Manchester July Meetup - In Person Only

Network, learn, ask a question, meet other folks - these are all things that happen at user group events. These events are a really great opportunity to socialise in an informal learning experience.

Remember to tell your friends and the people you work with; make sure you register as soon as you can.

In-person only event. Not being recorded.

Thank you to UInsure and Venturi for their support.

17:45 – 18:00 Intro and updates
18:00 – 19:00 Andy Cutler - My Dopamine Has Gone Missing: A Tale of Frustration & Enlightenment.
I sat down to study for a certification ... not an unusual thing for me to do.
After 5 minutes my mind had wandered, I pulled myself back together and got on with the learning. Except I couldn't ... my mind wandered again. I started to read a book, after 10 minutes my mind had wandered ... I started a work task and you guessed it, my mind had wandered. What was wrong? I'm not lazy, I'm not unfocused, I have no blockers in anything I want to do and work on. So what was the problem? I searched for the answer and found Dopamine...
In this session I will talk about my journey from frustration to enlightenment and how I rediscovered I could learn, read, and work again unhindered by distractions.
Quick Break
19:20 – 20:20 Steve Powell - Change Event Streaming: Great feature lousy documentation.
A hidden gem of a feature that was only recently released. Getting it setup is really sparsely documented but it just does what it says on the tin. I'll walk you through how not to do it and what that looks like. Then try and put it in so it's working. We'll build a simple table replication process that is very much fire and forget once its running. All live cos I like living dangerously.