An Application Architect at Huddle where he works with some of the best .Net developers and UX designers to deliver world class collaboration software.
Liam Westley is an Application Architect at Huddle where he works with some of the best .Net developers and UX designers to deliver world class collaboration software. He quite likes working just oustide the City of London as there is some fantastic food and coffee to be had within a few minutes walk.
Previous to Huddle Liam worked at Criteria MX, a digital media startup and has worked as a consultant via his own company Tiger Computer Services Ltd, specialising in software for Broadcast Television. His Niagara SMS moderation system was used by QVC UK for eight 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 News For You.
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 channel in the Netherlands.
Talks I've Given
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App 2.0 - why the Web lost and Apps won
Featuring Liam Westley
In the heady days after the dotcom boom and bust, Web 2.0 arrived and created an exciting new delivery mechanism for software. Browser wars improved performance to a level where they could host fully functional applications, with easy of deployment and updating.At the same time smartphones had...
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‘Don't Make Me Feel Stupid’ – A. User
Featuring Liam Westley
If every developer had read Alan Cooper’s book, ‘The Inmates are Running the Asylum’, we would have a lot less crappy software in the world. Fact!
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An Actor's Life for Me - An introduction to the TPL Dataflow Library and asynchronous programming blocks
Featuring Liam Westley
By using the Dataflow Library you can concentrate on the messages and actions being performed, while the blocks marshal the messages, provide concurrent message processing and buffering as well as supporting cancellation and exception handling.
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Async and C#5 - An Advance Screening
Featuring Liam Westley
In this session, Liam Westley provides an overview of how the previous parallel task options within the previous .Net Framework are being enhanced with the Asynchronous libraries which bring the new async and await keywords into C# 5.0
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Continuous Integration for newbies made easy
Featuring Liam Westley
At this London .NET User Group meeting, held at Skills Matter, Liam Westley talked on Continuous Integration Factory.
You might already realise that unit testing your code is becoming more important and that it is a crucial aspect of continuous integration. But what are the principles of...
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