Here’s the latest roundup of upcoming Northeast developer events! March and April are almost ridiculously packed with opportunities for developers, from Code Camp 11 and a new MSDN Northeast Roadshow, to many user groups and much more.
Know of any other events or user group meetings? Please let me know.
March 10 Connecticut .NET User Group - Microsoft Offices, Farmington, CT "PowerShell 2.0 for Developers" – Allan da Costa Pinto
March 11 MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow – Stamford, CT Join our NYC/NJ colleagues, Peter Laudati and Bill Zack for this great (and free) half-day event!
March 11 Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT ”T4: Code Generation with Visual Studio 2008” - Steve Andrews
March 18 MSDN Northeast Roadshow – Hartford, CT Join Bob, Chris, and Jim for a free, full day on Windows Azure, Effective Dev Practices, F#, SQL Server, XNA, and .NET Debugging.
April 8 Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT
April 14 Connecticut .NET User Group - Microsoft Offices, Farmington, CT
Schedule TBD Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - UConn, Stamford, CT Agile Project Leader Network - Microsoft, Farmington, CT
March 11 Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA "Interfacing .NET and Java" - Stuart Jones
March 12 New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA "INETA Event: Understanding LINQ to SQL: Is it a Better ADO.NET?" – Richard Hale Shaw
March 14 SharePoint Saturday – Waltham, MA A free, Code Code style event focused on SharePoint, featuring sessions great SharePoint experts!
March 16 *NEW GROUP* New England ASP.NET Professionals – Waltham, MA ”The Changing Face of ASP.NET Development” – Fritz Onion
March 18 Access Day - Waltham, MA Afternoon through evening sessions for professionals working with Access.
March 18 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
March 23 MSDN Northeast Roadshow – Waltham, MA Join Bob, Chris, and Jim for a free, full day on Windows Azure, Effective Dev Practices, F#, SQL Server, XNA, and .NET Debugging.
March 24 New England SharePoint User Group - Waltham, MA
March 25 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA ”Effective Agile Adoptions” - Amr Elssamadisy
March 25 Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA Group hands-on game coding! All are welcome, novice to expert. Bring those laptops!
March 25 Cape Cod .NET User Group - Plymouth, MA "A Lap Around Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform" – Mike Cramer
March 26 IASA New England - Boston, MA "The Event Driven Business" – Hub Vandervoort
March 27, 9 AM – 5 PM SQL Server 2008 LoadFest - Waltham, MA A full day to work with and learn about all that's new with SQL Server 2008!
March 28, 8 AM – 7 PM New England Code Camp 11 – Waltham, MA The event that started them all! Join hundreds of your fellow New England developers for this full day of community-driven technology content!
April 1 Boston Area Windows Server User Group - Waltham, MA “All About PowerShell” – Igor Moochnick
April 2 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA "Geographic Information Systems in .NET" – Tom Schwartzman
April 7 Western Mass .NET Users Group - Chicopee, MA
April 8 Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA "Mono 2.0 and More" – Miguel de Icaza
April 9 Beantown .NET User Group - Boston, MA ”Unit Testing Throwdown!”
April 9 New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA "Using Resource Governor in SQL Server 2008" – Aaron Bertrand
April 15 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
April 15 Access Day - Waltham, MA Afternoon through evening sessions for professionals working with Access.
April 22 Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA Group hands-on game coding! All are welcome, novice to expert. Bring those laptops!
April 22 Cape Cod .NET User Group - Plymouth, MA "LINQ" – Bob Depin
April 25-26 BarCamp Boston 4 – Cambridge, MA Similar to a Code Camp (driven by fellow developers in the community), but following the “unconference” style of dynamic, attendee-driven content. Definitely worth checking out!
April 28 New England ASP.NET Professionals – Waltham, MA
April 28 New England SharePoint User Group - Waltham, MA
April 29 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA “Agile Requirements” - Ellen Gottesdiener
Schedule TBD New England Windows Mobile User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA
March 19 MSDN Northeast Roadshow – Augusta, ME Join Bob, Chris, and Jim for a free, full day on Windows Azure, Effective Dev Practices, F#, SQL Server, XNA, and .NET Debugging.
March 24 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME INETA Event with Steve Andrews
April 9 Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME
April 28 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME "SQL2005 XML"
Schedule TBD Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME
March 19 New Hampshire .NET User Group - Nashua, NH
April 16 New Hampshire .NET User Group - Nashua, NH
Schedule TBD NH SQL Users Group - Nashua, NH
March 10 Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY
March 11 Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY "Silverlight Design and Animation" – Andy Beaulieu
March 12 MSDN Northeast Roadshow – Rochester, NY Join Bob, Chris, and Jim for a free, full day on Windows Azure, Effective Dev Practices, F#, SQL Server, XNA, and .NET Debugging.
March 18 Western New York .NET Users Group - Buffalo, NY "What About Windows Presentation Foundation?" – Dan Martin
March 25 VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY ”LINQ To Objects, Method Syntax, and Enumerable Class A-Z” – David Stevenson
April 8 Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY
April 14 Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY
April 15 Western New York .NET Users Group - Buffalo, NY
April 22 VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY
March 11 Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI “Microsoft and PASS Energy Event: SQL Server Virtualization” – Chris Peterson
March 11 Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI “Analyzing and Manipulating Geospatial Information Using ArcObjects with .NET” – Sam Berg
April 8 Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI
April 8 Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI
March 9 Vermont .NET User Group - S. Burlington, VT The Roadshow guys join Vermont .NET for a special “Stump the Chumps” evening of Q&A about Microsoft, development, and anything else!
March 10 MSDN Northeast Roadshow – Williston, VT Join Bob, Chris, and Jim for a free, full day on Windows Azure, Effective Dev Practices, F#, SQL Server, XNA, and .NET Debugging.
April 13 Vermont .NET User Group - S. Burlington, VT “A Glimpse into the Parallel Universe” - Eric de Carfuel
Schedule TBD Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT