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Monday, August 09, 2010

Azure Table Service - NoSQ...

Monday, September 13, 2010

Behavior driven developmen...

Monday, October 11, 2010

Liam does Virtualisation...

Monday, November 08, 2010

Crap Code!...

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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.

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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.

Meet the Coordinators

Ryan O'Neill
Ryan O'Neill has been working with computers since 1988 when they first started falling over due to an inability to cope with the apostrophe in his surname (something that occurs alarmingly too often even now). He considered changing his surname to O';DROP DATABASE master;'Neill to teach them a lesson but prefers home cooked food (as opposed to prison cuisine). He is jolly chap with a dry sense of humour. Bill Gates looks like Ryan and is often mistaken for him (something that tends to annoy Bill). He used to own a company in the south east but sold up and moved to Herefordshire for a slower pace of life with his family where they have a cottage, a Land Rover, Border Collie dog and some large wellies (that leak). Working on systems from low level hardware, real-time oil and gas emergency safety and factory control through to 'noddy' applications for the insurance industry he has settled into Windows and web development with a lot of database work thrown in. Ryan now works from home over the internet with a crew of other developers, mostly on databases, web sites, .Net clients and occasional low level drivers (shudder).

Richard Wilde
Richard Wilde is the owner of wildesoft.net in Bromyard. He has been developing Internet Applications since 1996 so some might say he knows a bit, but he will tell you he knows nothing. He only uses Microsoft Technology these days as he thinks other systems lack that bit of finesse!. He has worked in the past as a development manager for a local company where he had to spend most of his time stopping the designers and developers jumping on each other. He has worked in small/medium sized teams. He has developed many different kinds of internet sites that may or may not work!

Events: November, 2010

Crap Code!	November 08
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

Events: October, 2010

Liam does Virtualisation	October 11
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

Events: September, 2010

Behavior driven development	September 13
Ian Cooper makes his way to the wild west to talk about Behavior driven development (or BDD). BDD is an agile software development technique that encourages collaboration between developers. 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

Events: August, 2010

Azure Table Service - NoSQL	August 09
Microsoft’s Azure Table Service provides a low-cost solution for storing and searching structured data in “The Cloud”. Plus, it’s one of these cool new NoSQL data stores that everyone’s talking about. But it’s very, very different from SQL Server and other relational databases, so is it the right solution for your project? 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

Events: July, 2010

ADO.NET Sync Service Framework	July 12
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION HAS CHANGED! 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.. Click here to see how to find us Follow us on twitter

Events: June, 2010

Entity Framework v4	June 21
Long standing and renowned NxtGen member Geff Lombardi is coming across to Hereford to talk about Entity Framework v4. He will introduce Entity Framework, the concepts behind the framework and how to get up and running using entity framework. He will then cover common issues related to this version and how these issues have been addressed in Entity Framework v4. If you are thinking about ORM and EF then this is a session you cannot miss! Click here to see how to find us Follow us on twitter

Events: May, 2010

Win7 mobile, app&game dev	May 10
Windows 7 mobile application and game development The session will cover building applications for Windows Phone 7 looking at the Silverlight and XNA application models. As well as an overview of Windows Phone 7 capability, Paul will build a number of applications using VS and Blend to demonstrate SL as well as a 3D games using XNA to give you a good feel for the level of effort required. Key to the event will be the opportunity for Q&A during and after the sessions. Click here to see how to find us Follow us on twitter

Events: April, 2010

Silverlight 4 RC	April 12
The worlds renowned NxtGenUG presenter Richard "Silverlight" Costall will be visiting us to give us a talk on Silverlight 4. "The paint is still wet on the SolidBrush of Silverlight 3, but at PDC2009 Microsoft gave a glimpse, and BETA of Silverlight 4. In this session we'll look at the positioning of this technology, and explore exciting new features, such as WebCam Support, Elevated Out of Browser, Printing support and many more changes across the Silverlight 4 framework, including changes in the recent Release Candidate" Plus the usual swag, pizza and nugget. Click here to see how to find us Follow us on twitter

Events: March, 2010

Come see my PRISM-tation	March 08
Come down to Hereford to see the reknowned nxtGenUG speaker John McLoughlin talk about PRISM. He will show you how easy it is to build a WPF application and then extend it with PRISM. Of course there will be SWAG and Pizza, a night not to miss.

