Andrew Westgarth : UK Community

Black Marble and Microsoft – Free Visual Studio/ALM Event in London 17th Dec 09

Andrew's Blog — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:46:27 GMT

Black Marble and Microsoft have announced details of a FREE event covering Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Application Lifecycle Management in London on Thursday 17th December 2009. Full Details are below: Microsoft and Black Marble present Visual...(read more)

VBUG Newcastle – W2008R2 and Windows 7 - Links

Andrew's Blog — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:45:25 GMT

Thanks to Richard Fennell for stepping into the breach this evening and covering the content for us so well. As soon as I have a link for the slides from the event, I’ll publish it here on this post. In the meantime here is the link for you to be...(read more)

WebDD ‘09 – Saturday 18th April 2009 – Registration Open!!!

Andrew's Blog — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:47:56 GMT

Yes folks, WebDD is on Saturday 18th April 2009 and REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for this great community event, it’s free to attend and held at Microsoft’s UK Campus in Reading – register now - http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/webdd09/Register.aspx...(read more)

VBUG Newcastle: PowerShell 0-60 in One Evening – Tuesday 24th March 2009

Andrew's Blog — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:09:43 GMT

Damn, just noticed this has been sat in my blog drafts folder :( Hope this catches people in time. The next VBUG Newcastle meeting will be held at Newcastle University on Tuesday 24th March 19:00-21:00 (18:45 registration) and will be delivered by Jonathan...(read more)

Alt.Net ‘In the North’ Conference – Registration opens at Noon!

Andrew's Blog — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:47:30 GMT

Last week Richard Fennell sent through details about an Alt.Net Open Space Conference he has helped organise in Bradford on 17th/18th April 2009. The event will be hosted by Black Marble at their office in Bradford, West Yorkshire , and there will be...(read more)

VBUG NEWCASTLE : REARRANGED Parallel Programming in .Net (VS2010) with Eric Nelson Now 24th February

Andrew's Blog — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:52:07 GMT

I’m pleased to announce that we have rearranged Eric Nelson’s session on Parallel Programming in .Net (VS2010), which was unfortunately cancelled due to the poor weather, and the event will now be held on TUESDAY 24th FEBRUARY at the same venue. ...(read more)

EVENT CANCELLED: VBUG Newcastle 3/3/2009 Parallel Programming in .Net

Andrew's Blog — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:25:00 GMT

Unfortunately due to the adverse weather conditions we are experiencing across the UK at the moment, we have had to cancel tomorrow night's event. Unfortunately Eric is not able to make the trip up at this time due to being grounded at the Airport...(read more)

VBUG Newcastle Future Roadmap Ideas

Andrew's Blog — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:22:50 GMT

Over the course of the next four to six months, I have decided to change the regularity/format of the meetings for the usergroup in the North East. I had been speaking with a fellow Twitterer, Jonathan Noble , about desires for usergroups in the...(read more)

VBUG Newcastle: Introducing OpenXML with Craig Murphy – Wednesday 29th October 2008

Andrew's Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:36:51 GMT

I’m very pleased to be able to welcome Craig Murphy to VBUG Newcastle on Wednesday 29th October to give us his introduction to OpenXML. Craig has this to say about the topic: Overview With the release of Office 2007, Microsoft moved their document...(read more)

Developer Developer Day 7 – Agenda Live!!

Andrew's Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:21:32 GMT

Yes folks, all the votes have been counted and verified and the Developer Day Team have now published the Agenda for the 7th Developer Developer Day on Saturday November 22nd 2008 at Microsoft’s Reading Campus. There is a great deal of variety and...(read more)

Developer Developer Developer Day 7 - Session Voting Open

Andrew's Blog — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:50:58 GMT

Craig Murphy via Twitter has just alerted me to the fact that session voting is now open for DDD7, go to the website now and select up to 10 sessions that you would like to see on the agenda for DDD7 - http://www.developerday.co.uk/ddd/votesessions.asp...(read more)

RemixUK - Ready Steady Speak Competition! - Win an XBOX 360!

Andrew's Blog — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:22:15 GMT

Ready Steady Speak is back for the RemixUK Event in Brighton on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th of September 2008. Are you a budding speaker? A Designer with a passion for what you do who would like to educate us Developers in how it's done or some...(read more)

Manic Miner Now in SilverLight!!

Andrew's Blog — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:51:18 GMT

Richard Costall of NxtGenUG has just sent through the details of an implementation of Manic Miner, the old Spectrum Classic, that has been completed in Silverlight. I started with the C16 and C64 and never had a Spectrum but will be looking forward to...(read more)

Girl Geek Dinners - Manchester 25th July and Leeds 13th August

Andrew's Blog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:55:46 GMT

I've got a number of blog posts in the pipeline waiting to be finished but this one is more urgent the others, as the subject contains something which is happening tomorrow night in Manchester! The second Manchester Girl Geek Dinner will be held tomorrow...(read more)

SUGUK Newcastle Meeting Date Changed - Now 3rd July 2008

Andrew's Blog — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:05:19 GMT

The forthcoming SUGUK meeting in Newcastle which I mentioned in my previous post, SharePoint UserGroup Returns To Newcastle! 26/6/08 - MOSS Architecture Whiteboard Session , has now changed date to the 3rd July 2008. Once again the registration...(read more)

IIS 7 for ASP.Net Developers - Black Marble Community Event on Wednesday 2nd July 2008

Andrew's Blog — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:48:21 GMT

On the evening of Wednesday 2nd July 2008, I'll be presenting a session on IIS 7.0 for ASP.Net Developers at Black Marble's Community Evening in Bradford. This event is part of a full day of sessions which Black Marble are hosting. ...(read more)

SharePoint UserGroup Returns To Newcastle! 26/6/08 - MOSS Architecture Whiteboard Session

Andrew's Blog — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:35:08 GMT

The SharePoint User Group are hosting there next Newcastle meeting on Thursday 26th June 2008. The details of the event are: John Timney (MVP & MOSS Principle Consultant at Capgemini) and Philip Hunter, (MOSS Technical Lead from BT) will be...(read more)

Developer Day 7 - 22/11/08 - Call For Speakers

Andrew's Blog — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:30:27 GMT

Developer Developer Day returns to Reading on Saturday 22nd November 2008, and the call for speakers is now open, giving plenty of time for anyone who would like to submit a session, to prepare an abstract and think about what they would like to speak...(read more)

NxtGenUG - FEST 08 Thursday 12th June 2008!

Andrew's Blog — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:27:59 GMT

Here's the latest information on NextGenUG's great FEST 08 event running later this month. Check it out! FEST08 the annual NxtGenUG one-day event takes place at Microsoft Reading on Thursday 12th June. As ever it's going to be an action packed...(read more)

MSDN Roadshow Newcastle - Review

Andrew's Blog — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:43:47 GMT

On Friday 16th May 2008, Newcastle hosted the MSDN Roadshow event - www.msdnroadshow.co.uk . This was the last Roadshow event of 2008 and if the other locations were anything as packed as the Newcastle one then I reckon they must have been great successes...(read more)