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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.

Conferences

Mix10

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Future NxtGenUG and third party event listing

March, 2010

Birmingham Open Spaces Meet .. (Birmingham)	March 16
Due to unforseen circumstances, John McLoughlin is unable to do his MEF/PRISM talk so in response to a few requests, Dave is going to run an Open Spaces Meet in a 'different' evening. It's an opportunity to discuss whatever YOU want and to get other peoples input on subjects of interest to YOU! YOU pick the agenda, YOU have your say and hear what other thave to say too. Plenty of time for Networking, chat and Pizza. YOU get the idea right? See you there!

Hyper-V for Developers (Manchester)	March 17
Liam Westley comes to town to talk to us about Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation technology and how it benefits us code monkeys. Nugget, pizza, swag etc. as usual!

The end of DBs as we know it?! (Southampton)	March 18
Neil Robbins ventures back to the origins of his .NET Community involvement on the South Coast to talk to us about Document Databases. There'll be the normal pizza, swag and quite probably a nugget to boot!

DB or Not DB, That is the ques (Cambridge)	March 23
Neil Robbins, Southampton NxtGen-er travels up to Cambridge to talk about non-RDBMS systems called Document Databases. Sounds new, sounds exciting, sounds futuristic, sounds just what the doctor ordered. Pizza, swag and member nugget accompanies as ever. See you there!

MixGenUG Coventry (Coventry)	March 25
If you can't get to Mix, we'll bring Mix to you, Richard will be hiding Microsoft's Adam Kinney in his suitcase and bringing him back to the UK to brief the NxtGenUG members on information from Mix10 - This is a special event in addition to our monthly meetings. Location : Directions to new venue

DBA's Rejoice it's EF (Coventry)	March 29
Simon Sabin, comes to Coventry fresh from his popular Entity Framework session at DDD8, to tell us why DBA's will be concerned about ORM's and the Entity Framework. We'll also have a nugget, some Pizza and give out some SWAG .... Location : Directions to new venue

April, 2010

Aspect oriented development (Hereford)	April 12
Steve Strong will be visiting us and comes highly recommended from the highly recommended Guy Smith-Ferrier. Steve has flown in to the UK to manage his software team and lives in Spain so this is a fairly large commute for him. Steve does a lot of work with nHibernate, Linq and aspect oriented development and should know what works as he handles a lot of software developers. Plus the usual swag, pizza and nugget. Click here to see how to find us Follow us on twitter

Starting a spring diet (Oxford)	April 14
We are pleased to welcome renowned speaker and author Robert C Martin, fondly known as Uncle Bob, to NxtGenUG Oxford for a session which is sure to whet your appetite - with the swag giveaway and pizza it's a evening not to miss!

The Statue of Liberty (Cambridge)	April 14
Microsoft's Jesse Liberty, makes a trip over from the States to talk about Silverlight 4, MVVM and other stuff, in what's destined to be a great evening. We'll also be having a nugget, some swag and eating pizza - gonna be a fantastic night!!! See the rest of Jesse's Tour Dates on his here

SL4 with a dash of VS2010 (Southampton)	April 15
Head NxtGenUG chap and Silverlight MVP Richard Costall joins us for the first time to talk about the exciting new features in Silverlight 4. We're also have a couple of mini sessions on the new VS2010! There'll also be pizza, and maybe even some beer! :D

Best Behaviour (Birmingham)	April 20
Ian Cooper leader of London .NET User Group, returns to NxtGenUG and is going to tell us about being on our Best Behaviour ... An evening of Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) including member nugget, Pizza and swag!

Search and Deploy! (Manchester)	April 21
Andy Westgarth joins us to talk about some of the fancy new features in IIS, including the SEO Toolkit and the Web Deployment Tool. Nugget, swag and pizza will also be making a welcome appearance

The Designer Police (Coventry)	April 26
After hearing stories about Richard Costall's attempt to impose his design philosophy on the Coventry attendees, the Design Police arrive in the form of Tricky Business's Richard 'Tricky' Bassett. We'll also be having a nugget, plus some well designed Pizza and swag

May, 2010

May the 4's be with you (Oxford)	May 04
Just 4 months after Silverlight 3 ships - Microsoft go an release a beta of Silverlight 4. NxtGenUG founder Richard Costall has kindly agreed to come down from Oxford to give us an update. With pizza, swag and maybe even a nugget you be in for an intersteller evening!

