The Boston .NET User Group will not meet during July and August this summer. Our meetings will resume on Wed 9/8 6-8 pm at our usual location. Details as we get closer.
Any information on other events or items of interest during the summer will be posted here.
Hope everyone has a great summer and gets a chance to relax.
Enjoy!
Are you up for a Geek dinner July 28th from 6:30 – 8:30pm or so? We had a pretty good turn out at the last one (considering it is summer). I’ve checked with a few of you ahead of time and there should be at least 4 or 5 of us that can make it. Please feel free to bring anyone you want with you … as long as they can take listening to us talk about various technology topics for a few hours J We’ll be upstairs by the pool tables in Boston Beer Works on Canal Street.
Contact Jason Haley: jason@jasonhaley.com
From Jason Haley
jason@jasonhaley.com
Are you up for a Geek dinner June 23rd from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
It’s been a couple of months since the last one … so I think it’s time for another. I’ve checked with a few of you ahead of time and there should be at least 4 or 5 of us that can make it.
Please feel free to bring anyone you want with you … as long as they can take listening to us talk about various technology topics for a few hours.
We’ll be upstairs by the pool tables in Boston Beer Works on Canal Street.
An Evening with Chris Diaz, Visual Studio Group Program Manager
A joint meeting between Beantown .NET and Boston .NET User Groups
Thursday, 5/6/2010, 6p – 8p (Special Date & Location)
Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD)
1 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA
Directions: http://microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx
Parking: Paid parking is available in 1 Memorial Drive.
Please RSVP Ben Day (Beantown leader) at benday@benday.com by 3pm Thu 5/6, or sooner :-), to help speed your way through building security and to give us an idea how much pizza to order.
Join us for this unique and timely opportunity to gain insights directly from the Visual Studio team with Chris Dias, Group Program Manager for the Visual Studio Platform team. The evening will include demonstrations and Q&A ranging from what’s new in Visual Studio to a deeper look at extending Visual Studio in new and useful ways. You will leave with a deeper understanding of Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio Platform.
About Chris Diaz
Chris is the Group Program Manager for the Visual Studio Platform team. In this role, he leads the best team of Program Managers at Microsoft designing and delivering the next generation Tools platform and developer experiences that are the foundation for the Visual Studio product line, from Express through Ultimate. In addition to engineering Visual Studio, Chris’ team is responsible for building a vibrant Ecosystem around our tools through the Visual Studio Industry Partner program.
Chris started at Microsoft 16 years ago in Product Support Services with Visual Basic 3.0. He was the guy answering the phones at 6 a.m. specializing in data access technologies, specifically DAO and ODBC. Chris provided support for the Beta releases of Visual Basic 4.0, working on forums answering questions, funneling feedback to the product team, and submitting bug reports from customers. He joined the product team as a Program Manager for Visual Basic 5.0 and worked on almost every feature of VB over the next few years. Chris moved on to be the Group Program Manager for Visual Basic .NET 2002, 2003, and 2005.
In 2004 Chris became the Project Manager for the 2005 wave of product releases (Visual Studio .NET 2005, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio Team Suite). After the launch of VS 2005, he moved on to be the Business Manager for the Visual Studio product line, aligning the strategies for each of the businesses within Visual Studio (Pro, Non Pro, Tools, and ALM).
In 2007 Chris moved to his current role on the VS Platform team to begin the modernization of Visual Studio. For VS2010, Chris’ team introduced a new, modern Editor with a rich extensibility model based on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF). They updated the presentation layer of the VS shell to separate the UI from the data model and take advantage of the WPF platform. The team created the new project system for Visual C++ based on MSBuild in order to increase the scalability and extensibility of native code projects.
Chris was born and raised in New England and now lives in Redmond, WA with his wife and children.
Charity:
When:
Saturday June 5, 2010 (42 days)
Where:
New Orleans, LA
It has been four years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast as the worst civil disaster in American history. It is estimated that 400,000 jobs were lost and 275,000 homes were destroyed, ten times as many as any other natural disaster in US history. The total cost is estimated at $100 billion in damages making Katrina the most costly hurricane in US history. Up to 15 million people were affected by Hurricane Katrina, and New Orleans itself is still struggling to rebuild. One of the biggest needs is for new housing, and to help we’ve arranged for a volunteer group to work with Habitat for Humanity to help rebuild New Orleans on Saturday June 5th, 2010, the Saturday before Tech·Ed. This is your opportunity to help an area that still has immense need, as well as to network with fellow geeks and eat more shrimp and oyster poboys! You should try the fried alligator too.
http://www.ineta.org/summit2010/
Register today for your spot at the INETA Community Leadership Summit being held in conjunction with Tech·Ed North America 2010 in New Orleans, LA
Here are more details. Sessions planned are below. Three calls for action…
1. Go register to attend. Free to attend, just register in advance for our head count for silly things like planning food, space, etc. (yes, I said food, we’ll give you some snacks to help the mid-afternoon brain slump). Not planning on attending Tech·Ed? We have a limited number of day passes for that day. Email julie.yack@ineta.org to request one, while supplies last.
