NxtGenUG - Event List

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July, 2009

WPF, WPF, WPF (Oxford)	July 06
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..

Workflowing for the Man (Birmingham)	July 07
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 ...

The MVC Framework (Cambridge)	July 14
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.

In the Media Centre Spotlight (Manchester)	July 15
NxtGenUG Cofounder and Extreme Stunt DemoMan John Price visits Manchester to talk about Media Centre. NxtGenUG's answer to Tommy Copper, will entertain, amaze and educate you in the fast paced session, full of dangerous demos. He doesn't pray to the demo gods - he taunts them! Warning: The demos shown in this session should only be done by a trained professional or John. They may also be a nugget, some pizza and a bit of SWAG

Web 4.0 - 2.0 is History (Southampton)	July 16
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 Magnificent Windows 7 (Coventry)	July 20
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 wasn't it. [EDIT by John, I do read this, but Rich wont notice the edit...;-), HAPPY to stay at the back - too BASHFUL to move forward you see] Please don't Doc me points on the feedback for this abstract.

Hereford Media Central (Hereford)	July 20
John Price, NxtGenUG Co-Founder, 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 shows how to score brownie points with the wife, do development and have fun all at the same time. Take a look at why Media Center can make your life richer. There are a number of different personal video recorders on the market, but Media Center has one major advantage, YOU... and the software you can write for it. We will look at MCML (Media Center markup language), and look at how the XBOX 360 can be used for more than just games when working in conjunction with Media Center. We will also look at how we can react to things that the user does and how we can use that information to affect the physical world, like dimming the lights automatically when you play a video, and other home automation ideas.

August, 2009

The Need for Speed (Oxford)	August 04
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!

To MVC, or not to MVC (Coventry)	August 17
Top community chap and presenter, Sebastien Lambla leaves the smoke for an evening 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 (Hereford)	August 17
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..

Mocking Up SharePoint (Birmingham)	August 18
Richard Fennell starts his UK tour of testing SharePoint developer work with Typemock in Birmingham - Manchester tomorrow! Usual Pizza, Swag and member nuggets abound!

Making a Mockery of SharePoint (Manchester)	August 19
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!

September, 2009

On Cloud 9 (Oxford)	September 01
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!

Windows 7 (Manchester)	September 16
Dave Allen from Microsoft will be joining us to talk about exploiting the new features of Windows 7, such as the new taskbar, and what's likely to break in applications that haven't been tested on Vista/Win7! Member nugget, Pizza and Swag as usual!

ASP.NET Development. (Coventry)	September 21
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!

Take No Prism'ers' (Cambridge)	September 22
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.

October, 2009

MEF Extensibility Framework (Coventry)	October 19
NxtGenUG Member Ben Hall 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...