NxtGenUG

Events coming up

• May 24

  Poking around EF5

  SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Geoff Lombardi head down South away from the rain and gloom on Birmingham to bask in the sunshine on the South Coast.Geoff will be taking us through the new features of the Entity Framework, and showing us what's what.There'll be Pizza, Swag, and hopefully a nugget!

• May 29

  Windows 8 Development

  Birmingham, United Kingdom

  We couldn't turn down this offer, hence the second meeting this month! We're lucky enough to have top MS Speaker Mike Taulty visit Birmingham to talk to us on Windows 8 Development! They don't let him out much these days, so don't miss this opportunity to get top information from a top guy in the know. Pizza of course but no nugget tonight as the floor is open full time for Mike. See you there!

• Jun 11

  IIS8 Platform for the Future

  Hereford, United Kingdom

  Andrew Westgarth makes his way from the N.E. to give us a heads up on IIS8. We are sitting on the verge of another update with the upcoming release of Windows Server 8 and Windows 8 which bring with them IIS 8.0.As usual Pizza will be served along with a nugget.

• Jun 12

  MVC , My first 5 months

  Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Richard Costall pops down from NxtGen Coventry to talk about his experiences with MVC3 and Razor. Richard will show of some of the stuff he's learnt, and find out if he's convinced it's any better than Joomla or webForms

• Jun 20

  An Introduction to DDD

  Warrington, United Kingdom

  Ian Cooper travels up from London to enlighten us all about DDD !! Not to talk about the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper events !! but Domain Driven Design!

• Jun 21

  Real world ASP.NET MVC 4

  SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Local 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!

• Jun 21

  A Developer’s View of Windows

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  *NOTE THE VENUE* What better way to celebrate the Great British Summer than to get together in a room and talk about Microsoft's latest game-changing gizmos. Robert "Boss" Hogg is popping down from Yorkshire to share his insight into developing and delivering applications using Windows 8. Robert is co-founder and Managing Director of Black Marble, a software development company specialising in collaboration, ALM and innovative technology solutions. You can follow Robert on his blog (http://bl.

• Jun 25

  CQRS and Event Sourcing

  Coventry, United Kingdom

  Ashic Mahtab comes to Coventry to talk about CQRS and Event Sourcing, another in the series of learning something completely new at NxtGenUG Coventry

• Jul 2

  Gill Cleeren Tour

  Hereford, United Kingdom

  Gill Cleeren heads over to the West Country on his annual tour of the UK.Session details to follow.Pizza will be served

• Jul 5

  Windows 8 FTW!

  SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Top Regional Director, MVP and Speaker Gill Cleeren heads over from Belgium to enlighten us on Windows 8! :)Session details to follow

• Jul 10

  CQRS and Event Sourcing

  Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Ashic Mahtab comes up from London to talk about CQRS, Event Source and how it can bring Elegance to "Normal" Applications.

• Oct 2

  Jessie Liberty is coming! :)

  SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Jessie Liberty hops across the pond and join us in Southampton to talk Windows 8 and XAML development. Further details to follow :)But there will be Pizza, Swag and possibly a nugget!

• Oct 9

  CUDA

  Hereford, United Kingdom

  Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) is a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia for graphics processing

Past events

• EF5 Preview - New Features

  Mon, 21 May 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Geoff Lombardi travels all the way from out neighbouring city of Worcester to give us the heads up on EF5, note this session is not an introduction to entity framework.Of course Pizza will be served and maybe we can find a nugget.

• NodeJS: Darling of the VC

  Thu, 17 May 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  *NOTE THE VENUE* Rough winds may shake the darling buds of May, but this month the darling of the venture capitalists is blowing up a storm. NodeJS has made its way onto the radar through some significant investment from Microsoft big boys like Glenn Block. But is it all it's cracked up to be? Come and join Gary Short, our very own Pa Larkin, for this month's session and find out why NodeJS is the current industry sweetheart. We're grateful to both Gary's employer, Gibraltar Software, and to

• CQRS and Event Sourcing

  Wed, 16 May 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Warrington, United Kingdom

  Ashic Mahtab comes up from London to talk about CQRS, Event Source and how it can bring Elegance to "Normal" Applications.

• Node.js

  Wed, 16 May 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Gary Short takes his 2nd stop on the NxtGenUG mini-tour to visit Coventry and talk about Node.js - Should make for a very interesting session, plus we may have a nugget, pizza, and hopefully some swag!

• NodeJS: Darling of the VC

  Tue, 15 May 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Gary Short takes his 1st stop on the NxtGenUG mini-tour to visit Birmingham and talk about Node.js - Should make for a very interesting session, plus we may have a nugget, pizza, and hopefully some swag!

• The Realtime Web

  Mon, 14 May 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Phil Leggetter comes across to Hereford to talk about Web Browsers and the Realtime web. Phil describes this as an interactive presentation and will go on to show us Pusher and Jsbin, connecting and subscribing.Pizza will of course be served with a nugget.See you all there.

• Going Global with MVC

  Tue, 1 May 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Top bloke, worldwide speaker and all round nice chap Guy Smith-Ferrier heads up to Oxford to talk about his one true passion "Internationalisation"! Guy will show us how to internationalise an MVC application.

• My first 5 months with MVC

  Mon, 23 Apr 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Richard Costall returns from his development tour of duty to talk about his experiences with MVC3 and Razor. Richard will show of some of the stuff he's learnt, and find out if he's convinced it's any better than Joomla or webForms

• Distributed Version Control -

  Thu, 19 Apr 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Distributed version control systems have seen a great rise in popularity in recent years, but not all developers have 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. In this session I'll explain in simple terms what a DVCS is and why you want to use one. Whether you are a lone developer, an open source contributor, or working in a large team on a commercial product, I'll show the benefits DVCS can bring to your.

