The boys over at NxtGenUG have been busy cleaning out their recording equipment – so much so, they’ve very kindly put together a short video teaser or trailer for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper!
If you’ve never attended a DDD event, hopefully this will give you a flavour of what it’s all about: it demonstrates why the event is so popular that it can “sell out” (even though it’s free!) within 5 days of registration opening!
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I am pleased to announce that the agenda for the fifth DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper event is now live.
http://www.developerday.co.uk/ddd/agenda.asp
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I managed to gatecrash NxtGenUG‘s FEST07 developer-oriented conference today. It was a single day event held at Microsoft’s Thames Valley Park campus. Despite my best efforts, I arrived just in time for the first full session of the day (I managed to miss the such things as the Registration, Welcome and Notices, Community and Keynote, bit of a shame really, but when you’re relying on trains and free buses getting you from Edinburgh to Crewe to Reading to TVP, some loss has to be expected).
Anyway, it was a super event, well-organised, good speakers, good food and a good mix of information-hungry attendees. For me, it was nice to be at TVP and to be able to sit back, relax and enjoy the conference – usually I’m on the other side of the organising fence and find myself checking agendas, chasing speakers, etc.
First up on the agenda was Rafal Lukawiecki – he’s some guy: top TechEd speaker, need I say more? He kicked off with a session about Vista Security, covering the following major topics: Foundational Protection, Networking, User Account Control (UAC), Authentication & Authorization, BitLocker and Data Protection. As you might expect, UAC was the audience’s primary pain-point: Rafal did a quick poll to see just which flavour of the UAC prompt the audience were enduring – you see, there are actually two prompts that you might receive depending upon who you are logged in as. Most of the audience log in as administrators, so they received the Consent Prompting (default for administrators) prompt. Only a handful of attendees logged in as standard users thus receiving the Credentials Prompting (default for standard users) dialog. Interesting, Rafal was pro-UAC, citing that we should strive to make our applications better citizens such that the UAC prompts only ever appear if they really need to. Further reading can be found here.
Microsoft DPEs Daniel “The Greek One” Moth and Mike Taulty took the stage for the next session, originally planned to be about Orcas, but now a dive into the world of C# and LINQ. Now, usually these two guys are part of MSDN events, roadshows, etc. rarely do we see them “out in community” without them staying roughly within the corporate lines laid down by Microsoft. Today, any corporate ties they had were gone, they were, if you could use the comparison, what happens to DPEs when they go bad! As a double act, they rocked: the comedy was flowing.
After lunch (pizzas and coke) Rafal was back for a session about Software Development Paradigms. This session was well-delivered and provided considerable food for thought. Interestingly, Rafal closed the session with the statement that the programming paradigm is likely to return to the lambda-calculus domain and that we should be learning Prolog and LISP once again!
Oliver Sturm moved in to talk about Dynamic Languages. Attendee feedback from this session was rather good, with many stating that “this Ruby thing, it never goes away, it just keeps bouncing back”.
Finally, Lorna Brown gave a 45-minute session about what’s going on at Microsoft Research. I’m always impressed with what I see coming out of MSR – today, we saw gesture controlled devices tied into a text messaging service. Whilst Microsoft won’t appreciate the comparison, what MSR have effectively done is put the Wii-style controller into a mobile device, such that you can use gestures instead of words…very useful if you want to ask if somebody wants to go for beer, make a pouring gesture and a sound of a beer being poured can be heard at the recipient’s end.
FEST07 – meet the sponsors:
Download the FEST07 slides’n’code from here. And, until the midnight on the 4th of June, provide your feedback here – attendees only please!
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FEST07 (http://www.nxtgenug.net/fest07), the one-day Developer event organised by those NxtGen Boyz: Rich, Dave and John, is just around the corner.
It’s on May 23rd at Microsoft UK in Reading and the headline speaker is the outstanding Rafal Lukawiecki who has topped the polls at TechEd for the last 7 years. He’s speaking twice and will be talking about Vista Security and Future Trends in Software Architecture. The other speakers are look pretty good too, with Oliver Sturm, Mike Taulty and Daniel Moth being joined by Lorna Brown of Microsoft Research which should be a really interesting session. The Boyz are also going to do one of their ‘gameshows’ as a finale in which I understand large amounts of ‘swag’ will be handed out.
If you are a member of NxtGenUG its a free event. If you’re not a member its a measly £59.99 for a day of information, fun, food and of course ‘swag’. It’s not a Microsoft funded event, and the guys have to cover some costs of speakers and incidentals. To register just go the NxtGenUG site http://nxtgenug.net/fest07, its all pretty simple. Any probs drop them a line at enquiries@nxtgenug.net
This looks like it’s going to be special and different event, best get along …
Oh there is also a Geek Dinner the night before http://www.zimakki.com/wiki/Fest07GeekDinner.ashx is Zi Makki’s Wiki, and you can go to this even if your’e not attending the event itself.
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I’m pleased so say that after a few last minute hiccups (when else would you expect them to occur other than at the last minute?!), session voting for DDD5 (30th June 2007) is now open. Please visit this link and cast your votes.
And there’s still time to submit a grok talk (10 minute mini-session) if you’re up for it.
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I understand that there may be some problems submitting sessions via www.developerday.co.uk – if you are having trouble, please e-mail your proposal to me. My e-mail address can be found on this page: www.craigmurphy.com
Sessions received before 0001 on Saturday 28th will be accepted; anything received after that (i.e. over the remainder of the weekend) will be subject to further discussion/approval.
DDD5, 30th June 2007: session submissions are well underway! It’s great to see that there are a handful of Scottish folks who have submitted sessions. Hoots!
