Due to commitments April's meeting will be on Tuesday the 16th.NxtGenUG member Ian Russell gives us a pragmatic view of Dependency Injection. In the session, you will discover what Dependency Injection is, why you will want, and need, to use it in your projects, when it is and is not appropriate to use it and and how to get the best out of it.
Ian Cooper returns to Oxford to enlighten us on where TDD went wrong.Since Kent Beck wrote the book on TDD in 2002 a lot of words have been dedicated to the subject. But many of them propogated misunderstandings of Kent's original rules so that TDD practice bears little resemblance to Kent's original ideas. Key misunderstandings around what do I test, what is a unit test, and what is the 'public interface' have led to test suites that are brittle, hard to read, and do not support easy refac.
Tarun Arora (MVP and ALM Ranger) will be stopping by to talk about Visual Studio 2012 Tools to battle the 2 most common scenarios we run into as developers: Poor performance and bugs which are on production but not test or dev!. This talk will show how to use IntelliTrace in Production and Visual Studio Standalone profiler to combat these issues.
Jessie Liberty's tour rolls into Oxford for special Event. He'll be talking about Windows 8 for Developers , so make sure to catch this one!
Ashic Mahtab comes up from London to talk about CQRS, Event Source and how it can bring Elegance to "Normal" Applications.
Top bloke, worldwide speaker and all round nice chap Guy Smith-Ferrier heads up to Oxford to talk about his one true passion "Internationalisation"! Guy will show us how to internationalise an MVC application.