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NxtGenUG Coventry : A Grand Performance

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Hereford : Behavior driven development

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Birmingham : Communicating with Silverlight

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Manchester : MonoTouch and MonoDroid!

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Southampton : Grand Designs!

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Cambridge : Windows 7 WPF MultiTouch Story

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Oxford : Gotcha Silverlight

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Hereford : Liam does Virtualisation

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Oxford : Windows Phone 7 for Developers

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Birmingham : October Birmingham Event

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Details to be announced, just get the date in your diary ...

NxtGenUG Oxford : We are all CouchDB potatoes

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Hereford : Crap Code!

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Birmingham : November Birmingham Event

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Details to be announced. Just get the date in your diary!

NxtGenUG Oxford : Heads in the Cloud

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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.

NxtGenUG Hereford : Get going with jQuery

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Hereford are really pleased to welcome George Adamson who arrives tonight buzzing with a love of jQuery. You've probably heard about it, maybe used it, and George is a real enthusiast and he's here to tell you all about it. We'll have Pizza of course lots of swag and a member nugget... Praise for George; 'Great session, George is a highly amusing, informative and engaging speaker!' 9 out of 9 'Wow. George was excellent. Funny, interesting, good pace, lots of really great info. An absolutely brilliant presentation. Thanks George.' 9 / 9 We'll be giving an XBOX away this evening 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

NxtGenUG Birmingham : A Quantum of Computing ...

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!