Perth .NET User Group: Agile Software Development

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We had another great turnout at the Perth .NET User Group presentation last Thursday:

(A handful more people arrived after I took this photo)

Thanks to Dwayne Read for presenting on the topic of Agile and to everyone who attended, and helped out. Keeping to the theme of Agile software development, here are a few resources that you might be interested in:

The following books are worth reading:

Meeting Reminder: Thurs 7th Aug: Agile in a .NET Environment

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Join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, August 7th to hear Dwayne Read compare two of the more dominant agile methodologies, XP and FDD, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of both. Examples of the application of these techniques at Snowden Technologies in a .NET/TFS environment will be discussed. This presentation is aimed at highlighting the importance of shaping the process to fit the type of applications a company develops, the people/communication side of development and the technologies they utilise.

TOPIC: Agile in a .Net Environment with Dwayne Read
DATE: Thursday, August 7th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome.

More details here: http://perthdotnet.org/blogs/events/archive/2008/07/12/agile-in-a-net-environment.aspx.

There will be a door prize of a ReSharper license (courtesy of JetBrains), and a copy of the book “Practices of an Agile Developer” (courtesy of O’Reilly publishing).

The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Project

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If you have ever had to consult Abramowitz and Stegun’s Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables you will know what a useful resource it is. Despite its iconic status, its format and layout looks dated and its searchability could be better.

The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions project is an ongoing effort to perform a complete rewrite of this work, updated for current needs. This resource will be published in book form as the Handbook of Mathematical Functions as well as a free online Digital Library.

Disable Visual Studio Add-ins from Loading

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I expect most people know this already, and I’m sure in the distant past I’ve been shown it, but…

If you are ever in the situation where you would like to start up Visual Studio with any add-ins temporarily disabled, hold down the left-shift key while Visual Studio starts.

Reminder: Perth .NET User Group Meeting: Thurs July 10th

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Don’t forget, if you’re in Perth this Thursday, join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, July 10th to hear Bill Chesnut talk about Hands on WCF: looking at ways to use WCF from .Net, ASP and BizTalk.

TOPIC: Hands on WCF with Bill Chesnut
DATE: Thursday, July 10th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome.

Perth .NET User Group Meeting: Thurs July 10th

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If you are in Perth this Thursday, join us at the Perth .NET Community of Practice, July 10th to hear Bill Chesnut talk about Hands on WCF: looking at ways to use WCF from .Net, ASP and BizTalk. These are hot topics and Bill is well placed to demonstrate what can be achieved with these Microsoft technologies.

TOPIC: Hands on WCF with Bill Chesnut
DATE: Thursday, July 10th, 5:30pm
VENUE: Excom, Level 2, 23 Barrack Street, Perth
COST: Free. All welcome.

Bill Chesnut is the Principal Consultant at Stargate Global Consulting. He’s a BizTalk Server MVP, been involved with .Net since before the release of V1, and involved in the IT world since 1983. His current focus is primarily on BizTalk, WF & WCF.