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Developer Express engineers feature-complete visual components and IDE tools for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows(r) and the Web in the shortest possible time. |
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NxtGenUG Profile |
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| Price, John |
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| A .NET Developer, working in the moble and meda center space, and a pilot! |
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My background is in Point of sale for the retail sector, in particular petroleum.
I have been working as a developer as long as I can remember, in fact my first development job was as 15, while I was still at school!
I worked for 10 years at Wella GB as a developer developing systems for hairdressers before doing 4 years designing hardware for various platforms. I even had a hand in designing a 286 motherboard!
I then worked for Meggitt Petroleum Systems as a Technical Architect designing Point of Sale terminals and Back Office systems for major oil companies across the world. I have been lucky enough to visit 26 countries as diverse as South Africa and Japan doing this.
I developed some desktop and enterprise level applications using an obscure 4GL called Omnis.
Since then I have been working with .NET since its inception and was part of the beta program for 1.0 and have built a web site in ASP.NET
Numerous projects later I have sepcialised in media devices for XP and XP embedded and media center, along with mobile applications for devices ranging from symbian hardware through Pocket PC to Windows Mobile 5.0, and the Vista versions, including authoring articles on MSDN about Search systems.
I am also a pilot and am fortunate to have an aeroplane at Coventry airport, at the flying club. I can usually be found on the airfield most Saturdays either flying the 'plane if the weathers good, or flying the bar if its not!
If you would like to read more about what I get up to, you could check out my blog at www.johnnysblog.net
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| Speaker Presentation List |
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| Vista Nuggets
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| Part 1 of a series : John opens up his bag of Vista magic tricks. Search plays an important part of any operating system. You can never remember where you put that word document, audio file or email. Vista changes this - Check out Vista Search!
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| Media Centre, Vista and XBOX
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| John Price shows us why Media Centre can make your life richer, covering the history, how easy it is to write applications for it and where its going with Vista. He then demonstrates where the XBOX 360 fits in the picture (which give us an excuse to play some games).
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| John's Lockup
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| Don't be conned into buying cheap imitations, quality takes time. Not that we all have that much time, so welcome to the totally timesaving tirade of technically tantalising treasures. Be amazed as John fearlessly demonstrates these fantastic features without the aid of a safety net.
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| Vista Application Recovery and Restart Manager
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| While we all strive to write applications that are perfect we dont always manage to achieve this. So, when an application crashes (due to some outside influence of course!) Vista provides us with a way to save our current state and reload the application back. This is a quick look at the handful of API functions now available in Vista to make this very easy to do.
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| The .NET Framework Exposed
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| How did they do that? Have you ever wondered whats behind ‘new’ or what happens when you do a file.open? If so, Microsoft have released the source code for the .net framework. While debugging, you can step into the framework functions and look exactly how the Microsoft programmers implemented each function. This is a short nugget to show you how to configure your visual studio 2008 to take advantage of this
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| John Price and the NxtGener's
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| For NxtGenUG, no expense is spared, so we even got an all-star band in for the evening to provide some entertainment. All requests are gratefully received, except for "Can you play in the next street?"
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| The SwagPhrase Nugget
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| Following its debut at ReMix08 UK - John Prices shows us behind the scenes of NxtGenUG's latest gameshow - Swag Phrase - Say what you see!
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| SwaggleShips!
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| A New Gameshow - Yes Indeed - The latest incarnation sees wanna be Admirals attempting to sink the oppposing teams of Swag carrying ships - who will come out on top!
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| Media Centre Events Nugget
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| John Price don's his safety glasses for a nugget about Media Centre, it's events and relationship to ambient lighting and speech synthesis.
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| Media Centre
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| Take a look at why Media Center can make your life richer. There are a number of different personal video recorders on the market, but Media Center has one major advantage, YOU... and the software you can write for it. We will look at MCML (Media Center markup language), and look at how the XBOX 360 can be used for more than just games when working in conjunction with Media Center. We will also look at how we can react to things that the user does and how we can use that information to affect the physical world, like dimming the lights automatically when you play a video, and other home automation ideas.
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| SwagPhrase - XNA Game Edition
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| John fixes up the Swag Games Engine to finish off the XNA - who will win swag, but more importantly, will it work?
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| Everything in the kitchen Syncd
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| With more and more PC devices appearing in the marketplace, we have more and more data that needs to be kept up to date, Calendars and contact lists come to mind and is readily dealt with by applications such as Outlook and Exchange, but what about data in your own applications? Does your application really need a constant connection to its data? How can you provide this level of disconnectability (if thats a real word) in your own software? ADO.NET Sync Services, thats how!
This session will look at the ADO.NET Sync Service framework and, demo gods permitting, we'll have a go at building an app that can work just as well with or without its database server..
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