April 2008 - Posts
30 April 2008
New England SQL Server User Group Special Event - 5/8
Adam Machanic sends word that the New England SQL Server User Group is hosting a special event on May 8th at 6:30 in Waltham. Microsoft's Craig Freedman , on the SQL Server team in Redmond, will be visiting to speak on "Understanding Query Processing
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30 April 2008
Silverlight 2.0 and RIA Development Article Series
Our very own Bob Familiar has been cruising the seas of Silverlight and has recently posted a very nice four-article series on using Silverlight 2.0 to develop RIAs (Rich Internet Applications): This series of articles takes a look at the current state
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30 April 2008
New Expression Web Community-Based Wiki
An MVP based here in the northeast, Kathleen Anderson has announced on her blog that there is a new Expression Web Wiki . It features resources for learning and working with Expression Web, links to related blogs and sites, and more. As with other Wikis,
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28 April 2008
BarCamp Boston 3 Announced
The next BarCamp for the Boston area has just been announced. BarCampBoston 3 will be on May 17th and 18th at Matignon High School in Cambridge, MA. What is BarCamp? BarCamp [ Wikipedia description ] is what's called an "unconference" event focusing on
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15 April 2008
The Digital Dorm Room Tour Has Arrived!
My colleague Edwin Guarin, who focuses on academia here in the northeast, has just kicked off the northeastern leg of the Digital Dorm Room Tour , packing a customized RV with some very cool technology and motoring across the northeast! Edwin blogged
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09 April 2008
Boston XNA Developers Group Update
The Boston XNA Developers Group is dedicated to learning and using XNA to create games for Windows and Xbox 360 (and later on, the Zune!) No game development experience is required! Next Meeting Our next meeting will be on April 24th, 6-8 PM at the Microsoft
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09 April 2008
Special Boston Scalability User Group Event - 4/23
On April 23rd, the (recently-formed!) Boston Scalability User Group will serve as host for a special visit by Microsoft's Greg Leake to speak about the .NET StockTrader application and scalability in distributed SOA systems. The meeting will be on Wednesday,
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08 April 2008
Web North of Boston (WebNOB) Kickoff Meeting 4/8
From the "late notice is better than no notice" department, I'd like to pass along word that the new Web North of Boston (WebNOB) group is holding a kickoff event tonight (April 8th) from 6-8 at the Jillian's in Manchester, NH. (As mentioned by Ian Muir
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07 April 2008
Code Camp 9 Summary and Thanks
We had an amazing weekend in Waltham with Code Camp 9 - "I Came, I Saw, I Coded" ! Estimates are that we had over 300 people on Saturday and over 200 on Sunday! We had approximately 60 sessions , each with great technical content and none with marketing
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03 April 2008
Code Camp 9 Registration Limit Increased
The great interest in this weekend's Code Camp 9 has put us over our limit of 500 registrants! We've decided to extend registration to a limit of 550, so if you're interested in attending, you still have a chance to register at: http://TheDevCommunity.org
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01 April 2008
Speaking: RI on 4/1, Syracuse on 4/2, Code Camp on 4/5
A quick note to post my speaking schedule for this week: Tonight (4/1) , I'll be at the Rhode Island .NET User Group in Bristol, RI, speaking with them about the web developer story with Visual Studio 2008. Tomorrow (4/2) , I'll be with the Central NY
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