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August 2009 - Posts

Beantown .NET Northeast MSDN Roadshow

The Beantown.NET User Group and the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center (aka NERD) are teaming up to bring you a special community edition of the Northeast Roadshow featuring your favorite Developer Evangelists, Chris Bowen and myself. Read More...
Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 12:42 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

Declarative Database Development @ NE SQL Server Group

The New England SQL Server User Group is kicking off its 2009/2010 season on September 10th with a topic spanning the developer and DBA audience.  Special guest, Gert Draper , a software architect from the Visual Studio Team System Database Edition Read More...
Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 9:16 AM by joneil | 0 Comments

Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo: There’s a New Group in Town!

Thanks to PowerShell MVPs Joel Bennett and Jeffery Hicks for putting the wheels in motion for the Upstate New York PowerShell Users Group .  The Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group is for any IT Professional, Developer, Manager, or Administrator interested Read More...
Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 3:29 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Scott Guthrie On LinkedIn.NET User Group

Just a quick note that Scott Guthrie will be visiting the LinkedIn .NET User Group tomorrow at 12 noon (EDT).  As with his first appearance, Scott will be opening it up to Q&A as well as giving us all insight into where Microsoft is heading with Read More...
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 12:14 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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MySynths on Facebook

Got some great pictures from summer vacation? or a family reunion?  Here’s a cool way to share them with all your Facebook friends:  the folks at speakTech have created a Facebook application called MySynths that lets you upload PhotoSynth creations Read More...
Posted Friday, August 21, 2009 1:06 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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SQL Azure CTP 1

Back in March, the SQL Data Services team announced the revamping of the ‘database in the cloud’ offering to include a fully-relational capability versus the Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model that was unveiled as part of the Azure Services Platform at Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 7:30 PM by joneil | 6 Comments
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Windows 7 and 2008 R2 Launch EventS In October!

Microsoft is officially kicking off the launch of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at free nationwide events during the fall months.   For those of you in the Northeast, there are two opportunities in your backyard (and you can register Read More...
Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 9:10 AM by joneil | 0 Comments

Code Camp Cavalcade

As one door closes, another one opens… The first ever Vermont Code Camp is coming up next month, but you have only a day or two left to submit your sessions, as the call for speakers ends on August 15th.  If you’ve always wanted to try your hand Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:25 PM by joneil | 0 Comments

Ask What DPE Can Do For You

In a few hours, I’m headed to Tampa for our annual East Region offsite.  It’s part of the yearly planning cycle (FY10 started on July 1st) and an opportunity to meet with my DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) colleagues from New York, Pennsylvania, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 4:01 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Got 7?

The RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of Windows 7 is now available for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers!  I know I’ll be spending the weekend refreshing my machines. Also available as of yesterday is the RC version of Windows XP Mode Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:42 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Nashua Gets Agile

All you New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts agilophiles take note! The inaugural meeting of the Nashua Scrum Club will be held at Harbor Homes , 45 High Street in Nashua on Thursday, September 24th from 6 – 8:30 p.m. Register for the event here! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 1:55 PM by joneil | 0 Comments
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