Rob Ashton
Hi,
I'm Rob Ashton and I like building things in whatever language I like at the moment.
This year I have been largely building full-stack applications in JS, using NodeJS, WebGL, HTML5 Canvas, etc.
They're pretty cool.
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Barry Carr
Barry Carr has been developing software since 1987. Barry has written software for many business sectors, including: Chemical; Pharmaceutical; Oil and Gas; Banking; Accounting; Legal Accounting; Public Sector and now Mining and Geology. Barry has also developed and sold his own software components to other developers. Always keen to keep his skills current, Barry devotes a lot of his personal time to technical development as well as keeping abreast of the current trends in the world of software development. Barry is also active in the software development community running the Dundee branch of Scottish Developers.
When he isn't coding, Barry likes to spend his time with photography, reading and unashamedly listening to progressive rock (especially while coding).
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Will Charles
I am a .NET developer with one of the UK's fastest growing software companies. Day to day I work with C#, .NET and SQL, but of an evening I'm curious mind that hacks away in Java/Android, Python, Scala and whatever else takes my interest that week.
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Ian Cooper
Ian Cooper has over 15 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys and Beazley delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of the benefits of OO and Agile. He is test-infected and contagious. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group. http://www.dnug.org.uk
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Dennis Doomen
I have over 14 years of experience in the IT industry and am the Principal Consultant at Aviva Solutions, a small Dutch .NET consultancy firm. Within the Dutch .NET community I’m well–known for having a pragmatic approach, and I have a lot of experience with ALM, TDD, BDD, DDD, design patterns, architecture, Agile practices, TFS and Silverlight. I’ve also published Coding Guidelines for C# 3.0 and C# 4.0 and developed Fluent Assertion, an open–source framework for verifying unit test expectations. Most recently, I’ve started developing a reference application demonstrating how to build line–of–business applications in Silverlight named The Silverlight Cookbook.
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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.
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Nathan Gloyn
Nathan Gloyn is a passionate developer, designer, agile evangelist, and now sometimes a presenter.
Nathan can be found on his blog Design, Code, Release where he often holds forth with opinions and occasionally write posts that interest people.
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Ben Hall
Ben Hall is the founder of Mayday (http://www.maydayhq.com), helping companies improve by alerting them when users experience problems on their website. With Mayday still an early startup, Ben is hands on with all aspects of sales, marketing and most importantly development with code being produced using NodeJS, Ruby, CoffeeScript, C# and Python - fun times! Ben is an ASP.net\IIS MVP and maintains a blog at http://www.codebetter.com/blogs/benhall and http://blog.benhall.me.uk and http://www.maydayhq.com
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Robert Hogg
Robert is co-founder and Managing Director of Black Marble, a software development company specialising in collaboration, ALM and innovative technology solutions. Robert is a long-time regular on the community circuit, and in his sixth year as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Currently, he is MVP for Connected Systems, with previous stints for Visual Studio, Architecture and BizTalk.
You can follow Robert on his blog (http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/boss/) and on Twitter (www.twitter.com/roberthogg).
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James Hughes
James works for Kainos Software Ltd. as a Technical Architect. He is also Kainos' Microsoft Capability Technology Leader and responsible for developer engagement throughout the company.
In his spare time James likes to talk about himself in the third person, attempt to blog about technical things on http://yobriefca.se and troll Twitter as @kouphax
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Ashic Mahtab
Ashic is a .NET consultant who's recently moved to London. He is an ASP.NET MVP since 2009, a moderator of the official ASP.NET community at www.asp.net, and is passionate about software architecture. He is currently exploring the world of CQRS, Event Sourcing and Event Driven Architecture while waging war on meaningless abstractions, waste, complexity and smelly code. [The atrocities required for such a war may cause smelly coders to think he is a bit mean - be warned!]
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Niall Merrigan
Niall Merrigan is an IT Architect with Laerdal Medical in Stavanger Norway. Working for over 12 years in development, he specialises in Sharepoint and ASP.NET but has been known to dabble in everything from network infrastructure to database optimisation. He maintains a blog on ASP.NET and Microsoft certifications at http://www.certsandprogs.com/ and can also be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nmerrigan.
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John Price
My background is in Point of sale for the retail sector, in particular petroleum.
I have been working as a developer as long as I can remember, in fact my first development job was as 15, while I was still at school!
I worked for 10 years at Wella GB as a developer developing systems for hairdressers before doing 4 years designing hardware for various platforms. I even had a hand in designing a 286 motherboard!
I then worked for Meggitt Petroleum Systems as a Technical Architect designing Point of Sale terminals and Back Office systems for major oil companies across the world. I have been lucky enough to visit 26 countries as diverse as South Africa and Japan doing this.
I developed some desktop and enterprise level applications using an obscure 4GL called Omnis.
Since then I have been working with .NET since its inception and was part of the beta program for 1.0 and have built a web site in ASP.NET
Numerous projects later I have sepcialised in media devices for XP and XP embedded and media center, along with mobile applications for devices ranging from symbian hardware through Pocket PC to Windows Mobile 6.1, the Vista versions and some Windows 7.
I am also a pilot and am fortunate to have an aeroplane at Coventry airport, at the flying club. I can usually be found on the airfield most Saturdays either flying the 'plane if the weathers good, or flying the bar if its not!
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Mark Rendle
Mark is currently employed as Principle Software Architect by Dot Net Solutions Ltd, creating all manner of software on the Microsoft stack, including ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure, WPF and Silverlight.
His career in software design and development spans three decades and more programming languages than he can remember. C# has been his favourite language pretty much since the first public beta, when you had to write the code in a text editor and compile it on the command line. Those were the days. You kids today, with your IntelliSense and your ReSharpers, don’t know you’re born...
Things vying for Mark’s attention lately include functional programming, dynamic programming, Ruby, internet-centric applications, the Azure cloud platform and NoSQL data stores.
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Gary Short
Gary has taken time off from his busy schedule training for the 2012 London Olympics, where he'll be competing in both the Three-legged Race, and the prestigious 100m Egg and Spoon, to submit for DDD10, that being the case the least you can do is to vote for one of his sessions, otherwise he'll have to go back to his day job where's he's Head of Gibraltar Labs, a "skunk works" division of Gibraltar Software.
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Garry Shutler
Senior developer at Zopa. Code samurai. @gshutler
http://www.robustsoftware.co.uk
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Paul Stack
 Developer who enjoys evaluating, and adopting, new technologies and tools. Currently work in London as a developer working on technologies from the .Net technology stack. Unhealthy obsession with clean code and AGILE practices,
especially Kanban, and more recently Continuous Integration
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Mike Taulty
Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft
in the UK where he has spent the past few years helping developers
understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. Prior to this,
Mike spent 3 years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant
on developer technologies.
Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as
a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and
software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client,
communication and server technologies.
Mike holds a BSc Hons (1st Class) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.
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Liam Westley
Liam Westley is Head Of Engineering at Criteria Labs Ltd where he leads a team of .Net developers in delivering digital media downloads. He works in an office on the 8th floor in Hammersmith where you can look out over Wembley Stadium, Loftus Road (QPR) and Craven Cottage (Fulham).
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 New 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 Liam on Twitter @westleyl.
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Phil Winstanley
Phil works for Microsoft and helps developers get the best out of Microsoft technology.
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