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| Regular Expressions
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| In this session Dave explains about reglular expressions.
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| Xlinq Nugget
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| Dave McMahon gives us an introduction into XLinq - .NET Language integration query for XML. What is it and why does it help - Find out tonight
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| Powershell: A New Command Line
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| In this 'Nugget' Dave McMahon demos the new Windows Command Line called 'Powershell'. It's .NET on the command line with bells and whistles!
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| Dodgys Dave's Deals
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| If you want to be a Vista guru! a Vista superhero! getting all the best bits, have the knowledge on the inside and pants on the outside, get a load of the Vista/Office features available from Dave Mc; they're cheap, they're slick and they're going quick, don't fool around, get you money down and get your Vista features right here, right now .....
...offer ends 21.00 hours February 22nd, all participants must be over 18, normal terms and conditions apply ...
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| Swaggily Fortunes
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| To end the day, can only mean one thing... A NxtGenUG Game Show! Dave and Rich come up with another unique (not) idea for a game show, which includes quiz questions and the usual off-loading of SWAG!
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| SQL 2005 Security Bits
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| Dave takes us on a tour of SQL Server 2005 Security Features such as explaining why the User-Schema Separation can be a life saver (well work saver), why Execution Context is great for testing as well as security how the encryption features in SQL 2005? Finally, Dave takes a lightning tour around the SQL Server Surface Area Configuration Wizard which comes with SQL 2005. Its gonna be fast, plenty of demos and bloomin' useful!
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| Collaboration with OneNote.
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| Rich wanted to do a nugget on Vista and Dave wanted to do Microsoft OneNote. It was down to the toss of coin and Dave won. Dave shows us some highlights of this little known but very useful Microsoft Office Tool, while Rich sits at the front disgruntled - Lets hope he don't cause any trouble.
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| A Few Handy SQL Tips ...
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| Its a SQL evening, so what the heck, Daves dusting off his laptop for a quick 20 min Nuggetette, to share a few neat little tips when writing SQL Code which you may or may not know ...
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| WPF - The Samples!
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| In the process of preparing for a talk, Dave downloaded the WPF Samples. In this 5-10 min Nugget Dave does a quick demo of the samples and how they can help you pick up some of the nuances of WPF.
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| Office Integration with WSS and Access
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| Dave 'I love XSLT' McMahon nips in to Oxford to talk about producing integrated applications using Access and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. In the space of an hour or so, Dave will meld Access, Excel, XML, Text Files, Outlook and WSS into an application. You will see how the role of Access when working in conjunction with WSS can be extended from a desktop database to a desktop data integration tool, Dave will also show how to create web services hosted within WSS to allow an alternative way to populate WSS data lists. Don't think you won't see any XSLT either, it's in there ...
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| My Third Favourite SQL Keyword ...
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| Dave's got a full session on his 10 favourite SQL keywords, but he's only got time for one thank goodness, find out what it is and why it's only third!
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| One for the Kids ...
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| KPL? That's a bit old isn't it? Not THAT KPL and not KPMG either, this is the real deal! Dave takes a mini-dive into a programming lanaguge for mini-people. KPL is a .NET language designe dto help children learn programming. You can create simple programs and simple games - anyone for Pong?
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| XSLT 'Extreme'
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| Is eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) the greatest language in the world as Dave claims? Well, no matter what you think, Dave think's so. In this session Dave takes a deep dive into some of the more obscure aspects of programming with XSLT in the .NET Framework. We'll look at a few of the not so common syntax, examine some of the advanced options available in .NET for working with XSLT. We'll look at differing forms of output including HTML, XHTML, XML, CSV, Word and XAML that XSLT can generate easily and also at how with a little magic, XSLT cam transform non-XML based data into other non-XML based data!
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| Fest08 Keynote
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| Another 12 months have flown by, so Dave and Rich take to the stage to talk about the highlights of the year, along with some statistics, hello from the coordinators and the essential NxtGenUG speaking awards. Which Region will take the top prize...
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| MOSS - "Tales From The Front"
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| Over the past 12 months Dave has been working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or MOSS, and in this 75 min session he brings "Tales From The Front" with some ideas about how to practically implement production Intranet/Extranet systems using MOSS. Where does the marketing end and the reality begin? Is it really the next Web Development Platform? What actually is a Site Collection and what does it mean in terms of deployment issues? How do you solve these issues? What is a Feature in terms of MOSS? Answers to these and other questions which Dave has encountered in the last 12 months will be covered through the medium of a plethora of demonstrations.
