Scott Cowan is the Lead Developer at SportingInsider.com on the Datamining and Search teams and a London based consultant.
Scott has been in the industry since 1995 and focuses his work on web applications and primarily C#. Scott is involved in the London user groups and contributes to a number of opensource projects.
Talks I've Given
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Automated Deployments Tutorial with Octopus Deploy
Featuring Scott Cowan
Do you want to learn how to take control of your deployments with Octopus Deploy and TeamCity?
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Hands on with Backbone.js
Featuring Scott Cowan
In this session we join Scott Cowan who will shows us how to build a real world application with Backbone.js, RequireJS, Lo-Dash and Aura. Learn how to use the framework used by some of your favourite sites, including Foursquare, Groupon, Basecamp and more.
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Building Search Engines with Lucene.net, Solr and NHibernate Search
Featuring Scott Cowan
Do you really need a database for that project? Find out about the exciting world of Lucene the fast access datastore. Covering lucene.net and what you can do in the .net port. How Nhibernate Search can give you a quick way to map your model to an index.
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Spark View Engine
Featuring Scott Cowan
Scott Cowen will talk about Spark. Spark is a view engine for the ASP.Net Mvc and MonoRail frameworks. It allows the html to dominate the view in a way your front end developer will love.
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How to make a search engine with Lucene.net
Featuring Scott Cowan
Learn how to go beyond Full Text Indexing and offer a scalable solution for searching your data. Using the popular index Lucene.Net Scott Cowan demonstrates various things you might want to use this technology for including document and web search.
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My Work
Senior Consultant at Valtech
http://stackoverflow.com/users/253/scott-cowan