London .Net User Group: Open Mike Night

On Wednesday 20th October 2010 in organise an London .Net User Group (LDNUG) Open Mike Night.
Open Mike Night is a night to introduce new speakers to the community. Over the last year we have noticed not many new speakers coming through the ranks in LDNUG, this has been our own fault for not creating the arena for them to take to the stage.

There was 5 talks 10-15 minutes long on any topic related to been a developer. They all did very well, I know it is not easy as I was there once, my first talk was also a LDNUG 10 minute talk. So I wish them well on their journey and hope to see them presenting longer talks at bigger events!

Thanks you everyone for coming and making such an great night. I hope to see you at the next events and if you have any suggestions or questions please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Speaker details:

Talk: "Three years of running a Tiny software company.. All my mistakes.."
Name: James Knowles
Email: james@unwindsoftware.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/unwindsoftware
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/unwindsoftware
Blog/website: http://blog.unwindsoftware.com/
Slide/code links: http://www.unwindsoftware.com/presentations/Three-years-of-running-a-Tiny-software-company.pptx

Talk: "Introduction to Sass"
Name: Garry Shutler
Email: garry@robustsoftware.co.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gshutler
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/garry-shutler/13/896/a98
Blog/website: http://www.robustsoftware.co.uk/
Slides: http://bit.ly/ldnugsassslides
Images: http://bit.ly/ldnugsassimages

Talk: "Pair programming, the good, the bad and the ugly"
Name: Sara Stephens
Email: sara@sarastephens.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/developerdame
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarajstephens
Blog/website: http://www.developerdame.com/
Slide/code links: watch the blog

Talk: "Pair programming, the good, the bad and the ugly"
Name: Rachel Laycock
Email: rachellaycock@googlemail.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rachellaycock
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/rachellaycock
Blog/website: http://www.rachellaycock.com/
Slide/code links: watch the blog

Talk: "HTML5 basics"
Name: Robin Minto
Email: robin@minto.co.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/robinem
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/robin-minto/22/496/799
Blog/website: http://robinminto.com/blog/
Slide/code links: http://robinminto.com/blog/2010/10/22/html5-basics-presentation/

Talk: "Cross platform mobile app development"
Name: Matt Lacey
Email: matt@mrlacey.co.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrlacey
Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/mrlacey
Blog/website: http://blog.mrlacey.co.uk/
Slide/code links: http://blog.mrlacey.co.uk/2010/10/phonegap-at-ldnug.html
Main code is from www.phonegap.com
WP7 version is currently at www.github.com/mrlacey/phonegap-wp7

Next LDNUG Events:
Thursday 4^th November 2010
Mads Torgersen from Microsoft will talk about C# 5. We will probably be the first people in Europe to present on it.
http://skillsmatter.com/event/open-source-dot-net/c-sharp-5

Thursday 18^th November 2010
Sarah Taraporewalla (http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/) on Integration Points
This is still been organised so watch the mailing list for details

Other Events:
Saturday 22^nd 2010
DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! These FREE one day events build on the success of the previous DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Days. As before, it is all about developers learning, sharing and interacting with each other in an informal and relaxed atmosphere.
http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ddd8a/

Tuesday 26^th October 2010
OpenSpaceBeers are a one hour open-space, organized in a pub, with an open bar, for all the creative juices of the IT community to come and reflect on their own practices.
http://openspacebeers.eventbrite.com/

If you could vote for Michelle Flynn as a way for thanking her for venue and beer that would be awesome. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/10/20/243307/Vote-in-the-Computer-Weekly-IT-Blog-Awards-2010.htm