Via Dmitry Lyalin…
In this episode we start by talking about Cutting the cable, DTV conversion, Internet Explorer 8 and Drinking the Kool-Aid. Finally we jump into our interview with Zain Naboulsi talking about Online Virtual Worlds (example: Second Life, Facebook, etc) and their impact on the Microsoft technology community
Related Resources:
- Zain Naboulsi’s Blog
- Adam Kinney’s Blog Post: Microsoft Teams and Products on Twitter
- Second Life .NET User Group
- User Group Support
- Media Center DTV issues:
- Solutions on Green Button:
- Explanation of how DTV works from MS on The Green Button:
- IE8 10 Grand Contest:
Via Dmitry Lyalin’s blog…
In this episode we start by talking to Andrew Brust on Microsoft’s move to kill the Oracle Data Provider and how the world is not coming to an end. Then, Peter and I talk again about his trip to JavaOne including HTML 5 vs. RIA applications (like Silverlight). Finally, we jump into Peter's JavaOne interview with Ted Neward on Project Stonehenge and interoperability between Java and .NET.
Related Resources:
- Apache Stonehenge Project:
- Microsoft Interoperability Bridges:
- ADO.NET Oracle Client Announcement:
- Andrew Brust quoted in Redmond Dev News about Oracle Client:
- Ted’s Blog:
- Andrew’s Blog:
- Press coverage of Microsoft @ JavaOne:
Thought I’d pass along this free training offer I got from Clare Gormley over at InnerWorkings. Sounds like a good deal in this economy!
Summer is finally here, and it’s the perfect chance to sharpen your current skills (or learn some new ones!), with this special free training offer for the INETA community.
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ASP.NET MVC - ADO.NET Data Services
- Silverlight 2
- Threading
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This InnerWorkings offer is completely free to the entire INETA community, so please forward this email to your local members and to other INETA regional directors so they can share it with their members. Challenge your INETA group to learn with you! Remember, this free offer ends after July 31st so act today!
Cross-posted from Dmitry’s blog…
In this episode we talk with Peter about his visit to JavaOne in San Francisco. Then we discuss the new Bing 411 phone service, changes to the Bing API, the new Windows 7 Training Kit and MVC & Visual Studio 2010. Finally we jump into our interview with Laurence Moroney on Silverlight 3 beta, Smooth Streaming and more!
To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=7
Related Resources:
Via Dani Diaz…
Learn about Windows Azure and Azure services which enable developers to easily create or extend their applications and services. From consumer-targeted applications and social networking web sites to enterprise class applications and services, these services make it easy for you to give your applications and services the most compelling experiences and features.
- 9:00-10:30 Introduction to Azure
- 10:45-12:15 Azure Storage
- 12:15-1:15 Working Lunch - Putting it together - Building a simple Azure Application
- 1:30-2:00 Azure Services (Service Bus, Workflow Services)
- 2:15-3:45 Azure Services (Access Control Service)
- 4:00-5:30 Introduction to Live Services
Register free at Microsoft Events.
Cross-posted from Dmitry Lyalin’s blog…
In this episode we talk about Peter’s recent Bar Camp NYC 4 presentation on “cutting the cable bill” and other hot news topics like Bing.com. Then we jump into our interview with Tony Goodhew of Microsoft Corporation on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Tony describes major features coming for various groups of developers and crosscutting functionality like Multi-monitor support!
To listen, go here: http://www.connectedShow.com/default.aspx?Episode=6
Related Resources:
Three weeks ago I shared news of a new podcast started by one of my Microsoft colleagues, Dmitry Lyalin. Since then, I’ve been collaborating with Dmitry on this effort, and now am happy to announce that I am going to be co-hosting the Connected Show with him! Our first joint episode (Episode #5) went live last week. Our second, “Episode #6 – Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0 Beta” went live last night.
Getting into podcasting is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time now. I have to give a HUGE THANKS to Dmitry for doing much of the logistical leg work in getting a show up and running and then inviting me to join him. Let me tell you, it’s quite a bit of work! We’ve already recorded about six interviews together, so we should have plenty of shows lined up for the next month or so. It’s been a blast so far working on the editing, etc.
With me joining the show, we’ve made some slight changes and are adding more cowbell. While Dmitry’s initial focus was to be on the Azure Services platform and Cloud Computing, we will now be broadening the show’s coverage to be on up & coming Microsoft developer technologies. In keeping with the “connected” spirit, we will also be focusing on interoperability between Microsoft technologies and non-Microsoft technologies.
For as long as I’ve been at Microsoft (going on 11 years), there’s been a perception that working with Microsoft technologies requires a homogeneous stack (all Microsoft) that doesn’t play well with others. In the past, I probably couldn’t argue much with that perception. However, reality has changed quite a bit over the past 5-6 years as the company has made lot of investments in, and commitments to, interoperability.
When I was with Microsoft’s Consulting Service division in the early 2000s, I worked on the Microsoft Patterns & Practices .NET & Java Application Interoperability guide. As you can probably guess, interoperability has been an area of interest for me for quite a some time now. I hope through this show that we can educate folks on the many opportunities to work with Microsoft technologies without committing to a 100% Microsoft stack. And perhaps we might change a perception or two along the way.
We’ll be tweaking the format as we go along. For now, we’ll include some friendly banter before & after our interviews, along with discussion of current tech news stories in the Microsoft space. We’ll be interviewing folks on the Microsoft product teams, as well as folks in the developer community working on interesting projects. We may even try out the “panel” format every now and then if we get a good crowd together!
Thanks and inspiration for the show goes out to the many Microsoft focused podcasts already out there such as .NET Rocks, Herding Code, Thirsty Developer, Windows Weekly, and others! We hope to be a new voice in the mix. The show is new, and we’ll have to work hard to get past the “tree falling alone in the forest” stage. :) The Connected Show is already available in both the iTunes & Zune podcast directories, as well as at: http://www.connectedshow.com. Give the show a listen, please send us your feedback, and get connected!!!
Note: FYI, the Connected Show website is a custom developed ASP.NET site that is running on Windows Azure. Dmitry is in the process of building out the features on it in order to showcase what is possible with Azure’s cloud services. In the meantime, you may find some of the features/functionalities in a typical blog/podcasting site missing. We’re cross linking each other’s blogs for now until we add the ability to host a regular blog-like feed with show notes, etc.
Stephen Bohlen, Stephen Forte, and other members of the NYC Alt.NET community are putting on an Agile Firestarter on Saturday, June 27th. This is going to be a great event.
Are you just starting out with Agile, XP or Scrum and need to get up to speed? Or do you know a thing or two about Agile but want to learn the basics so you can implement it in your organization?
Then this Firestarter is for you. We’ll take you from 0 to 60 in 8 hours. Bring a laptop with Visual Studio 2008 Express edition or better for an all day hands on seminar led by some of the NY area’s Agile practitioners.
| When: Saturday June 27th
Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm
Where: Kaye Scholer LLP
425 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Cost: $8 (to cover the pizza and materials)
To Register: http://agilefirestarter2009.eventbrite.com Agenda: - Registration and Welcome
- Intro to Agile (Steve Bohlen)
- Agile Estimation (Steve Forte)
- Test Driven Development (Steve Bohlen)
- Pizza!
- Continuous Integration (Alex Hung)
- Refactoring (Mark Pollack)
- Dependency Injection (Mark Pollack)
- Retrospective Erik Stepp
- Wrap up
| 
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Register today, space is limited! For more details, see: http://www.agilefirestarter.net
Special thanks in advance to Kaye Scholer LLP for providing the space for this Firestarter. The Agile Firestarter is being co-sponsored by SpringSource, Telerik, and ThoughtWorks.
June is here! While summer officially starts June 21st, the summer season has already kicked off with Memorial day and promises to have a lot of great events going on in the tri-state community.
Internet Week NYC
The first week of June is Internet Week in NYC. Come visit the Microsoft Gallery! Microsoft has opened a temporary gallery at 414 W14th St between 9th Ave & Washington St. The Microsoft Gallery is open to the public and will celebrate art and technology by showcasing digital and digital inspired art alongside Microsoft and Microsoft partner technologies such as multi-touch computing and rich internet experiences to demonstrate emerging technologies, innovation, as well as, inspire the local technology industry of New York City.
MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow
The Spring/Summer 2009 road show series are coming this month. Bill Zack and I will take you on a 4 hour tour through Azure Storage, Windows 7 developer features, and jQuery + ASP.NET. We kick it on 6/11 in East Windsor, NJ. We follow up with a stop in Parsippany, NJ on 6/16, and then wrap the series on 6/24 in NYC. For details and registration, see my previous post here.
Hartford Code Camp
Saturday June 13th head up to the Hartford area for what promises to be a great code camp event. You can check out the list of 30 speakers & sessions here. To register for the event, go here. The event is being hosted at New Horizons Computer Learning Center in Bloomfield, CT. This is a free event, and will also include a career fair onsite.
User Groups
Of course, don’t forget about your local user groups! There’s never been a better time to come out each month and network with your peers as you learn about the latest developer technologies. Each month, industry experts come to speak at user groups throughout the area.
These groups attract both local and national expert speakers. These meetings are all volunteer driven and free! They’re success depends on your participation. So don’t let a valuable resource go to waste!
[Update 6-7-2009] New user group added to the line-up: NYC WPF & Silverlight Meetup
Here’s the line up for June 2009…
New Jersey
New York
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| NY Enterprise Windows User Group | New York, NY | 6/4/2009 | Windows 7 – Ilya Gurtenboim |
| NY PC Visual Basic SIG | New York, NY | 6/1/2009 | Mobile Device Programming (joint meeting with Access SIG) |
| Long Island .NET User Group | Melville, NY | 6/4/2009 | Pair Programming – Wendy Friedlander |
| NYC SharePoint User Group | New York, NY | 6/3/2009 | Challenges and SharePoint Enterprise Deployments – Jim Kane |
| NYC SharePoint Developer Group | New York, NY | TBD | TBD – Check site for details |
| NYC Connected Systems Group | New York, NY | 6/8/2009 | Connected Systems and the Cloud-Are You Ready? – Michael Klotz and Ed Lee, Ensynch |
| NYC .NET Meetup Group | New York, NY | 6/12/2009 | Open discussion on current .NET issues.
2 year anniversary meeting!!! |
| NYC .NET Developers Group | New York, NY | 6/18/2009 | Future of Web Programming: ASP v Silverlight, 2-tier v n-tier with RIA Services
Note: This will be the NYC .NET Dev group’s first open space/Fishbowl style meeting! |
| NY Metro SQL Server User Group | New York, NY | 6/25/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| International Association of Architects (IASA) NYC | New York, NY | 6/23/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| NYC VSTS User Group | New York, NY | 6/23/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| NYC ALT.NET | New York, NY | 6/24/2009 | TBD – Check site for details
Earlier in the day: MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow makes its big city stop at the MS NY Office before the Alt.NET meeting from 1-5pm! |
| NYC Microsoft Azure Group | New York, NY | 6/22/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
NYC WPF & Silverlight Meetup
NEW GROUP!!! | New York, NY | 6/15/2009 | Prism v2.0 for WPF & Silverlight: Building Flexible Composite Applications – Dmitry Lyalin |
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| Pittsburgh .NET User Group | Pittsburgh, Pa | 6/9/2009 | Programming Silverlight in the Cloud – Vijay Koneru |
| Philadelphia SQL Server User Group | Malvern, Pa | 6/10/2009 | Topic 1: Leveraging Innovation Technology to Optimize SQL Development, Protection, Replication and Recovery – Duane Johnson
Topic 2: Integrating Reporting Services 2009 with MOSS 2007 – Kevin Goff |
