Boston .NET User Group: Archive

Summer Meeting Hiatus: Resume on Wed 9/8/2010

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!

Jul 14th

Boston Geek Dinner: Wed 7/28 6:30-8:30 pm

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 ...

Jul 9th

Boston Geek Dinner 6/23 6:30-8:30 pm

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...

Jun 18th

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Boston .NET User Group: May Meeting Thu 5/6

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...

May 4th

Habitat for Humanity at Tech·Ed 2010

Charity: Habitat for Humanity 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...

Apr 30th

INETA Community Leadership Summit Meeting 2010

http://www.ineta.org/summit2010/ INETA Community Leadership Summit Meeting 2010 1:00 PM · June 6, 2010 · Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA 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....

Apr 30th

DotNetMobile Visits Boston Mon 5/3: 5-9 pm

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...

Apr 27th

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May 5/6 (Thu) Boston .NET UG Meeting: SPECIAL DATE

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...

Apr 24th

OpsCamp-Boston Thu 4/22 at NERD

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...

Apr 17th

Wed 4/14 Meeting: Building Secure Applications -...

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...

Mar 30th

Boston Code Camp: Sat 3/27 - Register Now

Our Spring 2010 Code Camp will be held this Saturday, 3/27 at the Microsoft Northeast Office in Waltham, MA. A session list and registration are availableat http://tinyurl.com/ycylbcy. Please register so we know how much pizza to buy for lunch. See you Saturday!

Mar 23rd

O'Reilly Book Discount for Boston .NET User Group...

O’Reilly has generously offered a 35% off O’Reilly, Microsoft Press, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin books and 45% off ebooks you purchase directly from O’Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online at www.oreilly.com or by phone 800-998-9938.

Mar 18th

Boston Geek Dinner 3/23 6:30-8:30 pm

Boston Beer Works 112 Canal Street Boston, MA 02114 USA Same as always, we meet up stairs at the bar beside the pool tables - then grab a table if we need to. Its at Boston Beer Works on Canal Street close to the TD Garden. If you don’t know me - here’s a picture of me. I’ll be the one at the bar reading MSDN magazine or some Windows Azure book and drinking a coke. ...

Mar 15th

Volunteer needed to lead MVC discussion at...

The person who volunteered to lead the MVC discussion from 5-6 pm tomorrow is ill and can not make the meeting. We are looking for someone to volunteer and lead the discussion. You don’t need to be an MVC expert, just lead the discussion. If you can help out please contact Chris Pels at chris.pels@bostondotnet.org before 5 pm today, Tue 3/9. Thanks

Mar 9th

Announcing New England GiveCamp 6/11-13/2010

GiveCamp is a weekend, coding “marathon” at which small teams of developers, designers, and other technologists work on customer software solutions for non-profit organizations. This is a community driven and executed event, technology-agnostic, serving the entire New England region. Get all the details at http://newenglandgivecamp.org.

Mar 1st

TechEd 2010 Birds-of-a-Feather Session Proposals...

If you are going to TechEd 2010 in New Orleans in June there will be Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions organized by INETA and volunteers from the community. These are open discussions on any technology topic (including non-Microsoft) led by a volunteer from the developer community. Abstract submission is now open using the BOF page on the TechEd site. Take a look and check it out.

Feb 23rd

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Wed 3/10 Mtg: Session 1-ASP.NET MVC, Session 2: F#

Our upcoming March monthly meeting will be held on Wednesday 3/10/2010 at the Microsoft Waltham MA office. The meeting will feature two sessions, a discussion group on ASP.NET MVC 2 and a presentation on F#. SESSION 1: ASP.NET MVC 2 5:00-6:00 pm Discussion Leader: Bob Goodearl ASP.NET MVC 2 which will be inlcuded in the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 (April 12th release) builds on the initial...

Feb 21st

Wed 2/10 BDN Meeting CANCELLED!

Due to the lovely winter weather the Wed 2/10/10 Boston .NET User Group meeting is cancelled.Please spread the word to anyone you know in the group. We are working to have Rick back for one of the upcoming meetings.

Feb 10th

Wed 2/10 IMPORTANT: Meeting may be cancelled due...

With the potential for bad weather on Wednesday 2/10, Microsoft may close the Waltham office and our meeting would be cancelled. Please check back Wednesday morning.

Feb 9th

Wed 2/10 Mtg: Volunteer need to make announcements...

Unfortunately, I have to go away on a business trip this coming Wednesday 2/10 and need a volunteer to make a few brief announcements and introduce our meeting speaker. If you can help out please email me at chris.pels@bostondotnet.org. Thanks, Chris

Feb 8th

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February 10th Monthly Meeting: F# and You!

