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For our December event we've got Christos Matskas giving us a talk on the new kid on the block - .NET Core.

Christos is a software developer, blogger, speaker and all around geek. He currently works for Microsoft as an Azure Dev Premier Field Engineer. Before joining Microsoft, he was a successful entrepreuner collaborating with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin and Barclays. He's been building software for over 12 years and he's a passionate Open Source advocate. He contibutes regularly to numerous OSS projects and works closely with the developer community to make the space bigger and better.

NET Core has been written from the ground up to be the best web development platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can now use your favorite editor to create faster, leaner and more memory efficient NET applications that work everywhere. In this session, you'll get an introduction to the major advancements and an overview of what's changed in the new, brave world of .NET Core. You'll also get the chance to see how you can create ASP.NET Core apps that leverage all the new front-end tooling like npm, Bower, Grunt and Gulp to make development easier. This is going to be session full of demos and information that promises to rock your world!

We're aiming to have a second speaker confitmed shortly as well - check back for further details. As per usual there'll be networking over pizza during the sessioin break. Christmas jumper's optional!