July 2008 Area User Group Meetings
Summer has finally kicked into high gear! The long Independence Day weekend is here! I love the 4th of July. It’s the best holiday of the year in my opinion. Warm weather, BBQs, beach, pool, family, friends, endless nights. It just doesn’t get any better than that. It can’t shake a stick at Thanksgiving where it’s cold and everyone is crowded around a dinner table for a few hours before they all go home.
With summer underway, some user groups in our area may be taking temporary breaks. However, there’s still plenty of meetings scheduled for this month. Here’s the lineup for July:
New Jersey
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| NJ MS Developers Group | Iselin, NJ | 8/7/2008 | No meeting this month! Next month: Building Virtual Earth Applications – Sujit D’Mello, Microsoft |
| Northern NJ .NET User Group (N3UG) | Parsippany, NJ | 7/8/2008 | An Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data – Rachel Appel |
| Central NJ .NET User Group | East Windsor, NJ | 7/10/2008 | Planned Agility – David Laribee |
| Central NJ .NET Agile Group | East Windsor, NJ
New Group! | 7/17/2008 | The Central Jersey group is going to host an interactive-style meeting the 3rd Thursday each month with open discussion and demos. |
| NJ SQL Server User Group | Parsippany, NJ | 7/15/2008 | TDD Principles for Database Development – Dennis Lloyd Jr. |
| ACGNJ .NET SIG | Scotch Plains, NJ | | TBD – Check site for details. Group may be dormant. |
| PhillyNJ.NET User Group | Greenwich, NJ
New South Jersey Group! | 7/31/2008 | Topic TBD – Sam Gentile |
New York
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| NY Enterprise Windows User Group | New York, NY | 8/7/2008 | No Meeting for July. Happy 4th of July! – Next month: Windows Server 2008 Installation |
| NY PC Visual Basic SIG | New York, NY | 7/2/2008 | Mobile Applications using VS 2008 and .NET Compact Framework 3.5 |
| Long Island .NET User Group | Melville, NY (New location! Check the site for details!) | 7/3/2008 | Intro to C# 3.0 – Dan Love |
| NYC SharePoint User Group | New York, NY | 7/2/2008 | Governance Over Share Point Environments – Chris Ott, NextLabs |
| NYC Connected Systems Group | New York, NY | 7/14/2008 | TBD – Check site for details |
| NYC .NET Meetup Group | New York, NY
New Group! | 7/15/2008 | OLAP & Business Intelligence – Kent Geoffrey
This new group follows the interactive-style of Meetup.com groups. Instead of lecture-learn style, it’s all about discussion and demos. Come on out and participate!
I’m happy to include this group in the monthly line-up! |
| NYC .NET Developers Group | New York, NY | 7/17/2008 | Speaker Idol! Come catch multiple experts get their 15 minutes of fame. (Oh, and learn a few things too!) Special judges panel, including Mary Jo Foley.
Topic 1: Intro to F# – Zino Lee
Topic 2: Castle Monorail – James Curran
Topic 3: Upgrading Legacy Code – John Carnevale
Topic 4: Arithmetic in Generic Classes – Bill Fugina
Topic 5: Casual and More Hard-core WCF – Gerado Arevalo |
| NY Metro SQL Server User Group | New York, NY | 7/24/2008 | TBD - Check site for details |
| International Association of Architects (IASA) NYC | New York, NY | 7/15/2008 | How Does Business Architecture Fit In? – Bob Hughes, Cogentes |
Connecticut
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group | Stamford, CT | 7/1/2008 | Automated Developer Testing Panel – Paul Lockwood, Jason Sliss, and David San Filippo |
| Fairfield/Westchester .NET SQL Server User Group | Stamford, CT | 7/9/2008 | Database Development with VSTS DB Pro 2008 – Benjamin Day |
| Southern Connecticut .NET SIG | Shelton, CT | September 2008 | Off for the summer – Next meeting in September on: .NET 3.5 with C++/CLI & boosting .NET application performance |
| Connecticut .NET User Group | Farmington, CT | 6/24/2008 | TBD - Check site for details |
| Fairfield County Share Point User Group | Fairfield, CT | 7/22/2008 | New Group! WSS v3.0: Site Administration, Navigation, and Permission Best Practices – Neil McIsaac |
| Fairfield/Westchester Share Point User Group | Stamford, CT | 7/16/2008 | New Group! Using Content Query Web Par to Create Business Solutions - Paul Galvin & Natalya Voskresenskaya |
Pennsylvania
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| Pittsburgh .NET User Group | Pittsburgh, Pa | 7/8/2008 | TBD - Check site for details |
| Philadelphia SQL Server User Group | Malvern, Pa | 7/9/2008 | Topic 1: SQL Server Reporting Services for DBAs – Jason Hall, Quest Software
Topic 2: New SQL 2008 DBA Toys – Sharon Dooley |
| Lehigh Valley .NET User Group | Center Valley, Pa | 8/18/2008 | No July Meeting – Next month: ASP.NET Dynamic Data with Rachel Appel |
| Central Penn.NET | Harrisburg, Pa | 7/15/2008 | Developing Controls & Control Extenders Using ASP.NET AJAX and the AJAX Control Toolkit – Brian Mains |
| Philly.NET | Malvern, Pa | 7/16/2008 | Topic 1: A Beginner’s Tour of WPF and Silverlight – Billy Hollis
Topic 2: WPF and Silverlight in the Real World – Billy Hollis |
| .NET Valley | Nanticoke, Pa | 7/16/2008 | Off for the summer. Next meeting September 17th |
| Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group | Malvern, Pa | 7/30/2008 | TBD - Check site for updates |
| Philly Office Geeks | Malvern, Pa | 7/8/2008 | Open Panel Discussion:
Afshin Zavareh - Perficient
Tony Testa - Perficient
Dani Diaz - Microsoft
David Mann – MOSS MVP
Stacey Bailey - Unisys |
| Philly Alt.NET | Philadelphia, Pa | 7/17 | Building Maintainable Applications with WPF – Jon Graves |
Delaware
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| Delaware .NET User Group | Newark, DE | 7/31/2008 | ASP.NET Dynamic Data – Rachel Appel |
| Northern Delaware .NET User Group | Newark, DE (NEW LOCATION!) | 7/31/2008 | ASP.NET Dynamic Data – Rachel Appel
NOTE: This is not a TYPO! Rachel will be speaking at both user groups on the same day on the same topic. The Northern DE group meets at Delaware Technology Park in the evening. The Delaware .NET group meets on the U of Del campus during the day time. |
