May 2008 Area User Group Meetings
It's May! Despite my allergies, this month features one of my favorite holidays of the year: Memorial Day weekend and "opening day" for the summer season at the Jersey Shore! While visions of sand and surf are on the horizon, there's plenty to be excited about in the community this month.
Some highlights in the community this month are the Philly.NET Code Camp (May 17th), Tech Bash 2008 (May 10th) in Nanticoke, Pa, Iain McDonald from the Windows Server team at NY Enterprise Windows Group (May 1st), a new South Jersey satellite group of Philly.NET, and not one, but TWO new Share Point user groups forming up in Fairfield county in Connecticut!
Here's the line up at our area's user groups for May:
New Jersey
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| NJ MS Developers Group | Iselin, NJ | 5/1/2008 | Light up the web with Silverlight 2.0 - Peter Laudati, Microsoft (<- yeah, that's me!) |
| Northern NJ .NET User Group (N3UG) | Parsippany, NJ | 5/13/2008 | Lap Around Silverlight 2.0 - David Yack |
| Central NJ .NET User Group | East Windsor, NJ | 5/9/2008 | ASP.NET MVC Framework - Jess Chadwick |
| NJ SQL Server User Group | Parsippany, NJ | 5/20/2008 | SQL Server 2008 Data Compression - Linchi Shea |
| ACGNJ .NET SIG | Scotch Plains, NJ | 5/15/2008 | Windows CardSpace - Manuel Goyenechea |
| PhillyNJ.NET User Group | Greenwich, NJ
New South Jersey Group! | 4/30/2008 | Topic 1: Behavior Driven Development - Brian Donahue
Topic 2: Automation with MS Build 3.5 and Team Build 2008 - Steven Andrews |
New York
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| NY Enterprise Windows User Group | New York, NY | 5/1/2008 | Windows Server 2008 Launch Event - Iain McDonald, General Manager of Windows Server Group, Microsoft |
| NY PC Visual Basic SIG | New York, NY | 5/7/2008 | TBD - Check site for details |
| Long Island .NET User Group | Melville, NY (New location! Check the site for details!) | 5/1/2008 | Windows Server 2008 Virtualization - Peter Protan & Rob Jackson from Microsoft |
| NYC SharePoint User Group | New York, NY | 5/7/2008 | Using Content Query Web Pattern to Solve Business Problems - Nataly Voskresenskaya & Paul Galvin |
| NYC Connected Systems Group | New York, NY | 5/18/2008 | TBD - Check site for details |
| NYC .NET Developers Group | New York, NY | 5/15/2008 | WPF Beyond the Basics: Playing Tricks with the Visual Tree - Pavan Podila |
| NY Metro SQL Server User Group | New York, NY | 5/22/2008 | TBD - Check site for details |
| International Association of Architects (IASA) NYC | New York, NY | 5/22/2008 - 5/23/2008 | IASA New York IT Architect Regional Conference - This is a 2 day paid event. Click here for details. |
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| Pittsburgh .NET User Group | Pittsburgh, Pa | 5/13/2008 | Building Good UX with .NET - Ambrose Little |
| Philadelphia SQL Server User Group | Malvern, Pa | 5/14/2008 | Topic 1: Cursors vs. Set Logic - Mike Welsh
Topic 2: SQL Service Broker - Vince Napoli |
| Lehigh Valley .NET User Group | Center Valley, Pa | 5/19/2008 | Writing Better Code with Visual Studio 2008 Developer Edition - Steve Andrews, RDA Corporation (re-scheduled from last month) |
| Central Penn.NET | Harrisburg, Pa | 5/20/2008 | TBD - Check site for updates |
| Philly.NET | Malvern, Pa | 5/28/2008 | Pub Night - No Speakers, no blogs, just geeks in person string.format("{0:t} - {1:t}", 5:3, ???)
Philly Code Camp is on Saturday May, 17th |
| .NET Valley | Nanticoke, Pa | 5/10/2008 | TechBash 2008 (Code Camp for northeastern PA!) |
| Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group | Malvern, Pa | 5/28/2008 | TBD - Check site for updates |
| Philly Office Geeks | Malvern, Pa | 5/13/2008 | TBD - Check site for updates |
| Philly Alt.NET | Philadelphia, Pa | 5/21/2008 | TBD - Check site for updates |
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