I attended the Oxford branch of the NextGen User Group meeting tonight (1st July) and heard two good talks on WCF and Dynamic Languages from Geff Lombardi and Ben Hall respectively. Details at of the event are here.  These and every other talk I have attended as a group member, have usually been relevant, well presented and informative. On top of that free stuff (swag) is usually given away! So if you lust after the must-have accessory from last years TechEd, books , T-Shirts with a geek flavour etc , it's the place to be!

I was also lucky enough tonight to be awarded a trophy for the "Best Presentation" given at the Oxford Branch over the past year, for the talks I gave on Windows Mobile Development. This was very flattering, so my thanks to all the people who attended the talks and gave feedback on my presentations.  It was nice to know my efforts were appreciated! I hope the talks I gave were useful.

The slides for the April 2008 talk and the July 2007 talk are available for download for anyone who is interested to find out more. The code samples for the 2008 talk will be available for download shortly.

The next talk is on Wed 6 August on Continuous Integration by Liam Westley. This is an increasingly significant issue in the development of fully testable and deployable enterprise applications. So if you are interested and in the Oxford area it may well be worth attending.