We’re still keen to get some more GrokTalks – short 10 minute sessions about a topic of your choice.
If you’d like to submit a GrokTalk or any other type of session, please visit the submission page
Session submissions will close at 1800 on the 27th of April.
Registration is expected to open on the 28th of May – the agenda should be available on the 26th of May.
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MSDN EVENTS
* Web Event: Designing and Developing Rich Web Applications Using
ASP.NET, ASP.NET Ajax and ‘WPF/E’
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032333805&Culture=en-GB
Date: 24 April 2007
Location: Manchester
* Security Event with SPI Dynamics: Web Application Hacking Workshop
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032334564&Culture=en-GB
Date: 26 April 2007
Location: Reading
* Web Event: Web Design and Development with WPF/E, Ajax and Windows Live
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032334532&Culture=en-GB
Date: 1 May 2007
Location: Leeds
* Web Event: Web Design and Development with WPF/E, Ajax and Windows Live
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032334535&Culture=en-GB
Date: 16 May 2007
Location: Reading
TECHNET EVENTS
* Microsoft Management Summit (UK)- Are You in Control? How to Manage
and Secure Your Infrastructure
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032334551&Culture=en-GB
Date: 01 May 2007
Location: Reading
* Windows Powershell for IT Administrators
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032334934&Culture=en-GB
Date: 22 May 2007
Location: Reading
* Vista Deployment Using Group Policy in Windows Vista to Control User
Behaviour and Network Security
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032335719&Culture=en-GB
Date: 31 May 2007
Location: Reading
* Everything you Wanted to Know About Imaging Vista But Were Afraid to Ask
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032335857&Culture=en-GB
Date: 20 June 2007
Location: Manchester
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DDD5 Call For Speakers is now open!
If you’re interested in speaking at DDD5 on June 30th this year, submit your session proposals here.
And if you’re wanting to speak, but aren’t happy giving a full session, the Grok Talks are back! The Grok Talks were so well-liked at DDD4, we’re spending some time making them better (we listened to all the feedback previous attendees gave us!) Grok Talks need only last 10-20 minutes – I’ll post details of how to sign up for the Grok Talks asap.
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What’s FEST07 all about?
It’s all about “Into The Future …”. We’ll start the day in the present, looking at Vista, and then we’ll jump forward a few months to take a look at LINQ, a great and innovative new technology from Microsoft. We jump ahead further in the afternoon, a year or so, with a look at how Dynamic Languages such as Iron Python are being brought into the .NET world, and finally we’ll end up seeing how the home of the future might look in a few years time …
We’ll end the day with one of NxtGenUG’s renowned ‘game show’ sessions where the differences between learning, fun, ‘swag’ and chaos become somewhat blurred …
It’s also about taking time out to get our heads above the parapet, get away for a day, learn some different stuff, smell the roses, eat some pizza, get some ‘swag’ and meet some friendly, like-minded people at a great venue.
Check out our full agenda at http://www.nxtgenug.net/Fest07/Agenda.aspx
Who is speaking and what are they speaking about?
We have the TOP TechEd Speaker Rafal Lukawiecki who will be talking on Vista Security and other things, our own Mike Taulty and Daniel Moth of Microsoft UK DPE Group speaking on LINQ, Oliver Sturm of DevExpress speaking on Dynamic Languages in .NET and finally, we’re very pleased to have Lorna Brown of Microsoft Research speaking on ‘New Concepts for the Home’. Full details about the speakers are at http://www.nxtgenug.net/Fest07/Speakers.aspx
When is FEST07?
Wednesday 23rd May 2007 starting at 08:30 going through to 17:45.
Where is FEST 07?
Building 3, Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading, Berkshire RG6 1WG.
Check out http://local.live.com for a view of the location at :
http://local.live.com/?v=2&sp=Point.sk9730gxpm4d_Microsoft%20Building%203___
How do I register for this event?
Go to http://www.nxtgenug.net/Fest07/default.aspx , click on Login/Register and complete the registration, you will then see a link to register for the event. Any difficulties contact enquiries@nxtgenug.net . We’d like to say that one of our good looking events staff will answer, however Rich doesn’t fall into that category. But he’ll help you anyway, so will Dave and John.
I’m already a NxtGenUG Member, how much is FEST07!
It’s a FREE event to all fully paid up NxtGenUG members including if you are part of a corporate sponsorship. If you are unsure if you are part of a corporate membership, contact enquiries@nxtgenug.net
I’m registered on the NxtGenUG site, but not a paid -up member, how much is it?
If you move quickly and pay online now, it’s only £54.99! This early-bird ends on 31st March 2007!
Can I Join NxtGenUG as a member now and attend FEST07 and all the other NxtGenUG events too?
Sure, some people have already done that! http://www.nxtgenug.net/WhyJoin.aspx
Look forward to seeing you at FEST07!
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Event Overview
Windows Vista provides the most secure and reliable operating system ever that will have a positive impact on developers. Come along and see how Windows CardSpace provides federated identity management. We will also show you how to build applications that take advantage of User Access Account Control and best practices for building least-privilege applications. If you are interested in developing on Windows Vista then this session is essential for you.
When
06 March 2007 18:30 – 21:20
Welcome Time: 18:00
Where
Microsoft Edinburgh
127 George Street
Edinburgh EH2 4JN
United Kingdom
Sign-up and an agenda can be found here:
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032326093
There’s a similar event in Glasgow on 03 April 2007, more details can be found here.
Technorati Tags: security, Vista, Edinburgh, Martin Parry, DPE