23rd March: .Net Meetup - Jon Skeet

• Wednesday, 23 March 2022
• 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
• Virgin Media, Reading

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iO Associates are thrilled to announce our first Face-2-Face event since the pandemic began, taking place at Virgin Media's offices in Reading, on the 23rd March at 6pm!

Jon Skeet will be joining us for a session on Integration Integration Integration!

Some code is mostly self-contained, working purely with computations. Full applications tend to have to integrate with other systems, however - and some applications do very little other than gluing together multiple systems. Sometimes that's been seen in a negative light within the development community, and unfairly so - these integrations provide huge amounts of value.

About Jon:

Jon Skeet is a Staff Developer Platform Engineer at Google, working on Google Cloud Platform client libraries for .NET, based in the London office. (That's the theory, anyway. Most of the time he works from his shed instead). He's best known for contributions to Stack Overflow as well as his book, C# in Depth. Additionally, he is the primary maintainer of the Noda Time date/time library for .NET.

Outside of software, Jon is a committed Christian, and enjoys theatre (particularly musical theatre), playing board games, and spending time with his amazing family.

Pre-pandemic, Jon spent a huge amount of time writing code to interact with his drum kit - and then other instruments, providing a rich configuration editing experience. Within the pandemic, he found opportunities to help his local church to reduce some of the friction introduced in remote worship services, and then explore some of the lessons he's learned interacting with a diverse array of hardware devices, as well as his experiences of building user interfaces as someone who doesn't really have UI design skills, for relatively non-technical users. Hopefully someone of the joy and fun of integration will rub off too, and you'll be encouraged to find opportunities to make a big difference with a small amount of integration.

The event is being hosted at Virgin Media's office in Reading, 500 Brook Dr, Reading, RG2 6UU. Arrivals from 6pm, with the main talk by Jon starting at 7pm. Plenty of parking available on-site at Virgin Media and accessible directly from Reading station via bus or taxi.

iO Associates, tech and digital recruitment specialists, have always been a very active member of multiple Meetup groups across the UK. We're really keen to help keep our community positive and engaged hearing from the best speakers on the topics of your choice. So, we encourage you to share this with your team and the wider community.

If you have any questions, let us know at meetups@ioassociates.co.uk. We're looking forward to seeing familiar faces from the community again as well as welcoming new ones!

In addition, if there's anything we can help you with in regards to sourcing candidates or finding a new role, please do also get in touch.