Yes I am still alive……

and yes, I do know that it’s nearly the middle of the year and this is my first post of 2013. (I seem to be getting later with these things every year…)

So what’s going on in shawty’s world….

Lidnug continues to go from strength to strength, just look at all the events we have coming up this year, and there’s more to come : http://lidnugevents.eventbrite.org/

Iv’e had my first E-Book finally published by Syncfusion on the subject of GIS and Mapping, and how to write a GIS app in .NET ( http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/gis ) and I’m currently in the process of writing a second one all about the “Postgres Database” which, while it won’t be GIS specific, it will cover some GIS concepts as that is one of Postgres’s strengths.

Iv’e also been doing some more work on that eternal running project of re-designing the Lidnug Website, which we’ve used Sync-fusions Metro Studio to create the Icons, all of which are great value and can be downloaded free from their website.

Iv’e also released my first Pluralsight video ( http://pluralsight.com/training/Authors/Details/peter-shaw ) and am in the process of creating some outlines for more….

All of that, while continuing to build some fantastic .NET software for various projects via my own company Digital Solutions UK

Phew….

So as you can see Iv’e had an incredibly busy start to my year, and I promise NOT to leave my first post of the year so long next time.

Shawty

Help needed for a friend.

Iv’e just found out in the past week, that a very dear friend of mine in Canada is turning to the internet for help.

It’s times like this, that I believe the global community at large is best placed to help people, if for no other reason than to increase the exposure of the individual concerned.

DDD North 2012 – Post event

In my last post I mentioned that DDD North 2 was fast approaching.

Well as predicted it did not disappoint.  This year I was presenting on the subject of Spatial SQL, which almost had to be cancelled due to a failed Microsoft Security update to my Laptop just before I was due to go on.

DDD North 2012

Most of you in the UK development community will be aware that DDD North is quickly approaching, and you may remember I wrote about the first ever occurrence of this event last year when I attended it at the university of Sunderland.

So Just what is “Metro” anyway?

It turns out, that this is in fact quite a hard question to answer, let me explain…..

Windows Server 2012 Events being hosted by MVPs in London and Edinburgh

I’ve just found out that some of the windows server 2012 MVP’s will be hosting events in Scotland in the near future, on the following dates:

London, Thursday 14th June 2012 – 17:30 – 21:15

Edinburgh, Friday 15th June 2012 – 13:00 – 17:10

Stop the Scammers

It’s a reasonably well-known fact that the internet is full of villans and scam artists, whats not always so obvious are the methods they use to trick people into parting with their hard-earned cash.