NxtGenUG - The Interviews

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Daniel Moth - Daniel Moth give us an indepth interview on all things including his blog

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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...

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The 3 MVP's

Three members of the UK Community and NxtGenUG Speakers had been recognised in the latest MVP Awards.

DevExpress release new FREE Silverlight Control

DevExpress have just announced their new FREE Silverlight AgDataGrid

DevExpress Sponsor Silverlight Assault Course!

We're pleased to announce DevExpress are sponsoring the Silverlight Assault Course.

New SQL Server Courses Available!

4 Top UK Community SQL Server guys have formed SQL Know How, and are offering some TOP SQL Server Courses!

FEST08 G(r)eek Dinner

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NxtGenUG Interviews

June, 2008

Daniel Moth	Daniel Moth on his Blog
Daniel Moth give us an indepth interview on all things including his blog

November, 2007

Rafal Lukawiecki	Rafal on TechEd and Data Mining
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...

Ted Pattison	Ted Pattison on Speaking and Sharepoint
At TechEd Dave meets his "Speaker Idol" Ted Pattison and ask him about his background, speaking and Ted's only current mistress Sharepoint.

Andy Wigley	Mobile Development
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.

Michael Foord	Michael Food on IronPython
Another chance meeting near the toilets Dave & Rich catch up with Michael Foord - A python developer who's embraced the IronPython language. Great interview!

Neil Palmer	Neil Palmer on TechEd07
Dave speaks to Neil Palmer, on how you organise a conference, like TechEd Developers 2007 for 4,000 people without going insane or being squashed in the crush.

Chris Webb	Chris Webb on BI
Whilst at SQLBits conference, Dave meets up with Chris Webb, BI Supremo, to talk about his session at SQLBits, MDX, OLAP and Proclarity.

October, 2007

Alan Elston	Presentation Skill
Richard catches up with Alan Elston, presentation skills coach, and asks him about his approach and how to deal with people who ask too many questions.

September, 2007

George Moore	Windows Live Platform
Dave and Rich catch George Moore Microsoft General Manager of Windows Live Platform straight after the MIXUK Keynote ...

August, 2007

Juval Lowy	WCF Masterclass
Dave meet's up with Software Legend Juval Löwy and talks about WCF, spinning balls, books and flying model planes ...

July, 2007

Alan Dean	Alan Dean on Object Thinking
Dave catches up with Alan Dean at DDD, and asks him about his popular session 'Object Thinking' was received, and how Alan sees the 'object thinking' future.

Simon Sabin	Simon Sabin on SQL Server
From Podcast live: Simon Sabin's SQL Server Service Broker - great tongue twister, but in all the excitment does he forget to tell us about something?

June, 2007

David Lowe	Windows 'Longhorn' Server
At TechEd, Dave and Rich chatted with David Lowe, Senior Product Manager for Windows 'Longhorn' Server, read what he had to say about 'Longhorn' and IIS 7.0 ...

April, 2007

Nick Burton	Nick Burton on Rare and XNA
At the NxtGenUG Coventry XNA and Games night. Richard caught up with Nick Burton, developer at Rare to get his thoughts on XNA and Gaming.

Kimberly Tripp	Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal
Just before the MVP Summit Dave attended a SQL event, where he met up with Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal - Find out about SQL and stuff Dave's never heard of!

March, 2007

Sean O'Driscoll	Sean O'Driscoll on the Summit
Dave and Rich watch the sunset as they enjoy a filet Mignon, cooked by Sean O'Driscoll - actually we are in Starbucks (with just a coffee), but we can dream!

Richard Kaplan	Richard Kaplan on Satisfaction
Dave and Rich meet with Microsoft Vice President of Customer Service: Richard Kaplan and ask about customer satisfaction and... WSYP 'We share your pain"

'Soma' Somasegar	'Soma' at the Summit!
Dave and Rich catch up with 'Soma' Somasegar again! At the MVP Summit 2007, they chat about LINQ, Multi-Core programming and winter in Buffalo ...

Bill Vaughn	Bill Vaughn on Data Access
At the 'Party with Palermo' Dave and Rich meet up with Speaker Legend and MVP Bill Vaughn, and talk about Data Access and his curse with Bankruptcy

Kevin McDaniel	Kevin McDaniel on the DPE team
Richard catches up with Kevin McDaniel at the Nottingham Developer Roadshow and asks him how the copes with all that new technology

February, 2007

Dinis Cruz	Application Security and OWASP
Dave calls up Dinis Cruz on Skype and gets a barrel load of information about Dinis Cruz, OWASP, Security Testing and Security Courses ...

Scott Guthrie	Scott on Orcas, WPF/E and Ajax
Rich interviews his Microsoft Idol - Scott Guthrie, General Manager, top blogger, and IronMan Presenter on Orcas, WPF/E and Ajax. Calm down Rich!

