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| Partner Showcase |
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Voices for Innovation is a global community, supported by Microsoft that works to ensure the awareness and participation of local entrepreneurs and innovators in important policy discussions around the world. |
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NxtGenUG Profile |
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| Hay, Chris |
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| Chris is slightly obsessive about Silverlight |
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Chris is regularly caught by his wife browsing internet sites at 2.00am in the morning. Sadly he is always looking at .NET sites rather than the haunts frequented by his peers.
Chris has worked on various large projects and is specialised in C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, SQL and various other acronymns. Having always tried to keep at the front of the technology curve, i guess it is time to share that knowledge around a little.
Simple tip, never mention Silverlight infront of him (if you are in a hurry).
You can catch him on his blog http://silverlightuk.blogspot.com |
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| Speaker Presentation List |
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| Orcas Beta 2 (for web developers targeting 2.0)
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| Long Waffly Title, Short non Waffly Nugget (hopefully).
A very quick run through of why ASP.NET 2.0 Web Developers should throw their tools out the window, and use some lovely beta code instead. This nugget will show you the features you can use today without jeopardizing your production environment. Essentially Develop in 2008 and Deploy in 2.0
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| The Road to IL - Part 1
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| C# 3.0 has some great new features which form the building blocks of LINQ. If you want to know LINQ, you need to know about these features first. So, in the first of a series of Nuggets we will cover Automatic Properties. If you are thinking, yeah, yeah mister, I know this stuff already, then don't worry we will be going a little deeper and cover what is happening behind the scenes. With it being halloween we might do something a little scary (yep that's right a little IL).
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| RIA Apps, RIA Apps, Silverlight all the way!
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| Dashing through the code In a developer focused way, Over the fields and properties we go, compiling all the way; Buttons on Silverlight shine, Making UI bright, What fun it is to code and run A Silverlight app tonight. RIA apps, RIA apps, Silverlight all the way! O what fun it is to code A Silverlight app tonight.
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| The 'You Choose' Nugget
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| Cambridge Coordinator and Extreme Nuggeteer Chris Hay - will, without a safety net, allow the attendees to pick, from a list, which nugget he'll demonstrate - not only that, he's doing it on an evening about presentation skills - Is he Mad, no just another NxtGenUG coordinator full of passion about technology.
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| Silverlight 1.1 or bust!
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| The web is dead, long live the web. Move over asp.net, Move over flash, there is a new kid in town. Silverlight 1.1 will be the hot new feature of 2008, and at the end of this session, you will be running home as fast as you can, so you can try it out. Be prepared to be dazzled by the Silverlight (and Chris's hawaiian shirt). Maximum Code, Maximum Demos, Minimum Slides (5 at the max).
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| Multi Instance Services Nugget
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| Chris Hay will show you how you can quickly install multiple instances of the same Windows Service on the same machine
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| The IE8 Nugget
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| WebSlices is a new feature in IE8 for websites that enables users to subscribe to content directly within a webpage. This nugget will very briefly show you how Web Slices work and and how to create a web slice within a website.
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| Reflector Nugget
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| A Nugget on .NET Reflector, presented by one of the NxtGenUG Cambridge Coordinators.
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| Silverlight Speaker (Hay)
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| Chris Hay, Man of loud shirts, has already visited Southampton spreading the gospel according to Silverlight. They don't come much more passionate about Silverlight than this man - who lives and breathe's the Brave New RIA world!. Chris will be covering a variety of topics.
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| Silverlight Encryption Nugget
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| In this nugget Chris will take you through how to encrypt data in Silverlight 2 for use within Isolated Storage.
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| Turn your ASP.NET Apps up to Eleven!
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| In this session we will try and squeeze as much juice out of ASP.NET web applications as possible. At the end of the hour you will want to run home and fix up your website to get those extra performance gains, or at least you'll feel smug if you've already done it. We will be looking at the following areas: Reducing Requests, Reducing Page Sizes, AJAX, A Little Silverlight, Improving at the back end.
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| Introducing Windows Azure
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| In this session we will take a flight through Microsoft's new Cloud platform.
We will take a brief look at the fluffy stuff and then skydive straight into writing our first cloud service. At the end of this session you should have a good understanding of the new platform and it's capabilties and be able to start developing for it.
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| The XAP File Nugget
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| So what is a Silverlight Application, What is a XAP file, how is our content deployed what is our best strategy? In this nugget we dive deep into the XAP file, how a silverlight application is exposed in a web page.
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| Windows Communication Foundation and Silverlight
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| In this session we will be looking at the new communication improvements made in Silverlight 3. We will be exploring the changes to WCF (binary message encoding, improved duplex client code, message credentials, fault exceptions, command line proxy generation tool, message credentials etc). We will also be looking at the new support for detecting changes to the network connections (useful for running out of browser). Finally we will take a look at the support for local messaging (which allows you to communicate between silverlight applications, running on the same machine). At the end of this session you should have a good idea of the new comms changes for Silverlight 3, and how life will be so much better for you.
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| Open Mike Night
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| Join us at the Tram Depot for a drink and a chat
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| Developing big scaly websites for Windows Azure
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| Now that Windows Azure is here, if your website can't scale, you only have yourself or your manager, or your bank manager, or Ray Ozzie to blame. In this session we'll focus on what it takes to make a scalable Web Tier in Windows Azure. We'll look at Web Servers under load, Scaling Up, Scaling Out, Load Balancing, Sessions, Caching, CDN's
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| Playing the Lottery with Stephen Fry, Pimms and Windows Azure
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| By now you've probably seen the demos of Azure? You've probably got some idea of the functionality? In this session we'll take a look at why and when you should move to the cloud, or even if you should continue on your merry way as your doing just now. We'll look at what Windows Azure brings you and what it doesn't bring you.
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