Virtual Meetup: Feb 2021

Wednesday, February 3, 2021
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM GMT

Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/Scottish-Developers/events/275643581/

In the first of our 2021 meetups we’ll have 2 great talks:

⭐ Future of HTML controls
⭐ A Piece of Cake – C# Powered Cross-platform Build Automation

Let’s get to know our speakers a bit more…

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Stephanie Stimac

Stephanie is a Program Manager for Developer Experiences on Microsoft Edge who comes from a background in web and user interface design as well as front-end development. She’s worked on developer tooling in the browser as well as the open source project, http://webhint.io and is currently responsible for Edge developer engagement through the Web We Want initiative.

“Future of HTML controls”

Native HTML Form Controls can be some of the most painful elements to style and customize. 25 years after the first HTML Standard introduced them and developers have resorted to building custom controls from scratch to achieve what they need to. I’ll discuss the history behind native form controls, where we’re at presently with styling them and take a look at the proposed solutions by standards groups and browser vendors to standardize controls and solve the pain points developers have been complaining about for years.

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Gary Ewan Park

Gary Ewan Park has over 10 years experience working as a developer on technologies such as ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, SharePoint, Silverlight, and many others. Throughout his career, Gary has always looked to see how things can be automated, using the mantra that if you do the same thing more than twice, it is time for automation. In 2017 he was awarded a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. His day job has him working for Chocolatey Software, Inc.

In his spare time, Gary contributes to a number of Open Source projects including Chocolatey, Boxstarter, Cake, Cake-Contrib, GitVersion, and GitReleaseManager.

Gary is a founding member of the Aberdeen Developers .Net User Group, that holds monthly sessions on any topic related to the Microsoft .Net Technology Stack.

“A Piece of Cake – C# Powered Cross-platform Build Automation”

In this session we will start with a standard .NET Solution and incrementally add a build and orchestration script to compile the application, run unit tests, perform static analysis, package the application, and more, with the C# skills that you already have, using the Cake Build Automation System.

See you all there!

Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/Scottish-Developers/events/275643581/