When: Tuesday 8th July 2008, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm
Where: UWE (University of the West of England), Frenchay, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) - Room 3c01 (in C block)
Room Change!!! This meeting will be in Room 3c01 (in C block) i.e. no where near our normal room. Check the map for details.
What: "How To Give Great Presentations" & "Top 10 Tips For Internationalizing ASP.NET Applications"
Who: Guy Smith-Ferrier
Why: Because in "How To Give Great Presentations" you will learn tips and tricks on how to create and deliver great presentations. Your style is who you are but knowing how to get the best out of yourself is a skill that can be learnt. And in "Top 10 Tips For Internationalizing ASP.NET Applications" you will learn how 10 tips for adapting your ASP.NET applications to be language- and culture-independent.
How do I sign up for this meeting: Send an email to meetings at dotnetdevnet.com and quote your user name and the July meeting
Abstracts:
How To Give Great Presentations
Ever wanted to give great presentations at work, user groups, conferences or DDD ? This presentation is for you. It is designed to teach you everything you need to know about making your presentation an excellent presentation. Almost anyone can learn how to give great presentations; it is all a matter of knowing how to choose your subject, how to prepare your presentation, how to give your presentation and what not to do in your presentation. The information provided in this session is the accumulation of tips and tricks of over 20 years of giving and receiving technical presentations, running a technical training company and being the trainer for Borland’s European Train The Trainer programme. No previous experience required.
Top 10 Tips For Internationalizing ASP.NET Applications
The localization model introduced in ASP.NET 2 is effective and easy to learn. On the face of it you select Tools | Generate Local Resources and you’re done. But this process is only effective if you know localization and globalization issues to look for. This session provides a Top Ten list of localization and globalization issues that are specific to ASP.NET applications and shows how to overcome these problems. Without giving too much away a few of the issues covered are localizing images, localizing JavaScript, globalizing regular expressions and preparing aspx and ascx files for effective localization.
About Guy:
Guy is an MVP in ASP.NET. He is the author of ".NET Internationalization" published by Addison-Wesley (http://www.dotneti18n.com). He is a Microsoft Certified Professional developer, author, trainer and speaker, has spoken at many European and US conferences, is the winner of the NxtGen Best Presentation 2006/2007, has been voted best speaker three times and is an INETA Speaker. He runs The .NET Developer Network (http://www.dotnetdevnet.com), a free .NET user group in the South West of England. He is the author of C#/.NET courseware and much of the official Borland courseware including courses on COM and ADO. He has written over 50 articles for numerous magazines, has co-authored an application development book and is the author of the ADO chapter of "Mastering Delphi 6". You can read his blog at http://www.guysmithferrier.com.