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NxtGenUG

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!

• 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

• Nov 30

  Software Project War Stories

  Coventry, United Kingdom

  Black Marbles, Robert 'Boss' Hogg, jumps in the General Lee, and drives down to Coventry, doing some great jumps over hay bails, and through old barns on the way to talk about Software Project War Stories. with tales from the front line. We'll be having some Moonshine, and may even get John to do a Nugget, then we'll all be in Hazard County.

Past events

• An intro into ASP.NET MVC

  Mon, 16 Nov 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Why not come down to the wild west where Richard Wilde will provide an introduction to the ASP.NET MVC Framework with some Linq 2 XML thrown in. Pizza and swag of course will be most sought after!

• Silverlight 3

  Mon, 2 Nov 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG CoFounder Richard Costall visits Oxford to talk about Silverlight 3, and highlight the changes to graphics, media, out of browser, and other stuff. plus, they'll be a nugget, some pizza and 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...

• MEF Extensibility Framework

  Mon, 19 Oct 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Member hot foots it over from RedGate in Cambridge to talk to us about the Managed Extensibility Framework, or MEF to its Friends - We'll also be having some Pizza, Swag and a Nugget along the way...

• 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).

• When agile goes bad

  Tue, 6 Oct 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Sebastien Lambla shows use how to keep agile enough to be known as Sebastien Limbo ... no hula dancing, but we might manage Hawaiian pizza and swag that isn't grass skirts.

• 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.

• 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 !!

• Sharing the Point ...

  Mon, 21 Sep 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Come along to Hereford and find out what all the fuss is about SharePoint, one of Microsoft's most successful products ever. It's a feast of features for both IT Pros and Developers and Dave will aim to pack in as many aspects of SharePoint as he can, in between packing in as much Pizza as he can! Dave's joined by Joe Collins, long standing NxtGenUG member who's up for his first Member Nugget! Knowing Dave he'll have an item or two of swag to give out too!

• ASP.NET Development.

  Mon, 21 Sep 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Speaker and Author Dan Maharry, a man more used to the details of the web than Spiderman, drops into Coventry to talk about ASP.NET Development, we'll also be having a nugget, pizza plus some swag!

• On Cloud 9

  Tue, 1 Sep 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Vista Squads Ray Booysen floats on his cloud into Oxford to talk about Windows Azure, without the aid of a safety net or a Hello World Sample. We'll also be having a nugget, some pizza and Swag - if we can find any!

• Making a Mockery of SharePoint

  Wed, 19 Aug 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in , United Kingdom

  Richard Fennell of Black Marble shows us how to do SharePoint Developer Testing with Typemock, Pizza, Swag, Member Nugget, all in an evenings NxtGen-ing!

• Mocking Up SharePoint

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

  Richard Fennell starts his UK tour of testing SharePoint developer work with Typemock in Birmingham - Manchester tomorrow! Usual Pizza, Swag and member nuggets abound!

• 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!

• To MVC, or not to MVC

  Mon, 17 Aug 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Top community chap and presenter, Sebastien Lambla leaves the smoke for an eveneing to come up to Coventry and spread the word about MVC -We'll also be having a nugget, food and, if we can find any, giving away some swag!

• DIP Your Toes in at Hereford

  Mon, 17 Aug 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Top UK Author and Speaker Alex Homer comes to Hereford to give us an Injection. Well only metaphorically! He's here to speak on the Dependency Inversion Principle to allow us to write highly flexible applications and how we can also thwart computers plans taking over the world by configuring what they can and can't do. Pizza, Swag of course and perhaps a member nugget..

• The Need for Speed

  Tue, 4 Aug 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Phil Pursglove, puts the pedal to the metal to talk about Microsoft Velocity, a new distributed caching framework. We'll also be giving away some swag, eating some pizza and maybe even having a nugget!

• The Magnificent Windows 7

  Mon, 20 Jul 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Seven is a great number, we have the Seven Samurai, the Magnificent 7, The Secret Seven and the Seven Dwarfs - So it's not surprising the next version of Windows is called Windows 7 - You'll be Happy to know We'll be having a visit from Microsoft to talk about Windows 7. We'll be taking questions if you are not too Bashful. They'll be a nugget, DOCumentation and my fellow coordinator John Price will be Sleepy, Grumpy and Dopey at the back (He never reads this anyway). There, That was Sneezy w...

