NIMTUG Events

Digital Circle Windows 7 Launch

Damien McGivern — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:52:00 GMT

Digital Circle are hosting a Windows 7 Lunchtime Launch to celebrate the release of this operating system on Thursday 22 October, a major milestone for Windows, with some finger food and some networking (and possibly some presentations)

For more information see their event page http://digitalcircle.ning.com/events/windows-7-lunchtime-launch

DDD Belfast Registration Open

Damien McGivern — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:27:00 GMT

Registration has opened for DDD Belfast today.

http://nimtug.org/r.ashx?9

Microsoft @ Home Evening for IT Professionals - Event Page Fixed

Damien McGivern — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:02:00 GMT

Some members were having problems accessing the 'Microsoft @ Home Evening for IT Professionals' event page on the Microsoft events site. This issue has now been resolved.

DDD Belfast 4th April - Voting Now Open

Damien McGivern — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:44:00 GMT

Developers Developers Developers!!

DDD is coming to Belfast this year and will take place on Saturday 4th April at the Belfast Metropolitan College Milfield building. DDD is a FREE community event where the community votes for the sessions they are most interested in seeing. Voting is now open and registration will open on 4th of March.

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! – Belfast

Simon Phillips — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:59:33 GMT

We must have done something right last year as DDD is coming back to Ireland this time up north to Belfast.

What is DDD?

Firstly all the speakers are from the community, people who are interested in speaking register their sessions and then the rest of the community (i.e. you) vote on which talks make the day.

Session can be on anything and this is a great chance is you want to get into speaking, who knows you might be presenting at TechEd next year!

The call for speakers is now open and awaiting your submissions. Microsoft, who are sponsoring the event, have kindly offered to cover travel costs from the UK or train tickets from within Ireland (both Northern and Southern) as well as the Friday night hotel for speakers.

Like all DDD events there here will be NO Microsoft speakers presenting, just speakers from the .NET developer community; although we will have many of the Irish Developer Platform Evangelists (DPEs) on hand to help out and chat to attendees.

The day is put together by the community for the community, in other words you. The event is free to attend and will be held on Saturday 4th April so you don’t even need to take time off work. The location is still being arranged and we will let you know as soon as we get it confirmed.

The call for speakers and sessions runs from the 12th of January till the 2th February. The community can then vote on the suggested sessions from the 3rd February till the 2nd of March.

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Microsoft Ireland TechNet Event: Virtualisation Unplugged

Simon Phillips — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:41:22 GMT

Microsoft Ireland are holding a full day Virtualisation event in Belfast on the 3rd Feb.

This is a full day technical session with Microsoft experts to discover a complete set of virtualisation tools from desktop to datacentre that will improve business continuity and maximise ROI. The day will cover loads of technologies including Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager, Terminal Services and Application Virtualisation.

Find out more about the event head over to our Events Pages where you will find the registration link.

Technorati Tags: Events,IT Pro,Microsoft,Virtualisation,Windows Server,Hyper-V

European SharePoint Best Practice Conference, London April 6th-8th 2009

Simon Phillips — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:11:25 GMT

SharePoint Best Practices Conference comes to Europe From April the 6th to the 8th 2009 in London at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference centre you can meet and hear some of the world's foremost experts on SharePoint. With over 56 sessions and tracks dedicated to all types of audience from IT pro's , Developers , Information workers , project managers and Business Managers/Information Directors this is the largest SharePoint conference to come to the UK and has something for everyone.

The Best Practice Conference is all about real world experience designing and using SharePoint, making sure you maximize your return of investment in the product. To find out more about the event and register or become a sponsor go to http://www.sharepointbestpractices.co.uk

Upcoming January Events

Damien McGivern — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:10:00 GMT

Happy New Year!

To kick off 2009 we will be starting first with a SharePoint talk on Mon 19th with guest speaker Steve Smith shortly followed by a Team Foundation Server talk on Mon 26th with NIMTUG member Martin Woodward as guest speaker.

