NxtGenUG - Event RSS Feed

NxtGenUG Birmingham : Birmingham Open Spaces Meet ..

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Manchester : Hyper-V for Developers

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Southampton : The end of DBs as we know it?!

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Cambridge : DB or Not DB, That is the ques

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Coventry : MixGenUG Coventry

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Coventry : DBA's Rejoice it's EF

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Hereford : Aspect oriented development

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Oxford : Starting a spring diet

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Cambridge : The Statue of Liberty

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Southampton : SL4 with a dash of VS2010

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Birmingham : Best Behaviour

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Manchester : Search and Deploy!

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Coventry : The Designer Police

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Oxford : May the 4's be with you

Tue, 04 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Hereford : Win7 mobile, app&game dev

Mon, 10 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Windows 7 mobile application and game development

NxtGenUG Birmingham : Simon Sabin's SQL Sequel ...

Tue, 18 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Manchester : Refactoring!

Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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 :-)

NxtGenUG Coventry : He's Got the Power

Mon, 24 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Ben Nunney drops in on Coventry to tell us about Powershell. We'll also be having a nugget, some pizza and giving out swag!

NxtGenUG Southampton : Behaving during Development

Thu, 27 May 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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?!

NxtGenUG Oxford : Hyper-V for Developers

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Manchester : Silverlight and MEF

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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

NxtGenUG Birmingham : An Exceptionally Nice Evening

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Southampton : Terminal Velocity!

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Coventry : Windows 7 - MOBILE!

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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...

NxtGenUG Oxford : Gotcha Silverlight!

Tue, 06 Jul 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!

Fest10 - Beside the C#Side

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:00:00 GMT

Click for details Fest10

NxtGenUG Manchester : Exploring Windows Phone 7 Seri

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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!

NxtGenUG Southampton : Build and deploy yourself

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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.

NxtGenUG Birmingham : Summer Security

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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 ...

NxtGenUG Oxford : Making an Exception

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:00:00 GMT

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.