Community developer events venues

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Events coming up

• Nov 24

  Roger's Over and Out!

  Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Alun Rogers Security MVP and NxtGenUG Top Speaker is back from his sabbatical in London. Having escaped from being buried by 2 million Exchange Server installations or some such, he is back to talk not only Security but about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - apparently something we Developers ought to get Savvy about! So don't miss a great fun evening with a "State of the Nation" and Virtual Desktop Infrastrcuture talks from Alun Rogers, plus Pizza, plus Swag and the usual crew!

Past events

• Halloween 'Spooktacular' ...

  Wed, 31 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  .NET 'Wizard' Liam Westley looks at the 'ghost' in the machine as he dives into Windows and looks at developing Windows Services. Remember those? Well, in case you hadn't noticed they're all around us in the development world, but hard to see and hard to capture with a debugger! Liam shows us how we can make our lives easier when writing and working with Windows Services including some of the differences between NT and Windows Vista Services. Other scary things to see on the night: Spicy Pi...

• The Sound of Security ...

  Mon, 19 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Rogers and Hammerstein may be no more, but we've got our own dynamic security duo in the form of (Alun) Rogers and (Chris) Seary. The hills may be alive with the sound of music, and these sessions will be music to your ears. We have top Developer Security MVP Chris Seary and top IT Pro Security MVP Alun Rogers telling us like it is!You won't have to travel to the South Pacific, just to Birmingham where the King and I (Geff 'Bacardi' Lombardi and Dave McMahon) will host you for the evening p...

• It's Chris - TFS - mas Time!

  Mon, 17 Dec 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Its Christmas Time in the workplace. And will Santa bring you a nice Team Foundation Server for yule-tide delight? Who knows, do you even want one? Well Richard Fennell top speaker from Black Marble reckons you do, and he's here to tell you why. We'll have a Christmas Nugget from Dave - one for the kids this time on KPL, so stand by for a game of Pong for 'Swag', Christmas Pizza, Crackers, Christmas Cake and maybe a tipple of something ... Ho Ho Ho!

• Hoots Mon! Its Murphy Time!

  Mon, 21 Jan 2008, 18:45 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  With great dedication, Craig Murphy, DDD6 organiser, author, blogger, speaker and lynchpin of the UK Community travels from deepest Scotland to tell us why he believes in Test Driven Development and why we should do it too. In a 'double header' evening, Craig also gives us a whirlwind tour of Automated Build processes using FinalBuilder. It's not quite Burns Night, but we'll see if we can't have a poem or two, "To a USB Mouse" perhaps? There's certainly Pizza, certainly swag and maybe neep...

• The Travelling Swagman ...

  Tue, 19 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  In a meeting with a different tack, Dan Taylor visits NxtGenUG Brum, after programming his SatNav with an Evolutionary Algorithm no doubt and comes to explain what Evolutionary Algorithms are and how they can help to solve this famous problem and maybe some others per chance ...? Andy Maggs delivers his second Nugget the first of a series on MSBuild. Pizza will arrive courtesy of the travelling Pizza Man and 'swag' courtesy of the travelling 'swag' man ...

• Pre-Launch LINQ & Pizza!

  Tue, 18 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  "Twas the night before The Launch, ..." , yes and our good friend Ian Cooper, founder of London .NET User Group pays another visit to NxtGenUG Brum this time bearing his LINQ. James Coulter from Coventry group pops in as an Observer and with the 2008 Launch Event tomorrow, we might have a few surprise guests popping in. Swag and Pizza abound. Just what you need before a Launch Event ...!

• LINQ in the Enterprise ...

  Tue, 18 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Ian Cooper, founder of London .NET User Group pays another visit to NxtGenUG Brum this time bearing his LINQ ... More details to follow

• Silverlight and Silvertongue

  Tue, 22 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Richard Costall travels to Brum to show us the latest developments with Silverlight, is it living up to the hype? Does Richard live up to his own hype? Come along and find out about this sea-change in web-based development on the Microsoft and Other Platforms ... Full details to follow

• Homer's In Town ...

  Tue, 20 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Yes, top UK and INETA speaker Alex Homer is in the second city to talk about Design Pattern's in ASP.NET. Do we need them in ASP.NET? Do they even make sense? Come along and get some great information froma top speaker. You'll see a member nugget too, plus we suspect Pizza and without doubt - swag!

• The Ed of Security ...

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

  Stand by your beds, make sure you've read your Developers Highway Code and done your homework. Ed Gibson, Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor based here in the UK is coming to speak about what he thinks you should know about. Who are the bad guys these days? What are they up to? Where do they hide? What do they want? What can you do to protect yourself from them and to prevent your PC from joining the multitude of compromised machines ... Don't miss this one! Member nugget and Pizza and swag...

