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UK Heroes Happen Here Microsoft Launch

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Heroes Happen Here

I was able to attend the big Heroes Happen Here product launch last week.

Andy Westgarth and myself recorded a few interviews with the Microsoft Executives, expect to see those over appearing soon. DC was kind enough to take on the cameraman role – thanks! In the meantime, I have some photographs that demonstrate the crowds, the socialisation and the chinposin that was happening!

For all the good stuff surrounding speakers and how you can watch the sessions again (or for the first time if you didn’t make to the show), Daniel was kind enough to write this succinct piece!

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Irish Microsoft Technology Conference : 2-4 April 2008

What:
The IMTC 2008, is an 8 track, 40 session extravaganza covering a breadth of Microsoft’s latest emerging technologies. Throughout the festival there will be numerous networking opportunities, coffee and session re-runs.

Now in its third year, the IMTC 2008 is the second of seven major technology conferences in IrishDev.coms IxTC Series 2008. Co-organised with the Irish Microsoft Technology User Group and First Port Jobs, it’s an event by the Irish technology community for the Irish technology community.

The IMTC 2008 is being run over one evening and two action packed days – this is yet another Irish tech conference you cannot afford to miss!

When:
Begins 7.00pm Wednesday 2nd April with Keynotes, 40 technology sessions on Thursday and Friday 3rd and 4th, concluding with post conference drinks.

It’s not free, but at €189 for two days and an evening of technical content, it’s excellent value!

I’ll be speaking at this event – Test-Driven Development and Code Coverage using Visual Studio 2008 Professional.

Further information:
http://imtc.firstport.ie/

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RadioTFS – Team Foundation Server – podcast show

Mick made me aware of RadioTFS today. Paul Hacker, Mickey Gousset and Martin Woodward are the folks behind this podcast show – that’s an impressive line up. If Team Foundation Server is your bag, you are guaranteed to get good content from these chaps.

I listened to Radio TFS 03: Team Foundation Server Power Tools – these are nicely produced shows with good sound quality.

Martin, thanks for the DDD Ireland plug, much appreciated!

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[Ireland, Dublin] Event – Irish Microsoft Technology Conference 2008

What:
The IMTC 2008, is an 8 track, 40 session extravaganza covering a breadth of Microsoft’s latest emerging technologies. Throughout the festival there will be numerous networking opportunities, coffee and session re-runs.

Now in its third year, the IMTC 2008 is the second of seven major technology conferences in IrishDev.coms IxTC Series 2008. Co-organised with the Irish Microsoft Technology User Group and First Port Jobs, it’s an event by the Irish technology community for the Irish technology community.

The IMTC 2008 is being run over one evening and two action packed days – this is yet another Irish tech conference you cannot afford to miss!

When:
Begins 7.00pm Wednesday 2nd April with Keynotes, 40 technology sessions on Thursday and Friday 3rd and 4th, concluding with post conference drinks.

It’s not free, but at €189 for two days and an evening of technical content, it’s excellent value!

I’ll be speaking at this event – Test-Driven Development and Code Coverage using Visual Studio 2008 Professional.

Further information:
http://imtc.firstport.ie/

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[UK, Cambridge] Event – Code Generation – 25-27 June

Code generation is getting more and more press, more so since the widespread adoption of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It seems fitting that such an important topic gets its own conference time.

Code Generation 2008

It’s not free, however it is very reasonably priced. At the time of writing you could attend the whole conference using an Early Bird Rate – All Days (£475 + VAT) [Early Bird Rate]

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[UK] Microsoft Product Launch – “SWAGGILY FORTUNES”

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Be part of it…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. “Swaggily” Fortunes is a take on the well known TV Quiz show in which teams of contestants are asked, for example, “We asked 100 Developers … To Name a .NET Language”. Those teams that guess correctly what the answers were get to win some fantastic “swag” — after a few rounds of mayhem!

You can help be part of this ‘great’ occasion by going to http://www.nxtgenug.net/2008launch/swagfortunes.aspx 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.

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[UK] Fancy winning some uber swag? Become a Speaker Idol!

Ready Steady Speak!

Microsoft are looking for candidates to take part in a Speaker Idol competition at the upcoming Launch event of Visual Studio 2008, SQL 2008 and Server 2008.

“Ready Steady Speak!” is a mini Speaker Idol in which the contestants have been given predefined subjects to speak on for 5 mins in front of a panel of judges. There will be 3 categories: VS2008, SQL2008 and Windows Server 2008. We want to give your members an opportunity to speak at a major event rather than have recognised community speakers. So spread the word that there is an opportunity to a learn about the new products by giving a short Community talk at the Launch, with a chance to win a great prize too! Hosts and Judges will be in conflict over who is the best, so watch out for some banter and controversy!

In terms of numbers, we need about 4 Dev volunteers and 4 IT Pro volunteers to ensure we have a full competition. So far we’ve 2 volunteers for Dev presentations and one probable for IT Pro, so we spread the word out there to your members, particularly those active ones who may have dabbled in speaking and want an opportunity to have a crack at a large event. Excellent prizes up for grabs as well as accolades !!

If you are interested please contact Dave McMahon (of NxtGenUG fame) – Dave’s e-mail address is Mr McMahon’s first name at-sign nxtgenug.net

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DDD Ireland – Registration is now open!

I am pleased to announce that registration for DDD Ireland is now open!

The registration page is here:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032370583

The agenda is here:
http://www.dddireland.com/agenda-1.htm

DDD Ireland Special – WCF In Depth
We are pleased to announce that Dominick Baier and Christian Weyer (both from thinktecture) and Daniel Fisher and Michael Willers (both from devcoach) will be delivering a full day of WCF.

Dominick and Christian will be taking half a day to cover WCF In Action, including a practical introduction and tips & tricks. Daniel and Michael will be also be taking a half day to cover Distributed Apps using AJAX and WCF.

Dom, Christian, Dan and Michael are mainstream speakers, normally seen at major conferences. Similar training would normally entail a financial outlay – not this training, it’s completely free! This is a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the WCF, not to be missed!

Ah go on.

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