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Name Change: #EgyGeeks

Our first meeting on Friday, or technically the first hours of Saturday (starting 12 AM), we found technical difficulties in establishing the conversation on Skype, with around 25 attendees, and the need to share desktop view with the entire group, for the first part of the gathering (Ayman’s session).

That’s why we decided we may have rushed it by including the word “Skype” in the name. I don’t know why we needed a name and all that anyway, because the idea is simply some friends who have common interests (all do .NET related stuff) that meet together online weekly talking about their common interests.

Methods of Communication

For twitter, since this gathering used another tool “webex” for conferencing, and we haven’t determined yet how we’ll manage the next gathering, we changed the twitter hash tag to just “#EgyGeeks”.

Also, we created a Google group to enable us to email everybody when we settle on how the next gathering will be. The group has the same name”EgyGeeks”

My first DotNetwork Cairo Code Camp in 2009 was a great experience, because it was one of the biggest events I’ve spoken at (in terms of audience count, similar to SilverKey Demo Day II). However, Cairo Code Camp `10 had a much different taste!

Not just that I met Scott Hanselman, one of the most popular Microsoft guys, and hold him down as you see in the picture (which I’ll never forget), the great person and popular guru…

Not just that I met so many great other speakers, many of them are my friends and some of my friends talking for the first time in such event or after long pause…

But also because we all (speakers and organizers – both volunteers) met so many great attendees. Some of them were interesting people I’ve followed on Twitter for some time and haven’t seen them yet. Some of them were old lovely faces that we meet very rarely (especially I no longer work  in Egypt). Some of them were totally new faces, bringing a lot of ideas and very useful discussions….

Most of you already know I have moved recently from Cairo to Abu Dhabi. What only a selected set of you are aware of, is that I am still having my heart all set for the developer community in Egypt and still communicating with many of them via Twitter; not only that developers in Abu Dhabi are not into spending time in gatherings or anything than doing work and surviving, but also because I have made the only long lasting and fulfilling friends relationships with the key persons that I see in the different communities, especially my old friends from Microsoft MDC and ArabTeam2000, Demo Day attendees (who still talk to me since 2007), and – of course – dotNETwork, admins, speakers, and participants (who are much more than just attendees).

First off, thank you all so much who have attended the very special gathering of dotNETwork user group, Code Camp ‘09, that took place in the British University in Cairo (BUE) during last Thursday and Friday. This has been one of the biggest events I have been talking in, and that was a great honor.

Must Say: SORRY! This post was supposed to be published Saturday or Sunday max. I have been busy making a critical decision and was not sure whether to announce it in this post or not.

You can find the slides for the sessions I have been giving below:

Framework Design Guidelines

Download (PPTX File):

Managed Extensibility Framework(MEF)

Download (PPTX File):

(Note: Links to the source code are in the last slide)

Notes On The Event

The speakers and dotNETwork Team

As ever, there’s

The usual intro …

The .NETwork day for December that took place this Saturday as the 10th group gathering/event was pretty much worth being the day that makes a whole year for .NETwork group, which started December 2007. The day was pretty much different than usual, maybe similar to the very first gathering in organization, and some other days in topic, but the style and taste was a bit different. Pretty much concentrated, although on a variety of topics.

The day was just a couple of sessions. Love it or hate it, no parallelism there. The sessions were given by a single speaker, Omar Besiso, a half Egyptian senior Architect living in Australia, a consultant, Tech Ed presenter, book editor and reviewer – a very great guy as I’ll explain later :).

Actually I really enjoyed the first session. Really want to attend / give many similar sessions in the future.

Warning:

I have not been very honest while writing this! Since I have a similar interest in the topics discussed during the session, I have written some parts of the post that were not said during the presentation the same way,a and provided some examples and such that represent my own understanding which may or may not be the same as Omar’s.

Thank you all for attending my “Applying Domain Driven Design on Asp.net MVC” session. It’s interesting how things went that we got a bit deep into the ASP.NET MVC framework and have achieved the geeky talk goal via covering the other aspects of ASP.NET. Even that this took the entire session, it is nice that it could benefit the attendance.