Events: February, 2010

Nhibernate, MVC with a little	February 08
Herefords own Coordinator Richard Wilde will show you how to use nHibernate with asp.net MVC. The presentation will show you how to configure nHibernate, how to create mapping files and what the fuss about lazy loading is. All in 80 mins! Extra swag from Microsoft for the Azure launch and a nugget on Azure. Pizza, Nuggets, swag all the usual stuff!

Events: January, 2010

MVC with Steve Sanderson	January 11
The MVC guru, Steven Sanderson, is coming to Hereford to talk about .... yes, ASP.NET MVC

Events: November, 2009

An intro into ASP.NET MVC	November 16
Why not come down to the wild west where Richard Wilde will provide an introduction to the ASP.NET MVC Framework with some Linq 2 XML thrown in. Pizza and swag of course will be most sought after!

Events: October, 2009

Bugged by bad software?	October 19
How many bugs does your software have? How much time will it take you to fix those bugs? The normal answer to these questions is many and forever, that is unless you are practicing Test Driven Development. NxtGenUG Oxford coordinator Richard Hopton walks through what it is, some guidelines to follow, how to get started implementing it in new projects as well as tips to help apply these same techniques to existing applications.

Events: September, 2009

Sharing the Point ...	September 21
Come along to Hereford and find out what all the fuss is about SharePoint, one of Microsoft's most successful products ever. It's a feast of features for both IT Pros and Developers and Dave will aim to pack in as many aspects of SharePoint as he can, in between packing in as much Pizza as he can! Dave's joined by Joe Collins, long standing NxtGenUG member who's up for his first Member Nugget! Knowing Dave he'll have an item or two of swag to give out too!

Events: August, 2009

DIP Your Toes in at Hereford	August 17
Top UK Author and Speaker Alex Homer comes to Hereford to give us an Injection. Well only metaphorically! He's here to speak on the Dependency Inversion Principle to allow us to write highly flexible applications and how we can also thwart computers plans taking over the world by configuring what they can and can't do. Pizza, Swag of course and perhaps a member nugget..

Events: July, 2009

Hereford Media Central	July 20
John Price, NxtGenUG Co-Founder, JIT Pizza eater and the owner of the world's only email generated black hole makes his way over to Hereford to deliver his Windows Media Centre presentation and shows how to score brownie points with the wife, do development and have fun all at the same time. 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.

Events: June, 2009

Making the most of your Memory	June 15
Top TechEd Speaker Andy Wrigley heads West to Hereford to talk about Windows Mobile and also about designing lightweight systems to go easy on your memory and CPU requirements. Pizza, swag and fun with the Hereford crew and a top, top speaker!

Events: May, 2009

Dub See Eff and Stuff	May 18
Hereford welcomes one of the longest standing members of NxtGenUG and Oxford Co-ordintor Chris Seary MVP to talk about WCF, SQL and Security and Stuff. Pizza of course, and Swag of course!

Events: April, 2009

Silverlight Countdown ...	April 20
NxtGenUG Founder Member, Silverlight Insider, Amateur Aardvark Physiotherapist and part time Blues Brother, Richard Costall jumps into his Skoda and heads off down the M54 to cast his Silverlighting magic on the members of NxtGenUG's newest region. Swag, Pizza and a Member Nugget will also feature. Don't miss it, this will be a great meeting on the latest development hot subject!

Events: March, 2009

Westward Ho!	March 16
Welcome to the Wilde West, where Ryan O'Neill and Richard Wilde have started NxtGenUG Hereford to help developers west of Birmingham stay ahead of the game, and who better to do that than Guy Smith-Ferrier in his pre DevWeek warm up. Dave McMahon will be giving us the NxtGenUG Nugget and there will be the usual Swag, Pizza and drink! Come along and say hello and get involved with the UK Developer Community at NxtGenUG Hereford!