Thanks to everyone who joined us for the January meetup! A huge thank you once again to Codeweavers for hosting and supporting the event — their continued generosity makes these sessions possible.
“A Journey with ORM” provides a look at Object-Relational Mapping (ORM). It covers the basics of ORM, its advantages over traditional approaches like ADO.Net, and demonstrates the use of Entity Framework ORM. The presentation includes practical examples and discusses the benefits of using a generic repository pattern to manage database interactions efficiently.
A massive thank you to everyone who attended our final meetup of the year! We’re so grateful for your continued support, and a special thanks goes to Codeweavers for once again hosting us so graciously.
We ended the evening with festive cheer, replacing our usual open discussion session with a lively Christmas quiz and raffle. Thanks to generous prize donations from several members, everyone went home a winner!
As we bid farewell to 2024, we want to thank every attendee, speaker, and supporter for making this year so special. We’re excited to return next year with even more great talks, engaging discussions, and community-building events.
Discover the power of modern CSS as Adam guides us through creating production-ready components with robust customisation APIs. We’ll explore public and private variables, type registering, clamping, range mapping, mutation, inheritance, and maybe even answer that age-old question: “Is CSS even a real programming language?”
Unfortunately, the audio didn’t record for the first half of the talk, but trust us—it was fantastic! The second half is well worth a watch, so don’t miss out.
This month’s meetup was a truly special one as we celebrated 10 years of our community! Back in October 2014, our very first gathering was a casual social at the Bean enCounter, where we gauged interest in creating a local hub for web and tech enthusiasts. Fast forward to today, and what a journey it’s been!
We’ve faced our share of challenges over the years—COVID disruptions, sudden venue closures—but we’ve also enjoyed countless highs! Together, we’ve built a welcoming, friendly community that’s become a home for those working in web, tech, and related fields in Stafford. A massive thank you to everyone who has contributed to this milestone: our speakers, volunteers, sponsors, and of course, our attendees and members who make it all worthwhile.
A huge thanks goes out to Codeweavers for graciously hosting our event once again. Their continued support is genuinely appreciated!
In this talk we will cover my 5 key learnings about estimation from 10 years working in software delivery:
There is no one-size fits all approach
Context matters
Estimation is a team sport
Estimation is a team commitment
Estimation is a necessary evil
We’ll touch on different methods, understanding your situation, who should be involved, why people pleasing is the ultimate anti pattern and why it is actually important to provide some kind of estimation.
I would like people to walk away from my talk with a new or improved mindset about how they approach estimating in a software delivery context, and I’ll be around for questions or discussions afterwards.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the September meetup! A huge thank you once again to Codeweavers for hosting and supporting the event — their continued generosity makes these sessions possible.
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UX Traps and Triumphs: Common Research and Design Pitfalls
In this session, we’ll explore the most common traps that ensnare even seasoned UX professionals, and derail the best planned UX research and design projects. I won’t just dwell on the negatives, I’ll also share some great tips to help you sidestep these pitfalls and create truly user-centric experiences in your UX research and design projects.
Whether you’re a UX veteran, or involved in any sort of design, or heading-up a project client-side; you’ll walk away with practical tips and valuable lessons learned that you can apply to your next project.
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the August meetup! A huge thank you once again to Codeweavers for hosting and supporting the event — their continued generosity makes these sessions possible.
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Creating a Self-updating README with GitHub Actions
This talk provides an overview of the speaker’s journey in utilising GitHub Actions to create a profile README file that automatically updates itself with recent account activity. This is done with the goal of giving the audience a high-level introduction to the GitHub Actions platform while covering the speaker’s development decisions and considerations in achieving this task.
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