Wow! Thank you to everyone that came to the Silverlight UK User Group on Tuesday 1st of December at the EMC Consulting office in London. Michelle and I were ecstatic by the response to the signup and thrilled at the full house on the night. At one point I had to give up the last seat in the room!
Many of the established members of this user group are avid tweeters, please check out our Twitter hashtag:
#sluguk
You can either follow me using the Twitter widget in the right-hand panel of this blog, or on twitter as @mark_mann.
I’ve embedded the slide decks from both the Silverlight news piece that I did at the start, and from John and Ben’s session which was the main event. Our cameraman, Ian Smith, has been busy in post production on the and I’ll embed both videos here when they are available.
If you did not make it to the evening, or have not yet attended a Silverlight UK User Group evening you can join the mailing list here and we’ll keep you informed or of course, you can check back with my blog.
Mark Mann from EMC Consulting (hang on that’s me!) gave a quick round up of the announcements from the recent PDC09… too many to keep track so if I’ve missed any more leave me a comment at the bottom of this blog!
John Donnelly from Dot Net Solutions and Ben Morris from TrickyBusiness gave a “smashing” presentation (you’ll get the pun if you watch their session’s video) about how designers and developers can work together productively. They gave their candid perspective on how scrum can help deliver great UX driven applications and how the choice of MVVM patterns and Blend can bring their own benefits and concerns.
You can find John as @caffienated or at www.dotnetsolutions.co.uk/blog
You can find Ben (hiding) on twitter as @2street2tweet or at maybe at http://trickybiz.tumblr.com
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Goodies… we handed out some Expression-Blend3-Design-Template-Fridge-Magnets courtesy of Microsoft Evangelist Marc Holmes… Thanks Marc!
Finally, I would like to acknowledge and thank our current sponsors…
 | for providing the venue. |
 | for providing the beer & softies. |
Want to join the discussion?
The event is geared to please/interest/inform both developers and designers alike, so if you are interested in coming along then please contact either Mark Mann or Michelle Flynn (here) and we will be glad to take your details.
Want to present or showcase?
We are always on the lookout for presenters for future sessions - whether it be a high or low level coding walk through, a workflow perspective or showcase demo. If you think that you have a topic/presentation that ought to be shared with the community then please contact me (here) and I'll see if I can get you scheduled in!
Facebook
In addition to emailing us directly there is also a Facebook group for the "Silverlight UK User Group" group that we set up. Check for updates there too!