Developmentor has moved

In addition to working hard at RSK myself and Richard are also instructors for Developmtor.  Both of us author and teach a range of courses for them.  This year has seen Developmentor move from Hammersmith to central London, for all of you who are based in and around London they are offering an evening of tech and nibbles to show case the new location.  Details below, hopefully see some of you there.

Come and see us! On Monday 6th February 2012, 5-7pm to cement the move to our new London City location in Moorgate, we invite you to our house warming, entertainment provided by Richard Blewett and Andy Clymerwho will be revealing the magic behind the new and exciting C#5 Async and AWait keywords. To register your interest for this free event, please email us salesuk@develop.com or call 01242 525108 .

Code smarter with Design Patterns

Just finished updating the Code Smarter with Design Patterns for Developmentor. 

The course traditionally has focused on GoF design patterns, in this release I have added MVC and Repository pattern, to round off the offering.

Both these patterns build upon the GoF patterns discussed earlier in the course, and show how the basic GoF patterns are often compounded to produce elegant solutions.

Other enhancements include addition of Prototype and Builder patterns, and a general upgrade to the latest features offered by the .NET framework.

To learn more click here

Devweek 2012

RSK guys will be speaking at DevWeek this year, and as usual we will be talking about a large range of cutting edge topics, including

Our fluffy cuddly colouring in guy Dave Wheeler will be doing a huge number of sessions on Windows 8 Metro including the Keynote to get you all fired up, but don’t think they will be all soft, one session includes a COM primer for all those youngsters who didn’t take their COM apprentiship.

Rich will be covering topics from Whats New in WCF 4.5, and the ever cool Reactive Framework, and a deep dive into the GC, something all developers should have intimate knowledge of.

Andy will be covering the new async functionality of C#5, highlighting how you now write both ui and server side code to consume and enable the use of these new wonderful keywords, and doing a whole day of threading as a pre con on Monday

Kevin will be presenting a day of building MVC applications, along with a session on unit testing. 

During the breaks Dr Rock Man will also be there to try and solve your specific technical problems or just happy to hear you rant about the code base you have just inherited.

In total we will be presenting a total 19 sessions, plus pre and post conference sessions.  Hopefully see you there with what should be a fun pact week..

Customer Access Terminal V2

Rich and myself are just about to install the next version of our Customer Access Terminal solution at one of our existing customers.  So it seems a convenient time to mention we now have a web site that provides a detailed overview of all the features in V2.

Face 2 Face Asssit

CAT Terminal on film

The council that recently purchased our CAT kiosk made a short movie for their local tv station, if you are interested in seeing the CAT in action

Click here

The CAT piece is 1 minute 29 seconds into the movie.

CAT Terminal

Following up from my recent post on our CAT kiosk deployment.

Here is a link to the councils own article

Customer Access Terminal (CAT)

Yesterday was a big day for Rich and myself we successfully deployed our CAT software to our first customer in conjunction with our video conferencing partner First Connections.  The software allows members of the public to interact with their local council almost as if they are with them in person.  Allowing members of the public to access services from rural locations.

The kiosk utilises two screens, one being a touch screen.  The touch screen is used to visit specific council web sites, or to start a video call with a member from one of the council help desk team.  Once in a video call the council representative can help complete specific council forms including taking passport style photos with the built in HD camera and customers signatures using a high resolution LCD signature pad.

All built using .NET 4 and Windows Embedded.