George Adamson
George is nuts about jQuery and front end development, and rather
obsessive about accessibility and usability. He also has an old Land
Rover. You may have seen bits of it by the road on your way to work.
Originally a developer, George found his way into Usability and
Interaction Design when he got fed up with the tedious tech-driven
project spec docs that came his way.
Project spec docs regularly get in the way of usability: If a Graphical User Interface could easily be expressed in words then it would be called a Textual User Interface.
So many projects seemed to be
concentrating on docs and back end design, forgetting that actual
people will have to use the product and, well, maybe someone should consult
them. If this stuff is not tackled from the start then frankly you
end up polishing a turd in an attempt to 'make it look and feel nice'.
Recent projects include BBC Doctor Who, Steppes Travel, Nationwide, HMV, Waterstones, Comet Electricals.
http://twitter.com/georgeadamson
[I'd be happy do to sessions on other topics such as advanced jQuery, advanced
javascript, ajax or css. Often do sessions for VBUG and other groups,
all with jolly excellent feedback.]
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Rob Ashton
I am a freelance software consultant originally from the UK, but currently operating in Belgium.
I primarily create things with .NET technologies but I lean towards solutions which work as opposed to just using solutions from Microsoft (The Venn diagram does intersect sometimes which explains why I'm still here).
I'm a big fan of the following things
C# Javascript RavenDB MySQL HTML TDD Active Directory (hah)
I can be found blogging in the following locations:
I can also be found on Twitter at twitter/robashton
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Kris Athi
WPF Developer at Avanade focusing on WPF and Silverlight. Loves the Windows 7, Surface and Phone 7 platforms and also has a passion for graphics programming with XNA.
Former MSP Star Award Winner
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James Boother
James Boother is the co-founder of Live Software Solutions a Microsoft Certified Partner focused on custom development solutions on the Microsoft platform. James is a passionate .Net developer and development manager, James has been involved with the creation of Product Life Cycle Software for the food industry, Risk Management Software for the re-insurance industry, and a Social Network to name a few of his projects. He is a formula 1 fan and devoted father of three.
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Sam Bourton
Sam Bourton has over 12 years software development experience and has been using WPF, Silverlight, and Expression Blend since the first beta's, designing and developing applications for a variety of clients and industries throughout the world.
He co-authored the “WPF Recipes – A Problem-Solution Approach” book for
Apress (published September 08), and teaches training courses, workshops, and tech presentations on
Expression Blend, WPF, and Silverlight, and on Architecting
WPF/Silverlight/Surface applications using the Model-View-ViewModel
design pattern.
He works as Lead Engineer at QuantumBlack, a boutique strategy, design, and technology consultancy.
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David Burns
David Burns is a Senior Developer in Test at Mozilla and a Selenium Core Developer working on the .NET bindings for Selenium. David is also an active blogger at http://www.theautomatedtester.co.uk.
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Chris Canal
Chris has worked
at a Web Developer for the past 7 years. Starting with procedural
languages like ASP and PHP, he quickly moved onto the .NET Platform
when first released. A great believer is continual–improvement, Chris
is constantly looking for new technologies, tools and methodologies
that will help in creating robust and maintainable software
applications. Having felt the pain of using Microsoft "Demoware", Chris
has become an active member of the Scottish ALT.NET Community to share
his findings and ideas with like-minded developers.
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Phil Collins
Phil is a Development Director for a software development company. He has programmed and developed code since the days of the Sinclair ZX81.
Before joining his current role Phil had previously worked as a web developer and an Omnimark programmer. Currrently he leads a team of developers in a massive rewrite project as the flagship company product moves away from its legacy platform.
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Ian Cooper
Ian Cooper has over 15 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard, Misys and Beazley delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of the benefits of OO and Agile. He is test-infected and contagious. When he is not writing C# code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group. http://www.dnug.org.uk
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Helen Emerson
Web developer from Australia who bakes world renowned brownies. Writes about web development and ASP.NET at helephant.com.
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Colin Gemmell
Colin Gemmell is a Web/Application Developer from Glasgow. He has gained a wide range of experience in his short time as a developer working on everything from enterprise applications to small promotional web-sites. After 3 and a half years working in .NET he made the jump to Ruby on Rails and hasn’t yet looked back (but there’s still time). An avid follower of agile principles and practices and a growing interest in agile project management, he is always happy to pass on his views of software development to anyone that will listen.
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Andy Gibson
Andy Gibson is a Web/Support Programmer at Storm ID in Edinburgh with a background in web application development including ASP.NET MVC, Umbraco, PHP and jQuery. He is always on the lookout for new technologies to play with and loves to learn what he can about things especially in the web development arena.
Keen to give back to the community, Andy has spoken at a number of community events including many of the DDD series as well as at local user groups. He is currently the chairman of Scottish Developers, a user group for programmers all across Scotland, for which he organises various talks and events including DDD Scotland and the upcoming DunDDD.
In his spare time (not that he has much), Andy enjoys table-top wargamming, computer games, Formula 1 and writing more code.
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Nathan Gloyn
Nathan Gloyn is a passionate developer, designer, agile evangelist, and now sometimes a presenter.
In his day time job he is part of an agile team at Dot Net Solutions creating a wide variety of solutions for clients ranging from simple web sites through to enterprise multi channel cloud applications.
Nathan can be found on his blog Design, Code, Release where he often holds forth with opinions and occasionally write posts that interest people.