2. Volunteer to facilitate a session or two. No special requirements to do this, just the desire to help the community and some knowledge on the topic you’ve picked. You can see what we need below. Sessions are NOT lecture, no PowerPoint, just interactive discussions and learning from one another. We are all the experts at something, let’s learn from that. Email julie.yack@ineta.org.
3. We have 12 slots for sessions and only 10 listed. How should we fill the others? Send your ideas to julie.yack@ineta.org and we’ll vote on the day of the event to fill the other spots. We have some ideas in mind, but really want this event to be what the attendees want, so let’s fill the afternoon with what will help YOU.
Do you qualify to attend? Well, since you’re reading this, chances are yes. However, I will qualify it a little for you. This event is for folks that are our professional .NET community leaders. You don’t have to be THE leader of a group, but in that mindset. You help with speakers, sponsors, etc. Then yup, it’s for you. Yes, this is hosted by INETA North America, but if you want to attend and are part of PASS or GITCA or from another region, drop an email to julie.yack@ineta.org we’ll work on getting you included.
You’ve got great speakers, content, and volunteers, now get some more members.
Hear from the sponsors themselves about how to make the most of your relationship with them so it is mutually beneficial.
Want to do a code camp? Day of .NET? Where to start? Learn from those out their doing it, and then have your own success story to tell.
Yes, social networking seems to be the most overused buzz words of the year. But what can you do to use this powerful and free resource?
Open Q/A with INETA NORAM Board
What did we forget? Got a topic that’s too small for a whole session? Let’s get that covered.
At some point in the life-cycle of your group it seems like you might want to split off to have a special interest group. Does it make sense? How do I do it?
You hear about these other organizations, now come hear FROM them and see if maybe there’s a missed opportunity for your groups.
With so many new technologies coming out all the time, how and where do we find the reliable content?
Managing volunteers is a tough task, but necessary for any user group leader, how do you manage the group and the tasks?
Monday 5/3/2010
Microsoft NERD
Cambridge, MA
Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell are loading up the DotNetMobile (a 30 foot RV) and driving to your town again to show off the latest and greatest in
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0! And to make the night even more fun,
we’re going to bring a mystery rock star from the Visual Studio world
to the event and interview them for a special .NET Rocks Road Trip
show series. Along the way we’ll be giving away some great prizes,
showing off some awesome technology and having a ton of laughs.
So come out to the most fun you can have in a geeky evening – and find
out what’s new and cool in Visual Studio 2010!
This stop will include an intro to F# and a special topic panel
discussion on F# featuring New England F# User leaders:
http://vs2010roadtripboston.eventbrite.com/
Boston .NET User Group is doing a joint meeting with the Beantown .NET User Group at the Microsoft NERD building in Cambridge on Thursday, 5/6/2010. This month we have Chris Dias from Microsoft. Chris is the Visual Studio Group Program Manager and he’ll be talking about what’s new in Visual Studio 2010.
As always, the meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring your boss. It is not required to RSVP for our meetings but if you know you’re coming, please RSVP by email Ben Day (Beantown leader) at benday@benday.com by 3pm on the day of the meeting to help speed your way through building security and to give us an idea how much pizza to order.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is our monthly meeting for May and we will NOT be having a meeting in Waltham on Wed 5/12.
The organizing committee (Chris Burchell, Dave Nielsen, John Willis & John Treadway) would like to invite everyone to OpsCamp-Boston next Thursday, April 22nd at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center. OpsCamp-Boston is an unconference, which means it’s free and the attendees help run the sessions. There is also free food and drinks! http://opscamp.org/boston/.
All the members of the user group community are invited to take part in OpsCamp-Boston. We ran our first OpsCamp in Austin this year and it was a huge success. The main idea around OpsCamp is to discuss interesting solutions around development and operations issues. Some people call this DevOps.
OpsCamp is an event aimed at bringing together IT professionals who are interested in the evolution of systems management and application deployment as it bridges physical and virtual infrastructure and especially cloud computing technologies. The event will be conducted in a participant-driven unconference style made popular by events like FooCamp, BarCamp & Bloggercon.
Building Secure Applications - Avoiding the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
Chris Eng
Wednesday 4/14/2010
6-8 pm
Microsoft Waltham Office
The CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration)/SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) list of the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is becoming the “standard” for developing secure applications in many large enterprises. Even the State of New York and DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation) plan to implement procurement contracts that include language mandating application security.
This session will cover:
Whether you manage internal development activities, work with third party developers or are developing a Commercial off- the – shelf application for enterprise, your mandate is clear- safeguard your code and make sure you’ve avoided the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors.
Reference Information:
About Chris Eng, Senior Director of Research at Veracode, is responsible for integrating security expertise into Veracode’s technology and helping to define and prioritize the security feature set of Veracode’s service offerings. His professional experience includes stints at Symantec, @stake, and the US Department of Defense, where he specialized in security assessments and offensive research. Chris has presented at security conferences such as the Black Hat Briefings and OWASP AppSec and has been quoted as a subject matter expert in various industry publications.