• Simon Sabin - The SQL ...

  Tue, 15 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  After intense negotiations, the ever-popular Simon Sabin has signed up for a sequel to his visit to NxtGenUG last year. His Service Broker session was an unexpected hit and so he's back with a new session on SQL 2008 taking a look at a number of the new features. Pizza, Swag as ever. Don't miss it ...

• I, Robot

  Tue, 16 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  The 3 Laws of Robotics Studio "A Microsoft employee shall demonstrate cool robotics stuff to NxtGenUG members", "A Microsoft employee shall give out copious amounts of 'swag' to NxtGenUG members", "A Microsoft employee shall eat Pizza with NxtGenUG members". Pretty sure Paul Foster will do that! Yes, Paul visits Birmingham to show off Microsoft Robotics Studio and all the cool stuff and games and worlds you can create with it. Don't Miss It!

• Let's Rock with ASP.NET ...

  Tue, 14 Oct 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Chris Hay the "Grande Fromage" of NxtGenUG Cambridge flies in to Birmingham, with outrageous T-Shirt and all to give a top performance on getting Top Performance out of ASP.NET Web Sites! Yes its a session on building High Performance ASP.NET web sites, plus a member nugget from Mohammed Muzammil frsh from 'Ready, Steady, Speak!' at UK REMIX, Pizza and nice bright Swag also fresh from REMIX ...

• Make Your Day With CSLA ...

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

  Andrew Hallmark will introduce you to CSLA.NET and some of the features that it offers. He will then entice you with the productivity benefits that it can bring in combination with code generation and demonstrate why you should find out more. If you want to put the Rapid back into Application Development but don't want to compromise on quality why not come along and join in? Member nugget, Swag and Pizza as per normal too!

• Happy Christmanic Miner ...

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

  Christmas is a time for games, so let's see how Richie Costall and Pete McGann wrote their Tribute to Manic Miner in Silverlight 2.0 and in XNA. We'll get a chance to play Manic Miner for Christmas Swag and there will be food a plenty, Ho Ho Ho!

• Design In The NewYear ...

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

  To give a different feel to the first NxtgenUG Brum meeting of the new year, we have top Designer "Tricky" come to help us "Design Challenged" developers get a grasp of some basics ...

• Liam And Guy Do Virtualization

  Thu, 12 Feb 2009, 18:30 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Don't miss this one! Two for the price of one! Yes we have not one but two fantastic speakers for you tonight. Top European Speaker, DotNetDevNet User Group Leader and Rock Band God Guy Smith-Ferrier arrives accompanied by the ever popular and hard working Liam Westley. Together they will deliver a double bill on Virtualisation for the Developer. Pizza, Swag, Valentines Day approaching, feel the love for Virtualisation, the coolest technology out there AND one of the most useful!
  

• Working with Virtual Earth

  Tue, 10 Mar 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  An evening on working with Virtual Earth. Speaker TBC. Details shortly.

• ASP.NET 4 You

  Tue, 14 Apr 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Dave Sussman MVP and (maybe) Phil Winstanley TBC visit to talk about what's new in ASP.NET 4.0. With two (maybe one) of the most notable UK ASP.NET MVPs its gonna be a great evening! Don't miss it!

• It's a Parallel Universe ...

  Tue, 12 May 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Is he the new Daniel Moth, or was just Daniel Moth just the old Eric Nelson? You decide. Yes from our very own UK Developer Platform Evangelist group based at Microsoft UK Reading. Eric Nelson visits to chat about the upcoming developments relating to parallel/multi-core programming and how things are being made easier through new features in Visual Studio. Pizza, nugget, swag, you know the score. See you there!

• Prism Break!

  Tue, 9 Jun 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  John McLoughlin, exhuberant leader of NxtGenUG Southampton, the man with an unspammable email address heads up to Birmingham to talk about Prism, a cool new way to develop WPF and Silverlight Applications. Swag,Pizza, member Nugget and the WPF Swagometer operated by it's creator none other than John McLoughlin!

• The MVC Framework

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

  Gavin Osborn visits Birmingham to talk about the alternative to WebForms, Microsoft's ASP.NET MVC framework, plus they'll be a nugget, SWAG and Pizza !!

• Costa el Silverlight

  Tue, 13 Oct 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  It's Richie Costall, so it must be Silverlight. Yes indeed, NxtGenUG Co-founder, Silverlight Insider, Silverlight MVP, Silverlight nut Richard Costall travels up the A45 from Coventry to go through the latest (and greatest) incarnation of one of Microsoft's swankiest technologies. Don't miss it, with Pizza and member nugget (probably from Dave).