F# and You! Rick Minerich Wed 2/10/2010 6-8 pm Microsoft-Waltham, MA Why would a programmer choose a specific style of programming for a specific task? The answer is that when you work close to your problem domain you can build things more quickly and with a lower error rate. Functional programming languages sit much closer to the domain of mathematics which makes them ideal for...

Feb 1st

Boston Geek Dinner 1/28/2010 6:30-8:30 pm

Jason Haley is organizing another Geek Dinner on Thu 1/28. Here’s the information on the event. Where: Boston Beer Works 112 Canal Street Boston, MA 02114 When: Thu 1/28 6:30-8:30 pm Contact Info: Jason Haley jason@jasonhaley.com 206-861-6906

Jan 24th

Pat Tormey Provides Good Overview of Using...

Pat Tormey, President of the New Hampshire User Group, provided everyone with a good overview of his experiences getting started with Silverlight at our January 13th meeting. Pat showed and discussed the pitfalls and successes of his first Silverlight project which provided a nice real life perspective on using that technology. Thanks for speaking Pat and we’ll see everyone at our next...

Jan 15th

Wed 1/13 Meeting:SilverLight Line of Business...

Pat Tormey has graciously volunteered to speak on short notice at the Wednesday meeting. Please help spread the word about the meeting via your blog, Twitter, etc. See you Wednesday. SilverLight Line of Business applications with RIA Services and Expression Blend Wednesday 1/13/2010 6-8 pm Microsoft Waltham, MA Office Guest Speaker Pat Tormey MS MVP Foursquare Solutions Inc In this...

Jan 12th

Wed Jan 13th Speaker: Pat Tormey on Silverlight...

Pat Tormey has volunteered to speak on a current Silverlight RIA application he is developing. Details posted tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.

Jan 12th

Boston .NET User Group Jan 13th Meeting: Need...

Unfortunately, our speaker for the Wed 1/13/2010 meeting has a family emergency and will be unable to speak. If you or anyone you know would be willing to present to the group this coming Wednesday please let me know at chris.pels@bostondotnet.org. We will make a decision by 6 pm Tue 1/12 whether we can hold our meeting. Check back for a follow-up announcement.

Jan 11th

O'Reilly Partners w/ Microsoft Press: Offers...

O’Reilly publishing has partnered with Microsoft Press and is now offering a 40% (books) 50% (e-books) discount on the O’Reilly web site. Use the code MSINT in the shopping cart.

Dec 11th

Boston .NET User Group Wed 12/9 Meeting CANCELLED

Horrible driving today so we’ll try again for at our Wed January 13th meeting. Have a great holidays!

Dec 9th

Gilbane Conference in Boston 12/1-3/2009

The Gilbane Conference is all about content management and worth checking out if you have an interest in this area.

Nov 24th

Northeast MSDN Roadshow-Providence

Our local developer evanglists Chris Bowen and Jim O’Neil are doing another edition of their popular MSDN Roadshow. Providence has been added this time on Wed 12/9 around so if you live in the area or know someone spread the word. See the details at http://bit.ly/101mOR.

Nov 21st

Boston .NET User Group 11/11/2009 Meeting...

Unfortunately our November meeting speaker is unable to make it so the meeting is cancelled. See you for our 12/9/2009 meeting.

Nov 11th

Boston Geek Dinner @ Boston Beer Works: Tue 11/17

From Jason Haley: Anyone up for a Geek dinner Nov 17th? It’s been 3 months since the last one … so I think it’s time for another. We’ll be upstairs by the pool tables in Boston Beer Works on Canal Street. I know Nov 17th is the first day of the PDC … but this date is driven by events at the Garden so sorry if you are going to be at the PDC - I’ll also try to schedule one for early...

Nov 6th

Enterprise Service Bus & BizTalk Server: Wed 10/14

Boston .NET User Group October 14, 2009 Meeting 6:00-8:00 p.m. Enterprise Service Bus & BizTalk Server Hai Ning, Microsoft BizTalk Server is the Microsoft premium enterprise application integration engine. In this session, we will take a tour around BizTalk, explore many core integration features it offers, and demonstrate an end-to-end order processing application that leverages BizTalk,...

Oct 6th

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Boston .NET User Group Blog

Welcome to the new Boston .NET User Group blog. This will be the central place for information on our meetings and other events. Bookmark the blog or add it to your RSS reader. In addition, you can follow this information on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bostondotnet. We also have a LinkedIn group which contains job announcements and the ability to network with other members.

Oct 5th