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NxtGenUG get to Cambridge!

20 Aug
The Boyz from NxtGenUG are really excited to announce the opening of a brand new NxtGenUG region – this time in Cambridge. So now Developers from the flatlands of East Anglia can gather together to learn, chat, eat Pizza and get ‘swagged’ in the ‘NxtGenUG Way’ along with their counterparts in Birmingham, Coventry and Oxford. The region will be run by Chris Hay and Allister Frost who live and work in the area. Chris and Allister have put in a great deal of effort to get the region off of the ground including securing a fantastic venue, courtesy of non-other than Microsoft Research Cambridge!
The ‘Launch’ meeting will be held at Microsoft Research on Tuesday 18th September 2007 and will feature Mike Ormond speaking on Silverlight Microsoft’s new Rich Web Application Development Platform. They’ll also have a speaker from Microsoft Research covering the fascinating new subject of F#, watch out for details! Finally Rich, Dave and John will be there to do something or other, probably involving ‘swag’ (tut). Anybody is welcome to attend the meeting whether they are a NxtGenUG member or not. Just go to the NxtGenUG site at http://www.nxtgenug.net, register for FREE and book your place!

The evening starts at 06.30pm and ends at 09.00pm.

As with other NxtGenUG regions details of events at Cambridge will be available at http://www.nxtgenug.net/EventList.aspx, and we know that Chris and Allister have a bunch of great sessions planned for Cambridge over the coming months.
Also check out the NxtGenUG site for Articles, ‘Radio Style’ Podcasts http://www.nxtgenug.net/Podcasts.aspx, Interviews, News Items, Competitions, details of membership and much more at http://www.nxtgenug.net

 
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Mini Service Pack for Vista

09 Aug
One of my pet hates in Vista is how long it takes to decide to tell me how long its going to take to copy a file. This, is really a small point, but as the rest of the OS is so good, these minor things really stand out.

Reading Ian Moulsters blog this morning, it turns out there’s a service pack for these minor bugettes. (note bugette = small bug, not a long sandwich!).

Here’s the link to it. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979
Just a minor observation, this fix doesn’t seem to be picked up by Windows Update. Hopefully it will over the next few days.

 
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Visual Studio 2008 – Beta 2 Now available

27 Jul
This morning I noticed an entry on Scott Guthries’ blog saying that VS2008 beta 2 is now available.

Its got some cool new features, such as MultiTarginging support, where you can build an application for more than one version of the framework; A split view for the Web designer and CSS; AJAX support and LINQ support.

You can read more about each of thses things here on Scotts blog and you can download the beta from MSDN here.

 
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Vote for VBUG Chairman and Vice Chairman

23 Jul
Theres just about a week to go for VBUG members to vote for a new chairman and vice chairman.

If you are a VBUG member, make sure you have your say. You pay for your membership, so make sure that the people who are spending it are doing so in the best possible way for you.

Andrew Westgarth, the coordinator for the North-east, is standing a chairman, and Tim Leung, Who runs the Reading group is standing for vice chairman.

I know both of these guys well and would strongly suggest that they would be good for VBUG members, and the UK developer community at large. Go vote for them now!

Andrew has a blog posting at http://www.andrewwestgarth.co.uk/Blog/showpost.aspx?id=73

 
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Your world around the coffee table

04 Jun
Imagine working with a computer with no keyboard? Imagine if you could just put your Zune or iPod on the table and it start playing music? Daniel Moth had this on his blog, and I think its awesome.

 I want one. Now!

 
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DDD Registration is now open

30 May

DDD5, the best developer day out in the UK, has now published its agenda. Remember, these are the sessions tha you voted for from the community. No Microsoft speakers, and its on a Saturday!

The agenda is now available here and you can register here.

I’d register quickly if you want to go as it tends to fill up really fast.

 
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Now on Channel 9

24 May

Back in January, NxtGenUG held a meeting inside a cargo plane at Midland Air Museum. Now, exactly why we did this has become lost in the mists of time but Channel 9 got to here about it and Charles turned up with his video camera to capture the event.

I had forgotten about it for a while, but on Tuesday night while driving home from work It popped back into my mind, you know one of those ‘I wonder what happened to…’ thoughts.

Spookily, Richard Costall contacted me that night to point out the videos were up on Channel 9! Wow, the power of thought. I’m now concentrating really hard on the lottery numbers for this weekend ;-0)

In the meantime here are the videos. Enjoy.

 
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Voting now open for DDD

03 May

Cast your votes for the sessions you would like to attend by visiting the DeveloperDay website and selecting your favorites…

 
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WPF/e gets its proper name

16 Apr

WPF/e, Microsoft technology for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web, gets a proper name Silverlight.

Check it out on MSDN

 
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I am talking about Vista at a Vbug Event

29 Mar

On the 18th April , I am doing a talk at a VBUG event in Leeds, entitled ‘So why do I care about Vista?’

This is a 2500 foot view of Windows Vista. What tools are available to make our lives easier, what can we do to improve the user experience of our software, and how to deal with the new security model to allow our applications to play in the Vista world.

Its at Mellon Analytical Solutions Europe Ltd. 1 Whitehall Riverside, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 4BN

From 18:30 – 21:00 (19:00 Start)

Registration Details: Mailto: Emma@vbug.com OR call 01753 649680

Hope to see you there.

The slides for this event are here.

 
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