I am not sure whether we can arrange another session for Domain Driven Design fundamentals and combining that in the same project while using the MVC pattern and ASP.NET Framework. If you are interested in a similar session, please contact me via this blog or email.

Session Slides

Here are the slides for this session:

Sample Code

For the HaackOverflow code sample and another great presentation about ASP.NET MVC, check the PDC 2008 session: “ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications”.

Related Sources

• My Other Presentations on SlideShare
• The 9th Gathering Facebook Event
• dotNETwork Facebook Group
• dotNETwork Yahoo Group
• Official dotNETwork Website
• Earlier "Local Events" Posts in My Blogs

Update

Presentation slides and sample are now available. Please click here to find them!

Yeah, somehow dotNETwork decided to allow me to show all my psychopath about design and implementation in a session with a very weird long title, “Applying Domain Driven Design on ASP.NET MVC”.

Yeah, two unrelated topics. In 2 hours frame, I should be introducing day to day development styles from a different perspective. I had a small talk about the process side of the world. This time we move towards the other areas related to architecture and design.

About the event

dotNETwork is an independent .NET user group in Egypt. They organize a semi-monthly FREE event about various .NET related topics. This is going to be the 9th gathering/event. I have delivered a couple of sessions there before, about Scrum for developers and Design Patterns in C# 3.0.

This time the event will be:

At: Saturday, November 29th, 2008. 12 PM to 4:30 PM

In: CIC Canadian International College

Busses Availability: @ Nady El Sekka, Nasr City (11:00 AM to 11:30 AM)

This is the event agenda, note that session videos will be recorded:

Slideshare is quickly becoming the defacto standard for sharing presentation slides, just as YouTube for videos, and Flickr for images. I recently got into the habit to share my presentations there and use the embed feature to include it in my weblog, and this was the same for the "Design Patterns Via C# 3.0" session.

This morning I got this email from SlideShare

Hey Mohamed_Meligy!
Your slideshow Design Patterns Via C# 3.0 has been featured on the SlideShare homepage by our editorial team.
Cheers,
- the SlideShare team

WOW .. I couldn’t believe it until I went to SlideShare.net and saw it myself …

Thank you SlideShare. I never expected the slides to be interesting to that extent :D :D :D.

Yesterday was my 2 part session about Design Patterns as part of dotNETwork 7th gathering. Thank you all guys for being there, There was so much interesting stuff about the audience. The conversation we all had even before the session starts, the interaction with all parts of the session, and the great questions.

Thank you all.

You can find the slides for the 2 parts combined in single downloadable file.

Download the Presentation Slides

For the code examples/demos, you can find them in single ZIP file as well.

Download the Code Samples

I hope you enjoyed the session.

Related Links

• The 7th Gathering Facebook Event
• dotNETwork Facebook Group
• dotNETwork Yahoo Group
• Official dotNETwork Website (NEW)
• Earlier "Local Events" Posts in My Blogs

dotNETwork, the most active offline user group in Egypt is having its 7th gathering next Saturday, August 30, which will have two parallel tracks for the first time in the group gathering. BizTalk Introduction, and C# 3.0 Design Patterns, which I will be delivering!

If I were you to attend the event, it would have been a hard choice too (unless you go simply for BizTalk) ! BizTalk beginner introduction as a topic was not delivered in public sessions before. The only BiTalk sessions I know of were either advanced ones or introducing newer version to those familiar with old version. If you are my friend or you are pretty much into patterns, you may want to give what I have to say a look.

The session parts were primarily intended to be in a couple of dotNETwork gatherings. Now that dotNETwork decided to try out the parallel tracks model having two sessions in the same topic in each track (which is a decision I really like, except that I’d love more distinction between the topics), it was logical to have them in the same gathering / track. I have been thinking whether this should go for the simplest level possible ever, then, decided to stick to the original plan, and even use the long time available for the presentation (1:30h for each part) to go say more about related topics, as I have so much interest in delivering this in certain way for long time now.