Guernsey Software Developer Forum, September 27th

September 2007 – October 2007 • Guernsey (, ) • 2,935 views • 4 responses

My good friend Steve ‘Sinbad’ Streeting (founder of the impressive and popular Ogre 3D engine) will be giving a talk on Thursday 27th September at 6pm at the Guernsey Training Agency above the Post Office in Smith Street. The talk will cover cross-platform development, provisionally:

  1. Benefits of considering cross-platform solutions
  2. Definition of a ‘platform’
  3. Typical implementation challenges
  4. Common techniques and approaches

Steve also assures me he’ll be touching on some cross-platform libraries like the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) and wxWidgets UI library. As always the doors are open to all and the event is totally free so come along, learn something and make some contacts.

On a sad note GSDF founder Filippo Borselli will be leaving the island to go and work with the great people at ThoughtWorks in the UK.

[)amien

4 responses  

  1. Eddy Young on September 14th, 2007

    How big is Guernsey? If I recall, it’s not that big, so I’m surprised you even hav enough programmers to form a user-group! :-)

  2. Damien Guard on September 16th, 2007

    There are around 65,000 people in Guernsey and much of the industry is based around finance. This means we probably have more developers than is usual for such a small community. My first programming job was for a company that employed around 25 developers. If I had to guess I’d say there are at least 200 developers on the island.

    [)amien

  3. Eddy Young on September 16th, 2007

    Interesting… I knew the islands offered a lot of tax incentives, but did not know that companies actually operated there.

    I might visit the islands on my UK visa for my next holiday. Reading the relevant wikipedia page, I can detect a lot of French influence (place names, legislation, etc.) which makes it even more interesting since my home country Mauritius also has strong influences from bot the Britisd and the French. So, do you speak French?

    — Eddy

  4. Damien Guard on September 16th, 2007

    We are taught a basic level in secondary school so many people know a bunch of words and phrases but grammar, spelling and decent punctuation are really only known by those just finishing French at school or those that regularly use it on holiday/at work.

    Drop me a line if you do find yourself on the island!

    [)amien

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