• Phone a Friend ...

  Tue, 17 Apr 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Matt Lacey from way down south ventures above the Watford Gap to tell us the story of Windows Phone 7 development, the patterms, the pitfalls and teh glory ... Pizza, Swag and hopefully a wee nugget from a member. See you there!

• Web caching 101

  Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Web caching 101 - a different perspective - When it comes to web sites, caching has been the most painful aspect of delivering web sites. At the same times, it's always been promoted as the best way to scale. Who to trust, what does caching means and how can proxies actually make your life easier and your site cheaper? If you want answers to those questions, and look at some cool code, this talk is for you!Pizza will be served

• Introduction to DDD

  Tue, 3 Apr 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Ian Cooper travels up from London to enlighten us all about Domain Driven Design. Ian Cooper has over 18 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. When he is not writing code he is also the founder of the London .NET user group

• **Cancelled** FubuMVC

  Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Warrington, United Kingdom

  **Cancelled** Sorry folksIan Battersby joins us to talk about FubuMVC, an open source web framework for .net.

• Making Powerful Kinections

  Mon, 19 Mar 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  NxtGenUG's very own DareDevil John Price, dons his demo proof jacket to talk about Kinect, an amazing piece of hardware from a developers perspective.

• The many tongues of MVC

  Thu, 15 Mar 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Top chap, and all round ice guy Guy Smith-Ferrier heads down to sunny Southampton to talk about his one true passion, Origami. No, not really, it is in fact Internationalisation! Guy will show us how to internalise an MVC application.There'll might be a nugget, but there'll definitely be Pizza and Swag!

• What's what in SQL 2012?

  Tue, 13 Mar 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  OK, it's that time of year when new things are hinted at and are starting to appear from the great Software Factory out West, otherwise knownas Microsoft. First up we've a look at SQL Server 2012 with Dave Ballantyne. Hopefully we'll have a nugget, Pizza and (very hopefull) some swag - it's getting tough out there!

• Web Performance Triage

  Mon, 12 Mar 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Marc Gravell is coming up from the deepest part of the Forest of Dean to talk about web performance and give us his insight into improving the performance of web servers. Marc is part of the development team for Stack Exchange (and a self-confessed Stack Overflow junkie), and has been a C# MVP for the last 4 years. He has a long history of open source projects, and tries to focus on high-performance, low-impact libraries (hiding all the "ugly" from app developers). We will be serving Pizz.

• Web Caching 101

  Tue, 6 Mar 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Abingdon, United Kingdom

  Sebastien Lambla come to Oxford to teach us something we probably all don't know as well as we should!We of course will be serving Pizza, giving away great swag and maybe throw in a Nugget.

• World Domination: ASP.NET MVC

  Tue, 6 Mar 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  We are very happy to welcome back to Cambridge the wonderful Guy Smith-Ferrier. Our scholarly friend is bilingual in both Standard Geek and Modern Internationalisation. There aren't many people who can share this subject matter in an informative and interesting way, so we are very lucky to have the best in the business joining us to share his wealth of experience. We've got pizza and swag up the wazoo, so come and eat, drink and be merry at our March meeting!

• The Missing Lync

  Mon, 27 Feb 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Coventry, United Kingdom

  Ben Lee drops in to Coventry to talk about Microsoft Lync - The next generation of communcations server. Uniting voice communications, IM, and audio, video and Web conferencing. We'll also be having some pizza, possibly a nugget and maybe even some SWAG!

• Being a Simple Nancy in WebDev

  Thu, 23 Feb 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom

  Mark Rendle heads down South once again, this time leaving his magicians hat behind, and bring down his killer web dev skills. He'll take us through development using Simple.Data and Nancy.Hopefully there'll be a nugget, definitely pizza and SWAG!

• Going Global with MVC

  Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Top bloke, worldwide speaker and all round nice chap Guy Smith-Ferrier heads up the M5 to Birmingham to talk about his one true passion "Internationalisation"! Guy will show us how to internalise an MVC application. There'll might be a nugget, but there'll definitely be Pizza and Swag!

• Straighten Spaghetti with C# 5

  Thu, 16 Feb 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Cambridge, United Kingdom

  We're very excited to have the inimitable Jon Skeet with us for our second session of the year. Jon is bringing us a brain cell-bending session on asynchronicity. Remember folks, although Jon works as a software engineer for Google, he does not speak on their behalf. You may know of his book, C# in Depth, the second edition of which has been likened to "the first edition of C# in Depth, but with more bits" and is widely regarded as "shorter than most other C# books". High praise indeed! We're.

• Going native, iPhone edition

  15 Feb-20 Jan 2012 in Warrington, United Kingdom

  Rich Somerfield joins us to give an introduction to native iPhone development.**We are starting 30 minutes later than normal

• Continuous Integration

  Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 19:00 - 21:00 in Hereford, United Kingdom

  Globe trotting Paul Stack is coming to Hereford to talk about Continuous Integration, a cheap way to improve reliability and automate deployment. Paul knows his stuff and has been doing CI for years, including presenting at Skills Matter (http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/open-source-dot-net/ci-to-cd). You can find more info at his blog http://paulstack.co.uk/blog/post/Review-Continuous-Integration-in-Net.aspxPizza will be served an who knows we might also get a nugget!

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