Behind The Buzzword #10 - Our First Birthday Bash! Hands On Lightning Talks!

Incredibly, we've made it to our first birthday! A year to the day from when we launched in a tiny back room in the Northern Quarter, Behind The Buzz Word is going to celebrate like only we know how: With 6 hands on lightning talks to allow you to play with some of the best kit in .NET.

6 speakers from around Manchester will allow you to get hands on with some amazing topics, just bring your laptop and get cracking. A big thanks to Insight Investment for hosting us for a second time.

Behind The Buzz Word is all about creating a sense of community, providing an opportunity for people to learn and engage with their peers in an environment that is equally as welcoming whether you're walking in alone or as part of a group of 10. It's all about making friends, learning new things, and eating some mighty fine pizza.

Doors open at 6pm with the first talk at 6:30pm.

Speakers:

Toli Apostolidis (Infrastructure Automation Engineer at Cinch) - Observability Patterns in .NET
Liam Woods (.NET Developer at Insight Investment) - Dependency Injections in ASP.NET Core
Kenneth Popay (Software Developer at WonderBill) - Lodash/FP
Iain Farrington (Principal Software Developer at MPP Global) - Azure Message Queues
Skylar Gill - (Software Developer at Sorted) - Processing Readable Sentences into API Calls using the Bot Framework
Steven Atkinson (Lead Developer at Dootrix) - Reflecting on Reflection in an Open Source Library

For those of you partaking in the kata on Thursday, the list of pre-requisites isn't too long, especially considering we have 6 talks! I have enclosed the list below. This will cover you for all 6 talks and most of you will have the majority installed already:

• .NET Core (any version)

• Visual Studio Code

• Storage emulator: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-emulator

• An Azure DevOps account

Once again, a huge thanks to Insight Investment for having us, and thanks to you, the development community, for making this event so special.