NxtGenUG

Events coming up

• Jun 18

  Making Windows Store Dance

  Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Making Windows Store Dance with Nokia Drums: Christopher Myhill makes the journey up from Bristol to get us upto speed with Windows Store Applications and how to avoid the pitfalls. There will also be swag and pizza.

• Jun 19

  TDD, where did it all go wrong

  Warrington, United Kingdom

  Ian Cooper braves the North to talk to us about TDD.

Past events

• Typescript *** FREE EVENT ***

  Tue, 21 May 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Top speaker Mark Rendle heads up to Birmingham to share with us the joys of Microsoft new TypeScript language.There'll be pizza and swag! Come join us!

• What is Devops anyway

  Thu, 16 May 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Alex Papadimoulis (Of Daily WTF Fame) pops into Coventry on a visit from Ohio whilst in the UK, to talk about DevOps - Come along and listen to an excellent speaker. Alex is a speaker and writer who is passionate about looking beyond the code to build great software. In addition to founding Inedo – the makers of BuildMaster, the popular continuous delivery platform – Alex also started The Daily WTF, a fun site dedicated to building software the wrong way.

• Cross platform game / app deve

  Wed, 15 May 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Warrington, United Kingdom

  Simon Jackson joins us to talk about creating great cross platform apps and games.

• Windows Azure Websites

  Mon, 13 May 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Richard Conway is the co-founder of the UK Windows Azure Users Group and a Windows Azure MVP and Insider. He has been using the cloud since its inception and has talked on everything from clustered computing and Big Data to device support in Windows Azure. In this session he will he will go through how can leverage Windows Azure in your applications to get productive in under an hour. He will draw specific reference to Windows Azure Websites, Windows Azure Mobile Services and Windows Azure Cl.

• Dependency....

  Wed, 24 Apr 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Local chap Ian Russell pops in to Coventry to talk about Dependency Injection. We'll also be rolling out the pizza and chatting to members about the future... come along and give us your ideas.

• Globalization: Know Your Enemy

  Tue, 23 Apr 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  All round nice chap and worldwide speaker Guy Smith-Ferrier comes up to Birmingham to deliver what he does best !!There will be pizza and swag

• Pragmatic Dependency Injection

  Tue, 16 Apr 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Due to commitments April's meeting will be on Tuesday the 16th.NxtGenUG member Ian Russell gives us a pragmatic view of Dependency Injection. In the session, you will discover what Dependency Injection is, why you will want, and need, to use it in your projects, when it is and is not appropriate to use it and and how to get the best out of it.

• Typescript

  Mon, 8 Apr 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Good guy Mark Rendle heads across to the wild west once again, this time to share with us the joys of Microsoft new TypeScript language.There'll be pizza, swag and hopefully a nugget! Come join us!

• IIS8 and Beyond!

  Thu, 21 Mar 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Ex-VBUG President, Founder of NEBytes and all round good guy Andrew Westgarth heads down from the gloomy north to dispense joy and knowledge on IIS 8and Windows 8.There'll be Pizza, Swag and hopefully a nugget!

• Azure Mobile Services

  Wed, 20 Mar 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Nico Vermeir, a user group leader from Belgium is coming to Coventry to share some community love, and talk about Windows Azure mobile services. Come and listen to Nico, plus catch up with a nugget and hopefully some swag

• TDD, where did it all go wrong

  Tue, 5 Mar 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Ian Cooper returns to Oxford to enlighten us on where TDD went wrong.Since Kent Beck wrote the book on TDD in 2002 a lot of words have been dedicated to the subject. But many of them propogated misunderstandings of Kent's original rules so that TDD practice bears little resemblance to Kent's original ideas. Key misunderstandings around what do I test, what is a unit test, and what is the 'public interface' have led to test suites that are brittle, hard to read, and do not support easy refac.

• Delving into Windows Phone 8

  Thu, 21 Feb 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Windows Phone guru and all round nice guy Matt Lacey heads down south to take us brought Microsofts latest iteration of their excellent mobile platform.There be pizza, swag and maybe a nugget!(Session details to follow)We're trying out a new site, please register here! http://www.meetup.com/DeveloperSouthCoast/events/100072932

• Hidden Complexity: Inside Simp

  Wed, 20 Feb 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Warrington, United Kingdom

  Mark Rendle once again braves the North to give us a look deep inside Simple.Data and Simple.Data.

• Windows Phone 8 + Windows 8

  Tue, 19 Feb 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  We're very lucky to have ex-MVP and now Microsoft Technical Evangelist Andy Wigley visiting Birmingham this month to talk about creating applications for both Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. We've a nugget I'm pretty sure, and the ubiquitous Pizza!

• DVCS

  Mon, 11 Feb 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Mark Heath comes to hereford to talk about Distributed version control systems (DVCS) as all developers have not yet had a chance to try them out. Maybe you're wondering what all the fuss is about, or have given it a go and found it too confusing.Pizza of course will be served

• Windows Azure

  Mon, 11 Feb 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  MVP Andy Cross visits Coventry to talk about Windows Azure.

• TypeScript with Mark Rendle

  Tue, 5 Feb 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  "TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript."In this talk, I'll look at what that means, both as a technical description and to you as a developer, and particularly as a member of a development team.Covering:* The language, or the extra syntax TypeScript adds to JavaScript;* TypeScript tooling for Visual Studio;* TypeScript in Windows 8 Store apps;* Using TypeScript outside Visual Studio and .NET;* A look at the TypeScript ecosystem that is alread.

• Chinese New Year!

  Thu, 24 Jan 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in , United Kingdom

  The slightly early Chinese new Year Geek dinner!Huzzah!Please register on our Meetup site http://www.meetup.com/DeveloperSouthCoast/events/100097102

• An Evening with Uncle Bob

  Tue, 22 Jan 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  We're thrilled to be kicking off the New Year with a fabulous speaker - Bob "Uncle Bob" Martin! Uncle Bob is the author of numerous publications focusing on software craftsmanship including The Clean Coder and Clean Code. He's also slated as one of the fathers of the agile movement. We're very lucky to have him agree to come and speak to the group. Find out more about Bob by following him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin) and by checking out his website: www.cleancoder.comWe.

• Taming Your Dependencies

  Tue, 22 Jan 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Long standing nxtgen member Ian Russell makes the short journey across from Coventry to "Inject" some excitement into this session. There will be swag, pizza and maybe even a nugget.

• SPA's and Windows 8

  Mon, 21 Jan 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  MVP, and top bloke, Richard Griffin drops in on Coventry to talk about building Windows 8 apps, using Backbone and JavaScript.

• TypeScript: The Good Parts

  Thu, 17 Jan 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  It's a New Year, so let's start with a new language! Mark Rendle heads down south once again, this time to share with us the joys of Microsoft new TypeScript language.There'll be pizza, swag and hopefully a nugget! Come join us!

• Building Apps for Windows Phon

  Wed, 16 Jan 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Warrington, United Kingdom

  Andy Wigley joins us to talk about creating apps that take advantage of all parts of the Windows Phone various versions

• MVC4 Real World

  Mon, 14 Jan 2013, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  All round good Guy Harvey Kandola drops by the user group to share his experiences and secrets of running a successful start up with a first rate product.They'll be Pizza, Swag and a nugget, come join us!

• Christmas Drinks and Networkin

  Wed, 19 Dec 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Christmas is coming, so time to chill, chat and reflect on the last 12 months. Come and have a drink, and some pizza and a chat in the bar!

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