Community developer events venues

St Andrew's Hall

Events coming up

Past events

• Southampton 'LAUNCH Event'!

  Thu, 18 Oct 2007, 18:30 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Then there were 5! Two months, two new regions, first Cambridge now Southampton. So we're having the mandatory 'Launch' extravaganza featuring Top UK speaker Guy Smith-Ferrier and NxtGenUG's own Dave McMahon. It's going to be informative and fun! 'Astoria' will be covered by Guy and Dave will get one of his Nuggets out on SQL ... We'll have swag, pizza, chat, everything a User Group ever needed. See you there for a never to be repeated event!

• We wish you a mobile Christmas

  Thu, 13 Dec 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  We Wish you a Mobile Christmas, We wish you a Mobile Christmas and a CodeSmith Nugget. Microsoft's Mobile Legend Marcus Perryman takes us on a sleigh ride of mobile development, and John McLoughlin examines CodeSmith. Ho. Ho. Ho.

• I've seen the Silverlight...

  Thu, 17 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Man of loud Shirts, and Cambridge Coordinator, Chris Hay shows us the brightest thing, not his shirt, but Silverlight 1.1 - a revolution in web development! Plus we'll have equally loud pizza and a nugget - please bring your sun-glasses.

• On the .Net ship Enterprise

  Thu, 21 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  MVP, Author, Speaker and 'Software Legend' Alex Homer makes his debut in Southampton to talk about Enterprise Library in ASP .NET. We'll also be beaming up some pizza, and Richie Allen with be giving a reading from the Captain's log of 'Code Standard' Nugget - In Space nobody hears you code!

• Launch/InstallFest

  Thu, 13 Mar 2008, 18:30 - 21:30 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Before they were "Guitar" heroes - 2008 Launch Event and Install Fest Join the southampton crew for a night packed full of 2008 launch action. Our very own co-ordinators Rich and John will be joined by fellow community member Neil Robbins in a heroic triad of presentations covering the top 5 things you need to know about VS2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. But wait it doesn't end there though, this night will be starting a little earlier and finishing a little later to fit in o...

• That's Entity-tainment!

  Thu, 17 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Mike Taulty, stalwart of the UK Microsoft Developer Platform Evangelist (DPE) Group, has decided he needs a bit of sea air, and so is heading for the South Coast to mix it up with those enthusiastic chaps of NxtGenUG Southampton. It looks like Mike and Daniel Moth are trying to collect the full set of NxtGenUG regions! Mike tonight talks about the new Microsoft Entity Framework and NxtGenUG member and Ready Steady Speak! 'Hero' Neil Robbins delivers his second nugget this time on IIS 7.0. R...

• Doing The BizTalk

  Thu, 15 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Yossi Dahan explains what BizTalk is, does and how it works, plus a member nugget, Pizza, Swag you know how it goes ...

• Objections To Objects?

  Thu, 19 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Don't miss this one!! One of the best rated sessions of recent months is coming to Southampton. Alan Dean has gotten rave reviews about this session where he airs different views on teh world of Object Orientation. Member Nugget, Swag and Pizza also , I mean what else is there?

• It Moss be time for Sharepoint

  Thu, 17 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Co-Founder travels down to Southampton to tell the attendees about his collection of MOSS Experiences including ways to automate deployment and to extend Out of The Box functonality using stsadm, Features and Solutions, and other tales from frontline action in the MOSS trenches. We'll also be sampling pizza and partaking in a nugget too..

• It's Alive-Workflow Foundation

  Thu, 21 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Southamptons very own John McLoughlin steps into the limelight with a practical guide to Workflow Foundation, and like Dr Frankenstien the session will end with a living creation of workflow - minus the bolts. We'll also have a nugget and some Pizza too, for a change

• CLSA or Less Pub Time?

  Thu, 11 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Southampton NxtGenUG invite Andrew Hallmark to tell them how to get to the pub quicker by making use of the CLSA application framework made popular by Rocky Lhotka. Member nugget no doubt, Pizza, Swag and the usual antics from John and Rich will ensue ...

• 'Agile' Birthday To Us ...

  Thu, 16 Oct 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  It's been a year since Southampton NxtGenUG came on the scene, so you're invited to our Birthday party, Plamen and Rich will be giving you that Agile feeling and talking about how to get Scrum and other Agile techniques working in your business. Pizza of course, Swag naturally!

• From Nelson's Column ...

  Thu, 27 Nov 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Ther's been a change of plan, unfortunately due to speaker booking issues, we've had to change in mid stream, and its now not a SQL exclusive session ... BUT as good , if not better, we've got the latest member of the UK Microsoft DPE Eric Nelson visiting to speak on .. well Microsoft stuff I guess. Eric's had a wide and varied background and he'll be speaking on some of the latest technologies coming out of Microsoft, might even mention Windows 7 or Windows Azure ...

• Let's Twist Again ...

  Thu, 11 Dec 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Like we did last June 12th ... when Josh Twist a relatively unknown speaker from Microsoft knocked us all out with his gauges! Yes, the developer who can also do design returns to NxtGenUG for a rerun (plus a bit extra) of his top rated WPF Databinding session. Don't miss this one, it's a cracker!

• Grand Designs

  Thu, 15 Jan 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Tricky Business's Tricky Bassett Travels to Southampton to enlighten us about design practices and his experiences designing experiences for companies such as Alton Towers. We'll also be having some SWAG and eating Pizza!

• By The Azure Sea ...

  Thu, 19 Feb 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Chris Hay (new MVP) gets another chance to walk the catwalk on the coast, parading his T-Shirts and telling us all about Windows Azure. Don't miss it! Swag, Pizza, Nuggets the usual great stuff!

• Time to nHibernate

  Thu, 19 Mar 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Seasoned community speaker and Community guru Ian Cooper visits Southampton to talk about nHibernate, they'll be Pizza a'plenty and SWAG too

• Mike's Parallel Universe

  Thu, 16 Apr 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Microsoft DPE and top Spagehetti Monster believer visits Southampton to talk about Parallel Extensions. We'll also have a Pizza Sampling evening and some more SWAG will be distributed via the infamous SWAG-O-Meter.

• Composition and Consumption ..

  Thu, 14 May 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Local Co-ordinator John McLoughlin takes the stage to talk about PRISM, the latest incarnation of the Composite Application Guidance from the MS Patterns and Practices team. Naturally a member nugget will take place as well as the customary consumption of Pizza and distribution of Swag ... Nice ...

• Guy on Silverlight

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

  Can it be true - Guy Smith-Ferrier presenting on Silverlight. You have to come along to hear this one. Guy visits the Southampton crew to talk about Internationalizing Silverlight Applications. They'll also be some Nuggetterring and some of the old Pizza and even older SWAG!

• Web 4.0 - 2.0 is History

  Thu, 16 Jul 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Microsoft's Mike Ormond pops in to Southampton to enlighten and entertain the attendees on the latest iteration of Microsofts Web Platform ASP.NET 4.0 - We'll also be having a nugget, giving away some SWAG and consuming pizza.