Win7 mobile, app&game dev (Hereford)	May 10
Windows 7 mobile application and game development

Simon Sabin's SQL Sequel ... (Birmingham)	May 18
The ever popular Simon Sabin slides on up to Birmingham to talk about , what else, but SQL Server! This time he's talking about how to fix those queries that just don't seem to cut the mustard! Pizza, Swag member nugget - normal stuff!

Refactoring! (Manchester)	May 19
Gary Short joins us for this rescheduled session talking about refactoring techniques using freely available tools. Nugget and pizza will also be making an appearance! This is also NxtGenUG Manchester's FIRST BIRTHDAY, so there might be cake :-)

He's Got the Power (Coventry)	May 24
Ben Nunney drops in on Coventry to tell us about Powershell. We'll also be having a nugget, some pizza and giving out swag!

Behaving during Development (Southampton)	May 27
Liz Keogh heads down to the South Coast to enlighten us on BDD and give us some pointers on applying it to code we can bring along! There will be pizza and probably a nugget to boot to, what more coud we want?!

June, 2010

Hyper-V for Developers (Oxford)	June 09
The Liam Westley roadshow pulls into RM for a talk about Hyper-V and how it can be tamed and mastered for use by developers. With swag, pizza and maybe even a nugget you'll miss out if you miss it!

Silverlight and MEF (Manchester)	June 15
Mike Taulty joins us to talk about a current hot topic - MEF and Silverlight. Nugget, pizza and swag as usual.

An Exceptionally Nice Evening (Birmingham)	June 22
Phil Winstanley, MVP, Web Development guru, UK Community lynchpin, full-time marketing agent for spiky hair gel, what else can we say? Yes we're chuffed to have Phil come down from his secret volcano lair in Manchester to talk about Exception Driven Development. With Volcanic Pizza and a Secret Nugget and not so secret swag it should be an evening to remember ... see you there!

Terminal Velocity! (Southampton)	June 24
Phil Pursglove heads down South to join us in Southampton to talk about Microsofts new distributed caching technology called Velocity that is apart of AppFabric. There'll be a nugget and pizza to boot too!

Windows 7 - MOBILE! (Coventry)	June 28
Microsoft's Paul Foster visits Coventry to much excitement to talk about Windows Mobile 7 Series - with a session on "application and game development on Windows Phone 7 Series" - that's all we can say for now. Once you've digested this, we'll digest some pizza, and give away some swag and maybe even have time for a nugget - More details to Follow...

July, 2010

Gotcha Silverlight! (Oxford)	July 06
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!

Fest10 - Beside the C#Side	July 16
Click for details Fest10

Exploring Windows Phone 7 Seri (Manchester)	July 21
Paul Foster from Microsoft joins us to give us the lowdown on developing for Microsoft's new Phone platform. There's an awful lot to cover, so we won't be having a nugget this month - pizza and swag should still make an appearance though!

Build and deploy yourself (Southampton)	July 22
NxtGen Southampton Co-Ordinator and all round good guy Rich Allen will be walking us a through a custom build and deployment process and discuss the various options and tools available for creating your own streamlined build process.

Summer Security (Birmingham)	July 27
The sun is out (we hope) and summer is here, but so are the hackers and so we still need to be aware of the bad guys out there. It's not just a case now of hiding behind SSL either as our speaker tonight will show. It's a scary Internet and just when you thought it was safe to browse ...

August, 2010

Making an Exception (Oxford)	August 03
Phil Winstanley, author and creator of Exceptioneer, makes his way down the M6, M6 Toll, M42, M40 and A34 to come and enlighten us on EDD or Exception Driven Development. With pizza, swag and maybe even a nugget you're sure to have an exceptionally good time.

F# all the way (Southampton)	August 19
Phil Trelford visits us in Southampton to give us an introduction to F#, and put it through its paces. There'll be a nugget and pizza to boot!

September, 2010

Start making a MEF with PRISM (Oxford)	September 07
NxtGenUG Southampton Coordinator John McLoughlin makes his way inland to show us how to use MEF with PRISM. With pizza, swag and a nugget you'll be mad to miss it.

October, 2010

ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (Oxford)	October 05
EdgeUG coordinator Gavin Osbourn makes his way up from London to talk to us about the MVC framework version 2.0 and will no doubt have a healthy sprinkling of code demos. With pizza, swag and a nugget it's sure to be a splendid evening.

November, 2010

We are all CouchDB potatoes (Oxford)	November 02
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!

December, 2010

Heads in the Cloud (Oxford)	December 07
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.