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No venue booked just yet but probably be somewhere in the City of London. If you know of a good venue then let me know! 

If you would like to come along sign up here.

The wiki for DDD6 is up. Sign up here. If you need a hand with editing the wiki let me know.

It will be available for download (via a MSDN) subscription by the end of the month. Go here for more details.

As some of you may or may not know I have a MDA Vario II from T-mobile. About a week ago I installed a new virtual keyboard for it from Cootek. What can I say… IT IS BRILLIANT. I can finally do 1-handed-texting with my phone. Something you can’t do with either the regular or the slide out keyboard. I have stopped using the slide out keyboard as I am faster… must faster on the TouchPal keyboard.

It is free… so go download and install now!

That means you Peter and Liam ;)

The agenda for DDD6 is now live! Click here to see what we have installed for you for the day.

Note: We are still in the process of getting in contact with the speakers and making sure they still want to/can speak. So there might be some small changes to the agenda.

The event fills up very quickly so do try and register as soon as possible if you are wanting to attend!  Please do let us know if you can’t make it. There is a waiting list system that relies on you telling us that you can not make the day so that we can give your place to someone else.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032357828&Culture=en-GB 

What
Chris Seary - The Importance of Application Security
‘Why is application security so important now? Chris will discuss why the onus is on developers to produce secure systems.
We’ll look at what hackers can do with a system improperly secured, and how to protect it.
Many organisations have raised their security baseline over the last few years, and developers need to be aware of this. Chris will guide you through the most common pitfalls of commercially produced applications so you don’t make the same mistakes.’

Oliver Sturm - An overview of WPF – the end of Windows Forms?
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an important pillar of Microsoft’s new and upcoming development platform. It’s available today as part of .NET 3, but its importance will grow considerably with the release of Visual Studio 2008 very close. Other tools like Expression Blend complete the picture, providing functionality but at the same time adding complexity to the development environment. This session shows what the framework contains and how to use it in your applications, as well as shedding some light on Microsoft’s ideas of software development tomorrow.

Where
TonyBee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, London. E1 6LS 
England, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7247 6943
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7377 5964
E-mail: info@toynbeehall.org.uk

When
25th October 6.30pm -9.30pm (then we go for a drink).

How to sign up:
Please sign up via the site or by mailing meetings@dnug.org.uk IT IS FREEEEEEEEEEEEE.

See ya there.

I have booked Tas restaurant for 6.30pm. This is the same venue that I had for the Mix:UK geek dinner. If you would like to come along sign up here .

Tas Restaurant
Address: 22 Bloomsbury St London WC1B 3QJ – 020 7637 4555
map: http://www.tasrestaurant.com/find_us.asp?sd=1&ID=36

Hope to see you there.

Click here for details. Let me know if you need a hand editing the page.

Another London.net User Group event….

Who:
“Dino Esposito is a trainer and software consultant based in Rome, Italy. He is a member of the Solid Quality Mentors team. Dino specializes in Microsoft .NET technologies and spends most of his time teaching and consulting across Europe, Australia, and the United States.
Over the years, Dino developed hands-on experience and skills in architecting and building distributed systems for banking and insurance companies and, in general, in industry contexts where the demand for security, optimization, performance, scalability, and interoperability is dramatically high. Every month, at least five magazines and Web sites throughout the world publish Dino’s articles covering topics that range from Web development to workflow, and from software best practices to services.”

 What:
Partial Rendering for AJAX Purists and AJAX Real Programmers
The advent of AJAX is radically modifying the user’s perception of a Web application and it is subsequently forcing developers to apply newer and richer models to build modern Web applications. In ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, we find two approaches to AJAX : partial rendering and script services. As dramatic as it may seem, only the second approach is pure AJAX . Partial rendering has little to do with AJAX , but it’s an incredibly smart trick that brings with it flicker-free pages. In this talk, I’ll give an architectural perspective of partial rendering and unveil some of its inner secrets

Where:
Microsoft’s new venue in Victoria
100 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5JL

http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/about/downloads/victoria_map.pdf

When:
27th September at  7pm

How to sign up:
Please sign up via the website or by mailing meetings@dnug.org.uk IT IS FREEEEEEEEEEEEE.

See ya there.