Community developer events venues

Microsoft Cambridge

Events coming up

• Nov 26

  Liam's Virtually There ...

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Liam Westley heads to Cambridge to deliver his legendary Virtualisation session, with Virtual Machines in hand, he'll go through the benefits, the basics and the gotcha's of Virtualisation, enjoy Liam's session to the accompaniment of Pizza and Swag

Past events

• Software Factories & Domain Specific Languages

  Wed, 18 Jan 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  We would like to apply to software some of the techniques learned in manufacturing reliable consumer products, such as automating repetitive tasks, and gaining economies of scope through product families. This talk discusses the required concepts and tooling, and their realisation in Visual Studio.

• The XP Game -- Rachel Davies (7pm)

  Tue, 7 Feb 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  The XP Game is a playful way to familiarize the players with some of the more difficult concepts of the eXtreme Programming Planning Game. Anyone can participate. The goal is to make development and business people work together, they both play both roles. It is especially useful when a company starts adopting agile development methods.

• Requirements Engineering - Is It All Made Up?

  Wed, 8 Mar 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Experience tells us that, except for rare visionaries, clients do not know what they want until they see it. This talk explains how to use creative techniques to invent requirements, and demonstrates results from ongoing research to integrate creativity and requirements tools. Please pre-register. 7pm for 7:30 start

• Journeys in non-classical computation - A UK Grand Challenge in Computing Research

  Wed, 12 Apr 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Today's computing, classical computing, is an extraordinary success story. However, there is a growing appreciation that it encompasses an extremely small subset of all computational possibilities. The Grand Challenge of Non-Classical Computation seeks to bring about a reconceptulisation of computation itself.

• Journeys in non-classical computation - Susan Stepney

  Wed, 12 Apr 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Research in Non-Classical Computation seeks to augment and enrich the today's classical model with bio-inspired algorithms, open complex adaptive systems, embodied computation, quantum computation, and more. Prof Susan Stepney heads the Non-Standard Computation group at York University. 7 for 7:30

• Success with macros and closures - a brief foray into Common Lisp

  Wed, 10 May 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Ask a seasoned lisper "Why lisp?" and they'll talk to you about a language that's fun to program in and incredibly productive. This talk will convey a sense of this by implementing a couple of simple but fully-featured examples.

• Modelling for Maintainability

  Wed, 14 Jun 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Model driven development (such as the OMG's Model Driven Architecture) can not only help develop good quality applications cheaply and quickly, but can also yield dramatic savings in maintenance costs. Andrew Watson is VP and Technical Director of the Object Management Group. 7pm.

• The Past, Present and Future of Software Architecture

  Wed, 13 Sep 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  The activity of "software architecture" has emerged into mainstream software development consciousness fairly recently, joining specification, design, code and test. Why has this new activity emerged and what is it? Is it not just high level design? In this talk, Eoin Woods will trace the emergence of this activity, explain what makes software architecture unique, and provide some thoughts on where this new specialisation is headed.

• The Past, Present and Future of Software Architecture

  Wed, 13 Sep 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  The activity of "software architecture" has emerged into mainstream software development consciousness fairly recently, joining the venerable quartet of specification, design, code and test. Why has this new activity emerged and what is it? 7:30pm

• Web 2.0 - the Second Coming of the Internet?

  Wed, 11 Oct 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  An informal survey of some of the current techniques for writing web apps and the new technologies that promise us a better way.

• Programming Robots - 7pm

  Wed, 8 Nov 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Programming robots is hard: an enormous range of heterogeneous sensors and actuators have to be addressed at the same time. Common programming paradigms do not work well. This talk presents novel approaches to in programming robots using visualisation, concurrency and coordination.

• Fun With SunSPOTs

  Wed, 13 Dec 2006 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Project Sun SPOT , run by Sun Labs, has produced a small low-cost battery-powered Java-based computing device that can be connected to a variety of transducers and can communicate wirelessly with similar devices. The nature of these devices opens up a whole new field of possible applications, which this session will demonstrate. 7pm; light buffet

• In the Media Centre Spotlight

  Tue, 25 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  John Price visits Cambridge, he don't pray to the demo gods - he taunts them. John will talk about media centre, XBOX 360, the 10 foot experience and the most important acronym of the night, the WAF. Whats' best served with this, not a TV dinner, but pizza and maybe a nugget. You might even get to drive the NxtGen Car! Anyone fancy challenging Rich Costall's son to halo 3?

• Astoriaroids

  Tue, 29 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  It's actually called ADO.NET Data Services, but you try making a joke out of that. Formerly Astoria, but now ADO.NET data services, Guy Smith Ferrier, International Speaker, Author and Community Guy hops over to Cambridge to talk about this technology and how it will save developers 1,000's of lines of code and bring the big stick of power to Ajax and Silverlight Applications. Plus we'll be taking a new devliery of pizza and hopefully they'll be a nugget!

• AtMOSSpheric Night

  Tue, 27 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  As put so well by Russ Abbott - "I love a meeting with a happy AtMOSSPHERE". International Speaker, and NxtGenUG Co-Founder brings his "tales from the front" Highly Rated MOSS (Sharepoint) Session. Missing it will be a 'MOSStake', plus we'll have an IE8 nugget from Chris Hay and some Pizza too... No more cheap MOSS gags - we proMOSS!