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| When Dense Is Good ...
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| Dave's found another great SQL Keyword. A lightening trip through dense_rank() and it's uses, courtesy of the NxtGenUG database!!
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| NxtGenUG ... The Trailer
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| In this Session Dave will give a background about NxtGenUG demonstrate the NxtGenUG site and chat about what opportunities are there for developers who get involved with The Next Generation User Group
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| My Third Favourite SQL Keyword With Knobs On ...
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| OK, so you probably know now that my third favourite SQL keyword is CONTAINSTABLE but within this little beauty lie hidden a number of gems for the developer. Dave's here to show you how they work, provided he can make sure Rich doesn't tamper with his laptop meanwhile [RICH EDIT: Hee Hee]...
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| My Backwards Inbox
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| A brief nugget on a fabulous add-in for Outlook recommended to me by Andy Maggs. Xobni allows lightening fast searching even offline and without having to use Cahced Exchange Mode. It's got a bunch of cool graphs too ...
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| Facing up To The 3 Headed Dog!
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| Since I've spent a good deal of my last 6 months doing nothing but installing SharePoint and configuring Kerberos I thought I 'd take 10-15 mins to explain what is actually happening when you 'configure Kerberos' as they say - it's shrouded in mystique - it's pretty simple really!
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| Share a Point with Dave ...
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| SharePoint will soon be entering it's fourth incarnation as Office Server 2010. What's it all about? Why is the world going mad about SharePoint? Relax, Dave McMahon, NxtGenUG co-founder pops in for a chat and aims to show what SharePoint can do for you. He'll cover what the purpose of Sharepoint is, how to configure it, how to customise it and how to develop applications for it. He'll also cover a few aspects of what is up and coming in SharePoint 2010, where NDA allows!
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| Virtual Box
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| Dave needed to do a Nugget - so he quickly russled up a 10 minute session on the best desktop virtualisation product out there - VirtualBox. It's small, flexible, easy to use and performant - everything you need for your x86 or x64 Virtualisation.
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| Visualising Data in SharePoint 2010
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| Fresh from the SharePoint Conference 2009 in Vegas, Dave delivers a sackful of presents from Data Visualisation in SharePoint 2010 from Visio Services. Hey? What? Visio, that's that really uncool office app that only old blokes use right? Not any more chaps, Visio 2010 moves into the area of BI and becomes a really 'cool' application in Sharepoint 2010 combining Data Binding and Silverlight to display your data in new, exciting and insightful ways ...
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| SharePoint 2010 Overview
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| A lightening tour around many of the new features of SharePoint 2010, too many to mention them all, but these were the ones that caught Dave's eye at the last Sharepoint Conference.
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| SharePoint Starting Point
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| SharePoint is one of Microsoft's biggest success stories. It's grown from a Document Management system into an Enterprise Platform capable of being scaled out to serve thousands of users, provide a platform for BI, CMS, EDM and a whole bunch of other stuff. But how exactly does it work? At it's centre is Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Given enough time and effort you could pretty much reproduce Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 yourself using WSS 3.0. In this session Dave will do a dive into the basics of how SharePoint works and cover things like Site Collections, Webs, Site Provisioning, SiteDefintions, Features and Solutions. At the end of this session, the mysterious world of SharePoint will be mysterious no more and it will appear for what it is ... a rather large ASP.NET Application with a few bells and whistles ...
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| Open Spaces Meet
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| Dave will facilitate unless someone else wants to, seeing as he ain't done it before but is happy to do it anyhow! You pick ther subjects, there will be a whiteboard/post-it board on entry and you can put up what it is you want to talk about as you come in. It's a general chat evening where you set the agenda and Dave's just there to keep things flowing.
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| A Quantum of Computing ...
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| Dave mcMahon provides his own look into the far future with a brief resume of the world of Quantum Computing. Sounds too Sci-Fi? Too Fantastic? Maybe, but people are today seriously researching Quantum Computing and Quantum Computing Devices. Some people claim to have already created them, others refute the claims, and the reasons why there is some controversy will be covered in this session. It'll be fun, mind-blowing and you get a glimpse of what could be in store for us in the coming years and why the future of Search may be in harnessing the power of the sub-atomic and why SSL's future prospects may not be so rosy ...
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