Newcastle DPaC - Git Fundamentals & PowerShell Standards Agency

Featuring 2 great sessions from Craig Porteous and Paul Broadwith.

GIT FUNDAMENTALS: OPEN UP A WORLD OF COMMUNITY AND COLLABORATION

The world of coding can be a lonely one. But it doesn't have to be. Open up a world of social coding by learning the fundamentals of what holds together the software fabric of much of the internet.

Git is a technology that has revolutionised the open source world by providing the tools to collaborate on code from anywhere in the world. From individuals to huge organizations we can all now contribute to our favourite software at a time and place that suits us and influence software projects of all sizes.

In the session you will learn the fundamentals of git, what you need to start, how it works and how you can collaborate to make software, and the world a better place.

PAUL BROADWITH
SUPREME COMMANDER
I’m a Senior Technical Engineer for Chocolatey Software, Inc., living and working in Scotland. I've worked in IT for over 25 years now. As somebody kindly put it, I’ve been about a bit.
I love to automate through PowerShell and I love to teach others the same.

THE POWERSHELL STANDARDS AGENCY – WRITE BETTER CODE FOR EVERYBODY

There’s the quick way or there’s the right way. In this session we will look at good practices and standards to follow when writing PowerShell to make it easier for you and others to trust and reuse your code.

By the end of this session you’ll have a guide to being a better PowerShell citizen, following best practices and sharing your code with others.

Become a member of the PowerShell Standards Agency* (Not a real thing) and write better code for everybody.

CRAIG PORTEOUS
DATA ENGINEER
Craig is a Microsoft certified Data Engineer working with Incremental Group. He has more than 10 years working with the Microsoft Data Platform and related technologies, supporting global BI Environments, automating processes with PowerShell and implementing BI Solutions. Craig is actively involved in the SQL community as a co-leader of the Glasgow SQL User group & creator of the SQLGLA Event in Scotland.