Devfish’s Corner

The Professional Developer Conference (PDC) this year was quite a show. The PDC provided a great forward look at a number of topics including Cloud Services, Windows Presentation Foundation F#, C#, and Visual Basic futures, Visual Studio "Oslo", the Live Framework, Mesh Services, VSTS 2010, Data Services, and Parallel Programming.  I know tons of folks who wish they could have been there, but couldn’t quite swing the trip from Florida to Los Angeles to attend in person.  Soooo, here’s some good news for you if you didn’t make it to the PDC.  We’re hosting a MSDN Developer Conference in Orlando on December 11^th.  All the essentials from the PDC, and even more, will be covered. For more info on the event checkout the post at http://www.devfish.net/fullblogitemview.aspx?blogid=609 . If you are a MSDN Flash, DevFish blog or twitter reader, and you are going to the MSDN DevCon, let me know.  I’m going to have a special social that night, and will enter everyone who responds to jhealy@microsoft.com in a raffle for some tickets to the social.  Hope to see you there.

Joe Healy, a.k.a. the DevFish, is the developer evangelist for Florida. He enjoys fishing, games, writing .NET code, and playing with girls, Ryan and Morgan. Visit his blog, or send him e-mail.

 

Tampa CodeCamp – December 6

Keith Kabza is currently accepted registration and speaker requests for Tampa CodeCamp IV.  Tampa CC will be on Saturday, December 6^th.  Last year registration was shut down at 600 people.  If you are planning on attending the Tampa CodeCamp, you should register now.  See http://www.devfish.net/FullBlogItemView.aspx?BlogId=608 or more info.

 

MSDN Tiki Huts Roadshows Are Coming

Microsoft has the .NET Tiki Team coming through your turf with content on SQL 2008, Silverlight and more.  Events are planned for Tallahassee, Pensacola, Melbourne, and Jacksonville.  Be sure to sign up, space is limited

 

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Space Coast Credit Union - Corporate Headquarters

8045 N. Wickham Road, Melbourne, FL 32940

Register: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032392616&CountryCode=US  

 

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Florida Community College - Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts - Lakeside Room

11901 Beach Blvd, Jacksonville, Florida 32246

Register: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032389331&CountryCode=US

 

 

Gold Coast UG Holiday Party

Come to the 14th Annual Holiday Party and technical training held by the Gold Coast Users Group entitled "GUI Extravaganza".  Once again featuring Developer Legends Tim Huckaby and Ken Spencer and taking place December 5 in Boca Raton.  From 3:30-4:40 PM - Ken Spencer speaks about Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Applications in the Real World.  From 4:45-6:00 you can see really cool Surface Applications in the Real World by Tim Huckaby.  From 6:00PM- ? it’s the Holiday Party hosted by Paul George.  Theme this year is a Cowboy Western Hoedown!  Bar by Shervin Shakibi.  Bring your Cowboy Hats, Boots and Chaps for a real Hoedown! http://GCUsersGroup.org

 

South Florida CodeCamp V – February 7

The oldest ongoing codecamp in Florida, last year South Florida CodeCamp drew over 500 people.  Dave Noderer has opened registration and call for speakers for this years event on Saturday, February 7.  See http://www.devfish.net/FullBlogItemView.aspx?BlogId=607 for speaker request and actual event registration itself.

 

MSDN Mainline Events

November 18 in Orlando, and November 20 in Tampa come see Russ Fustino deliver sessions on SQL 2008, Silverlight, and Visual Studio Tools for office.  See http://www.devfish.net/fullblogitemview.aspx?blogid=591 for more details.

 

LOCAL EVENTS

BahaNET – Nassau, Bahamas ( http://www.bahanet.org )

 

Boca Raton DotNetNuke Group ( http://dotnetnuke.meetup.com/44/ )

See website

 

Central Florida Biztalk User Group ( http://www.cfbtug.org )

11/20/2008 - Danny del Rio about Enterprise Application Integration / Implementing and Consuming SOA Services with BizTalk Server 2006R2.

12/17/2008 – Biztalk and the Healthcare HL7 Accelerator – Shawn Cutter

 

Florida PowerShell User Group – Miramar, FL ( http://www.flpsug.com )

10/25/2008, 3PM – 2^nd Life - Part 2 of 3 - PowerShell intermediate – Max Trinidad

11/04/2008 – Citrix - SQL Server 2008 TSQL Enhancements plus Powershell – Dave Noderer / Max Trinidad

11/11/2008 – Miramar - SQL Server 2008 PowerShell – Max Trinidad

11/22/2008, 3PM – 2^nd Life - Part 3 of 3 - Beyond PowerShell – Max Trinidad

 

Ft. Lauderdale / Miramar ( http://www.fladotnet.com )

11/18/2008 – SQL Server Scalability Considerations – Herve Roggero

11/20/2008 – SSIS – Shervin Shakibi

12/2/2008 – Silverlight 2: Data & Visual Templates – Caleb Jenkins

2/7/2009 – CodeCamp V

 

Ft. Walton Beach, FL ( http://www.gulfcoastdotnet.org )
1/15/2009 - tbd

 

Gainesville, FL – GatorMUG ( http://www.gatormug.org )

11/17/2008 - Developer Opportunities with Sharepoint Online – Joe Homnick

 

GoldCoast User Group – Boca Raton, FL ( http://www.gcdotnet.com )
11/13/2008 - Developer Opportunities with Sharepoint Online – Joe Homnick

12/5/2008 - 14th Annual Users Group Meeting and Holiday Party featuring The Legends Tim Huckaby, Billy Hollis and Ken Spencer!

