Those boys over at the NxtGenUG want you to get creative! They’re asking you to write a limerick about Guy Smith-Ferrier! The first line has to be “There was an MVP called Guy”…

Here’s my starter for you:

There was an MVP called Guy

Whose book about Internationalization was welcomed in Shanghai.

In the south-west, he created the DotNetDevNet user group,

Which is proving to be a great scoop.

He’s an MVP, of that we can’t deny.

There was an MVP called Guy

Who had an interest in Popfly

Or was it Silverlight?

To be honest, both might overexcite

But I know Guy, he’ll give both a try.

If yours is good enough, you could win a place on this WPF course! Send your entries to enquiries@nxtgenug.net

Check out the meeting details over here.

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If want to speak at the UK’s premier developer community conference, there’s still time for you to submit your masterpiece!

We’re looking for four types of submission:

Micro-Presentation (6 mins)Micro-presentations are inspired by the runaway success of Pecha Kucha – the “20 slides/20 seconds each” presentation format created in Japan a few years ago. It’s an incredibly exhilarating, creative experience for both presenters and the audience. Presentations are auto-timed; presenters are up against their own wits and skill to talk for 20 seconds before before their slide automatically moves to displaying the next!

Grok Talk (10 mins)
Grok talks are basically a short presentation on anything you like! Be it a new feature you have found in whatever IDE you use or a new website that has changed your life or a new design technique that you think the world should use.

Presentation (60 mins)
Presentations are the normal style of presentation, with the speaker talking on a topic, generally with slides / demos.

Double Presentation (120 mins)
Same as presentation but double-length, giving the speaker the chance to deep-dive on a topic or technology.

Visit developerday.co.uk and submit your session!

In fact, here’s the schedule:

• Sunday 7th October 2007: Call For Speakers Closes
• Monday 8th October 2007: Session Voting Opens
• Friday 19th October 2007: Session Voting Closes
• Friday 19th to Sunday 21st October 2007: Speakers Notified Of Results (we’ll be very busy lining up the agenda!)
• Tuesday 23rd October 2007: Schedule Published
• Wednesday 24th October 2007: Registration Opens
• Saturday 24th November 2007: DDD6 – Event Day!

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Zi is organising another geek dinner, this time to be held in the Kos (which proved so successful for the MIX07 dinner on the 11th of September).

More details and sign up can be found here:

http://www.zimakki.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/30/9th-october-geek-dinner/

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Further information can be found over at Scottish Developers

Microsoft Codename “Astoria”
The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies has brought new opportunities and caused us to solve old problems in new ways. AJAX and Silverlight applications need read/write access to data and business objects without performing full page refreshes and without dumbing down the data so much we are just left with primitives. Microsoft’s answer to this problem is Microsoft Codename “Astoria”. In short “Astoria” is a data access layer for client-size technologies such as AJAX and Silverlight. This session shows how it works, how you can write “Astoria” data servers and how you can customize “Astoria” to your applications requirements.

Using ClickOnce and XBAPs To Deploy Windows Forms and WPF Applications
ClickOnce provides the ease of web form deployment for Windows Forms applications. The same technology is used in XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) which are Windows Presentation Foundation applications that are hosted in a browser. This session introduces the ClickOnce technology and demonstrates its use in many scenarios including: zero touch deployment, one touch deployment, reversion to previous versions, uninstallation. We also cover deploying WPF applications through the browser (known as XBAPs) and illustrate the similarities and differences between XBAPs, MSI-deployed WPF applications and Windows Forms applications deployed using ClickOnce. This session represents an opportunity to understand how to get the ease of web deployment together with richness of Windows Forms or WPF.

When and Where?
We’ll be meeting at the SKM offices in the 160 Dundee Street building, Edinburgh, EH11 1DQ at 19:00 on Wednesday 3rd October. The offices are between Fountainbridge Leisure complex and the Victor Paris Bathroom Shop.

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