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Introduction to jQuery – First Talk Over

Feb 062009

Wednesday evening saw my first non-university talk in front of a public audience. Due to a ridiculously resilient headache over the last two days I am only now getting around to posting the slide deck and code.

They can be found on the Talks page.

I would like to thank all who attended and if you missed it or want to see it again, there will be a repeat on the 8th of April at Microsoft’s offices in Edinburgh.

In addition (shameless plug time), I have session proposals up for both Developer Day Scotland (2nd May 2009) and DDD Belfast (4th April 2009). For DDD Scotland I have submitted “jQuery Deep Dive” which will look at jQuery a lot more indepth, revealing some of the more powerful features under the hood and what jQuery is actually doing when you run code. For DDD Belfast I have submitted both the deep dive and the introduction.

Voting for DDD Scotland is now open and Belfast wont be far behind.

Once again, thanks to everyone who attended and to Colin and Barry for organising the event and the support they have provided.

DDD South West: Call for speakers is open

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Feb 032009

Again, about a week late in announcing but I have been tied up with other things.

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! (DDD) Day South West is now accepting session submissions however with an aim to encourage new speakers there are some restrictions:

You must live in the United Kingdom.
You must not have presented at a major event before (including but not limited to any DDD, TechEd, DevWeek). Speaking at a user group is fine (and encouraged!).
You must have presented your full session at a user group at a date prior to DDD South West (in other words there must be a live practice run to a public audience other than your work colleagues).

The big difference here being the second restriction. So if you haven’t spoken at a large event before but are active in local user groups (or any user groups really then this could be a good opertunity for you to submit a session proposal.

The event will be held on Saturday, 23rd May 2009 at Queen’s College, Taunton in Somerset.

http://www.dddsouthwest.com

DDD South West is just one of the regional Developer Day events that will be running this year.

DDD Scotland (Session voting now open) 2nd May 2009 in Glasgow - http://developerdayscotland.com/main/Default.aspx
DDD Belfast (Session voting due to open soon) 4th April 2009 in Belfast - http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/belfast/
DDD 8 (Planning) - http://www.developerday.co.uk

These events are all free to attend!

Bio

Andy is a software engineer based in Scotland who has over 8 years experience working in Web Development and .NET.

Andy is a passionate developer and is always looking for ways to hone his skills and improve at his craft. He believes that good programmers are also social programmers and as such is involved in the UK development community. At home he is currently the Chairman of Scottish Developers and further afield he has spoken at a number of events across the UK and Ireland.

In his downtime Andy is a computer gamer and keeps close tabs on the games industry. You may even catch him playing Warhammer 40k from time to time ;-)