Roland Weigelt, Bonn, Germany

About me

• 80s: Computer Kid
  • Basic, Pascal, Z80 Assembler
  • TRS 80 Color Computer, CPC 464, DOS PC
  • BigFont, Artworx
• 90s: Student (physics, computer science)
  • C, x86 Assembly, C++, Java, Visual Basic
  • DOS/Windows PC, NetBSD, Linux
  • 4PRMPT, R8WORX
• 00s: Professional software developer
  • C++, JavaScript, C#, HTML, CSS, XSL, WinForms, XAML
  • Windows PC
  • RemoteCanvas, GhostDoc
• 10s and later: Senior specialist product design/user experience, developer/designer digital signage
  • C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, (S)CSS, WinForms, XAML
  • Windows PC
  • AthleticPixels, CamProps, Emaroo

For a more detailed timeline see my 40 Years of Computing articles (1983-2002 and 2003-2023)

Links

Jobs

• Comma Soft AG - The company I work for (full time) as a senior specialist for product design and user experience. I also take care of our documentation, both from a technical and content point of view.
• Telekom Baskets Bonn - The basketball club I work for (part time) as a digital signage developer / designer / advertising support technician.

Social

• LinkedIn
• Bluesky

No longer relevant:

• XING
• Twitter (Deutsch)
• Twitter (English)
• Facebook
• Mastodon

Hobbies

• Weblog (2003-2023) - Articles in English and German about
  • development (C#/.NET, WPF)
  • user interfaces / user experience,
  • Visual Studio and other tools,
  • soft topics like empathy and problem-solving,
  • and more.
• CamProps - A free utility for quickly adjusting and managing the properties of webcams and other video capture devices. (English).
• Emaroo - A free utility for browsing the most recently used (MRU) file lists of programs like Visual Studio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more (English).

Misc

Conference / user group talks and workshops

• 2024 and later

  No further confererence or user group appearances planned, because a bit of been there, done that has set in.

• 2023
  • Developer Week 2023 (Nürnberg, June 2023)
• 2022
  • Developer Week 2022 (Nürnberg, July 2022)
• 2021
• UI/UX Workshop on Twitch, part 2 (guest speaker on Gregor Biswanger's channel, June 2021)
• UI/UX Workshop on Twitch, part 1 (guest speaker on Gregor Biswanger's channel, May 2021)
• 2020
  • Developer Week 2020 (cancelled due to COVID19)
  • DWX Home 2020 (Online, June 2020)
  • dotnet Cologne 2020 (Köln, May 2020) (cancelled due to COVID19)
• 2019
  • UXBN (Bonn, August 2019)
  • Developer Week 2019 (Nürnberg, June 2019)
  • dotnet Cologne 2019 (Köln, May 2019)
• 2018
  • GUI&DESIGN Konferenz (Berlin, December 2018)
  • Developer Week 2018 (Nürnberg, June 2018)
  • dotnet Cologne 2018 (Köln, May 2018)
• 2017
  • GUI&DESIGN Konferenz (Berlin, December 2017)
  • dotnet Cologne 2017 (Köln, May 2017)
• 2016
  • .NET DevGroup Göttingen/Kassel (Hann. Münden-Laubach, Oktober 2016)
  • .NET User Group Rhein/Ruhr (Ratingen, June 2016)
• 2015
  • NRW Conf 2015 (Wuppertal, Oktober 2015)
  • UXBN (Bonn, September 2015)
  • UXCGN (Köln, March 2015)
  • .NET User Group Bonn (March 2015)
• 2014
  • GUI&Design Konferenz (Berlin, December 2014)
  • .NET User Group Bonn (November 2014)
  • UXCGN (Köln, September 2014)
  • User Experience Lisbon (Lissabon, June 2014)
• 2013
  • GUI&Design Konferenz (Frankfurt am Main, December 2013)
  • dotnet Cologne 2013 (Köln, May 2013)
• 2012
  • .NET User Group Frankfurt (November 2012)
  • .NET User Group Rhein-Neckar (Oktober 2012)
  • Developer Open Space (Leipzig, Oktober 2012)
  • .NET User Group Hamburg (July 2012)
  • .NET User Group Osnabrück (July 2012)
  • .NET User Group Braunschweig (July 2012)
  • .NET User Group Leipzig (July 2012)
  • .NET User Group Dresden (July 2012)
  • .NET User Group Niederrhein (June 2012)
  • .NET User Group Bielefeld (April 2012)
  • .NET User Group Koblenz (March 2012)
  • .NET User Group Bonn (February 2012)
• 2011
  • GUI&DESIGN Konferenz (Führt/Nürnberg, December 2011)
  • .NET User Group Köln (Oktober 2011)
  • .NET User Group Bonn (September 2011)
  • See# Party Kreuzlingen (Schweiz, August 2011)
  • .NET User Group Dresden (August 2011)
  • .NET User Group Leipzig (July 2011)
  • .NET User Group Berlin (July 2011)
  • dotnet DevCon (Nürnberg, June 2011)
  • dotnet Cologne 2011 (Köln, May 2011)
• 2010
  • .NET User Group Bonn (November 2010)
  • .NET User Group Niederrhein (September 2010)
  • See# Party Kreuzlingen (Schweiz, August 2010)
  • Keynote-Sprecher der dotnet Cologne 2010 (Köln, May 2010)
• 2009
  • .NET User Group Köln (December 2009)
  • Keynote Speaker dotnet Cologne 2009 (Köln, May 2009)
  • Informatiktage 2009 (Bonn, March 2009)
  • BASTA! Spring 2009 (Darmstadt, February 2009)
• 2008
  • .NET User Group Ulm (August 2008)
  • .NET User Group Koblenz (May 2008)
  • AfterLaunch Event (Köln, April 2008)
  • BASTA! Spring 2008 (Frankfurt, February 2008)
  • .NET User Group Köln (February 2008)
• 2007
  • .NET User Group Köln (December 2007)
  • SummerCamp 2007 (Leipzig, September 2007)
  • BASTA! Herbst 2007 (Mainz, September 2007)
  • .NET User Group Frankfurt (September 2007)
  • NRW07 Community Conference (Wuppertal, August 2007)
  • .NET User Group Braunschweig (July 2007)
  • .NET User Group Leipzig (July 2007)
  • .NET User Group Paderborn (April 2007)
  • .NET User Group Bonn (2006/2007)

Contributing author (engl.)

• Windows Developer Power Tools, O'Reilly, November 2006
• Visual Studio Hacks, O'Reilly, March 2005

Community organizer

• .NET User Group "Bonn-to-Code" (2006-2017)
• https://www.bonn-to-code.net

Conference co-organizer

• dotnet Cologne 2017 (420 attendees)
• dotnet Cologne 2016 (420 attendees)
• dotnet Cologne 2015 (400 attendees)
• dotnet Cologne 2014 (380 attendees)
• dotnet Cologne 2013 (350 attendees)
• dotnet Cologne 2012 (350 attendees)
• dotnet Cologne 2011 (320 attendees)
• dotnet Cologne 2010 (300 attendees)
• dotnet Cologne 2009 (160 attendees)
• Afterlaunch 2008 (160 attendees)

 

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