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Conchango are pleased to announce the date for the next Silverlight User Group as Thursday 14th August. The venue is currently the Conchango offices in London Bridge, although another venue will be arranged if we are oversubscribed. Full details to follow. If you are interested in attending please email me on ...

Tricky (Director of Tricky Business) is hosting an event on the 10th July in association with screenedit.com and encourage you to register here before we announce the event to the general public. Spaces are extremely limited.   'Screenedit Sessions' is an exciting new evening event for designers; speakers include Brendan Dawes ...

Ian Smith has kindly sorted out Video 5 for us: If you have not seen the others yet check out my last blog.   

Ian Smith kindly recorded the event for us, see below:  Video 1: Introduction (Paul Dawson, Michelle Flynn, Mark Mann) Video 2: Silverlight 2.3 Tips & Tricks - awaiting subtitling Video 3: Tim Sneath Q&A Part 1 Video 4: Tim Sneath Q&A Part 2  Video 5: Wrap up - awaiting subtitling  If you would ...

''It was the best user group I have ever been to!'' ''Can I bring my colleagues to the next one?'' ''Conchango know how to host a user group'' ''What a pleasure to meet Tim Sneath'' Last night we hosted the UK's 1st Silverlight User Group.  It was attended by 50 people including some key people from Microsoft.  It was a great success ...

What better a subject for my first blog post here than the kickoff of the Silverlight UK User Group?Well, I helped facilitate the inaugural event here in our London office last night with Michelle Flynn and our main frontman Paul ''awesome'' Dawson. Firstly, a massive thanks for all that attended because it was a really interesting and a ...

UK Silverlight User Group hosted by Conchango in their London Bridge office.   Inaugural meeting - Agenda 6.30pm-9pm - 2nd April 2007   Kick off and introductions   “Navel Gazing” – what do you want from this group? Michelle Flynn and Mark Mann   “Silverlight 2 – how’s it going?” Tim Sneath – Group Manager, Client ...

The arrangements for the UK Silverlight User Group that we are hosting on 2nd April in our London Bridge office are going well.  Thanks to Microsoft for agreeing to sponsor the event. More info will follow as we have it but if you would like to register you can go to our Facebook event or email me on ...

I have just had an interesting off-line conversation with SQL Server MVP Chuck Boyce about Google Gears. If you read the blurb:Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionalityand includes the ability toStore data locally in a fully-searchable relational databaseWe started to ...

Just lately I've been doing a bit of searching around to see what data-centric offerings, other than the ones I normally deal with, Microsoft are pulling together. The one that has most caught my eye has been Astoria. I can't remember where exactly I first heard about it but it was this blog entry by Alex Barnett that really ...