Andy Gibson

Andy Gibson is a Web/Support Programmer at Storm ID in Edinburgh with a background in web application development including ASP.NET MVC, Umbraco, PHP and jQuery. He is always on the lookout for new technologies to play with and loves to learn what he can about things especially in the web development arena.

Keen to give back to the community, Andy has spoken at a number of community events including many of the DDD series as well as at local user groups. He is currently the chairman of Scottish Developers, a user group for programmers all across Scotland, for which he organises various talks and events including DDD Scotland and the upcoming DunDDD.

In his spare time (not that he has much), Andy enjoys table-top wargamming, computer games, Formula 1 and writing more code.

Sessions Submitted

NLog - Getting the Best From Your Logs

Logging, it can be a tedious and frustrating component to add to any application but it can be a critical tool in diagnosing and fixing bugs both during development and most importantly, post-launch. .NET has a number of logging frameworks but NLog has some very powerful features to bring to the table and this session will show you how to harness the power of the little logging framework that could in to your own applications. NLog can be used in a great number of scenarios ranging from ASP.NET deployment through to server monitoring and desktop application feedback.

This session will introduce you to NLog before showing you through live examples the main features of the framework and how you can use them in your own .NET development. If you are fed up tearing your hair out with your own logging solution or are simply open to seeing alternatives, this is the session for you!

What's New In ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (and 3.0)

ASP.NET MVC has been making waves over the past 2 years within the ASP.NET community and quite rightly so with features such as promoting separation of concerns, strongly typed views and a great routing system but it doesn't stop there. ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is now publicly available and is also being shipped with Visual Studio 2010 but what new features have been brought to the table? What has changed? And most importantly, how will you be affected by upgrading from 1.0?

This session will bring you up to speed with all the information you need to know delivered through slides and more interestingly, live demos. Topics covered include (but not limited to)

- Areas

- Model-Validator Providers

- Optional URL Parameters

- Template / HTML Helper improvements

- Additions and updates to MVC Attributes

- Visual Studio integration improvements

- Breaking changes from MVC 1.0

- To upgrade or not to upgrade (or simply, Advice)

In addition, this session will also look at planned features for ASP.NET MVC 3.0 which is already available as a preview release.