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Christchurch: LightSpeed workshop + Dynamic/Meta Programming event

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Won’t be in Christchurch New Zealand on the 22nd of November 2011? Move along then, nothing to see here sorry!

For those of you who are around on the 22nd, there are two events you may wish to attend:

LightSpeed Workshop with Ivan Towlson
Local LightSpeed user, Dave Mateer, is organising some time with Ivan to discuss all things LightSpeed. This is a great opportunity to talk directly with one of the developers about how to best work with LightSpeed, or, if you’re not already a user, come along and discover why LightSpeed can dramatically improve your development projects.
Time: 1:30pm on the 22nd of November.
Location: Uni 5, 33 Manderville S
RSVP: As this is being kindly hosted for us, please contact Dave if you wish to attend.

Ivan Towlson on Dynamic/Meta-programming
Ready to grow your beard of knowledge? Expand your mind? Unleash the ninja within? Then come along to Ivan’s .NET User Group talk at 5:30 on the topic of Dynamic / Meta Programming. Ivan’s fantastic educational style means despite the hardcore sounding topic you’ll be sure to take away some great ideas!
RSVP: On the Microsoft Community Site (caution: SharePoint).

Two great events, both free of charge!

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Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 21 November 2011

We’re sponsoring Codemania! You should go to it!

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In March next year some of the folks in the New Zealand dev community are putting on a conference. The event is not language or technology specific + it’s looking like it’s got some great personality! We’re proud to be supporting this event by signing on as an early sponsor.

Check out the website at codemania.co.nz (it’s a stunning, check it out — seriously)

At a very modest conference price ($240 if you take advantage of the early bird special), the event is shaping up to be a nice addition to the development calendar for 2012. If you’re a New Zealand developer OR you fancy a trip to New Zealand and want to be able to write it off as a ‘work expense’, then lock in the Codemania conference.

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Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 29 September 2011

F# Friday – 1 hour video presentation

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So you lapped up Ivan’s Dynamic & Meta Programming in .NET 4 earlier in the week? Thought it was a bit too easy going and want something to sink your teeth into this Friday afternoon? Look no further than Ivan’s presentation on F# programming!

Watch the video online – be sure to rate it highly!

What more could you want on a Friday afternoon? I mean, maybe a beer but…

Question: Do you enjoy learning about F#? Would you be interested in an instructional series on how to work better with it? Drop us a comment if you’d be interested!

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Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 1 September 2011

Tech Ed NZ Wrap Up

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Another year of Tech Ed New Zealand has come to and end which means we’re all back on board and cranking out some great products. This year unfortunately not all sessions were recorded so while that means we could say more embarrassing things it also means we don’t have the same selection of videos to share this year.

Mindscape was well represented this year – we delivered 6 sessions in total with Jeremy delivering an additional 2 at the following code camp in the weekend after. Overall I think the feedback was really good and, at last check, Ivan managed to score the highest rated session at Tech Ed this year (maybe one day Microsoft NZ will put him in the theatre so people can sit down, his sessions have been standing room only for a couple of years now! Hint hint).

Thankfully that session was recorded so if you’re ready to expand your mind and explore dynamic and meta programming with .NET 4 you can do so here:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NewZealand/2011/DEV403?WT.mc_id=eml-n-nz-loc–tetofe

Thanks to everyone who came to our sessions, who won Mindscape prizes and those that came and drank with us! Nothing like talking about chaos theory, 4 dimensional hyper spheres, hypothetical Trask psychics all while drinking Sake. Good Times!

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Posted by John-Daniel Trask on 29 August 2011

Mindscape at TechEd New Zealand 2011

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For New Zealand folks, TechEd 2011 is next week and Mindscape will be there en masse — we are even hoping to lure Jason away from Monster Hunter to join in the fun. We don’t have a stand this year but we will be around the conference floor — well, if you can count the local pubs and sake bars as part of the conference floor — or you can catch us at the following sessions:

A practical developer’s introduction to F# (Thursday 09:00)
Tools I use to improve my development (Thursday 15:10)
The WCF Web community — REST, jQuery and WebSockets (Thursday 16:30)
Kick starting your Web development with ASP.NET 4.0 (Friday 11:55)
Making asynchronous programming easy (Friday 13:55)
Dynamic and metaprogramming in .NET 4 (Friday 15:10)

We always love to meet customers and fellow developers so if you run into us then do say hi!

And while we’re here don’t forget Code Camp 2011, the Sunday after TechEd. Jeremy will be giving a couple of talks there so don’t miss it!

The serious bit

Since we’ll be pretty busy at TechEd, there’s likely to be some delay in responding to forums posts between Tuesday 23 August and Monday 29 August. Please be patient — we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!