• Hereford Media Central

  Mon, 20 Jul 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  John Price, NxtGenUG Co-Counder, JIT Pizza eater and the owner of the world's only email generated black hole makes his way over to Hereford to deliver his Windows Media Centre presentation and show how to score brownie points with the wife, do development and have fun all at the same time.

• 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.

• 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.

• Workflowing for the Man

  Tue, 7 Jul 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Morgan Skinner Workflow Guru hits the second city to tell us about the new Windows Workflow Foundation changes and what it means, great speaker, great venue, great Pizza, great swag (even in these swag crunch times ...), don't miss it. It's Hot In The City ...

• WPF, WPF, WPF

  Mon, 6 Jul 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Vista Squad's Ray Booysen drops into Oxford to delight the crowd with Windows Presentation Foundation, or WPF to its friends. We'll also be having a nugget and some pizza too..

• 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!

• 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!

• Going With The Workflow ...

  Wed, 17 Jun 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in , United Kingdom

  Workflow Guru Morgan Skinner heads for the North and will spend an evening going through the latest developments in the world of Windows Workflow. Member nugget, Pizza and Swag - just another normal NxtGenUG evening!

• Making the most of your Memory

  Mon, 15 Jun 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Top TechEd Speaker Andy Wrigley heads West to Hereford to talk about Windows Mobile and also about designing lightweight systems to go easy on your memory and CPU requirements. Pizza, swag and fun with the Hereford crew and a top, top speaker!

• Workflow V4

  Mon, 15 Jun 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  There's been a lot of talk about Workflow since PDC, so it's time to find out what's going on. Microsoft's Morgan Skinner visits Coventry to dish the dirt on Workflow V4, plus we'll be having a member nugget, SWAG, and John will be coming up with another surprise culinary dish - Faggots, Pasta, whatever next!

• 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!

• Flex Those PEX

  Mon, 1 Jun 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Member Ben Hall drops into Oxford to Flex his Microsoft PEX and we'll be looking through the Nugget looking glass and feasting on Pizza

• Manchester Launch Event!

  Wed, 20 May 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in , United Kingdom

  We don't believe it, but we should and so should you! Another NxtGenUG region hits the road. Yes, the NxtGenUG flavour of Community hits the true North, and Steve Robbins and Andy Wilkinson two local lads welcome you to their Launch Event.
  
  There will be great technical content from a top UK speaker (TBA) plus Dave McMahon will talk about the NxtGenUG group and how getting involved in Community will benefit you and your business.
  
  Plus, of course, the ever present swag o...

• 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..

• CSS Deep Dive

  Mon, 18 May 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  International Speaker, and Software Legend Dave Sussman visits Coventry to ease our CSS pain. We'll be looking at Standards Based Websites, CSS Adaptors, and how ASP.NET 4.0 plays a part. We'll also be having a nugget, giving out SWAG and eating some food. Given time Dave will also give us a demonstration of Trout Tickling, one of his favourite pastimes.

• Dub See Eff and Stuff

  Mon, 18 May 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Hereford welcomes one of the longest standing members of NxtGenUG and Oxford Co-ordintor Chris Seary MVP to talk about WCF, SQL and Security and Stuff. Pizza of course, and Swag of course!

• 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 ...

• 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!

• from Here to Entity

  Tue, 5 May 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Microsoft's Eric Nelson takes us from here to Entity with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Plus we'll be having another nugget and they'll be lashings of Pizza.

• Silverlight Fantastic

  Mon, 27 Apr 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  The Hills are alive with the Sound of Silverlight. Styling on Controls and Markers on Videos these are a few of my favourite things. When Flash installs, when Javascript errors, when I'm feeling sad. I simply remember my favourite things and then I don't feel so bad! - SWAG and Pizza are also some of our favourtie things and we'll be having a nugget too..

• 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.

• Silverlight Countdown ...