January, 2007

James Akrigg	Search - Now and in the Future
James Akrigg, Microsoft UK Partner Technical Specialist talks to Rich about Search in XP, Vista and Beyond ...

Rafal Lukawiecki	Rafal on TechED and Security
Dave and Rich bump into Rafal Lukawiecki, top rated TechED speaker for the last six years and ask him about security, cryptography and presentation skills.

Sanjay Parthasarathy	Sanjay on Keynote & Evangelism
At the Vista and Office launch Dave and Rich catch up with the King of DPE group - Sanjay Parthasarathy and get his views on his keynote and evangelism.

December, 2006

Ed Gibson	Ed Gibson on Security
Ed Gibson, Microsoft UK Chief Security Adviser, talks to Dave about his FBI history, cyber crime and when will Microsoft stop security updates on the second Tuesday?

November, 2006

Julie Ray	Julie on Voices For Innovation
Dave, armed with a 'turned off' phone, met up with Julie Ray - Program Manager for Voices For Innovation (VFI) to find out what VFI is all about...

Mike Hall	Mike Hall on Windows Embedded
Dave and Rich join up with Microsoft's Mike Hall who works on the Windows Embedded team, to find out what's happening in the embedded world.

Jeffrey Snover	Jeffrey Snover on Powershell
In the Hotel lift, Dave and Rich accost Jeffrey Snover, architect of Powershell and ask him about Powershell and one of his meetings with Bill Gates.

Anders Hejlsberg	Anders Hejlsberg on Linq
At TechED Barcelona, Dave catches us with Microsoft 'Legend' Anders Hejlsberg and asks him about Linq and his presentations.

Steve Swartz	Steve and Clemens on WCF
Dave and Rich sit down with Steve Swartz and Clemens Vasters from the WCF team to talk about WCF, Vista and Top Secret things.

Gunther Beersaerts	Gunther Beersaerts at TechED
Dave catches up with Gunther Beersaerts, content track owner for SQL Server at TechED Developers Conference in Barcelona.

Paul Foster	Paul Foster on Virtual TechED.
Richard meets up with the 'Face' of Virtual TechED, Microsoft's Paul Foster, to discuss Virtual TechED, and how his new role in Microsoft includes Bee-keeping.

October, 2006

Steve Clayton	Vista and Partners
At the MVP Open Day, Rich spoke with Steve Clayton about the launch of Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange from a Partner program perspective.

Richard Fennell	Richard Fennell at Coventry
Dave managed to grab Richard Fennell for a short interview just before speaking at the NxtGenUG meeting in Coventry. BizTalk occupies good deal of his time ...

Miguel Castro	Miguel Castro at VSLive
In early 2006 Dave caught up with Miguel Castro at VSLive to find out what he was presenting on and get his favourite features.

Darren Strange	Darren Strange on Office 2007
At the MVP open day Richard interviews Darren Strange - UK Product Manager for Office 2007 and get his views on some of the changes in Office 2007

Karen Young	The MVP Program
At the MVP open day, Dave and Rich asked Karen Young (EMEA MVP Regional Manager) all about the MVP program and Rich seemed to get nervous at the end.

September, 2006

Jeff Hadfield	Jeff Hadfield at VSLive!
Dave interviews Jeff Hadfield, vice president of FTP's Windows Publishing Group, about his role at VSLive!, San Francisco 2006.

Ameya Bhatawdekar	Ameya Bhatawdekar on Project
World traveller Dave McMahon, speaks to Ameya Bhatadekar, Program Manager of the Project Team at DevCon in London about Project

Eric Lee	Eric Lee from VSLive
As Eric Lee, Technical Product Manager for Team Foundation Server at Microsoft was going home from VSLive, Dave pounced and asked some questions.

Kit George	Kit George at VSLive
Dave meets with Kit George, Microsoft Product Manager, who used to look after the Base Class Libraries and has now joined the Visual Basic Team.

Benjamin Day	Banjamin day at VSLive
At VSLive (Jan 2006) Dave caught up with Benjamin Day and finds out about nHibernate and Benjamins favourite features of VS2005.

Jono Bacon	Linux on NxtGenUG?
Dave found Jono Bacon an Open Source Consultant at DDD 3 and asked him what he was doing in Microsoft Reading.

Benjamin Mitchell	Benjamin Mitchell on Workflow
We catch up with Benjamin Mitchell, before Coventry's Workflow event, to get the low down on Windows Workflow Foundation.

Alex Homer	Alex Homer on XML
Richard catches up with Alex Homer at a Coventry NxtGenUG meeting and gets his thoughts on XML and future technologies.