Upcoming talks and sessions

So I didn’t make it into DDD Scotland either, again the competition was fierce! Worried? Me? Not at all! I’ve currently got 3 sessions submitted to DDD South West! MUHAHAHAHAAA! As before I’ve submitted my intro to PRISM and intro to Workflow 4.0, but this time I’ve also added in a new Unity based session. So vote for me! I’ll get into DDD eventually! :D

In other news I’ve got a few talks lined up at the GL.NET and VBUG User Groups. The dates are:

24th May VBUG Portsmouth – Introduction to PRISM

5th June DDD South West – Hopefully I’ll get in!

16th June VBUG Bristol – Introduction To Workflow

? September GL.NET – Unity & IoC (link and better name to follow)

So what about NxtGenUG Southampton I hear you cry! Well we’ve got a cracking line up coming up over the coming months. Tonight we’ve got Neil Robbins coming down from the big smoke to do his talk on Document Databases.

Then on the 15th April we join in the UK Tech Days launch festivities with our own Richard Costal talking about Silverlight 4, and have a special guest from Microsoft joining us. Details to follow on the special guest!

On the 27th May we have all round Guru Liz Keogh joining us to talk about BDD. This should prove to be an excellent session, because if you have any examples you’d like Liz to apply BDD during the session then submit them to me via email me at JohnMc@NxtGenUG.net and she’ll select the best ones.

Then on 24th June we’ve got Phil Pursglove coming down to discuss Microsoft’s exciting new Velocity technology.

An absolutely cracking line up I’m sure you’re agree! In fact what are you waiting for?! Go register now! :D

Dr Neils coming to Southampton!

As apart of our upcoming January session on design with Tricky, I'm very pleased to announce that Dr Neil (MVP & Regional Director) will also be presenting!

If you don't know who Dr Neil is (Shame on you!) then you can check out more on his blog and on his MVP profile. I saw Dr Neil present at ReMIX:UK 07 with Tricky and then again at ReMIX:UK 08, both sessions were absolutley cracking. Dr Neil can be considered a Guru on all things Live Service related from Microsoft.

I'm very excited about this session as it was one of the first we started planning when Southampton was just getting off the ground, in fact doubly excited now that Dr Neil will be joining us.

Go register now at the following link!

Our Birthday Bash

So this months session will see NxtGenUG Southampton hit the grand old age of 1! We've had a cracking series of evening sessions from some absolutley top names, plus a very successful Saturday event in the form of the Silverlight Assasult Course.

So whats happening for our first birthday? We thought we'd try something a tad more interactive than a normal talk, something people could particpate in. Our very own Rich A (Mr Ready Steady Speak Remix 08!) and member Plamen Balkanski are going to do a session on Agile development, including the agile Planning Game!

Sign up and get more details on the following NxtGenUG page.

We're of course have Birthday Cake! :)