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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.

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Future NxtGenUG and third party event listing

February, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Overview (Manchester)	February 17
Dave braves the north to give us the low down on the latest version of Microsoft's SharePoint platform. A Nugget, a pile of pizza and some swag may also make an appearance.

How to Sync by the seaside (Southampton)	February 18
Creative genius of all the NxtGenUG game shows, John Price, travels down to the South Coast to give us a spin around the ADO.NET Sync Services. There be pizza and hopefully a nugget to!

The Kitchen Synch (Coventry)	February 22
If you've got Synch problems, then call in the plumber - John Price travels all the way from, well, err the bar, to talk about the ADO.NET Synch Framework - We'll also be having some pizza, a nugget and giving out some swag!

I Azure You! (Birmingham)	February 23
As promised in the middle of Microsoft's "Azure Week" we're running an Azure Event with two guys from Black Marble in Bradford. Yes, filling the boots of Chris Hay who unfortunately cannot be with us this week, Steve Spencer and Iain Angus do their Chris Hay impressions, probably without the loud T-shirts and travel to tell us about building scalable application with Windows Azure. Pizza, Azure Swag and the normal stuff. Should be a great evening!

BONUS EVENT! Test Driven Devel (Manchester)	February 26
Richard Hopton, of NxtGen Oxford fame, joins us with his session on Test Driven Development that recently featured in DDD8. Please note this is in ADDITION TO our normal February event and is being run on a Friday evening, which probably means we will end up in the pub afterwards :-)

March, 2010

S.O.L.I.D. as a R.O.C.K. (Oxford)	March 02
London .NET Usergroup founder Ian Cooper makes his way up to Oxford to demystify the S.O.L.I.D. design principles and discuss why they have been recognised as the best practice development techniques we should all be using. With Pizza and perhaps a nugget this is one not to miss!

Don't be MEF'd it's PRISM ... (Birmingham)	March 16
Southampton Coordinator John McLoughlin sprints up from the South Coast to speak about MEF and PRISM, those dependency injection things which are dead cool! Pizza, Member Nugget from long standing NxtgenUG member Stuart Wells and all the usual stuff including swag!

Hyper-V for Developers (Manchester)	March 17
Liam Westley comes to town to talk to us about Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation technology and how it benefits us code monkeys. Nugget, pizza, swag etc. as usual!

The end of DBs as we know it?! (Southampton)	March 18
Neil Robbins ventures back to the origins of his .NET Community involvement on the South Coast to talk to us about Document Databases. There'll be the normal pizza, swag and quite probably a nugget to boot!

April, 2010

Aspect oriented development (Hereford)	April 12
Steve Strong will be visiting us and comes highly recommended from the highly recommended Guy Smith-Ferrier. Steve has flown in to the UK to manage his software team and lives in Spain so this is a fairly large commute for him. Steve does a lot of work with nHibernate, Linq and aspect oriented development and should know what works as he handles a lot of software developers. Plus the usual swag, pizza and nugget. More info about Steve here http://www.imeta.co.uk/About/Team/Profile.aspx?group=Executives&firstname=Steve&surname=Strong and here http://blogs.imeta.co.uk/sstrong/Default.aspx .

Starting a spring diet (Oxford)	April 14
We are pleased to welcome renowned speaker and author Robert C Martin, fondly known as Uncle Bob, to NxtGenUG Oxford for a session which is sure to whet your appetite - with the swag giveaway and pizza it's a evening not to miss!

Best Behaviour (Birmingham)	April 20
Ian Cooper leader of London .NET User Group, returns to NxtGenUG and is going to tell us about being on our Best Behaviour ... An evening of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) including member nugget, Pizza and swag!

The Designer Police (Coventry)	April 26
After hearing stories about Richard Costall's attempt to impose his design philosophy on the Coventry attendees, the Design Police arrive in the form of Tricky Business's Richard 'Tricky' Bassett. We'll also be having a nugget, plus some well designed Pizza and swag

May, 2010

May the 4's be with you (Oxford)	May 04
Just 4 months after Silverlight 3 ships - Microsoft go an release a beta of Silverlight 4. NxtGenUG founder Richard Costall has kindly agreed to come down from Oxford to give us an update. With pizza, swag and maybe even a nugget you be in for an intersteller evening!

Simon Sabin's SQL Sequel ... (Birmingham)	May 18
The ever popular Simon Sabin slides on up to Birmingham to talk about , what else, but SQL Server! This time he's talking about how to fix those queries that just don't seem to cut the mustard! Pizza, Swag member nugget - normal stuff!

June, 2010

Hyper-V for Developers (Oxford)	June 09
The Liam Westley roadshow pulls into RM for a talk about Hyper-V and how it can be tamed and mastered for use by developers. With swag, pizza and maybe even a nugget you'll miss out if you miss it!

An Exceptionally Nice Evening (Birmingham)	June 22
Phil Winstanley, MVP, Web Development guru, UK Community lynchpin, full-time marketing agent for spiky hair gel, what else can we say? Yes we're chuffed to have Phil come down from his secret volcano lair in Manchester to talk about Exception Driven Development. With Volcanic Pizza and a Secret Nugget and not so secret swag it should be an evening to remember ... see you there!

July, 2010

Fest10 - Beside the C#Side	July 16
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Summer Security (Birmingham)	July 27
The sun is out (we hope) and summer is here, but so are the hackers and so we still need to be aware of the bad guys out there. It's not just a case now of hiding behind SSL either as our speaker tonight will show. It's a scary Internet and just when you thought it was safe to browse ...