExposureRoom For those who have the bandwidth to view the HD version or wish to view the video using an iPhone they need to browse...

Posted to Announcements by Gavin Osborn on 02-04-2010

Filed under: c#, Software Architecture, Ian Cooper, SOLID

Sharepoint 2010 Video

Ian Smith has kindly edited and uploaded the Sharepoint 2010 talk done by Dave McMahon at our January meet. View on ExposureRoom For those who have the bandwidth to view the HD version or wish to view the video using an iPhone they need to browse to the...

Posted to Announcements by Ray Booysen on 02-01-2010

Filed under: sharepoint, video, 2010, sharepoint 2010

UKCommunities Twitter

Are you an active UK community member? Find it hard to keep up to date with all the events around the country? Have no fear, I have a solution! We are extremely blessed in the UK to have a community that is so passionate and active. ...

Posted to Non-Destructive Me by Ray Booysen on 01-31-2010

Filed under: ukcommunities, twitter

Mass Delete Anonymous Posts on Community Server

Edge UG has always fought a losing battle against spammers. So I decided to take action today and clear our database of all anonymous posts. This may feel like a little broad-sworded but our site is unique where all posts are from registered...

Posted to Non-Destructive Me by Ray Booysen on 01-23-2010

Filed under: SQL, community server, script, spam

DDD8 Voting is Open

DDD8 has finally opened voting for sessions. If you’re interested in going to DDD this year, remember that you chose what will be there on the day. I’ve submitted one session, so remember, free cookies to the attendees of my session. :) http...

Posted to Non-Destructive Me by Ray Booysen on 01-12-2010

Nominate Silverlight for a 2009 Crunchie

Microsoft Silverlight has been nominated for a 2009 Crunchie award in the category of “Best Technology Achievement” and we need to get voting! The 2009 Crunchies Awards, are an annual competition and award ceremony that recognises the coolest tech innovations...

Posted to Non-Destructive Me by Ray Booysen on 01-06-2010

Filed under: silverlight, Crunchie

Nice New Year’s Present

I received a very cool email on the 1st from Microsoft: Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world...

Posted to Non-Destructive Me by Ray Booysen on 01-05-2010

Filed under: MVP

Silverlight DropShadowEffect and Redraw Complications

In Silverlight 3.0, effects were added to the API. These effects allowed a developer to easily add common UI effects to controls in a very simple way. One of these effects is the DropShadowEffect . This effect simply adds the known dropshadow effect to...

Posted to Non-Destructive Me by Ray Booysen on 01-04-2010

Filed under: silverlight, dropshadoweffect, enableredrawregions, redraw

DDD8: January 30th 2010 - A date for your diaries

Just a quick note to you all to remind you that Developer Developer Developer 8 is just around the corner, January 30th 2010 to be precise! A little about the Developer Developer Developer Conferences: " The target audience is developers and the...

Posted to Gavin Osborn by Gavin Osborn on 12-18-2009

Filed under: DDD, Conference, Developers, Community, DDD8

Andrew Fryer - SQL Server 2008 R2 Slides and Resources

For those of you interested in the slides from Andrew Fryer's presentation on the various features of SQL Server 2008 R2 at Edge UG in November you be pleased to know that I've managed to get hold of a copy of them and they can be downloaded from...

Posted to Gavin Osborn by Gavin Osborn on 12-18-2009

Filed under: SQL Server, Andrew Fryer, SQL Server 2008 R2, Slides

Eric Nelson - SQL Azure Slides and Resources

Folks, Apologies for not making these available to you sooner... Eric Nelson has posted a link to his slides and other useful SQL Azure resources on his blog . Remember: If you want to know what else Eric is up to these days be sure to follow his blog...

Posted to Gavin Osborn by Gavin Osborn on 12-18-2009

Filed under: SQL Azure, Edge UG, Windows Azure, SQL Server, Eric Nelson

Wrapping up 2009: ASP.Net MVC Explored Slides and Code

I'd just like to start by taking the opportunity to thank all the various people that have sat through my presentations this year. I've taken my ASP.Net MVC Explored Presentation to various parts of the country and met a lot of cool enthusiastic...

Posted to Gavin Osborn by Gavin Osborn on 12-14-2009

Filed under: Gavin Osborn, ASP.Net MVC, Presentation

Edge UG November Update - SQL 2008 R2

Hi Folks, Many apologies for the delay but I can now finally announce that Andrew Fryer will be the final speaker of 2009 at Edge UG. SQL Server 2008 R2 was released as a Community Technology Preview this month. Hot off the press and fresh from his appearances...

Posted to Announcements by Gavin Osborn on 11-09-2009

Filed under: Sql Server, Andrew Fryer, SQL 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, November

Edge UG: Last event of 2009 - November 18th

For this, the last Edge UG event of the year we bring you two great speakers. First up: Eric Nelson joins us to discuss SQL Azure - Microsoft's Database platform on the Cloud. Want to learn some compelling reasons to put your data in the cloud? Want...

Posted to Announcements by Gavin Osborn on 11-06-2009

Filed under: azure, SQL, I.T, Sql Server, Eric Nelson, Andrew Fryer, SQL 2008 R2

Internet Explorer Evangelist at Edge UG, Nov 4th

Hey All, As some of you already know we have an extra event this month. Giorgio Sardo will be dropping in on his way to Tech-Ed to discuss all things Internet Explorer and related technologies. Giorgio has been to Edge UG before (when it was known as...

Posted to Announcements by Gavin Osborn on 10-30-2009

Filed under: Edge UG, Internet Explorer

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