• Object Thinking?

  Tue, 24 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Alan Dean Completes his tour of NxtGenUG regions, with a trip to Cambridge to present his popular Object Thinking session, plus they'll be a nugget and a slide of the old, you know what!

• The Missing LINQ

  Tue, 22 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Ian Cooper, from the London .NET user group travels up to Cambridge to present his sessio on LINQ and Enterprise Applications. We'll also be having a nugget and some pizza too..

• The Entity Framework...

  Tue, 12 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Microsoft's Mike Taulty, bring his Famous Entity Framework session to Cambridge, and give us the low down on The Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. We'll be showing a nugget and serving up the pizza!

• SQL Server and the Sequel

  Tue, 2 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Andras Belokosztolszki of Red Gate tells us about Advanced TSQL commands in both SQL2005 and SQL 2005. We'll also be having a nugget and, goes without saying really, some pizza.

• Not WifeSwap, Coordinator Swap

  Tue, 7 Oct 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  What's going on here. Is this Southampton? No, but the Southampton coordinators John McLoughlin and Richie Allen, make the journey up from Southampton to talk about Workflow and provide a nugget as well. Perhaps I can get John Price to go to Nepal? (yep:jp) Plus we'll be having some Pizza

• Make Patterns With Patterns

  Tue, 18 Nov 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  You can draw nice patterns and stuff with WPF, but unless you get organised, your WPF application can soon deteriorate. "Vista Squad" founder Ray Booson and top UK Community man visits Cambridge and looks at creating simple data bound applications moving towards a practical framework for WPF projects.

• VB.NET - The Full Nelson

  Tue, 9 Dec 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  He may only have scored 600 points on Manic Miner, but when it comes to VB.NET, Microsoft's, Eric Nelson knows his stuff. We'll also be havintg a Christmas pudding pizza and a Nugget.

• What's new in C# 4.0

  Tue, 20 Jan 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  The 'unofficial' Anders Hejlsberg stunt double, and Internationalization speaker, Guy Smith Ferrier comes to Cabridge to enlighten us on the innovations around C# - in it's next version: 4.0. We'll also be having a nugget, plus some pizza and SWAG giveaway.

• Patterns, Patterns, Patterns..

  Tue, 3 Feb 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  WOW! - Not one, but two meetings in a month for Cambridge - Gary Short drops in on the Cambridge Region to talk about Design Patterns, plus we'll be giving away some SWAG and a second helping of Pizza!

• A Change is a good as a REST!

  Tue, 17 Feb 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Alan Dean comes to Cambridge for a REST (based session) Separating REST Facts from Fallacies. He'll let us know what it is and why we should care. Come along the REST will do you good. Plus we'll be having a Nugget and the REST of the time will be spent easting pizza or giving out SWAG! - Make sure you attend. It will be of great InteREST!

• Doing Software Large ...

  Tue, 17 Mar 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Join Alisson Sol from Microsoft Research to take a look at developing software in large organisations ...

• Design - A Tricky Business

  Tue, 21 Apr 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Richard Bassett from Tricky Business comes to Coventry - Rich internet applications have changed the way that super-brands connect with their customers. If you want to compete in this cluttered marketplace it's essential that you evolve your product or service into a unique brand, creating a circle that people want to join. We also be having a nugget and giving out some SWAG and Pizza.

• Extendable MEF Apps

  Tue, 19 May 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Member Ben Hall takes the short journey from RedGate to Microsoft Research to talk about MEF. We'll be Nuggetting, Pizzaing, and Swagging too..

• Generics with Kathleen Dollard

  Thu, 18 Jun 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Kathleen Dollard is over from the States and passes by to talk to us about generics and refectoring. We'll also be having Pizza, a nugget and some good old Swaggin' - Not to be Missed!

• The MVC Framework

  Tue, 14 Jul 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Gavin Osborn visits Cambridge to talk about the alternative to WebForms; Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC framework, plus they'll be a nugget, SWAG and some food.

• Silverlight 3

  Tue, 18 Aug 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Microsoft's latest version of it's RIA cross browser/cross platform technology, Silverlight 3, has just been launched, and Richard Costall is here to talk about it, along with a couple of nuggets for a special guest. They'll also be a nugget and some SWAG and Pizza!

• Take No Prism'ers'

  Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Southampton Coordinator John McLoughlin comes back to Camrbridge, and this time he's talking about PRISM - They'll also be a nugget, some pizza and maybe even the Swagometer's author will crank he up again and share some SWAG.

• Credit Crunch Code

  Tue, 20 Oct 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  'Time to Pay Back the Technical Debt'Technical debt is the cost of putting off good development practices. This debt, must be paid back to avoid the “interest payments” becoming crippling. This presentation will focus on a number of common developer (and project) anti-patterns that can lead to the build up of technical debt in a project and, having identified these behaviours, we’ll look at techniques to firstly quantify and then to mitigate against them.Bio:Gary Short works for Develope...