Zi’s Blog

Where

Conchango
36 Southwark Bridge Road,
London,
SE1 9EU

When

25th June 2008 @6.30

What

We are going to have two speakers, Ian Cooper and Ben Lamb. Ian is going to be talking about CRC cards. Below is a description of what Ben is going to be talkin about.

How to Write Crap Code in C# - Anti-Patterns for Performance
Most developers want the best possible performance from their code. Inspired by the idea of "proof by contradiction" this talk looks at how to write slow code and how the .NET platform, Windows and the processor will try and sabotage your efforts. A variety of techniques for inefficient coding will be covered including:
Flow control with Exceptions
Abusing Threads
Misuse of the Heap

It’s one man against some of the brightest minds in Redmond, seeking an answer to the question "How Slow Can It Go?"

We have a date!!! Put it in your diaries!

I am at DevWeek this week and will be organising a dinner on Wednesday 12th March. Microsoft is going to be giving me lots of free licenses of Visual Studio 2008 to give away or install on the night!

Everyone is welcome. Please log onto the wiki for more details and to sign up.

Let me know if you have any problems.

I have booked the Thai Square for 6.30pm. Note this is the Mansion House branch.

Click here for wiki and more more details.
Click here for restaurant details and map.

Hope to see some of you tonight!

No venue booked just yet but probably be somewhere in the City of London. If you know of a good venue then let me know! 

If you would like to come along sign up here.

The wiki for DDD6 is up. Sign up here. If you need a hand with editing the wiki let me know.

It will be available for download (via a MSDN) subscription by the end of the month. Go here for more details.

As some of you may or may not know I have a MDA Vario II from T-mobile. About a week ago I installed a new virtual keyboard for it from Cootek. What can I say… IT IS BRILLIANT. I can finally do 1-handed-texting with my phone. Something you can’t do with either the regular or the slide out keyboard. I have stopped using the slide out keyboard as I am faster… must faster on the TouchPal keyboard.

It is free… so go download and install now!

That means you Peter and Liam ;)

The agenda for DDD6 is now live! Click here to see what we have installed for you for the day.

Note: We are still in the process of getting in contact with the speakers and making sure they still want to/can speak. So there might be some small changes to the agenda.