The NxtGenUG boys are pleased to announce their very first One-Day Event. We’re not calling it a conference, as we want it to be more than that! We want it to be a day to remember, and another annual highlight for the UK Developer Community.
It’s called NxtGenUG Fest 07 and the initial details are at http://www.nxtgenug.net/fest07. The event will take place at Microsoft UK Headquarters at Thames Valley Park (TVP) on Wednesday 23rd May 2007 and starts at 0900. Food will be provided and we want everybody to go home with a decent amount of quality ‘swag‘.
The day has a theme: ‘Into the future’. We start the day looking at current technologies such as Vista, then we move into the ‘Orcas’ timeframe, then to 12 months hence or so, probably taking a look at dynamic languages and then really moving out into ‘who knows’ with a session from Microsoft Research. There will be a keynote, with an appearance from UK DPE manager Kevin McDaniel and words from the NxtGenUG crew and finally the day will finish with a new ‘Game Show’ style session courtesy of NxtGenUG featuring an awful lot of swag!
We’re absolutely chuffed to bits to announce that the headline speaker is top TechEd speaker Rafal Lukawiecki and we will also be joined by Daniel Moth and Mike Taulty (perhaps) of the UK DPE and also by Lorna Brown from Microsoft Research. We have one more speaker to announce too, which we hope to do next week.
At lunchtime there will be Grok talks presented by NxtGenUG members, on a variety of subjects to be announced.
This event is FREE to all fully paid-up NxtGenUG members and a mere £54.99 for non-members until 1 March 2007, check out the URL for more details. Numbers are strictly limited (we know … everybody says that … but we really mean it this time – 230 tops!) so register early is my advice!
Woooo hoooo what a great event its gonna be
Want to print to PDF?
If youre using any of the office 2007 programs and want to print to a PDF file then, instead of installing a third party printer driver to do this, Microsoft have released an addin to Office to allow you to save your documents in PDF format.
Heres the link.
Windows Mobile 6 Announced
The mobile operating system that was codenamed “Crossbow” has finally been officially announced as being Windows Mobile 6.
There are some significant improvements for developers, such as the inclusion of the Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 and SQL (compact Edition) being included in the ROM and not having to take up valuable storage memory.
Changes like the built in certificate installer will make securing these devices eaiser.
Screenshots of the cosmetically enhanced interface, along with more details can be found on engaget, on PocketPCThoughts and on the Mobile Development Teams Blog.
It can only happen at NxtGen
Put 3 developer community leaders in a car, what do you expect to happen in a traffic jam?
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