Andy Wrigley will be stopping by our developer group tomorrow to give us a presentation on developing with Windows Mobile. Important stuff, like keeping power usage down, only turning on the attached hardware (GPS etc) when needed and rigging the code for testing via dependency injection. If you need help with anything mobile based, I'd suggest calling Andy (let me know if you need a direct contact).

Richard Wilde will be losing his nugget virginity and doing a turn on PLINQO. Does he mean PINGU? What childrens TV and penguins have to do with a tech group I've no idea. Maybe it has a USB interface.

Pizza and swag too! Overview of the event on the nxtgenug site.

JetBrains have said we can give a licence for ReSharper away each month at our Hereford software developer group. ReSharper is one of those tools that you can't do without once you start using it and this edition is worth just shy of £150, not to be sniffed at.

ReSharper adds a ton of functionality to Visual Studio that aids refactoring, unit testing and generally navigating around your code. Yes I know you can do all those things yourself, but you'll make mistakes occasionally, take a LOT longer (ReSharper works almost immediately, you can't type as fast that) and fumble around while someone with ReSharper will have finished their work and be off to lunch (probably eating your lunch).

Thanks to JetBrains we'll be bundling this generous donation into the swag fest at the end of each meeting. If you've already won a licence before then we'll give you a decent bit of alternative swag instead so that someone else can benefit.

Brilliant! Telerik have agreed to sponsor us by giving away a copy of the Telerik Premium Collection for .Net (developer license with subscription and source code) EACH MONTH! If you check the product pages out you'll see that it amounts to $1,300 of software, which is extremely generous of them. So for turning up and learning how to code better, you stand a good chance of winning valuable software that'll make your app shine and save you time.

If you've been in a cave with Osama you might not know that Telerik develops excellent components for WinForms, Asp.Net, Ajax and WPF. The kind of stuff that is genuinely useful, looks good and you wished Microsoft shipped in the box. Check out Telerik TV and the demonstration area to see what you could do with them.

We'll put the licence in the swag mix at the end of each meeting which will add some variety to the normal t-shirt, socks and MSDN oriented loot.

Keep coming to the nxtgenug Hereford group and the odds get better of winning each time because previous Telerik winners won't get a second copy (just some nice swag from other sponsors).