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I am pleased to announce that after many nights in local taverns debating hot topics The Fantastic Tavern has launched it's website. www.thefantastictavern.co.uk This is just the beginning and we have much more work to do but it is a good start. On the site you will be able to find out about our events (old and new) as well as much more. The ...

We are going to be busy over the next month with some very exciting community events coming up. Here is a update for you to make sure you are not missing out on any: Silverlight User Group (#SLUGUK) - Tuesday 13th April @ Vue Shepherds Bush Jesse Liberty, Microsoft Silverlight Geek, will be presenting on Silverlight 4,  MVVM and TDD: A ...

Last night Microsoft hosted their Digital & Creative Agency Event in Level 31 at Paramount.  Paul Dawson, Matt Bagwell and I were fortunate enough to be invited along to “Join the leading digital and creative agencies in the UK, along with media agencies and publishers, to see Partners delivering creative technology on the Microsoft ...

It has been a really busy week (and continues to be) for the various communities we are part of: Wednesday 27th January – London .Net User Group EMC Consulting hosted Ian Cooper and the London .Net User Group.  Seb Lambla presented on OpenRasta.  It started with a quick intro to OpenRasta and ReST followed by a preview of the upcoming ...

There are a few last minute places available for the Open Space Coding Day tomorrow.  Click here for more info, would be great to see you there.

Wednesday 18th March 2009 saw the UK Launch of Microsoft Surface.  The event was held in the Haymarket Hotel and journalists from the top publications were invited to attend. EMC Consulting (previously Conchango) were also invited to bring their Surface device along to the event and demo some of the great work they have been doing. Matt ...

If you are not one of the lucky ones to be in Las Vegas for FASTforward'09 then here is a chance to find out more about the Enterprise Search Application built by EMC Consulting for Microsoft Surface which was exclusively revealed in Bjorn Olstad's keynote. Here is a trailer video of the application itself, the demo will follow. Click here ...

Last week I attended a Windows Azure Services Platform Training Workshop, held by QA in London. Our trainer, the excellent Mr Adrian Jakeman, took myself and 12 other Microsoft Partners on a journey through the Azure Service Platform and its constituent parts: I was fortunate enough to be sat next to Rob Blackwell, from AWS for the duration ...

EMC Consulting / EMC Conchango are hosting the next London .Net User Group on Thursday 19th February 2009.  It will be hosted at our London Bridge office, click here. The line up includes Gojko Adzic and David de Floriner on NServiceBus and, running in parallel, Alan Dean on REST. Details of Gojko and David's session below, more details on ...

Last year EMC Consulting (formerly Conchango) was the Largest Partner Implementer of FAST Enterprise Search in the UK and our experience with User Experience and Technology come together to make us the best suited delivery partner in the market at the moment.  With this in mind we were eager to sponsor Fastforward to really show that ...