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Continuous Delivery

It was an excellent session -- thank you, Steve. When can we take a look at the slides again?
Posted on 15/02/2012 4:22:40 p.m.


Topics for Steve Godbold's talk - February 14

Please list your top 3 interest in the following topics, and a time on February 14 you could attend. 1. “Continuous Delivery” - We’ve all heard the story of Flickr and their multiple production deployments in a single day. It sounds like a great place to be, but like the slogan says ‘it w...
Posted on 31/01/2012 7:25:55 p.m.


Ideas for Speakers and Topics

Hey everyone, Interested in hearing of topics people would be keen to get speakers for, and if anyone out there is keen to speak come forward also. Topics of interest in the past have been: - Object Relational Mapping, EF, etc - SQL Databases for Developers - Introduction topics (C#4, ...
Posted on 31/01/2012 7:22:10 p.m.


Fixed times for meetings

Hey everyone, It was suggested last year that we look at doing a meeting for the group every month, regardless of whether speakers are available. This would work as kinda a fallback if no speaker is available, and may even go ahead if there is a speaker but still interest in discussing a part...
Posted on 31/01/2012 7:19:10 p.m.


RE:Talk Suggestions

.NET 4.5 including async +1
Posted on 26/01/2012 8:59:49 a.m.


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