January 2009 Area User Group Meetings
Happy New Year everyone! For those that have been fortunate to take some time off over the winter holidays, today is likely the start of the “Great Inbox Dig Out of 2009”. :) I know I’m certainly digging out of mine… with a New Year’s resolution of reaching inbox zero or whatever those productivity methodologies preach. We’ll see if that happens.
The New Year brings a lot of excitement in the local Microsoft community without leaving a moment to waste. The NYPC Visual Basic user group kicks off the year tonight with a session on SharePoint development! The rest of the user group listings are below. However there are two other events you’ll want to attend this month in NYC:
NYC Code Camp III – Saturday 1/10/2009
Code Camps are "grass roots" mini application platform developer conferences, free of charge to attendees and open to presenters of all stripes and experience.
Get ready for another Code Camp NYC, to be held at Microsoft's offices in Midtown Manhattan (1290 Avenue of the Americas between 51st/52nd Streets) on Saturday, January 10th, 2009 from 8am - 6pm. This is an all-day event with refreshments served, including a developer's "power lunch" (pizza and soda).
This event is being supported by Microsoft but driven by the community: user group activists, developer "influentials", and enthusiastic volunteers. For more information, including schedule and registration, visit the NYC Code Camp website at: http://nyc.codecamp.us
MSDN Developer Conference – Tuesday - 1/20/2009
The Microsoft PDC was hosted in October 2008, yet I'm still trying to digest all of the information that came out of that huge event (Windows Azure, Live Services, Windows 7, .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, etc., etc.). If you want to learn more about all of these technologies from a developer perspective, be sure to visit the official PDC Web site. There, you can download or stream all of the keynotes and breakout sessions from the conference. They make for great lunch-time viewing from your desk.
Watching the recordings is useful, but it's not interactive. You can't ask any questions you have that come to mind. On January 20, you have your opportunity to learn about the latest developer technologies coming from Microsoft at the MSDN Developer Conference in New York City. We're bringing the best of the PDC back east! Tell your tech friends and co-workers as they won't want to miss this event. If you can't make it to NYC on January 20, check out one of the other 10 cities the MSDN Developer Conference will be visiting. Register for the New York event (or other cities)here.
And now, the user group listing for January 2009:
New Jersey
New York
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| NY Enterprise Windows User Group | New York, NY | 2/5/2009 | No Meeting this month due to New Years holiday. Next meeting February 5th. Topic TBD |
| NY PC Visual Basic SIG | New York, NY | 1/5/2009 – Note SPECIAL date due to New Year holiday! | SharePoint Development – David Kulick |
| Long Island .NET User Group | Melville, NY | 1/8/2009 – Note SPECIAL date due to New Year Holiday! | Hyper-V from a Developer’s Perspective – Rob Jackson |
| NYC SharePoint User Group | New York, NY | 1/7/2009 | MOSS 2007: Data & Database Management – Nilesh Mehta |
| NYC Connected Systems Group | New York, NY | 1/12/2009 | SOA Governance |
| NYC .NET Meetup Group | New York, NY | 1/20/2009 | Discuss current issues along three tracks (GUI, Alt.NET, and Industry) |
| NYC Code Camp III | New York, NY | 1/10/2009 | CODE CAMP! CODE CAMP! CODE CAMP!!!
Schedule here. REGISTER HERE! |
| NYC .NET Developers Group | New York, NY | 1/15/2009 | Data Access Hacks & Shortcuts – Stephen Forte |
| NY Metro SQL Server User Group | New York, NY | TBD | TBD – Check site for details |
| International Association of Architects (IASA) NYC | New York, NY | 1/27/2009 | Enterprise Architecture - TBD – Check site for details |
| NYC VSTS User Group | New York, NY (NEW GROUP!) | 1/27/2009 | VSTS Developer Edition – Navneet Srivastava |
| NYC ALT.NET | New York, NY (NEW GROUP!) | 1/28/2009
| Domain Driven Design |
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| Pittsburgh .NET User Group | Pittsburgh, Pa | TBD | TBD – Check site for details |
| Philadelphia SQL Server User Group | Malvern, Pa | 1/14/2009 | Topic 1: Analyzing & Optimizing SQL Queries – Vince Napoli
Topic 2: TBD – Speaker: AJ Mee |
| Lehigh Valley .NET User Group | Center Valley, Pa | 1/19/2009 | LINQ to Entities – Chris Rolon
Note: Check out the new Lehigh Valley .NET website! |
| Central Penn.NET | Harrisburg, Pa | TBD | TBD – Check site for details |
| Philly.NET | Malvern, Pa | 1/21/2009 | An Evening with Julie Lerman: Entity Framework
Topic 1: Getting Started with Entity Framework
Topic 2: You can do THAT with Entity Framework?! |
| .NET Valley | Nanticoke, Pa | 2/19/2009 | No January meeting. February meeting on 2/19. Topic TBD – Check site for udpates |
| Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group | Malvern, Pa | 1/28/2009 | Governing Your SharePoint Environment – Discussion lead by RJB SharePoint Specialists |
| Philly Office Geeks | Malvern, Pa | TBD | TBD – Check site for updates |
| Philly Alt.NET | Philadelphia, Pa | TBD | TBD – Check site for updates |
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