Upcoming Developer Events for February–March, 2011

Snow. Interesting.Sure, the snow may be making scheduling things… interesting, but the dev community marches on!  Here’s the next batch of developer events for the rest of February into March. 

As always, if you know of a missing event, please let me know.

-Chris

Connecticut

February 10
Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - Stamford, CT
”Data in the Cloud” – Peter Laudati

February 14
Hartford Area Build Guild – Farmington, CT

February 21
New England Silverlight Guild – Farmington, CT
Justin Kohlhepp on Silverlight

March 8
Connecticut .NET Developers Group – Farmington, CT
”Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services” – Brian Berry

Schedule TBD
Agile Connecticut - Farmington, CT
Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT
Hartford SQL Server Users Group – Farmington, CT
Connecticut DotNetNuke User Group - Bethany, CT

 

Maine

February 22 
Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
”PowerShell – bringing sexy back to the command line!” – Derek Price

February 28
Web Designers User Group – Portland, ME

Schedule TBD
Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME 
Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME

 

Massachusetts

February 9
Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA
“Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection and Aspect Oriented Programming” – Stuart Jones

February 9
Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA
“Developing Web Content Management Sites with SharePoint 2010” – Bob German & Ryan Sockalosky

February 10
jQuery Boston Meetup – Boston, MA
“Advanced jQuery Templates Applied Practically” – Tim Branyen

February 10
Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA

February 10
New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA
“Parallelism and Performance” – Adam Machanic

February 11-12
Student Event: New England College Hackathon – Cambridge, MA

February 15
Greater Boston New Technology Meetup – Cambridge, MA

February 16
HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA

February 16
Boston Web Performance Group – Boston, MA
“Automate Performance Analysis with dynaTrace, Selenium and ShowSlow” – Andreas Grabner

February 16
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA

February 16
Boston Azure Hackathon – Cambridge, MA

February 17
Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group - Agawam, MA
“Gathering SharePoint 2010 REST Data with JavaScript/jQuery” – Craig Pilkenton

February 17
Western Mass Developers’ Group – Hadley, MA

February 17
Boston WebsiteSpark Group – Cambridge, MA
“Windows Phone 7 Development with Silverlight” – John Garland

February 17
Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA

February 17
North Shore Web Geeks – Newburyport, MA

February 19
MobileCamp Boston – Cambridge, MA

February 19
Health 2.0 Code-A-Thon – Cambridge, MA

image9February 22
Light Up Your Silverlight Apps for Windows 7 Firestarter – Waltham, MA
Learn all about Silverlight and Windows 7 development from my colleagues Dani Diaz and David Isbitski.

February 23
Refresh Boston – Cambridge, MA
”Design for Change, It Makes Cents” – Patrick Haney

February 23
Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA

February 24
Boston WebsiteSpark Group – Cambridge, MA
“Introduction to Cloud Computing and Windows Azure” – Mark Eisenberg

February 24
Boston Azure User Group – Cambridge, MA
Cloud Security – Data Security & Identity Management

February 24
Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA

March 2
jQuery Boston Meetup – Boston, MA
“JavaScript File and Module Loading with RequireJS”

March 8
DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Cambridge, MA

March 9
Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA

March 9
Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA

March 10
Beantown .NET User Group - Cambridge, MA
“Top 5 Mistakes From My Last Successful Project” – Ben Day

March 10
New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA
”PowerShell” – Tim Roberts

March 14
New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA

March 16
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA

March 16
HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA 

March 21
New England Silverlight Guild – Cambridge, MA

March 24
Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA

March 31
Boston Azure User Group – Cambridge, MA

imageApril 2
SQL Saturday – Waltham, MA
Network and learn with other SQL Server professionals at this free community-driven event.

imageApril 5
Microsoft Web Camp – Waltham, MA
A free, full day to learn to build websites using ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery, Internet Explorer 9, HTML5, WebMatrix, OData, and more.

April 7
Beantown .NET User Group - Cambridge, MA
“Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a Startup” – Abby Fichtner

imageApril 9
SharePoint Saturday Boston – Waltham, MA
A free day filled with a wide variety of SharePoint-related sessions.  Details coming soon.

April 9-10
BarCamp Boston 6 – Cambridge, MA

GiveCamp.orgApril 29 – May 1
New England Give Camp – Cambridge, MA
A weekend for area technology professionals to give back to the community, supporting area non-profit organizations.

Schedule TBD
Boston BizSpark Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA
Cape Cod .NET User Group – Plymouth, MA
New England Windows Phone User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA
New England ASP.NET Professionals – Waltham, MA
Boston Business Intelligence – Waltham, MA
Build Guild – Salem, MA
Boston JavaScript Meetup – Cambridge, MA 
New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA 
Boston Cloud Services – Waltham, MA
Cape Cod XNA User Group – Hyannis, MA
IASA New England – Waltham, MA
UX Book Club, Boston – Cambridge, MA

  

New Hampshire

February 9
NH .NET User Group, Nashua – Nashua, NH
Special Event - “The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)” – Kathleen Dollard, INETA Speaker

February 10
Nashua Scrum Club – Nashua, NH
“Team Foundation Server 2010 in a Scrum-y World” – Ben Day

Schedule TBD
NH .NET User Group, Concord – Concord, NH
Seacoast SQL Server Users Group – Portsmouth, NH

 

New York (Upstate)

February 9
Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY
”Windows Phone 7: Monetize Your Apps” – Andy Beaulieu

February 10 
Rochester SharePoint User Group – Rochester, NY
”Saving SharePoint” (Disaster Recovery) - Sean McDonough

February 11-13
Student Event: “We ♥ Games” at RIT – Rochester, NY
Students gathering for 48 hours of developing games!

February 15
Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group – Rochester, NY and Online
”SQL Server PowerShell Extensions” – Chad Miller

February 16
Build Guild – Troy, NY

February 19
BarCamp Albany – Troy, NY

February 23 
VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY

image3February 24
Light Up Your Silverlight Apps for Windows 7 Firestarter – West Henrietta, NY
Learn all about Silverlight and Windows 7 development from my colleagues Dani Diaz and David Isbitski.

March 2
Rochester Javascript – Rochester, NY

March 2
CloudCamp Albany – Troy, NY
An unconference to exchange experiences and knowledge on cloud computing.

Schedule TBD
Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY
Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group – Syracuse, NY
Western NY SQL Server PASS – Amherst, NY
Refresh Rochester – Rochester, NY
Western New York .NET Users Group - Amherst, NY

 

Rhode Island

February 9
Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI
“Microsoft Dynamics CRM, The Product” – Anne Stanton

February 16
Providence Geeks – Providence, RI

March 16
Providence Geeks – Providence, RI

Schedule TBD
Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI

  

Vermont

February 15 
Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT
9th Anniversary and “ASP.NET MVC 3 Architecture” with Kathleen Dollard, INETA Speaker

Schedule TBD
Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT