Upcoming Developer Events(New England & Upstate NY)
Here’s the latest roundup of upcoming events to help you expand your knowledge and connect with other developers.
Another good way to find events and groups is to check out the Boston User Groups site.
Know of any other events or user group meetings? Please let me know.
[Update 4/30/09 – Added Summer Northeast MSDN Roadshow] [Update 5/26/09 – Added IASA June Meeting (MA), Architect Factory (MA) and XAMLFest (Online), Cape Cod .NET Second June Meeting (MA)]
May 5 Agile Project Leader Network - Microsoft, Farmington, CT ”Effective Agile Adoptions” - Amr Elssamadisy
May 12 Connecticut .NET User Group - Microsoft Offices, Farmington, CT
June 2 Agile Project Leader Network - Microsoft, Farmington, CT ”Boundary, Authority, Role and Task: Scrum’s Secret Sauce” – Dan Mezick
June 13 Hartford Code Camp 2 – Hartford, CT Join fellow CT-area developers for this free, full day of community-driven content and networking!
June 24 Summer 2009 Northeast MSDN Roadshow – Farmington, CT Join Bob, Jim, and Chris for a free day of Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2 & 3, Developing for IE8, and Data Access Guidance.
Schedule TBD Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - UConn, Stamford, CT
April 28 Microsoft TechNet IT Pro Tiki Hut Tour – Microsoft, Waltham, MA Three sessions: “Moving to the Modern OS Roadmap”, “Windows Security and Application/Driver Compatibility”, and “Windows 7 Beta Sneak Peek”
April 28 New England SharePoint User Group - Waltham, MA "Sizing and Scaling Options for Large MOSS Document Management Implementations” – Jeff Borghoff
April 28 Tallan Presents “Adopting ALM with Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server” – Microsoft, Waltham, MA
April 29 Beantown .NET User Group - Cambridge, MA ”CSLA .NET as the ‘M’ in MVC/MPV/MVVM” – Rocky Lhotka
April 29 Refresh Boston – Cambridge, MA ”Making Agile Work for Design” – Dan Pickett & Jon Follett
April 29 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA ”Requirements by Collaboration” – Ellen Gottesdiener
April 30 Boston JavaScript Meetup Group – Cambridge, MA ”JavaScript Library Comparisons”
April 30 No Excuses Boston Geek Dinner – Waltham, MA With Shawn Wildermuth
May 4 New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA ”Introduction to F#” – Antonio Cisternino
May 6 Boston Area Windows Server User Group - Waltham, MA “Windows 7” – Paul Thurrott
May 6 Western Mass .NET Users Group - Chicopee, MA ”Introduction to Build Automation using NAnt and Cruise Control”
May 7 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA "Beyond the Core Concepts of OOP" – Claudio Lassala
May 7 Beantown .NET User Group - Cambridge, MA Joseph Hill
May 8 Boston Area Windows Server User Group - Waltham, MA Windows 2008 Load and Lab Event
May 12 Cape Cod .NET User Group - Plymouth, MA "At Your Break(ing) Poing?: .NET Debugging Techniques" – Jim O’Neil
May 13 Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA "Load and Performance Testing: How to do Transactional Root-Cause Analysis with Visual Studio Team System for Testers" – Andreas Grabner
May 14 New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA "Managing SQL 2000/2005 with SQL 2008 Policy Based Management" – Chad Gronbach
May 18-19 Microsoft’s Business Action World Tour – Microsoft, Waltham, MA 2 day training where you’ll learn the developer fundamentals for building on Dynamics CRM and numerous other Microsoft technologies.
May 20 New England ASP.NET Professionals – Waltham, MA "Preparing your ASP.NET sites for Globalization and Localization" – Phil Denoncourt
May 20 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
May 27 Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
May 27 New England SharePoint User Group - Waltham, MA
May 27 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA ”Learning Agile via Agile Games” – Michael de la Maza"
May 28 Boston JavaScript Meetup Group – Cambridge, MA ”GenevaJS Demo – An Extension to the Prototype Library”
June 1 New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA Richard Hale Shaw
June 2 The Architect Factory – Cambridge, MA A great (and free) event at the Microsoft Cambridge office (NERD) for experienced developers to learn the fundamentals for making transitions into architect roles!
June 3 Boston Area Windows Server User Group - Waltham, MA
June 4 Beantown .NET User Group - Cambridge, MA
June 4 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA "Visual Studio Report Control" – Walt Crosby
June 10 Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA "Using Web Expresssion and Visual Studio 2008" – Viatcheslav (Slava) Kokaev
June 11 New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA "MDM on the Microsoft Stack" – Larry Barnes
June 12 Western Mass .NET Users Group - Chicopee, MA ”Reflection, with Custom Attributes” – Dan Mezick
June 16 Summer 2009 Northeast MSDN Roadshow – Farmington, CT Join Bob, Jim, and Chris for a free day of Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2 & 3, Developing for IE8, and Data Access Guidance.
June 16 Cape Cod .NET User Group - Plymouth, MA ”T-SQL Power! Learning to Harness the Under-Used OVER Clause” - Adam Machanic
June 17 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
June 23 IASA New England - Boston, MA Roundtable on Cloud Computing, hosted by Michael Stiefel
June 24 Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
June 24 New England SharePoint User Group - Waltham, MA
June 24 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA
June 25 Cape Cod .NET User Group - Hyannis, MA Special Presentation: How to think about your Future and your Career - William J. Fallon
Schedule TBD New England Windows Mobile User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA
April 28 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME “Introducing jQuery!” – Greg Howe
May 14 Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME ”.NET and Java Integration” – Stuart Jones
May 26 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME “SQL 2005 XML” – Jeff Hall
June 11 Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME
June 18 Summer 2009 Northeast MSDN Roadshow – Augusta, ME Join Bob, Jim, and Chris for a free day of Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2 & 3, Developing for IE8, and Data Access Guidance.
June 23 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME “Test-Driven Development (TDD)”
Schedule TBD Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME Maine Microsoft Certification Study Group – Online!
May 20 New Hampshire .NET User Group - Nashua, NH
June 17 New Hampshire .NET User Group - Nashua, NH Schedule TBD NH SQL Users Group - Nashua, NH
April 29 VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY ”Code Analysis, Metrics, and Style” – Kyle Korndoerfer
May 4 Western New York .NET Users Group - Buffalo, NY "Refactoring with Generics" – Kathleen Dollard
May 5 VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY ”Your Application in Pieces – MEF and MAF” – Kathleen Dollard
May 6 Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY "Your Application in Pieces – MEF and MAF" – Kathleen Dollard
May 7 Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY ”Your Application in Pieces – MEF and MAF” – Kathleen Dollard
June 1 Western New York .NET Users Group - Buffalo, NY
June 9 Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY
June 10 Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY
June 12 Summer 2009 Northeast MSDN Roadshow – Farmington, CT Join Bob, Jim, and Chris for a free day of Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2 & 3, Developing for IE8, and Data Access Guidance.
June 24 VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY
Schedule TBD Rochester SharePoint User Group - Rochester, NY
May 13 Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI
June 10 Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI
Schedule TBD Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI
May 18 Vermont .NET User Group - S. Burlington, VT “What’s LINQ for, Anyway?” – Rick Martin
June 8 Vermont .NET User Group - S. Burlington, VT
June 10 Summer 2009 Northeast MSDN Roadshow – Farmington, CT Join Bob, Jim, and Chris for a free day of Windows 7, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 2 & 3, Developing for IE8, and Data Access Guidance. Schedule TBD Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT
April 30 Linked .NET Users Group – LiveMeeting ”Visual Studio Team System 2010” – Brian Harry, Microsoft
May 7 Linked .NET Users Group – LiveMeeting ”.NET Parallel Extensions” – Stephen Toub, Microsoft
May 11 Linked .NET Users Group – LiveMeeting ”The Gu Talks Shop with Developers” – Scott Guthrie, Microsoft
June 1-4 XAMLFest Online – LiveMeeting and Recorded Learn about XAML, Silverlight, WPF, and Expression with a full syllabus of live and recorded content