  Mon, 20 Apr 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Founder Member, Silverlight Insider, Amateur Aardvark Physiotherapist and part time Blues Brother, Richard Costall jumps into his Skoda and heads off down the M54 to cast his Silverlighting magic on the members of NxtGenUG's newest region. Swag, Pizza and a Member Nugget will also feature. Don't miss it, this will be a great meeting on the latest development hot subject!

• 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.

• DLS's in C# 3.5

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

  Ian Cooper returns to Oxford again to talk about DSL's, and how it's so much easier in C# 3.5. We'll also be giving out SWAG and serving up hot pizza!

• 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!

• 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

• 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 ...

• Westward Ho!

  Mon, 16 Mar 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Welcome to the Wilde West, where Ryan O'Neill and Richard Wilde have started NxtGenUG Hereford to help developers west of Birmingham stay ahead of the game, and who better to do that than Guy Smith-Ferrier in his pre DevWeek warm up. Dave McMahon will be giving us the NxtGenUG Nugget and there will be the usual Swag, Pizza and drink! Come along and say hello and get involved with the UK Developer Community at NxtGenUG Hereford!

• 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.

• You are under a REST!

  Mon, 9 Mar 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Seasoned NxtGenUG Speaker makes his first trip to NxtGenUG Coventry to ley us all know about REST, it's background and positioning against SOAP. We'll also be having a nugget, giving away some SWAG and eating some food to0!

• This One Goes Up To 11 ...

  Tue, 3 Mar 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Phil Pursglove of VBUG comes cross country to show us how to get that ASP.NET web application running as fast as it possible can with people actually using it! Pizza, Swag and Nuggets of course.

• Mike Taulty on Something new

  Mon, 23 Feb 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Top NxtGenUG and Microsoft Speaker Mike Taulty comes back to Coventry in a bid to retain the 'Best Event Trophy' in Coventry. Mike will be talking about something new from the PDC. Plus We'll have a nugget, and some Pizza - oh and SWAG!. John get out the trophy polish!

• 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!

• 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!

• 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!
  

• Virtually Liam ...

  Wed, 4 Feb 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  The ever popular Liam Wesley is virtually everywhere these days, and tonight he pops in to speak on virtually everything to do with Virtualisation ... The pizza and swag will be real enough though!

• 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!

• 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.

• 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 ...

• The Designer/Developer Story..

  Mon, 19 Jan 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Once upon a time there was a Designer called Simon Sturgess who lived in a nice shiny expression land. One day he came across a Developer named Timothy Hustler who lived in VS2008-Land. Wizard Microsoft cast a spell and they both lived together happily ever after (purely on a professional basis). The Wizard has also promised he'll magic some pizza too and possibly a nugget.

• 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!

• Location, Location, Location

  Tue, 13 Jan 2009, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Oxford Favourite, Roger Whitehead comes back to Oxford to enlighten us about location based services. We'll also be giving away some swag and serving up some nice hot pizza!!

• 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!

• Deck the Halls .. Mark ...

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

  It may be Christmas time in the workhouse, but that don't mean it needs to be a slog! Andrew Hallmark is here to tell us how to spend more time in the Pub this Christmas, by making use of the CSLA Framework as promoted by Rocky Lhotka. Should be great, plus Chrimbo Swag and Pizza of course!

• 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.

• 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!

• WPF Episode 2: I18N

  Mon, 8 Dec 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Guy Smith-Ferrier returns to the flying club, for his Faggot and Mushy Pea batch - along with a great Session on Internationalization of WPF and Silverlight Applications. We'll also be looking into Santa's Sack - Phnarr, Phnarr - for a Yueltide nugget!

• 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 ...

• WPF Episode 1: DeepDive

  Mon, 24 Nov 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  MSP and WPF Fanatic Kris Athi stops by in Coventry to give us a heads up on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). They'll also be a nugget and the customary 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.

• 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!

• Alex Homer is Back!

  Mon, 17 Nov 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  You just can't keep them away. Microsoft's Alex Homer is back with his Policy and Dependency Injection with Enterprise Library hat on. We'll be having a nugget and some Pizza.

• An Experience to Remember

  Mon, 20 Oct 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Ben Sykes pops over the Irish sea to talk about the Human Experience and Applications from a Design and User (Human)Experience Perspective. Rich won't be doing a nugget which uses Blend, but we'll have some perfectly designed Pizzas - leaving you with a nice warm experience in your tummies :-)

• '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!

