Another great night last night. Barry spoke on Duck Typing. Or Duct Taping, if like me you get your worms ..err... words mixed up. Is it the same as using the old vbs var? Not really, and Barry Dorrans gave a good overview of the specifics and its uses.

The main speaker was Dave McMahon, who gave a brilliant talk on office integration. He demonstrated how to use Access (an always underrated tool) to create queries across SQL, XML, text files, Excel spreadsheets.

He then went on with a demonstration of how to create a web service within the SharePoint site that queried lists.

This was my favourite talk so far at the Oxford NextGen.

I'm chuffed to bits to have one of my shots published as 'Photo of the Month' in Digital Camera magazine.

It's great to know that, just occasionally, I manage to click the shuter at the right time and in the right direction.

Please feel free to have a look at my gallery.

Carig Murphy has videoed my talk at DDD, and put it on the internet! Very strange to watch yourself speaking - I remember having to do this when I was doing teacher training.

Best to look at the slides as you watch. Enjoy!

Last week's meeting saw Roger speak on a subject that's becoming increasingly relevant to all of us.

Roger not only has an incredibly strong, hands on knowledge of the subject, but he is also able to communicate across all levels on a very technical subject.

Here you can see Tim Leung at the front. Pay attention, Tim! Ignore the guy with the camera.

This was one of our best meetings yet at RM in Abingdon.

RM is one of our corporate sponsors. Roger works for Charteris, our other sponsor. Without these two organisations, we wouldn't be as successful as we are, and we very much appreciate their help.