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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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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.
Conferences Conferences
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Typemock provides unit testing tools for developers worldwide, to make unit testing easy. We are passionate about helping developers, giving them the easiest and best tools to ensure code integrity. We're committed to developing software thate delivers the benefits of quick and east unit testing to .NET developers around the globe - making sure you get quality code, with the minimum amount of debugging, and maximizing your efficiency.
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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!
Meet the Coordinators
Steve Robbins
Currently a Technical Architect with Lightbox, mainly producting educational software and line of business applications for education related government departments and commercial companies, with a sprinkling of exciting stuff like Microsoft Surface thrown in for good measure! Previous to this I ran my own business for around 4 years, before deciding that monthly management reports are far less interesting than they sound!

These days I generally work in C# and SQL, but in the past I’ve developed in everything from Assembly Language (68000 and x86) through to VB.Net/C#, with plenty of others inbetween. I’ve also done my time in the support/engineering side of IT, so I’m pretty much a geek through and through :-) I’m a firm believer that reading and “best practices” are no substitute for using your brain!

If you want to contact me, you can do so from my blog at http://www.grumpydev.com/
Andy Wilkinson
I have been involved with the support side of IT for over 10 years and currently do 3rd line support at Civica for our in-house products and SQL server. The job incorporates development as and when it can fit into my busy support life!

Developement has always been an interest of mine, from my first steps in the wonderful Turbo Pascal 7 to the heady heights of .Net 1.1 and 2 with SQL 2000/2005 backends.

I am hoping the user group will give me an insight into what's going on in the industry and help to drag me up to date!
Events: September, 2010
MonoTouch and MonoDroid! September 15
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!
Events: August, 2010
An Introduction to F# August 18
Oliver Sturm joins us to provide an introduction to functional programming with F#, a string that's well worth having in your bow with the current trend of increasing processor cores/concurrency. Pizza and swag too of course!
Events: July, 2010
Exploring Windows Phone 7 Seri 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!
Events: June, 2010
Silverlight and MEF June 16
Mike Taulty joins us to talk about a current hot topic - MEF and Silverlight. Nugget, pizza and swag as usual.
Events: May, 2010
Refactoring! 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 :-)
Events: April, 2010
Search and Deploy! 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
Events: March, 2010
Hyper-V for Developers 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!
Events: February, 2010
BONUS EVENT! Test Driven Devel February 26
Richard Hopton, of NxtGen Oxford fame, joins us with his session on Test Driven Development that recently featured in DDD8. Please note this is in *ADDITION TO* our normal February event and is being run on a Friday evening, which probably means we will end up in the pub afterwards :-)
SharePoint 2010 Overview February 17
Dave braves the north to give us the low down on the latest version of Microsoft's SharePoint platform. A Nugget, a pile of pizza and some swag may also make an appearance.
Events: January, 2010
RESCHEDULED! The Need for Spee January 26
Phil Pursglove joins us to talk about Velocity, Microsoft's distributed cache engine. Nugget, pizza and swag as usual :-) ** PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO SPEAKER ILLNESS THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO TUESDAY THE 26TH OF JANUARY **
Events: December, 2009
NxtGenUG "Open Mic." Night December 16
To mix things up for the festive period NxtGen Manchester in December is an open-spaces style "Open Mic." night. Sebastien Lambla is joinng us to facilitate the discussions, and everyone is encouraged to speak up! Food and swag will be provided as usual, so no panic there! If you have a particular topic you'd like to discuss or talk about then please do get in touch. Unfortunately we haven't been able to secure a Public House for the event, so you're stuck with the usual location, but there will be Mince Pies :-)
Events: November, 2009
Cool UI for Windows Mobile – H November 18
Windows Mobile fights back! Andy Wigley comes to Manchester to tell us how to create great looking Windows Mobile apps to compete with the iPhone. Nugget, pizza and swag as usual!
Events: October, 2009
Parallel Extensions in .Net 4. October 21
This month Mike Taulty joins us to talk through Parallel Extensions in .Net 4.0. As cores increase, parallel processing is becoming more relevant to more applications. Also we have pizza, swag and a nugget as usual!
Events: September, 2009
Windows 7 September 16
Dave Allen from Microsoft will be joining us to talk about exploiting the new features of Windows 7, such as the new taskbar, and what's likely to break in applications that haven't been tested on Vista/Win7! Member nugget, Pizza and Swag as usual!
Events: August, 2009
Making a Mockery of SharePoint August 19
Richard Fennell of Black Marble shows us how to do SharePoint Developer Testing with Typemock, Pizza, Swag, Member Nugget, all in an evenings NxtGen-ing!
Events: July, 2009
In the Media Centre Spotlight July 15
NxtGenUG Cofounder and Extreme Stunt DemoMan John Price visits Manchester to talk about Media Centre. NxtGenUG's answer to Tommy Copper, will entertain, amaze and educate you in the fast paced session, full of dangerous demos. He doesn't pray to the demo gods - he taunts them! Warning: The demos shown in this session should only be done by a trained professional or John. They may also be a nugget, some pizza and a bit of SWAG
Events: June, 2009
Going With The Workflow ... June 17
Workflow Guru Morgan Skinner heads for the North and will spend an evening going through the latest developments in the world of Windows Workflow. Member nugget, Pizza and Swag - just another normal NxtGenUG evening!
Events: May, 2009
Manchester Launch Event! May 20
We don't believe it, but we should and so should you! Another NxtGenUG region hits the road. Yes, the NxtGenUG flavour of Community hits the true North, and Steve Robbins and Andy Wilkinson two local lads welcome you to their Launch Event.
There will be great technical content from NxtGenUG cofounder Richard Costall who will also talk about the NxtGenUG group and how getting involved in Community will benefit you and your business.
Plus, of course, the ever present swag out and pizza and fun and swag and pizza and ... you get the picture. Don't miss it
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