• 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 ...

• Oh Ah Emm ...it's nHibernate

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

  An evening of Object Relational Mapping (ORM) with a look at nHibernate and how it compares to the new Microsoft Entity Framework. Main speaker for the evening is Ian Cooper of London .NET,there will be a member nugge hopefully and of course that there Pizza stuff and swag ... Enjoy!

• 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

• 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!

• 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 ...

• 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.

• It's Javascript Time...

  Mon, 1 Sep 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Love it or hate it Web Developers have to embrace it. Helen Emerson drops in to explain the power of Javascript and what we can do with it. We'll also be having a nugget and maybe, just mayve, a slice of the old pizza.

• 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

• 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!

• XNA, Silverlight and Gaming

  Mon, 11 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Somethings you do in the bedroom you don't talk about, but this certainly is worth it. Pete Mcgann (XNA) and Richard Costall (Silverlight) talk about XNA, Gaming and Silverlight in their own unique style. Plus we'll have a nugget and some pizza.
  
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• To Be Continued ...

  Wed, 6 Aug 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  An evening on Continuous Integration featuring Liam Westley, stalwart member of the UK Community and man of many talents. Member nugeet will feature and the ubiquitous Swag and Pizza in whatever order!

• Silverlight Assault Course

  Sat, 26 Jul 2008, 09:00 - 17:00 in Poole, United Kingdom

  Silverlight 2.0 looks set to revolutionise web Development when it ships later this year. The NxtGenUG Southampton boys are proud to present in association with Developer Express (who have kindly provided the USB 2.0 Hard Drives), a one day workshop 'Silverlight Assault course' to be held on the 26th July 2008 in Poole, Dorset. We'll be having presentations from Richard Costall and Chris Hay, plus Hands-on-labs for you to get your hands dirty with ex...

• 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..

• Volta - The Next Generation

  Mon, 21 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Derr de derrr... [Insert Star Trek Music] Robert Hogg, of Black Marble, Trekkies down to NxtGenUG Coventry to reveal Microsoft Volta. Microsoft Live Labs "Volta" is an early access toolset that presents a new way of developing client and server side applications by allowing multi-tier web application to be rapidly developed using familiar .NET skills and techniques. They'll also be a Nuggetoid from Rich on the Planetoid Silverlight, and hopefully you'll klingon till the pizza arrives. ...

• 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..

• 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 ...

• The Dynamic Man

  Tue, 1 Jul 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Member Ben Hall likes to be dynamic, especially with the Dynamic Language Runtime. We'll also be having a nugget and maybe even some pizza

• 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 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...

• 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?

• I've got the POWER - Shell

  Mon, 16 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  All it took was a quick mention of PowerShell by Microsoft's Andrew Fryer and the members wanted to know more - So here it is Richard Siddaway take us on a developer journey through Powershell. Powershell, Pizza, Prizes in Pinata's and Porcupines -Well no Porcupines but they'll be a nugget on something!

• Pre-FEST08 G(r)eek Dinner

  Wed, 11 Jun 2008, 19:30 - 21:30 in READING, United Kingdom

  Join us in a Pre-FEST08 G(r)eek Dinner at Pizza Express in Reading and have a last UK supper with Daniel Moth too (in spirit only - he can't make it now :-()!

• To MVC or not to MVC ?

  Mon, 9 Jun 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Alan Dean takes a dive into the MVC framework including the design patterns, and usage of some of the .NET 3.5 Framework. We'll also have a nugget, and some pizza

• 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!

• 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!

• Murder on the SQL Express

  Mon, 19 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Murder on the SQL Express. A special event and the ultimate Whodunnit. How did it happen? Why did it happen? Who can solve this? Is Rich being cryptic about this event? All will be revealed soon... dun dun derrrr.. Watch out for details appearing on the site over the next 2 months.

• Test Driven Meeting

  Mon, 19 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG Member, and RedGate Test Engineer Ben Hall comes back to Coventry to talk about Test Driven Development - What's it all about and why's it important. They'll probably be a nugget and some food!

• 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 ...

