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Charteris plc is an AIM-listed business and IT consultancy delivering a range of specialised capabilities and solutions that enable organisations to transform business performance through the strategic application of technology. |
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Having opened in September 2007, Cambridge will offer a unique insight into Microsoft Research. |
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| Allister Frost |
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My first encounter with any form of software development was with a ZX81 in 1982. However at four years old, I was just typing what Dad said. I guess I was an early starter in ‘Pair programming’!
Since then I’ve always had a hand in computing, both software and hardware. I’ve setup a few companies, my first at 17, system building and my first websites in the late 90's. I’ve helped develop around 50 websites over the last 10 years from KP’s portfolio in 1998 to various charities in 2000 (NCDL, WaterAid & GreenPeace Int.) to a number of private .COM ventures (article27 & blue-wire). I had a hand in helping to deliver Vodafone’s ground-breaking M-Pesa project which started in 2007, a mobile money transfer platform.
Most recently, my role involved setting up Visual Studio Lab Management for software teams across CGI Logica for their Retail clients.
I have also delivered a number of training courses for customers in Retail, Banking, Insurance and Software consultancies, covering Microsoft MVC, WPF/Silverlight and TFS Lab Management.
I’ve been known to fly on occasion at Cambridge airport, though I haven’t got anywhere near a PPL yet (I’m not sure if I trust myself!) |
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| Rachel Hawley |
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As far as technology goes, if it has more than one button I am lost. In a sea of technical content and emerging technologies, I am adrift on a raft made only from DevExpress USB drives and two empty Haribo packets.
However, fortunately for me I enjoy trying to learn about what's new and exciting in the developer community from a huge group of people who are infintely more knowledgable than I.
I've been working in the technology sector since I graduated in 2004, with a near useless degree for this line of work (a Masters in Experimental Phonetics ... on the off chance that you're interested). I first caught a glimpse of what this fast-paced industry might offer me when I worked for Autonomy, and following that I discovered a fantastic developer community when I moved to Red Gate Software. Now I give out the warm fuzzies to DevExpress customers, while making sure that the community that welcomed me in is provided for and supported by as many advocates as I can find behind the scenes. |
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| Chris Hay |
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Chris is regularly caught by his wife browsing internet sites at 2.00am in the morning. Sadly he is always looking at .NET sites rather than the haunts frequented by his peers.
Chris has worked on various large projects and is specialised in C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, SQL and various other acronymns. Having always tried to keep at the front of the technology curve, i guess it is time to share that knowledge around a little.
Simple tip, never mention Silverlight infront of him (if you are in a hurry).
You can catch him on his blog http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com |
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| Ian Johnson |
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I have worked in a number of languages from the virtually unknown Visual Objects through to currently developing in C# with MVC and building RESTful (*cough* not quite) APIs.
Most of the time I have some pet projects, that rarely finish, that allow me to play with new technologies. From a technology standpoint, I am currently interested in developing some mobile applications (especially some cross-platform apps) that are talking back to cloud services.
I spent a lot of time evangelising agile/lean processes and want to get more people at least understanding their processes, identifying the bottlenecks and trying to "inspect and adapt".
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| John McLoughlin |
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| I work for as a freelance software guy based in Southampton and have been cutting code for over 15 years. I specialise in C# & .NET, and have recently started experimenting with HTML 5. You'll often see me lurking around at various MSDN and Community events. |
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| An Async Christmas Cracker |
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| It's that time of year again! Liam Westley is donning his Santa hat and coming to town. We also heard that he's bringing us some tasty, homemade treats from his kitchen. Add to that the promise of specially brewed Red Gate beer and our NxtGen Christmas Cracker is in full swing!
Our speaker, Liam, is Head Of Engineering at Criteria Labs Ltd where he leads a team of .Net developers in delivering digital media downloads.
Previous to Criteria MX, Liam worked as a consultant and still runs his own company Tiger Computer Services Ltd, specialising in software for Broadcast Television. His Niagara SMS moderation system has been used by QVC UK for the last eight years to display SMS messages from viewers, live, on screen.
Liam is also responsible for the ticketing system for Hat Trick Productions which provides e-tickets to shows such as Have I Got News For You, Room 101 and The Kumars at No 42B.
Liam has worked for chellomedia, GMTV, BSkyB, SmashedAtom and Original Thinking Group. In his time he created the first in house weather system for Sky News using Visual Basic 1.0, acted as architect for two general election systems, project managed the launch of the GMTV web site, was key to delivering the first interactive television chat service in the UK for BSkyB and helped launch the first live shopping channels in the Netherlands.
Liam's blog can be found at http://geekswithblogs.net/twickers, or you can follow him on twitter, @westleyl.
Thanks to the kind folks at Red Gate Software for putting us up this month *and* for providing us with great food! Please show them you care by tweeting your thanks to @redgate. |
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