Best Practice for getting a business to adopt SharePoint from day 1

What's New with Team Foundation Server

NIMTUG Event "The Best of the PDC" on Dec 1st with Martha Rotter

Damien McGivern — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:32:00 GMT

Didn’t make it to the PDC in Los Angeles this year? Feeling overwhelmed by all the developments and announcements that went on that week? You’re not alone! Come join NIMTUG for rePDC, and you’ll learn all about the best of the best including Azure, Windows 7, Oslo the modelling platform, the new Silverlight Toolkit, Windows Live Framework announcements, OpenID support, VS2010 and .NET 4.0 and much more. We’ll have a look at what’s available now from the new platforms and where and how to get started.

For more details see the event registration page http://nimtug.org/events/61/default.aspx

Cancelled Event - Introduction to Silverlight 2

Damien McGivern — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:57:00 GMT

Unfortunately Jesse Liberty has had to cancel his Silverlight talk that was to be held on 23 Sep.

SQL Server - Index Internals and Fragmentation

Damien McGivern — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:41:00 GMT

Indexes and indexing are huge topics and given half a chance, Kimberly and Paul could talk for days on this stuff! In this session, they've chosen their favorite indexing topics to discuss. The internals section will cover the structures and benefits of various kinds of indexes and show the 2005 feature "INCLUDE" and the 2008 feature "filtered indexes". Fragmentation is often mis-understood and so this section will explain the various forms of fragmentation, how they can occur when a schema or workload is poorly designed, then how to detect and remove fragmentation in a way that causes least disruption to the production workload.

Details

Thursday, 04 Sep 2008, 18:00 to 21:00
Cost: Free
Contact: ndflanagan@o2.ie

Location

The Auditorium in Microsoft Atrium

Block B, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford Industrial Estate
Dublin

Registration

Registration for this event is on an external site. Click on the link below to register.
http://sql.mtug.ie/Events/EventInfo.aspx?ID=2a6f555f-c4f9-40c6-8971-097f46cba063

SCRUM Agile Methodology Process using Team System

Simon Phillips — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Next Monday (28th April) we have Mike Azocar coming over from the States to talk about Scrum development with Visual Studio Team System. Scrum is a incremental process commonly used with Agile software development.

Mike will be covering Scrum development and the community-based Light weight Scrum Process template for Team System.

This will be a great chance to catch Mike if you can't get down to Galway for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! event on the 3rd May.

You can register for this free event here

Links

Mike's Blog

Code Project: What is SCRUM?

Wikipedia: Scrum (Development)

Community Launch Registration Closed!!

Simon Phillips — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:35:36 GMT

We've had to close registration for the Community Launch this Thursday because we've hit the limit on the number of attendees. Well actually, due to a small issue with the code in our events module, we've gone over it, :S.

We're having to email those people who registered last that they are actually on a waiting list and might not be able to get into the event. We're also sending out an email to those people who will be able to get in asking them, if they are not able to make it, then please can they un-register themselves so we can free up some space for people who can.

The Launch kit will only be available to those people who actually turn up for the event.

Remember those who can't make it that we will be holding more detailed events later in the year.

Microsoft are also holding the Official launch event in Dublin on the 11th March and we're hoping that they will also be coming to Belfast sometime in April, though this has yet to be confirmed.

Update - Community Launch of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008

Simon Phillips — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:07:50 GMT

We'll like to confirm some of the details about this Thursdays event.

Schedule

The schedule will be as follows:

1:30 – 2:00 Registration

2:00 – 2:05 Intro

2:05 – 3:05 Windows Server 2008 Highlights (Part 1) – Dave Northey

3.15 – 4:00 Windows Server 2008 Highlights (Part 2) – Dave Northey

4:00 – 4:15 Coffee Break

4:15 – 5:30 Business Intelligence Highlights of SQL Server 2008 – Bob Duffy

5:30 – 6:15 Coffee Break

6:15 – 7:30 Visual Studio 2008 Highlights – Ronan Geraghty

7:30 – 8:00 Highlights of SQL Server 2008 for developers – Ronan Geraghty

From 8:00 Reception

Launch Kit

The following products will be made available to all Community Launch attendees.