• Entity Framework

  Tue, 6 May 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Microsoft's Mike Taulty drops in on Oxford to talk about the entity framework, and object relational mapping technology - plus they'll be a nugget and/of course Pizza!

• 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!

• 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

• Daves Moss Collection

  Mon, 21 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  The phone line wasn't too good when we chatted, but NxtGenUG's very own Dave McMahon will be dropping by to show us his MOSS collection, he also said something about being able to SHARE and POINT at the MOSS with some great demos. Dave will also be interested in that we have Mushroom on the pizza.

• 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...

• Oxford 2008 Launch meeting.

  Tue, 1 Apr 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Its launch time in Oxford and Barry has got Simon Sabin to tell us about SQL Server 2008 - We'll have a nugget and, of course, some launch SWAG and Pizza. You'd be a fool to not attend this one!

• Launch Swagaganza 2008

  Mon, 31 Mar 2008, 18:45 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Come to Coventry, raise that champagne glass and celebrate the launch of the latest set of Microsoft "Heroes Happen Here" products - Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. Tonight we'll be focusing on the ITPro side of things with coverage of SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. Join me on a trip to the 'Dark Side'. Vegas has it's fountains, but NxtGenUG have mount Swagavarus and it's due to errupt tonight - plus they'll be pizza and maybe a launch drink! Bring yo...

• 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?

• 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

• 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...

• Even more Mobile

  Tue, 11 Mar 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Roger Whitehead is back to Oxford by popular demand to drill into the exciting area of mobile development, we'll also have a nugget on something or other, and the pizza will attending too..

• SQL Server 2008

  Tue, 26 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  The launch of SQL Server 2008 is just around the corner, so we decided to give the NxtGenUG members a head start by inviting Red-Gate's Architect Andras Belokosztolszki over to talk about what's coming in the next release. There's also bound to be a nugget and, of course, pizza!

• From here to Entity

  Mon, 25 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Microsoft's Mike Taulty pops along to Coventry to tell us about the ADO.NET 3.0 Entity Framework, how it works and why it's important. Can he beat Daniel's high scoring VS2008 session - The gloves are off and the laptops are on!. We'll also have a nugget and some pizza.

• 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!

• 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 ...

• Ahhh, Ahh, Astoria.

  Tue, 12 Feb 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Bless You, or Bless Guy Smith-Ferrier who'll be heading over to Oxford to tell us about this technology. Astoria is a data access layer for client side technologies, such as AJAX and Silverlight. We'll also have a nugget and some pizza.

• I wanna tell you Astoria..

  Mon, 28 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Guy Smith-Ferrier, last years Coventry 'Best Session' winner, comes back by popular demand and wants to retain his title. He is even willing to talk about something other than Internationalisation. Plus they'll be a nugget and some pizza....

• 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...

• 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.

• Testing, Testing, Testing....

  Tue, 15 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Is this thing on? NxtGenUG Member Ben Hall shows us what Testing is all about with a demonstration of MBUnit and how we should factor testing in when designing and developing applications. Plus we'll have a nugget and of course Pizza and SWAG.

• The Moth Goes To Oxford

  Mon, 14 Jan 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Venue 4 in Daniel Moth's NxtGenUG Tour! Yes, its a new year, but there's only one Moth. Daniel is back for a solo performance of his Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 talk with no LINQ in sight. Pizza will abound as will swag, and when you get home you'll want to install that Visual Studio 2008 - "Daniel Says" ...

• 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!

• 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'm dreaming of a...

  Tue, 11 Dec 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know. Where the buttons glisten and attendees listen to hear, great demos in the show.I'm dreaming of a Silveright Christmas With every web Page I write. May your devs be merry and bright And may all your pages not be white. I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Demo With Chris and Rich on Stage. May your SWAG be expensive and bright And may all your Pizza be large. Chris Hay and Richard Costall will present a variety of Silverlig...

• I'm dreaming of a ...

  Mon, 10 Dec 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know. Where the buttons glisten and attendees listen to hear, great demos in the show.I'm dreaming of a Silveright Christmas With every web Page I write. May your devs be merry and bright And may all your pages not be white. I'm dreaming of a Silverlight Demo With Chris and Rich on Stage. May your SWAG be expensive and bright And may all your Pizza be large. Chris Hay and Richard Costall will present a variety of Silverlig...

