coastnerds.com domain expires in September

Hi All,

The coastnerds.com domain will expire on 14 September.  If anyone is interested in renewing it let me know otherwise I'll let it expire.  You will still be able to access the site using the blogger link should you wish.  The address is ccnerdsofafeather.blogspot.com

On the subject of future meetups, if anyone out there is keen to organise something let us know.  If you don't have publishing access to the site I can arrange that.  There is also the google mailing group, facebook and google+ channels available should you prefer. Otherwise I think we'll just play it by ear.  

Cheers,
Shannon

June Meetup - CANCELLED

The Meetup scheduled for 18th June has been Cancelled.

April Meetup

April Meetup

The next meetup event is going to be at:

Blink Mobile 

Suite 2, 125 Donnison Street, Gosford
Tuesday 16th April @ 6pm

The topic this month will be Tool Time ... how to
make your development and testing life easier

This month we have a DOOR PRIZE free license of
Redgate's ANTS Performance Profiler (worth $395)

Tool Time

Come along for a comparison of development tools
per browser vendor, and how to use them

 How to debug Node.JS with node-inspector,
how to debug Ruby on Rails
and a guide to remote debugging
Android / Blackberry / iOS.

And for Windows developers find out about
some great add-ins for Visual Studio, refactoring tools

test runners, package tools etc and a demonstration
of ANTS Performance Profiler. 


Door Prize kindly donated by

Starting at 6am there will be two quick
presentations winding up at around 7ish.  

*Also note the change of address for BlinkMobile.

Hope to see you there.

March Meetup

The next meetup event is going to be at:

BlinkMobile

Suite 2, 125 Donnison Street, Gosford

Tuesday 26th March

6pm

Yes, this is not actually the 3rd Tuesday of the month, but better late than never.  

This month I will be giving a short talk:

Silverlight to Knockout

As a .Net Developer I have spent a few years working with WPF & Silverlight. However, over the past few months I have been exploring the JavaScript MVVM library called Knockout that shares a similar data-binding pattern with WPF/Silverlight. In this talk I will walk through the common "Task List" MVVM example using both Silverlight (with Caliburn Micro) and Knockout.  

As discussed at the last meetup we will be trialing a new shorter format this month. The aim is to start earlier, have a quick presentation followed by dinner and wind-up at around 7ish.  We will decide on what to eat on the night. If you want dinner bring along some cash to chip in. 

*Also note the change of address for BlinkMobile.

Hope to see you there.

February Meetup

The next meetup event is going to be at:

The Austrian Schnitzelhaus, Erina Fair

Tuesday 19th February

7pm

This will be the first meetup for the year and we will be having an informal get together at the Austrian Schnitzelhaus at Erina Fair.

 Hopefully we can get things organised for our first round of presentations and talks in March.  Think of some ideas that you would like to talk about or hear about and we can start planning. 

Come along and enjoy a schnitzel, a beverage (or two) and good conversation with like-minded IT Professionals.

See you there.