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Mike Hadlow
Based in Brighton, England, I work as a freelance programmer, specialising in enterprise application development with Microsoft tools. I'm very interested in the art of programming and I frequently get excited by new technology and programming techniques. I write a blog 'Code Rant' and am the author of an open source eCommerce platform, Suteki Shop.
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Chris Hardy
Originally from Cambridge where the land is flat and crops grow tall. Chris started coding at birth to stave off the boredom. Currently a ASP.NET MVC / Monotouch developer at Great Fridays. Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/chrisntr
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Dan Maharry
A writer-developer, Dan started writing code on his Amstrad in 1985 and discovered HTML and the web in 1993. He got his writing starts first with the university magazine and then with Wrox Press where he also started ASPToday.com and an office in Bangalore. He continues as a freelance writer and editor alongside his work as a developer for Co-operative Web, a software development co-operative in Longbridge, Birmingham.
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John Price
My background is in Point of sale for the retail sector, in particular petroleum.
I have been working as a developer as long as I can remember, in fact my first development job was as 15, while I was still at school!
I worked for 10 years at Wella GB as a developer developing systems for hairdressers before doing 4 years designing hardware for various platforms. I even had a hand in designing a 286 motherboard!
I then worked for Meggitt Petroleum Systems as a Technical Architect designing Point of Sale terminals and Back Office systems for major oil companies across the world. I have been lucky enough to visit 26 countries as diverse as South Africa and Japan doing this.
I developed some desktop and enterprise level applications using an obscure 4GL called Omnis.
Since then I have been working with .NET since its inception and was part of the beta program for 1.0 and have built a web site in ASP.NET
Numerous projects later I have sepcialised in media devices for XP and XP embedded and media center, along with mobile applications for devices ranging from symbian hardware through Pocket PC to Windows Mobile 6.1, the Vista versions and some Windows 7.
I am also a pilot and am fortunate to have an aeroplane at Coventry airport, at the flying club. I can usually be found on the airfield most Saturdays either flying the 'plane if the weathers good, or flying the bar if its not!
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Mark Rendle
Mark is currently employed as Principle Software Architect by Dot Net Solutions Ltd, creating all manner of software on the Microsoft stack, including ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure, WPF and Silverlight.
His career in software design and development spans three decades and more programming languages than he can remember. C# has been his favourite language pretty much since the first public beta, when you had to write the code in a text editor and compile it on the command line. Those were the days. You kids today, with your IntelliSense and your ReSharpers, don’t know you’re born...
Things vying for Mark’s attention lately include functional programming, dynamic programming, Ruby, internet-centric applications, the Azure cloud platform and NoSQL data stores.
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Gary Short
Gary has taken time off from his busy schedule training for the 2012 London Olympics, where he'll be competing in both the Three-legged Race, and the prestigious 100m Egg and Spoon, to submit for DDD10, that being the case the least you can do is to vote for one of his sessions, otherwise he'll have to go back to his day job where's he's Head of Gibraltar Labs, a "skunk works" division of Gibraltar Software.
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Guy Smith-Ferrier
Guy is an MVP in ASP.NET. He is the author of ".NET Internationalization" published by Addison-Wesley (http://www.dotneti18n.com). He is a Microsoft Certified Professional developer, author, trainer and speaker, has spoken at many European and US conferences and is an INETA Speaker. He runs The .NET Developer Network (http://www.dotnetdevnet.com), a free .NET user group in the South West of England. He has written over 50 articles for numerous magazines, has co-authored an application development book and is the author of the ADO chapter of "Mastering Delphi 6". You can read his blog at http://www.guysmithferrier.com.
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Paul Stack
 Developer who enjoys evaluating, and adopting, new technologies and tools. Currently work in London as a developer working on technologies from the .Net technology stack. Unhealthy obsession with clean code and AGILE practices,
especially Kanban, and more recently Continuous Integration
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Oliver Sturm
Oliver Sturm is a consultant and trainer on topics around .NET software architecture. An Associate Consultant at thinktecture, he is also well known as an author of training classes and articles, an expert on programming languages and a Microsoft C# MVP, and for his experience in the specialized area of DevExpress UI components and frameworks. Check out http://www.oliversturm.com for more information about him!
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Phillip Trelford
Phil Trelford is a Software Architect and Developer at an ISV supplying real-time electronic trading software. His career so far spans over 15 years, with experience in video games, leisure, retail and financial sectors.
Phil’s recent commercial development work has been with F#, C# C++, SQL, JavaScript, WPF and Silverlight.
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Liam Westley
Liam Westley is Head Of Engineering at IMC Group Ltd where he leads a team of .Net developers in delivering digital media downloads. He works in an office on the 8th floor in Hammersmith where you can look out over Wembley Stadium, Loftus Road (QPR) and Craven Cottage (Fulham).
Previous to IMC Group, Liam worked as a consultant, and still runs his own company Tiger Computer Services Ltd, specialising in software for Broadcast Television. His Niagara SMS moderation system has been used by QVC UK for the last four years to display SMS messages from viewers, live, on screen.
Liam is also responsible for the ticketing system for Hat Trick Productions which provides e-tickets to shows such as Have I Got New For You, The Armstrong and Miller Show and It's Only A Theory.
Liam has worked for chellomedia, GMTV, BSkyB, SmashedAtom and Original Thinking Group. In his time he created the first in house weather system for Sky News using Visual Basic 1.0, acted as architect for two general election systems, project managed the launch of the GMTV web site, was key to delivering the first interactive television chat service in the UK for BSkyB and helped launch the first live shopping channels in the Netherlands.
Liam's blog can be found at http://geekswithblogs.net/twickers, or you can follow Liam on Twitter @westleyl.
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