• NxtGenUG in the Media

  Tue, 27 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG in the media, well media centre. NxtGenUG's very own John Price give his 10 foot view on media centre and demonstrates how easy it is to write applications for it and how we can all convince our better halves to buy XBOX 360's

• An Evening With The Greek One

  Tue, 20 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Is he the 'Special One'? Maybe, maybe not, but he is the self-styled 'Greek One'. Yes, Daniel Moth is on the road to Cambridge and he's bringing with him a barrel load of demos of the new Visual Studio 2008. We'll have a Nugget, Pizza of course and no doubt a bit of swag will be banded around, get yourself her, you won't regret it!

• 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...

• Presentation Skills

  Mon, 12 Nov 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Time for something different! Dave, Rich and John all undertook a two day presentation skills course at Microsoft. Alan Elston, accomplished trainer, coach and presenter, has kindly offered to drop in on Coventry and lift the lid on presentation and hosting skills. Anybody fancy doing a nugget? plus there will be pizza too..

• 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...

• Reading on the MonoRail ...

  Tue, 30 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Heading into the future as ever, but keeping our feet firmly on the ground, the Oxford crew have engaged one of their own Steve Wilmot, and Ian Cooper, no less, of London .NET for your delectation this evening. Pizza of course, swag of course, Chris, Dave and ... Barry, of course!

• XSLT - Why, How and When ...

  Tue, 23 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Watch out, Dave and Rich are in town, and Dave's got his XSLT hat on again, this time with knobs on! Yes its an evening with the NxtGenUG co-founders as Rich talks to his Vista in his award winning Nugget. Dave will be running through his XSLT 'Extreme' session which he will be giving at TechEd in November. Pizza and swag will abound as ever, don't miss it!

• VS2008 and .NET 3.5

  Mon, 22 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Daniel Moth drops in at the flying club to tell what all the fuss is about with VS2008 and .NET 3.5. We decided to ban him from talking about LINQ to XML, LINQ to SQL, and just let him LINQ to a nugget. Make sure you don't BLINQ or you'll miss the pizza. NOTE: This session contains no LINQ.

• 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!

• The Lost World: Win Services

  Mon, 15 Oct 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Intrepid Explorer Liam Westley takes a trip back in time 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 gigantic things to see on the night : Pizza-o-sa...

• It's Just a Click Away ...

  Mon, 24 Sep 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Top speaker, writer,founder of DotNetDevNet User Group and all round 'good guy', Guy Smith-Ferrier joins the NxtGenUG Brum crew and gets his XBAPs out to show us how great Windows and Browser apps are just a click away ... An evening of WPF, Pizza, 'Swag' and a NxtGenUG Nugget to inform and delight ... See you there!

• It came from Outer Card-Space.

  Mon, 17 Sep 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Barry Dorrans is beamed down to Coventry - to reveal the future of Internet Identity with Microsoft's Windows CardSpace - Information Cards. We also welcome the return of Inspector Martin Wright of the West Midlands Police who will be presenting a 'nugget' on e-security and WARPs, Galactic 'Swag' and 'Intergalactic' Pizza feature ... Engage!

• Agile In August

  Mon, 20 Aug 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Technologist and speaker, Gary Short roles up and unroles his list of comparisions between strengths and weaknesses of the 'Agile' Development in the Enterprise and the ISVs. This session was very well received at DDD5. We'll also have a first nugget from NxtGenUG Member Ami Bening on testing using NUnit .... what? Pizza? Will we have Pizza? Do you have to even ask? Swag? Come on! See you there, its going to be another great evening!

• Mind your TABLE manners!

  Mon, 13 Aug 2007, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Dave Sussman (ASP.NET MVP, Author and Speaker) drops in to tell us why Table based web page layout can cause design change issues. We have Pizza based layout on the Tables and Rich comes up with a pretty amazing, yet sinister nugget.

• Building ASP.NET Controls

  Mon, 16 Oct 2006 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Barry Dorrans explains how to build .net controls for use in Web Applications, member James Coulter extends the Windows Forms Listbox in our nugget session, plus the usual interviews and, of course, food.