Vista Ultimate Edition with SP1 + subscription to OneCare.
Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition.
SQL Server 2008 CTP 5.0 plus a voucher for the full release of SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition when available later in the year.
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (64 + 32bit) for internal testing & evaluation only.

Unfortunately, the kits won’t be available on the day of the community launch – however, they will be posted out as soon as they become available. We’ll be mailing attendees in order to get postal addresses after the event. So please be sure to use an email address that you check frequently!

Links

2008 is going to be a busy year! - Events

Community Launch of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008

Windows Mobile Briefing 2008

Simon Phillips — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:05:49 GMT

When: 21 February 2008
Welcome Time: 10:00am

Microsoft EPDC2 Auditorium

South County Business Park
Leopardstown Dublin D18
Ireland

Microsoft invites you to join them for the Windows Mobile Developer Briefing 2008

“A day of Windows Mobile Discovery”

The Microsoft Mobility Communication Business group is pleased to invite you to a day of Windows Mobile discovery! Attend this event to accelerate your ability to develop applications for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform. Learn about the platform and tools that enable you to build powerful and rich applications - rapidly and effectively. Prior experience is not necessary as we will take you from step 1 and explore the many technologies you can leverage to make the next killer mobile solution!

Last year’s event was a huge success, visiting 13 countries around Europe including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, South Africa, Poland, Portugal and Spain to an audience of 2,400 people. Thanks to the success of the 2007 events, this year the tour will run again to visit 15 countries across EMEA. Added to this, an impressive line-up of speakers has already been confirmed.

As a valued Microsoft developer, the Microsoft Mobility Communication Business Group is pleased to invite you to attend this exclusive event.

OVERVIEW: The appetite for information anywhere, at any time, and on any device is growing. Consumers are increasingly relying on their devices for information, entertainment and keeping in touch. Enterprises are mobilizing solutions to increase productivity, cut costs and enable new capabilities. If you are interested to learn how the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform helps developers deliver effective solutions fast, this unique demo-packed technology day will show you how. You will also see many code samples, tips and tricks!

Why you should come to this exclusive event…

This is a completely FREE full-day event to answer your questions and help you improve the way you work with your Microsoft software. Join us for insights, tips, and real-world examples of what Windows Mobile solutions can do for you. At this event there will be many opportunities for you to network with your peers and to have your technology and business questions answered by the Microsoft team. We hope to see you there!

Agenda:

10:00 – 10:30 Registration

10:30 – 12:00 Session 1 – Windows Mobile in Practice

This first session sets the scene for the day and kicks off with a look at and demos of the brand new Visual Studio 2008 development environment which promises even better integration and powerful new features for device developers. The session then takes a realistic scenario and shows how Windows Mobile 6 and the upcoming .NET Compact Framework 3.5 can be leveraged to provide a compelling Proof-of-Concept in very few lines of code. See a wide variety of features being demonstrated, from location awareness to making phone calls programmatically. The session will provide an understanding of how everything can be tied together in an end-to-end solution.

12:00 – 13:00 Networking Lunch

13:00 – 14:15 Session 2 - It's the Business

Enterprise solutions are increasingly being mobilized for the new technically-savvy workforce. However, these solutions need industry-strength quality and features that will support the complex requirements these organizations have. This session will begin by looking at SQL Server Compact Edition, the sophisticated data storage solution that allows data synchronization with back-end databases. We then show how you can leverage industry design patterns and application blocks to provide a lower-risk, tested approach to solve common problems. Finally, a quick review of the Microsoft Dynamics mobile offerings will round off the options available for enterprise use.

14:15 – 14:30 Summary, Q&A, close

Click here to register or find out more!