DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 6 is on Saturday 24th November 2007!

The Call For Speakers is now open – please submit your sessions here!

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Video: UK Developer Community

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I am pleased to announce that the Masters of Swag, NxtGenUG, in their quest for more swag and more events, have expanded to include Cambridge and Southampton!

More news can be found here:
http://www.nxtgenug.net/NewsArticle.aspx?ArticleID=241

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I took loads of photographs at MIX 07 last week.

Here are a few of them:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12651&l=4a90a&id=580259551
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12647&l=044e1&id=580259551

I also recorded more than 10 podcasts, expect to see those appear over the course of this month.

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I am pleased to announce that the next DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper event, the sixth, will take place at the usual venue on the 24th of November 2007.

The usual venue being Microsoft’s Thames Valley Park campus in Reading, UK.

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I am pleased to announce the next Edinburgh-based Scottish Developers event.

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.

More info can be found here.

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Your help is required!

After the success of DDD in Reading, a lot of folks have asked us to organise a similar event “north of Reading”.

To that end we’d like to ask you to vote and tell us where you would like to see a DDD-style event held.

We’ve received a few hints from the feedback you so graciously provide, but we’d like to use the voting mechanism on the web-site to capture your thoughts.

Please spare a moment to vote here:

http://www.developerday.co.uk/ddd/default.asp

I should say that we’re not planning to stop the Reading event, merely to run a similar event elsewhere – DDD in Reading will continue! In fact, between you and me, the next DDD, DDD6, is likely to be towards the end of November…but keep it quiet, don’t tell anybody else!

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Further to my earlier post, it seems that the last 50 places have gone already!

There is a waitlist in operation – I know Microsoft [Events] are very good at processing waitlists, so if you are still keen to go, I would sign up for the waitlist! If you would like to go on the waitlist please call 0870 166 6645.

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