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Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Oxford - Making an Exception
Monday, August 09, 2010
Hereford - Azure Table Service - NoSQL
Monday, August 09, 2010
Coventry - Entity Framework 4
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Birmingham - I've Got A Little jQuery ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Manchester - An Introduction to F#
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
The One with the Great Outdoors
Monday, December 14, 2009
The One With Uncle Jimmy
Monday, December 07, 2009
The One With The 31 Pizzas
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The One With The Odd Timeline ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The One with the stand in
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Where you can find us Where you can find us
Birmingham
Formed in April 2006. Aston Science park near the city centre hosts NxtGenUG Birmingham. A great meeting place to discuss technology and eat Pizza!
Cambridge
Having opened in September 2007, Cambridge will offer a unique insight into Microsoft Research.
Coventry
Coventry venue has a bar and comfy chairs. With great meetings every month, what more could you ask for? Serving the Coventry community since April 2006.
Hereford
NxtGenUG Hereford - Then there were six. Formed in February 2009 Hereford is the newest NxtGenUG Region. Run by local guys Ryan O'Neill and Richard Wilde.
Manchester
"It's a sunny paradise!" does not describe soggy Manchester; at least it has its own NxtGenUG region! Run by Steven Robbins and Andy Wilkinson, two northern guys with a passion for pizza/technology!
Oxford
Holding it's first meeting in November 2006, Oxford is headed up by the prfessional and enthusiastic Richie Hopton and BI Consultant Robert Minchin
Southampton
By the seaside, in the warmth of the South, NxtGenUG Southampton is run by John McLoughlin and Richie Allen, local guys with a passion for technology! Southampton started in October 2007.
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Silverlight MasterClass Member Discount
Silverlight MasterClass in Birmingham 28th-30th July 2010 - Discount for NxtGenUG Members
Microsoft Announce PDC10
For the first time ever, PDC attendees will converge on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond for the PDC, this October 28 – 29, 2010.
OData to Feature at Fest10
Mike Taulty will be presenting on OData at Fest10 on July 16th - covering - OData – What, Why, When and How?
DevCon Ticket Competition
NxtGenUG has teamed up with the exciting new .NET developer conference, DevCon London, to offer you the chance of a free delegate pass for this 3-day event.
NDC Conference offer UK User groups 20% discount
Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) 2010 offer UK User groups members 20% discount
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Richard Costall - Richard puts Packt's Silverlight 4 Data and Services Recipes book through it's paces, but how does it fair against Richard's Challenge
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Richard Costall - No sooner has Silverlight 4 been released, than a book drops on Rich's doormat - Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development by Packt
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Dave McMahon - In his second short article on SharePoint Dave answers the question "What is the difference between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007?"
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Andrew Jacks - Ex-NxtGenUG Member, reports in from the sun-blessed OZ to tell us about his experience of getting sharepoint on a VHD.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Dave McMahon - Dave McMahon starts off a series of articles on SharePoint for people who keep saying "I must find out about SharePoint!"
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
John McLoughlin - If you're looking for a good book to get yourself, your fellow developers or team up to speed with good Unit Testing practices, then read on ...
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Recent InterviewsRecent Interviews
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Laurence Moroney - Rich grabs Laurence Moroney in the corridor at Mix and they talk about Area 51, Playboy and a little bit about Mix09. Taken from Podcast #70
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Mike Swanson - Richard caught up with PDC and MIX 'owner' Mike Swanson, and talked about the Mix09 Keynotes, and plans for the next PDC. Taken from Podcast #70
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Toby Richards - Rich and Dave catch up with Toby Richards the new World Wide MVP lead. They chat about Toby's ideas for the MVP program for the next few years, about Daylight Saving time and about the upcoming MVP Summit in Seattle in March 2009
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Daniel Moth - Daniel Moth give us an indepth interview on all things including his blog
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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...
Friday, November 16, 2007
Ted Pattison - At TechEd Dave meets his "Speaker Idol" Ted Pattison and ask him about his background, speaking and Ted's only current mistress Sharepoint.
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EventsEvents
With NxtGenUG you get a choice of regions across the UK and we provide regular events with top speakers, both from Microsofts Evangelist Team, Independant speakers right down to the developer whos done some great stuff and wants to share their story.
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About UsAbout Us
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