{"id":798,"date":"2008-03-11T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2008-03-11T12:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T11:36:49","slug":"uk-microsoft-product-launch-swaggily-fortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"[UK] Microsoft Product Launch &#8211; &#8220;SWAGGILY FORTUNES&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/launch.jpg\" style=\"border: none;\" alt=\"Product Logo\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Be part of it&#8230;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\/2008launch\/swagfortunes.aspx\">http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\/2008launch\/swagfortunes.aspx<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wednesday March 19th 2008 see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/uk\/heroeshappenhere\/default.mspx\">UK 2008 Launch Event<\/a>.  As part of the event, those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\">NxtGenUG Boyz<\/a> are running one of their game-shows, which will take place about 6.00pm during the evening drinks and nibbles.  &#8220;Swaggily&#8221; Fortunes is a take on the well known TV Quiz show in which teams of contestants are asked, for example, &#8220;We asked 100 Developers &#8230; To Name a .NET Language&#8221;.  Those teams that guess correctly what the answers were get to win some fantastic &#8220;swag&#8221; &#8212; after a few rounds of mayhem!<\/p>\n<p>You can help be part of this &#8216;great&#8217; occasion by going to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\/2008launch\/swagfortunes.aspx\">http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\/2008launch\/swagfortunes.aspx<\/a><\/strong> and answering 8 short questions.  Your answers will go towards making up the choices which the teams have to guess.  The NxtGenUG lads have run this several times in the past always to great reviews, and it makes for a fun, relaxed way to wind down from the days sessions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Launch\" rel=\"tag\">Launch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/NxtGenUG\" rel=\"tag\">NxtGenUG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Birmingham\" rel=\"tag\">Birmingham<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Visual+Studio\" rel=\"tag\">Visual Studio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Visual+Studio+2008\" rel=\"tag\">Visual Studio 2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/SQL+Server\" rel=\"tag\">SQL Server<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/SQL+Server+2008\" rel=\"tag\">SQL Server 2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Windows+Server\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Windows+Server+2008\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2008<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be part of it&#8230;http:\/\/www.nxtgenug.net\/2008launch\/swagfortunes.aspx Wednesday March 19th 2008 see the UK 2008 Launch Event. As part of the event, those NxtGenUG Boyz are running one of their game-shows, which will take place about 6.00pm during the evening drinks and nibbles. &#8220;Swaggily&#8221; Fortunes is a take on the well known TV Quiz show in which teams &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=798\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UK] Microsoft Product Launch &#8211; &#8220;SWAGGILY FORTUNES&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}