08 March 2010
The Roadshow Begins!
The vehicle is loaded with equipment, giveaways, and travel snacks of questionable nutritional quality.  The demos have a decent chance of working, coffee shops along the route have been mapped, the Zune is loaded with tunes & podcasts.  Read More...
02 March 2010
New England GiveCamp – Cambridge, June 11-13
My teammate Jim O’Neil has a post announcing a special kind of event coming to our area in June, New England GiveCamp . What’s a GiveCamp? GiveCamps (see GiveCamp.org and the GiveCamp about page ) are driven by volunteer developers, designers, and DBAs Read More...
01 March 2010
Upcoming Northeast Developer Events – March, 2010
Welcome to March!  Here’s the latest roundup of developer events and user group meetings to help you spring into action.  As always, if you know of a missing event please let me know . -Chris Connecticut March 2 Agile Project Leader Network Read More...
23 February 2010
User Group and Event Visits this Week
A quick post of my schedule of events this week: Bangor Area .NET Developers (BAND) Tonight (2/23) at 6 PM, I’ll be up in Bangor, ME speaking with the Bangor Area .NET Developers Group (or BAND) .  I’ll be talking about Windows Azure and Visual Studio Read More...
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12 February 2010
A Resource Guide for Visual Studio 2010 RC (Release Candidate)
This week, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RC (Release Candidate) became available to everyone for download.  This post is a brief guide to resources to help you quickly get started and learn about what’s new. Before Installing What’s New?  Read More...
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05 February 2010
Code Mastery Event by Magenic – February 11 in Waltham
Passing along word of a free developer event by Magenic coming next week in Waltham, MA. Code Mastery is a full day of content with sessions in two tracks: Core .NET Development – Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, Silverlight, WPF, Pex, etc. Microsoft Server Read More...
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04 February 2010
Announcing New England Code Camp 13!
All systems are go for New England Code Camp 13 , a major community event for developers coming to Waltham, MA on March 27th! Registration (free) , the Call for Speakers , and Call for Sponsors are all now open.     New England Code Camp Read More...
04 February 2010
Virtualization Deep Dive Day – Waltham and Beyond
On February 12th, the Virtualization Group Boston is hosting a community-driven Virtualization Deep Dive Day in Waltham, MA, and the event is being simulcast to satellite events in NY, MO, and Canada. The day is a focus on various approaches to virtualization Read More...
30 January 2010
New England Code Camp 13 – Save the Date!
UPDATE 2/4/10 - Registration is open ! A quick post to let everyone know that the date is set and the venue reserved for New England Code Camp 13 : Saturday, March 27th, 2010 The Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA will host this free, full day of knowledge Read More...
28 January 2010
Reminder for Saturday’s New England Data Camp v2.0
With 27 sessions and over 450 people registered (and a bit of room left for more), this Saturday’s free New England Data Camp v2 / SQL Saturday #34 is shaping up to be an event not to be missed.     New England Data Camp v2.0 / SQL Saturday Read More...
25 January 2010
Schedule for Wednesday’s (1/27/10) Architect Factory
We’re just two days away from the second Architect Factory event, to be held at Microsoft NERD in Cambridge, MA from 1-8 PM on Wednesday, January 27th. The Architect Factory is a free community-driven event ( my announcement post has pictures and details) Read More...
21 January 2010
Resources and Screencasts from the Northeast MSDN Roadshow “Don’t Fear the Coder” Tour
As we gear up for the next Northeast Roadshow series (in March) , Jim and I have put the wraps on the previous tour by posting the content and recording screencasts based on each session. The “Don’t Fear the Coder” tour was a blast, and Jim and I visited Read More...
19 January 2010
Microsoft Certification Second Shot Program Makes a Return
If you’re a developer or IT pro interested in earning certifications to advance your career, but have been worried about not passing, take a look at the Second Shot program , which offers a free exam retake, and is making a return now through June: Whether Read More...
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19 January 2010
Speaking with the New England ASP.NET Professionals Group – Wednesday, Jan 20th
I’ll be the speaker for this Wednesday’s (January 20th) meeting of the New England ASP.NET Professionals Group . I’ll be delving into ASP.NET Web Forms, scripting, AJAX, and jQuery, with a brief look forward to Web Forms in ASP.NET 4. ASP.NET Web Forms Read More...
18 January 2010
Boston Area WebsiteSpark and BizSpark Meetup Groups
Whether you’ve joined, are interested in, or have never heard of the Microsoft WebsiteSpark or BizSpark programs, there are two new groups in Boston to help you learn more and connect with others. These programs are available to help web developers and Read More...
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