| Lehigh Valley .NET User Group | Center Valley, Pa | 6/15/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| Central Penn.NET | Harrisburg, Pa | 6/16/2009 | TBD |
| Philly.NET | Malvern, Pa | 6/17/2008 | Topic 1: Intro to JQuery – Rob Keiser
Topic 2: ASP.NET Performance Tips & Tricks – Bill Wolff |
| Philly.NET Hands On Labs | Fort Washington, Pa | 6/30/2009 | Hands On Lab – AJAX + JQuery – Rob Keiser, Bill Wolff, and 60 friends with laptops! |
| .NET Valley | Scranton, Pa
(University of Scranton – Hyland Hall) | 6/18/2009 | Advanced Techniques for Everyday Development – Edwin Ames |
| Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group | Malvern, Pa | 6/24/2009 | TBD – Check site for updates |
| Philly Office Geeks | Malvern, Pa | 6/9/2009 | Developing and Deploying SharePoint Workflows – Dave Mann |
| Philly Alt.NET | Philadelphia, Pa | TBD | TBD – Check site for updates |
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This week is Internet Week in NYC. Unfortunately, I’ll be missing it while out in San Francisco this week for JavaOne. However, there are a LOT of cool events going on all around Manhattan this week you should consider checking out! You can get a schedule of all the official events at the official Internet Week website.
Microsoft has opened “The Microsoft Gallery” at Internet Week New York 2009 in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to showcase digital and digital inspired art alongside Microsoft and Microsoft partner technologies such as multi-touch computing and rich internet experiences. Read on for details about the gallery below.
For a complete list of sessions and schedule at the gallery, please visit: www.themicrosoftgallery.com
New York, NY – May 29, 2009 – Microsoft announces the opening of The Microsoft Gallery at Internet Week New York 2009 in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Microsoft will temporarily inhabit the retail space of 414 West 14th Street, between 9th Avenue and Washington Street, and be open to the public daily for the duration of Internet Week New York 2009; June 1 – 8 at 12:00 Noon. The Microsoft Gallery will celebrate art and technology by showcasing digital and digital inspired art alongside Microsoft and Microsoft partner technologies such as multi-touch computing and rich internet experiences to demonstrate emerging technologies, innovation, as well as, inspire the local technology industry of New York City.
The Microsoft Gallery will display innovative Microsoft and Microsoft partner technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Expression Studio for designing and delivering rich internet experiences, Microsoft Surface for multi-touch social computing, HP TouchSmart for intuitive multi-touch personal computing, and XBOX 360 gaming consoles for high fidelity gaming and entertainment.
J&R, the premiere New York electronics and computer retailer, is the sponsoring partner of The Microsoft Gallery at Internet Week. J&R is providing The Microsoft Gallery with cutting-edge personal computers and video electronics, bringing The Microsoft Gallery experience to life with multi-touch computing, rich internet applications, alongside projected and displayed digital art.
The work of digital artists Jonathan Zimmerman and Yorgo Alexopoulos will be showcased with multiple high-resolution projectors and LCD displays. There will also be a number of other digital or digital inspired works presented as video, sculpture, and mix media.
The Microsoft Gallery will host a number of daily presentations and panel discussions from industry thought leaders at digital agencies such as Schematic, Cynergy Systems, and Vectorform. Microsoft will host startup focused sessions that introduce the Microsoft BizSpark program that provides free access to Microsoft tools and servers products to technology entrepreneurs.
The Microsoft Gallery will be open to the public for general gallery viewing, daily, on June 1 – 8 at 12:00 Noon. There will be a lounge with seating, coffee, and soft drinks in The Microsoft Gallery for people to have meetings, press interviews, or catching up with emails and phone calls.
If any of your are interested in BarCamp, the 4th edition of it is returning to NYC on Saturday May 30th and Sunday May 31st!
This will be the third BarCamp I’ve been involved with, an every one has been a blast so far. It’s a great opportunity to share ideas and learn with other people in an open environment.
If you’ve never been to a Bar Camp before, you can read more about them here: http://barcamp.org
I’ve included some of the event details here, but visit the BarCampNYC4 wiki for more details at: http://barcampnyc.org
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. The event doesn't cost any money, but there is a price: all attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn are welcome and invited to join. When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.
Register
http://barcampnyc4.eventbrite.com
Event Details
BarCampNYC4 has a home! NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program @ the Tisch School of the Arts has graciously offered to host our event on May 30-31 at their space at 721 Broadway. For those familiar, this is the same place that's opened up to the public every December and May for ITP's Winter and Spring Shows, when students showcase their creative, innovative projects for all to see.
When
Saturday, May 30, and Sunday, May 31, 2009
Where
NYU ITP, 721 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003 (Between Waverly Pl. & Washington Pl.) MAP
Tickets are almost sold out! To give everyone who is interested an opportunity attend (not just early risers), the free “tickets” have been released in batches. The next batch of tickets will be released on EventBrite on Monday morning May 25th. Keep checking back to see if any are released as we get closer to the event.
One of my Microsoft colleagues, Dmitry Lyalin, has recently started up a new podcast called “The Connected Show”. Dmitry has been working behind the scenes on the show for a couple of months now. This past week, after finally getting all the logistics in place, he launched the new show’s website: http://www.connectedshow.com.
The Connected Show is a podcast that focuses on Microsoft Cloud based technologies and other related topics. Dmitry is hosting the show and interviewing different experts in the community about Windows Azure, Live Framework, Windows Live, Silverlight and other innovations that contribute to the very extensive product offering Microsoft now has in this space. The show is still nascent, and might wonder off into other topics of depending on audience feedback.
Dmitry has four episodes posted up already. You can hear me on episode #3 talking about my trip to Mix 09 in Vegas back in March. His most recent recording is with James Senior from the Windows Live Messenger team. Check the show out, give it a spin, and get connected!
This Saturday, the NJ SQL User Group is hosting a SQL Server Performance Tuning event at the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ. Looks like a great line up of content on the agenda. Details from the NJ SQL UG website below…
Do you want to learn SQL Server Performance Tuning Strategies from the Pros? Then, you have found the right event!! Come join the NJ SQL Server User group for a free Saturday event that includes 4 sessions on Performance Tuning Topics.
Date: Saturday, May 16th
Registration: Required
Registration Link: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=137968
Location: Microsoft Office (Iselin, NJ)
Time: 8:15am - 3pm
Agenda:
8:15am - 9:00am: Attendee Check-In and Breakfast
9:00am - 9:15am: Welcome
9:15am - 10:15am: Stress Testing SQL Server (Hilary Cotter - MVP)
10:15am - 10:30am: Break
10:30am - 11:30am: Query Plan Optimization / T-SQL Performance Tricks (Alec Lazarescu)
11:30am - 12:15pm: Lunch
12:15pm - 1:15pm: Performance tuning XML and XQuery in SQL Server 2008 (Michael Coles - MVP)
1:15pm - 2:15pm: Disk I/O Related Performance Tuning (Linchi Shea - MVP)
2:30pm - 2:45pm: Wrap-Up and Raffle/Swag
Bios/Session Abstracts: Link
Bill Zack and I are happy to announce that we’ll be kicking off a late spring/early Summer 2009 series of the MSDN “Suburban” Roadshow! There’s a tendency for Microsoft (and other other companies) to host live events in NYC as it’s the center of our area. But, as suburbanites ourselves, Bill & Peter know it can be a pain to take a day off of work and fight the elements to trek into Manhattan. One extra hassle can keep you from improving your skills and learning about the newest technologies. Don’t let that hold you back any longer!
Our Spring 2009 series will be making stops throughout the ‘burbs in north and central Jersey. Ironically, we also know that for urbanites in the big city, getting to the ‘burbs can be a major ordeal for you too! Many Manhattan-ites don’t own cars, and the suburbs are not mass transit friendly. So, we’ll bring the “Suburban” Roadshow back to NYC also.
We are scheduling the “Suburban” roadshow events to occur on the same day as the local user group in all locations. So, if you take a half-day off to join us at the roadshow, you’ll get a full day of content by sticking around for the user group sessions in the evening. The Roadshows run 1pm – 5pm, and most of the user groups will run from 6-8pm.
Here’s the Summer 2009 agenda line up:
Up, Up, and Away! Storage in the Microsoft Cloud
The Azure Services Platform provides a rich set of cloud-based storage options for building both cloud resident and hybrid cloud + on-premise applications. This session will show you how to leverage Windows Azure Blobs, Tables and Queues as well as the new fully relational SQL Data Services.
Developing on Microsoft Windows 7
Building applications that are easy to use, visually appealing, and that offer high performance is a challenge that developers face every day. Innovative applications can greatly improve the user experience, empowering companies to differentiate their services and solutions. However, developers are increasingly asked to do more in less time, while also optimizing the power and performance requirements of their applications.
The Windows 7 platform makes it easy for developers to create engaging, user-friendly applications by providing familiar tools and rich development features that allow them to take advantage of the latest PC capabilities. In this session we will explore the new Taskbar and Jump Lists, the Scenic Ribbon, file management with Libraries, and Windows Web Services among many other enhancements to the new operating system.
Using MS AJAX & jQuery with ASP.NET
As AJAX has risen in popularity over the past few years, most web developers have found themselves spending more time programming in JavaScript. This has led to a rise in JavaScript frameworks to make this style of programming easier. In 2007, Microsoft released its own AJAX library. At the same time, an open source JavaScript library called jQuery started gaining in popularity. In late 2008, Microsoft announced that it would be supporting jQuery as a part of ASP.NET going forward.
Both of these libraries work great together with ASP.NET’s WebForms and new MVC framework. In this session we’ll explore how you can use these JavaScript libraries to enhance your web applications. We’ll also look at the tools you’ll want to have in your toolbox when doing AJAX programming, as well as how to troubleshoot typical issues you’ll run into.
Here’s the schedule with registration links:
| REGISTER NOW – Space is limited! | |
| Location | Date & Time | Registration |
| Infragistics Headquarters 50 Millstone Rd., Building 100
East Windsor, NJ 08520 | June 11, 2009 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Click here to Register Or call 877.673.8368
With Event ID: 1032415493 |
| Set Focus 4 Century Drive
Parsippany, NJ 07054 | June 16, 2009 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Click here to Register Or call 877.673.8368
With Event ID: 1032415492 |
| Microsoft New York Office 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10104 | June 24, 2009 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Click here to Register Or call 877.673.8368
With Event ID: 1032415487 |
May is here and with it comes a lot of spring activity in the local community!
MS Enterprise Developer & Solution Conference – May 5-6th
Today and tomorrow is the Microsoft Enterprise Developer & Solutions Conference in NYC. The Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference will provide developers, architects and key business decision makers in large enterprise organizations a clear roadmap of the Microsoft Application Platform. You will get to hear directly from Microsoft’s customers and partners on:
- Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
- Application Life Cycle Management
- Creating Impact with Silverlight, WPF and Surface
The event has been “sold out” for some time now, but all of the sessions are going to be recorded and streamed online live. If you weren’t able to get a ticket to the Enterprise Developer & Solution conference, tune in today & tomorrow to: http://entdevcon.telligent.com/
NJ SQL Saturday – May 16th
Do you want to learn SQL Server Performance Tuning Strategies from the Pros? Then come join the NJ SQL Server User group for a free Saturday event that includes 4 sessions on Performance Tuning Topics! The event will be hosted at the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ from 8:15am – 3pm. Breakfast & Lunch will be served.
User Groups
Of course, don’t forget about your local user groups! There’s never been a better time to come out each month and network with your peers as you learn about the latest developer technologies. Each month, industry experts come to speak at user groups throughout the area.
These groups attract both local and national expert speakers. Two prominent speakers this month include Richard Campbell, of .NET Rocks fame, at the Long Island .NET group on May 7th and Martin Fowler, of Thoughtworks & Enterprise Patterns series fame, at the NY Alt.NET group on May 20th.
These meetings are all volunteer driven and free! They’re success depends on your participation. So don’t let a valuable resource go to waste!
Here’s the full area user group line up for May 2009…
New Jersey
New York
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| NY Enterprise Windows User Group | New York, NY | 5/7/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| NY PC Visual Basic SIG | New York, NY | 5/4/2009 | Nifty things with Windows Forms – Dave Kulick |
| Long Island .NET User Group | Melville, NY | 5/7/2009 | The Scaling Habits of ASP.NET Applications – Richard Campbell |
| NYC SharePoint User Group | New York, NY | 5/6/2009 | Architecting a Highly-Available SharePoint Farm – Michael Noel |
| NYC SharePoint Developer Group | New York, NY | 5/26/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| NYC Connected Systems Group | New York, NY | TBD | TBD – Check site for details |
| NYC .NET Meetup Group | New York, NY | 5/19/2009 | Open discussion on current .NET issues. |
| NYC .NET Developers Group | New York, NY | 5/21/2009 | Getting Started with Windows Azure – Erik Stepp |
| NY Metro SQL Server User Group | New York, NY | 5/28/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| International Association of Architects (IASA) NYC | New York, NY | 5/26/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| NYC VSTS User Group | New York, NY | 5/26/2009 | Best Practices for SharePoint Development & VSTS with Team Foundation Server – Vincent Trepanier |
| NYC ALT.NET | New York, NY | 5/20/2009 | Domain Specific Languages – Martin Fowler – NOTE: Special date & meeting location this month. |
| NYC Microsoft Azure Group | New York, NY | TBD | TBD – Check site for details |
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
| User Group Name | Location | Date | Topic & Speaker |
| Pittsburgh .NET User Group | Pittsburgh, Pa | 5/19/2009 | Silverlight 3 Double Dose – Pete Brown |
| Philadelphia SQL Server User Group | Plymouth Meeting, Pa | 5/14/2009 | Topic 1: Advanced Analytics and Dashboards – Kevin Bucher
Topic 2: Query Fingerprints & Plan Fingerprints – Damien Johnson
PSSUG Appreciation Night – Special meeting this month at Dave & Busters in Plymouth Meeting, Pa! |
| Lehigh Valley .NET User Group | Center Valley, Pa | 5/18/2009 | TBD – Check site for details |
| Central Penn.NET | Harrisburg, Pa | 5/19/2009 | Silverlight Toolkit – Brian Mains |
| Philly.NET | Malvern, Pa | 5/20/2008 | Topic 1: Intro to MVC – Andy Schwam
Topic 2: Building DevEvents.com with MVC – Steve Andrews |
| Philly.NET Hands On Labs | Fort Washington, Pa | 5/26/2009 | Hands On Lab – MVC Part II – Rob Keiser, Bill Wolff, and 60 friends with laptops! |
| .NET Valley | Scranton, Pa
(University of Scranton – Hyland Hall) | 5/21/2009 | WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – Making the Switch – John Baird |
| Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group | Malvern, Pa | 5/27/2009 | TBD – Check site for updates |
| Philly Office Geeks | Malvern, Pa | 5/12/2009 | NewsGator for Social Networking – Ashley Roach |
| Philly Alt.NET | Philadelphia, Pa | 5/5/2009 | Mobile “i” for the .NET Guy – iPhone Dev – Alex Hung |
| Philly Alt.NET Foundation Series | Fort Washington, Pa | 5/13/2009 | Foundation Workshop Series 3 – Design Patterns – Erik Peterson |
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