Here’s the latest roundup of developer events in the northeastern U.S. for April to May. As always, if you know of other (free or nearly free) developer-focused events, please let me know.
-Chris
Now (through mid-May) Rock Paper Azure Challenge Prove your developer skills (and compete for prizes) while learning cloud computing with Windows Azure in this adaptation of the classic “Rock, Paper, Scissors” game.
May 10 Linked .NET User Group Scott Guthrie Unplugged 9 - an open Q&A session
April 7 Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT “Learning MVC for the Web Forms Developer” – Adam Tuliper
April 11 Hartford Area Build Guild – Farmington, CT
April 12 Connecticut .NET Developers Group – Farmington, CT ”Developing a Real Windows Phone 7 Application” – Ben Day
April 18 New England Silverlight Guild – Hartford, CT ”Silverlight and SharePoint” – Bob German
June 18 Code Camp Hartford 4 – Bloomfield, CT
Schedule TBD Agile Connecticut - Farmington, CT Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - Stamford, CT Hartford SQL Server Users Group – Farmington, CT Connecticut DotNetNuke User Group - Bethany, CT
April 26 Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
Schedule TBD Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME Web Designers User Group – Portland, ME
April 7 Beantown .NET User Group - Cambridge, MA “Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a Startup” – Abby Fichtner
April 7 New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA “Visual Studio LightSwitch” – Jim O’Neil
April 9 SharePoint Saturday Boston – Waltham, MA A free day filled with a wide variety of SharePoint-related sessions. Details coming soon.
April 9 & 10 BarCamp Boston 6 – Cambridge, MA An free “unconference” bringing together area developers for a weekend of tech and networking.
April 11 Boston JavaScript Meetup – Cambridge, MA “Using AMD loaders, such as RequireJS, to write and manage modular javascript” – John Hann
April 12 UX Book Club, Boston – Cambridge, MA “Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language”
April 12 DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Cambridge, MA
April 12 Build Guild – Salem, MA “Web People, Adult Beverages, High Fives”
April 12 Boston New Technology Meetup – Cambridge, MA
April 13 Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA “SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow and Custom InfoPath Forms” – Ryan Thomas
April 13 Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA
April 13 Boston Web Performance Group – Boston, MA “The Importance of End-User Monitoring for Web Performance Optimization” – Dan Juengst
April 14 Western Mass Developers’ Group – Hadley, MA
April 20 HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
April 20 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
April 20 New England Windows Phone User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA 10-Year Anniversary! “Windows Phone 7 March 2011 Update” & “Windows Phone 7 Development: Application Lifecycle and Data Persistence Strategies”
April 21 Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group - Agawam, MA Atalasoft Presentation
April 21 Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA
April 26 Refresh Boston – Cambridge, MA “The Chimera: Current trends in Web-based UIs” – Chad Mazzola
April 27 Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA “Making Sense of Agile Project Management” – Chuck Cobb
April 28 jQuery Boston Meetup – Boston, MA “SproutCore for jQuery Developers” – Yehuda Katz
April 28 Boston Azure User Group – Cambridge, MA
April 28 Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
April 28 North Shore Web Geeks – Newburyport, MA
April 28 UX Book Club, Boston – Cambridge, MA “Christopher Alexander: The Timeless Way of Building”
April 29 – May 1 New England Give Camp – Cambridge, MA A weekend for area technology professionals to give back to the community, supporting area non-profit organizations.
May 2 New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA
May 3 Boston Business Intelligence – Waltham, MA ”Introduction to Master Data Services” – Brian Berry
May 4 OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Waltham, MA
May 5 Beantown .NET User Group - Cambridge, MA “Too Slow: Performance Profiling, Testing & Fixing with VS2010” – Ben Day
May 7 New England Code Camp 15 – Waltham, MA The fifteenth! Join hundreds of developers at the Microsoft office in Waltham, MA for this session-packed, free day of learning and networking. By and for the developer community, Code Camps are always free and focus on tech, not marketing. Registration is open!
May 10 DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Cambridge, MA
May 11 Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA “Processing Data: Parallelism and Performance with PLINQ and C#/.NET 4” – John Hart
May 11 Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA
May 12 New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA
May 12 Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA
May 16 Azure Deep Dive with Wintellect’s Jeffrey Richter – Waltham, MA
May 18 Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
May 18 HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
May 19 Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group - Agawam, MA “MonoTouch Development” – Michael Bluestein
May 19 Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
May 26 Boston Azure User Group – Cambridge, MA
Schedule TBD Boston BizSpark Meetup – Cambridge, MA Boston Cloud Services – Waltham, MA Boston WebsiteSpark Group – Cambridge, MA Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA Cape Cod .NET User Group – Plymouth, MA Cape Cod XNA User Group – Hyannis, MA IASA New England – Waltham, MA New England ASP.NET Professionals – Waltham, MA New England Silverlight Guild – Cambridge, MA
April 20 NEW GROUP! NH .NET User Group, Seacoast – Portsmouth, NH “Getting Started with Windows Phone Applications” – John Garland
April 20 NH .NET User Group, Nashua – Nashua, NH
May 18 NH .NET User Group, Seacoast – Portsmouth, NH
May 18 NH .NET User Group, Nashua – Nashua, NH
Schedule TBD NH .NET User Group, Concord – Concord, NH Nashua Scrum Club – Nashua, NH Seacoast SQL Server Users Group – Portsmouth, NH
April 14 Rochester SharePoint User Group – Rochester, NY ”Creating SharePoint 2010 Applications” – Satha Nalliannan
April 16 BarCamp Rochester – Rochester, NY
April 20 Build Guild – Troy, NY “Web People + Adult Beverages + High Fives”
May 3 AppRochester – Rochester, NY ClayWare on “Efforts bringing the PadBracket to the market” & Gary Davis on “User Experience and Interface Design”
May 4 Rochester Javascript – Rochester, NY
May 10 Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY
Schedule TBD Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Rochester, NY Refresh Rochester – Rochester, NY Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group – Rochester, NY Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group – Syracuse, NY VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY Western New York .NET Users Group - Amherst, NY Western NY SQL Server PASS – Amherst, NY
April 13 Providence Geeks – Providence, RI
May 11 Providence Geeks – Providence, RI
Schedule TBD Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI
April 11 Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT ”Intro to ASP.NET MVC 3” – Rob Hale
May 9 Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT
Schedule TBD Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT