Upcoming Sessions at NxtGenUG Southampton

We've got some really exciting sessions coming up in Southampton, so I thought I'd tell you about them.

First off, next week on the 19th Feb we've got Chris Hay coming down to do his talk on all things Azure. You can Register here.

Then on March 19th we have Ian Cooper coming down to do his excellent talk on Nhibernate. You can register here.

On April 16th we have Mike Taulty paying us a return visit, and doing a session on Parallel Extensions in .Net 4.0. You can regsiter here.

And Then I'll be doing a session on PRISM on May 14th. You can register here.

I think we've pretty much covered everyones tastes over the coming months, so if you're not already a member or been to one of our events before come along and check us out :)

DDD SouthWest sessions

I've just submitted 2 sessions for DDD South West, one on WF 4.0 which will be a variant on what I'm presenting at Guy Smith Ferriers Dot Net Dev Net group next Tuesday. Here's the blurb:

A lap around WF 4.0

WF 4.0 was announced at PDC 08, and includes some very sexy new features. We'll take a spin through some of the new features including custom activity creation and WCF intergration to see how WF has evolved.

The second is on PRISM which will be completely new and shiny for DDD South West. Here's the blurb:

Come see my PRISM-tation

PRISM is the latest incarnation of the Composite Application Guidance from the MS Patterns and Practices team. The guidance allows you to build extensible application quickly and easily in either WPF or Silverlight. In this session I'll show you how easy it is to build a WPF application and then extend it with PRISM.

Hopefully one of them will get accepted :)

: UPDATE :

My wife has very kindly pointed out that this is actually our wedding anniversary and her 30th B'day weekend. OOPS! So I won't be going, thank god I didn't forget otherwise that would be really stereotypical and embarrassing! :P

The conclusions of the PDC Podcast Trilogy

The third and final part of Chris and my PDC Odessey is now available as a podcast on the NxtGen site here.

Out of all the awesome people we interviewed at PDC, this was probably the most exciting for me as we interview what seemed like the entire WF team! We also managed to bag a rather excellent WCF interview amoung others. So come download it and enjoy :)