Yesterday evening I went to my first meeting of the Bristol based .Net user group DotNetDevNet (http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/). It was an enjoyable and interesting evening starting with several small talks/demonstrations by members followed by a talk by Kendall Miller (@kendallmiller) of Gibralter Software.
The first member talk and demonstration was about ZeroMQ Socket Library which was of great interest as i'm currently working on an alerting system where this may be an option. Good demonstration of it working on PC and Linux.
The second member demonstration was retrieving a twitter feed and displaying it on a Windows Phone. Again of great interest to me as I'm writing an app (MP Checker - more to follow about that) for the phone at the moment.
The main speaker Kendall Miller of Gibraltar Software provided a very interesting talk 'Natural Laws of Software Performance'. Kendall talked about and demonstrated ways to effectively use the increasing number of cores in todays and future multicore processors including an explanation of the limitations in processor design which will lead to more and more multiple cores.
A very interesting evening. Looking forward to next month when there will be a talk from Richard Campbell from the .Net Rocks.
Anyway...better get on with some work...this code wont write itself!
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