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Upcoming events in Cambridge and Gloucester

UK readers may be interested to hear of the following events, where you’ll get to see me frantically try to write lots of code in front of an audience, while constantly worrying that my laptop is about to do a BSoD:

StackOverflow Dev Days, Cambridge
October 30th 2009, 1:50pm – 2:50pm

ASP.NET MVC - Microsoft’s new web development framework has got the .NET world excited - but what’s it like to use? How does it compare with classic ASP.NET, Ruby on Rails, and other web development platforms? In this session we build a small application, using MVC architecture, clean URLs, domain-driven design (DDD), tight HTML, and straightforward Ajax. We’ll make use of the new features coming soon in ASP.NET MVC v2, including strongly-typed UI templating and model validation.

(Please note: this event is now sold out)

Gloucestershire .NET User Group
November 6th 2009, 6:30pm – 9:00pm

The same talk as given as Dev Days (described above), plus:
Attacking and defending an ASP.NET MVC site If you’re developing for the web, you can’t afford to ignore security. In this session we’ll consider the attack vectors that apply to all web development platforms - not only ASP.NET MVC - including cross-site request forgery (CSRF), cross-site scripting (XSS), click hijacking, and several others. After demonstrating each attack in operation, we’ll see how to secure our ASP.NET MVC application against it. Plus, we’ll consider one or two common security pitfalls that are specific to ASP.NET MVC itself.

More information on the GL.net site

Now about those BSoDs… should I risk installing new graphics drivers?

DDD South West: The Video

Back at the end of May, we held the first ever Developer Developer Developer! South West event in Taunton, UK. This was a free one-day conference for .NET developers, and by all accounts was a great success: sun, cream teas, cornish pasties, about 170 attendees, and four seminar tracks packed with technical content.

We were lucky to get Chris King to film and edit a video summary of the day. Grab a pastie and check this out: