Matt Lacey - Software Developer

TLDR: User groups were great. I miss organising and going to them. Maybe I should revisit my plans about this... I've organized over 100...

TLDR: If you've ever eaten free food at a meetup (even though you could have afforded a meal), why not help out those who are not as for...

Earlier this week, I attended the DotNetNotts user group meeting. The second talk of the night was by Simon Painter and was about some of ...

I've been thinking about the talks people give at technology conferences and user groups. Not the ones that explain, "Here's a ...

  My third book is now available on Kindle . It's called:  Give a Great First Technical Talk: Share your experiences at user groups and ...

Want to know more about the book I'm writing about helping people give their first technical talk at a user group or meetup ? Here's...

I'm unsure about my future involvement with organizing meetups and user groups. However, I do know that over those years, I've learn...

Are you in London or Birmingham (in the UK)? Want to learn more about the  Uno platform ? You're in luck, as I'm giving introd...

tldr: I'm going to start a new podcast that will just be developers talking about what they've developed. If you want to be on it ge...

It's about a lot of things. In the context of diversity within tech communities, here are two that I'm not hearing other people tal...

Last month I organised my 99th developer event. (I've attended and spoken at many more but that was the 99th I'd been primarily, if...

(Well actually I added it last week.) Much has been said over the last year or so about codes of conduct (CoC) at conferences and hackatho...

I'm not great at keeping stats about the user group I organise but I just had an email from Eventbrite with some summary stats and aft...

I've been thinking about feedback to speakers at the end of a session. I'm currently at NDC London and at the end of each session ...

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about Mobile app security at NDC London. Not only will this be the biggest developer event I've been invol...

This may turn into a rant. I won't be offended if you don't read it ;) I've been organising (and helping organise) "comm...

On Monday* I was interviewed for App Hack Monday as part of a conversation about "Guide to making the most of local app communities...

Last month I talked about Windows Phone 8 development at the university in Telford. Next week it's the UWE in Bristol. The feedback...

On Wednesday I'll be speaking at ShropshireDevNet . If you're in the Telford area why not pop along and say hello. This will be th...

+ Come join both XNA-UK and WPUG for a mad bash twitter evening in a DevChat style Mashup on: Thursday 21 st July 7 – 9 PM UK time ...