1/8/2008 – New Data Mining Capabilities – David Cobb

 

International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners  (click on Florida Tampa Chapter) ( http://www.iamcp.org/pages/default.aspx )

12/18/2008 – Happy Hour

 

Jacksonville .NET Developer Group ( http://www.jaxdug.com )

11/25/2008 – Arch SIG - tbd

 

Jacksonville Office Geeks ( http://www.jacksonvilleofficegeeks.org )
11/20/2008 – Creating & Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows Sharepoint Services – Andrew Connell

 

Jacksonville SQL Server ( http://www.jssug.com )
11/19/2008 - tbd

 

Lakeland .NET ( http://www.cfdotnet.org )
10/21/2008 – tbd

 

Naples, FL ( http://www.swfldev.net )

11/18/2008 – John Papa – Data Services with Silverlight 2

 

Orlando Dotnetnuke ( http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net  )

11/20/2008 – Innovative uses of DotNetNuke – David Bayer

12/9/2008 – Malware and how it affects you and your customers – Janie Whitty

 

Orlando .NET User Group ( http://www.onetug.org )
11/20/2008 – Silverlight with Data Services – John Papa

12/11/2008 – topic tba - Mark Dunn

 

Orlando SQL Server ( http://www.opass.org )

11/11/2008 – topic tbd - Jessica Moss

Pensacola .NET ( http://pjcdotnet.events.live.com/default.aspx )

see website

 

Pensacola SQL Server ( http://www.pensacolasql.com )

12/4/2008 – MDX for Programmers – Barry Ralston

 

Sarasota IT Pro Group ( http://www.sarasotaitpro.org )

11/13/2008 – Making the move from Virtual Server to Hyper-V – Van Vangor

 

Sarasota .NET Developer Group ( http://www.sarasotadev.net )

12/5/2008 – DotNetNuke v5 – Installing and Configuring – Stan Schultes

1/22/2009 – Aspect Oriented Programming – David Hayden

2/2009 – A Lap Around VSTS 2010 – Brandon Kelly

3/2009 – tbd – Ambrose Little

 

Sarasota SQL Server Group ( http://www.sarasotasql.net )

11/6/2008 – SSIS in SQL 2008 – Jessica Moss

 

***South Florida Sharepoint User Group ( http://www.sharepointgroups.org/sfsug  )

12/4/2008 – tbd

 

South Florida SQL Server ( http://www.gcsqlgroup.com )

11/20/2008 – Miramar - tbd

12/4/2008 – West Palm Beach - End of year party

12/18/2008 – End of year party

1/22/2008 – Securing SQL Server Best Practices - Brian Knight

 

Space Coast / Melbourne, FL ( http://www.scdnug.org )
11/19/2008 - .NET Tiki Hut – Microsoft

12/10/2008 – Windows Workflow – Mark Dunn

 

Tallahassee Sharepoint Developers ( http://www.tallahasseespeed.com )

See website

 

Tallahassee .NET (http://capitalcitydotnet.net )

11/20/2008 – ArchSIG – WCF and REST – Steven Lane

12/4/2008 – tbd – Kelvin McDaniel

12/18/2008 – ArchSIG – Code Generation and T4 Text Templates – Oleg Sych

 

Tampa Bay Agile Group ( http://agiletampa.spaces.live.com )

See website

 

Tampa Bay Architecture Special Interest Group (IASA) ( http://tampabayiasa.eventbrite.com )

11/20/2008 - Danny del Rio about Enterprise Application Integration / Implementing and Consuming SOA Services with BizTalk Server 2006R2.

1/29/2009 – tbd

 

Tampa Bay Office Geeks Association ( http://floridaofficegeeks.org/TOGA/default.aspx )

12/9/2008 - tbd

 

Tampa Bay .NET ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
12/6/2008 – Tampa .NET CodeCamp IV

 

Tampa Bay User Experience Group ( http://www.tampaux.org )

11/12/2008– Show & Tell: Show us your UI

 

TAMPA BAY SQL SERVER ( http://www.tampasql.com )
11/18/2008 - What have you learned lately?

12/16/2008 - Social at Courtside Grille

1/20/2008 – TBA

1/24/2008 – SQL Saturday #10

 

Tampa Bay SQL Server Business Intelligence ( http://tampabaybi.sqlpass.org )

11/3/2008 – Jessica Moss

12/1/2008 - tbd

 

West Palm Beach ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
12/4/2008 – Party and 2009 Planning

12/11/2008 – Building Maintainable Web Applications / ASP.NET Tips and Tricks – Tony Lombardo

 

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