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22 July 2008
Boston XNA July 23rd Meeting on 2D Role Playing Game Development
  The Boston XNA Developers Group is an open user group for anyone interested in learning about game development with the .NET-based XNA framework.  Attendance is open and everyone is welcome, including students and parents with their programming-interested Read More...
14 July 2008
Announcing New England Code Camp 10!
It's amazing to say, but we're gearing up for our tenth Code Camp in the New England area!  And this one will be the biggest and best one yet! Save the Dates:  September 20th & 21st!   This will be a fantastic (and free, of course) Read More...
06 July 2008
Giving Two User Group Talks on XNA This Week!
Some coincidental scheduling has given me a chance to speak with both the Boston .NET and Beantown .NET user groups this week, both on XNA ! You'll have two chances to get up to speed on how to create games easily for Windows, XBox 360, and the Zune using Read More...
30 June 2008
Upcoming Northeast Developer Events - July
Summer at last!  Time for vacations and relaxation, but there's also plenty going on in the .NET developer community.    Know of any other events or user group meetings?  Please let me know ! Connecticut July 1 Agile Project Leader Read More...
19 June 2008
Northeast Roadshow - Summary and Resources
We've put the wraps on another great Northeast Roadshow, having visited with hundreds of developers and architects in five cities across the northeast. See the bottom of the post for the content and resources .  But first... The Play-By-Play of Our Read More...
11 June 2008
Special "Meet the Authors" Event Next Week
A free event has been arranged for next week to celebrate the release of three books featuring work by local Microsoft staff (including yours truly). Microsoft’s own Scott Jamison, Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen, and Rob Walters, along Read More...
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27 May 2008
Boston XNA Developer Group Wednesday
Just a reminder that the Boston XNA Developer Group will be having a meeting at its usual day/time (fourth Wednesday of the month), tomorrow, May 28th at 6:00 at the Microsoft office in Waltham, MA. Michael Cummings will be presenting. The content level Read More...
20 May 2008
Northeast Roadshow Starts on Thursday
Bob, Jim, and I will be packing into the car tomorrow as we travel to our first stop of the May/June Northeast Roadshow ! Our destination is Burlington, VT where we'll enjoy the day speaking about: LINQ to SQL & LINQ to Entities Silverlight 2 Visual Read More...
20 May 2008
VB Day on May 27th (Waltham, MA)
There are still a few more seats available for the VB.NET Day event coming up on May 27th in Waltham, MA, from 9:00 to 3:30. Following on the success of his C# Day series (both in person and in Second Life ), Michael de la Maza is offering a VB-focused Read More...
02 May 2008
The Roadshow Rides Again! - May/June Edition
The Northeast Roadshow We're at it again! It's time to pack our laptops and gear to head out across the northeast for our fifth Roadshow! Only this time, you're getting three of us for the price of, well, zero - the events are free after all... Jim O'Neil, Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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 Read More...
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, Read More...
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 Read More...
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