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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 and comfy chairs. 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 the prfessional and enthusiastic Richie Hopton and BI Consultant Robert Minchin

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.

Conferences

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Future NxtGenUG and third party event listing

September, 2010

BI Gum its PRISM and Silverlig (Oxford)	September 07
With a slight change of speaker, and a slight change of subject (only slight), we now say hello to NxtGenUG Co-Founder Dave McMahon as he travels to Oxford to present a session on building a BI Dashboard using PRISM, Silverlight, SQL Server, Bing Maps and SharePoint. Basically the whole Microsoft Stack! Pizza of course, Swag of course, a Nugget? Maybe ...

A Grand Performance (Coventry)	September 13
NxtGenUG Member Peter Marriott, dons his presentation jacket, to talk about Performance tips, for a SQL Server based applcation. We'll be having some Pizza, dishing out some SWAG and possibly even having a nugget!

Behavior driven development (Hereford)	September 13
Ian Cooper makes his way to the wild west to talk about Behavior driven development (or BDD). Behavior Driven Development (or BDD) is an Agile software development technique that encourages collaboration between developers, QA and non-technical or business participants in a software project. It was originally named in 2003 by Dan North as a response to Test Driven Development, and to Framework for Integrated Tests concepts, from the Customer Test practice in Extreme Programming. It has evolved over the last few years and Ian Cooper is here to tell us about it and what it could mean for your Development Processes. This really is an event not to be missed. Dont forget great SWAG and PIZZA will be served. We'll be giving an XBOX away in December to a lucky winner. All you need to do is to make your way to a Hereford nxtGenUG presentation and you will be given a free entry into this fabulous prize draw! Come along to find out more! Click here to see how to find us Follow us on twitter

Communicating with Silverlight (Birmingham)	September 14
Birmingham are absolutely delighted to welcome for the first time none other than Mike Taulty from Microsoft who will be giving one of his great Silverlight presentations, this time focussing on how you actually communicate with Silverlight. It's just Mike this evening, and Pizza of course and some new swag yay! Don't miss this opportunity to hear one of the top Microsoft speakers in the UK!

MonoTouch and MonoDroid! (Manchester)	September 15
Chris Hardy joins us to give us the lowdown on MonoTouch, and the newly announced MonoDroid, for creating applications in .net for the iPhone/iPad and Android platforms. Pizza, swag and maybe even a nugget too!

Grand Designs! (Southampton)	September 16
Gary Short journeys down to our sunny south coast from the dark dark north to explain his Grand plan of Design Patterns. There'll be a nugget, pizza and knowledge!

Windows 7 WPF MultiTouch Story (Cambridge)	September 21
Guy Smith-Ferrier is jetting over for one night only to talk to us about WPF Multi-Touch. No internationalisation in sight, nor Unicode, probably not even a resource file, so don't be scared ... you know you love the pizza, swag and chat, so get yourselves down here, to hear from one of the top UK Speakers!

October, 2010

Gotcha Silverlight (Oxford)	October 05
Ray Booysen makes his way up from London to fill us in on some of the real world gotchas you are likely to face when developing with Silverlight. Add to that pizza, swag and maybe even a nugget and you are set for the evening!

Liam does Virtualisation (Hereford)	October 11
Don't miss this one! The ever popular and hard working Liam Westley come to the wild west to deliver a presentation on Virtualisation for the Developer. Pizza, Swag and Virtualisation, the coolest technology out there AND one of the most useful! We'll be giving an XBOX away in December to a lucky winner. All you need to do is to make your way to a Hereford nxtGenUG presentation and you will be given a free entry into this fabulous prize draw! Come along to find out more! Click here to see how to find us Follow us on twitter

October Birmingham Event (Birmingham)	October 19
Details to be announced, just get the date in your diary ...

Windows Phone 7 for Developers (Oxford)	October 19
Matt Lacey from DevEvening and WPUG pops in to show us everything we need to know to get started with developing for Windows Phone 7. With pizza, swag and maybe a nugget this will be an evening you won't want to miss!

November, 2010

We are all CouchDB potatoes (Oxford)	November 02
Neil Robbins make his way up from NxtGenUG Southampton to talk about non-RDBMS systems commonly called Document Databases. It sounds new, exciting, futuristic and just what the doctor ordered. With pizza, swag and maybe even a nugget it's worth getting off the couch for!

Crap Code! (Hereford)	November 08
Crap Code and the Disasters it Causes There you sit, it's a Wednesday morning and before you is the code another developer has left you. At first you can't believe your eyes, perhaps you misread it... No ... He really did write it like that ... Crap Code. In this session we'll explore Crap Code that we've come across in the past few years of Consulting, the problems it causes and the solutions to the idiocy of other developers. You'll laugh, you'll cry - but most of all, you'll come out of the session realising you're a pretty damn good developer. Along with our usual suspects, swag and pizza this is an event you cannot miss! We'll be giving an XBOX away in December to a lucky winner. All you need to do is to make your way to a Hereford nxtGenUG presentation and you will be given a free entry into this fabulous prize draw! Come along to find out more! Click here to see how to find us Follow us on twitter

November Birmingham Event (Birmingham)	November 16
Details to be announced. Just get the date in your diary!

December, 2010

Heads in the Cloud (Oxford)	December 07
Dom Green makes his way up from Microsoft Reading to talk to us about Azure after using it for several projects in 2009 & 2010. With pizza, mince pies, swag and maybe even a member nugget you'll be sure to be floating on cloud 9 by the end of the evening.

A Quantum of Computing ... (Birmingham)	December 14
It's Christmas Time and we all like a good fairy story ... so Dave's here to provide his own. Story ... not fairy. In a 'left-field' session, Dave will cover the whys, hows and the maybes of Quantum Computing a subject which might have little relevance today perhaps, but is gathering interest as real production Quantum Devices get installed in the City of London to help secure sensitive information. It will be fun, infomative, there will be Christmas Swag and Christmas Nosh! Don't miss it!