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Congratulations to Ron Watson who's name was drawn from the list of 100% Feedbackers - He wins an XBOX 360.
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Coming Events Coming Events
Monday, July 06, 2009
Oxford - WPF, WPF, WPF
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Birmingham - Workflowing for the Man
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Cambridge - The MVC Framework
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Manchester - In the Media Centre Spotlight
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Southampton - Web 4.0 - 2.0 is History
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The One With Dr Sex and Mr D ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The One With The Tutti Fruttis ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The One Which Stings Your Eyes ...
Saturday, January 31, 2009
The One With The Revolution ...
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The One With Ass The Experts ...
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Where you can find us Where you can find us
Birmingham
Formed in April 2006. Aston Science park near the city centre hosts NxtGenUG Birmingham. A great meeting place to discuss technology and eat Pizza!
Cambridge
Having opened in September 2007, Cambridge will offer a unique insight into Microsoft Research.
Coventry
Coventry venue has a bar, leather chairs and a view of the runway. With great meetings every month, what more could you ask for? Serving the Coventry community since April 2006.
Hereford
NxtGenUG Hereford - Then there were six. Formed in February 2009 Hereford is the newest NxtGenUG Region. Run by local guys Ryan O'Neill and Richard Wilde.
Manchester
"It's a sunny paradise!" does not describe soggy Manchester; at least it has its own NxtGenUG region! Run by Steven Robbins and Andy Wilkinson, two northern guys with a passion for pizza/technology!
Oxford
Holding it's first meeting in November 2006, Oxford is headed up by Renowned speakers Barry Dorrans, and Chris Seary.
Southampton
By the seaside, in the warmth of the South, NxtGenUG Southampton is run by John McLoughlin and Richie Allen, local guys with a passion for technology! Southampton started in October 2007.
Latest News Latest News
Ron Watson XBOX Owner
Congratulations to Ron Watson who's name was drawn from the list of 100% Feedbackers - He wins an XBOX 360.
Dave McMahon takes on The Microsoft Challenge!
NxtGenUG Co-Founder Dave McMahon is taking part in the Microsoft UK Challenge!
Cmomplete your Feedback and you could win!
NxtGenUG will pick one lucky winner to recieve an XBOX 360 just for completing your feedback by the end of May - Find out how?
DDD Events Getting Closer!
There are a host of Community Events coming up all around the country .. fill yer boots, read on for details!
Norweigian Developers Conference!
Our Norweigian Developer Friends have a great sounding conference in June, and they're offering special discounts to UK User Group Members!
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Recent ArticlesRecent Articles
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Dave McMahon - Dave McMahon takes a dive into Multi-Threaded programming and reviews a very practical book from Packt "C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming"
Monday, March 16, 2009
Dave McMahon - 16th March 2009 and it's the launch of the latest NxtGenUG Region - this time in Hereford!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Dave McMahon - On 27-28 January 2009, Dave McMahon attended a two day Web Application Security in London course run by Dinis Cruz. Here's how he got on and his thoughts on things he learnt!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Richard Costall - Richard Costall connects to Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 Book with a review. Will it soar like the Turaco on the cover or be extinct like the dodo?
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Chris Bell - NxtGenUG Member Chris Bell rolls up his book reviewing sleeves and dives into Programming Microsoft LINQ by MSPress.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Chris Seary - Chris Seary returns with another great article on Security. This time he shows us how to use encryption to encrypt just the data you want in WCF.
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Recent InterviewsRecent Interviews
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Toby Richards - Rich and Dave catch up with Toby Richards the new World Wide MVP lead. They chat about Toby's ideas for the MVP program for the next few years, about Daylight Saving time and about the upcoming MVP Summit in Seattle in March 2009
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Daniel Moth - Daniel Moth give us an indepth interview on all things including his blog
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Rafal Lukawiecki - TechEd draws to a close and Dave and Rich meet Rafal Lukawiecki, top TechEd speaker again, to talk about Data Mining - but with a big difference...
Friday, November 16, 2007
Ted Pattison - At TechEd Dave meets his "Speaker Idol" Ted Pattison and ask him about his background, speaking and Ted's only current mistress Sharepoint.
Friday, November 09, 2007
Andy Wigley - Rich and John catch up with Peter Foot and Andy Wigley, Mobile Gurus and MVP's to discuss mobile development, Dave joins to see if his phone is upto the job.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Michael Foord - Another chance meeting near the toilets Dave & Rich catch up with Michael Foord - A python developer who's embraced the IronPython language. Great interview!
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About UsAbout Us
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