### DevFish >««(o> Corner ###
Going to remix in Boston? Lots of great sessions going on there. More goodies are coming with the remix registration and there will now be sessions on linux and silverlight (see below). The agenda is definitely making the long haul worth it. Lots of great stuff happening in our community, including the birth of the new Sarasota IT Pro Group and the Lakeland .NET group. Good luck to both and we're here to help!

### bama cc 5 ###
Alabama has codecamp five on the books. The date is Saturday, October 6. If you're interested in speaking or attending, be sure and check out http://www.alabamacodecamp.com .

### Day of Silverlight ###
Microsoft Program Manager Jesse Liberty (from Redmond) and John Papa (MVP) of AspSoft, in association with Orlando.NET are presenting a full day on Silverlight. The event is on a Saturday so no excuses. See http://www.dayofsilverlight.com for more info. Special thanks to Shawn Weisfeld (MVP) of the ONETUG for wrangling this together.

### itpro group sarasota ###
Sarasota IT Pro UG is a new user group focused on IT infrastructure and security. The purpose of the User Group is to help its members discover and get excited about all the latest and new technologies coming out of Microsoft such as SMS, Exchange, Windows Server, etc. For more information on meeting times and dates please visit http://www.sarasotaitpro.org. Thanks to Santos Martinez and Jose Luis Manners for starting this up.

### Lakeland .NET ###
The new Lakeland .NET user group is up and running. Special thanks to Robert Lawson for getting it up and going. The first meeting is November 13. Speaker is tbd at this point. Watch http://www.cfdotnet.org for more info.

### stawski/argentina ###
Local MVP and ASPSOFT employee Jonas Stawski will be heading to Argentina to help with their codecamp on October 24. Jonas did a great job assisting with getting the event off the ground. Check out his post at http://jstawski.com/archive/2007/08/29/code-camp-buenos-aires-argentina.aspx for more info.

### naples poker tourney ###
Naples .NET Developer Group is sponsoring a holiday poker tournament on December 14. There will be a special bounty for the one who knocks the devfish out. More info at http://www.naplesdot.net.

### remix ###
Remix07 is in Boston Oct 8 and 9. The event is basically a ton of the Mix07 content put on. Sweet thing is its only $300 registration. Sessions on Silverlight, WPF, Web 2.0, Expression, Ajax, LinQ, and more. Looks like there is going to be a fairly large Florida .NET Scene contingent on hand. See http://www.devfish.net/fullblogitemview.aspx?blogid=442 for more information and registration information. UPDATED: Remix attendees now get company store purchase rights for up to $120 worth of stuff ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes/archive/2007/09/12/remix-boston-october-8-9-2007-need-another-reason-to-go.aspx ). Also, Miguel de Igaza of mono / novell / moonlight fame will be doing sessions on Silverlight on Linux ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes/archive/2007/09/07/boston-remix-silverlight-moonlight-cats-dogs-living-together-oh-my.aspx ).

### SQLSaturday Orlando ###
The Orlando SQL Server Users Group (oPASS) is sponsoring the world's first SQLSaturday, a free one day training event for SQL Server professonals. The event will be November 10, 2007, at the Heathrow Campus of Seminole Community College. We have more than 20 sessions submitted already by a selection of great speakers including Joe Celko, Brian Knight, Andy Warren, Shawn Weisfeld, Kevin Jacobs, Jon Winer, Mike Antonovich, JC Armand, Chris Rock, Jeff Garbus, Wed Dumey, Michael Well, Brandon Kelly, David Eichner, Pam Shaw, Scott Farriss, Bayer White, Jose Fuentes, David Eichner, and Joe Healy. We hope to have 30 sessions total and lunch will be provided. For more information visit www.sqlsaturday.com.

### Celko on SQL - Orlando ###
Joe Celko, famed SQL guru and author of six great SQL books will be presenting a one day seminar titled 'Celko on SQL' in Orlando on November 9th, 2007. Topics covered will include why IDENTITY doesn't work, OLAP functions OVER clauses on aggregates, nested sets for hierarchies, and more. Both DBA's and developers will benefit from this seminar that is guaranteed to have you rethinking how you solve your SQL tasks at the office. Registration is $249 per person, but readers of the Flash can sign up for just $99 through Sep 15th - use code FLASH at checkout. Visit http://www.endtoendtraining.com for more details and to register.

### SFL CC III ###
South Florida Code Camp 2008 - We have the date - February 2, 2008 and the location: Devry University in Miramar. Starting this month we will begin planning, lining up track chairs and generally getting organized. Our goal is to have the website up by September. If you know of anyone who wants to volunteer, speak, chair a track or be a sponsor, please drop a line to: SFCodeCamp@fladotnet.com

### devlink ###
Put in as a favor to our good friend Jon Box! devLink Conference, October 12-13, Nashville, TN. The devLink Technical Conference (devLink 2007) will provide technical content of interest to Software Developers, Solution Architects, Database Administrators, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Technology Executives and IT professionals looking for the latest and greatest content. http://www.devlink.net

### LOCAL EVENTS ### for the local events section

Birmingham Software Developer Association - ( http://www.bsda.info )
10/16/2007 - FarPointTechnologies Roadshow
11/8/2007 - Doug Turnure - "not decided yet"

FLADOTNET - multiple - ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
10/2/2007 - Fort Lauderdale - CODE IDOL - Shervin Shakibi, Dave Noderer and Mystery Guest will judge
10/9/2007 - IdeaBlade DevForce and PowerShell for .NET - Max Trinidad of Claire's Stores
11/6/2007 - Tag your It! Exploring the new Microsoft RFID solution Stack for RFID integration. - Jeff Barnes of Microsoft
11/13/207 - Smart Client and Web Service Software Factories - Stan Schultes (MVP)
12/11/2007 - Miramar - Jonas Stawski (MVP) of ASPSOFT - InfoPath Forms Services with Web Forms
2/2/2008 - South Florida .NET CodeCamp III

Ft. Walton Beach, FL ( http://www.gulfcoastdotnet.org )
110/11/2007 - Jon Goodyear (MVP/RD) - Jon's favorite topic

Gator .NET User Group - Gainesville, FL ( http://www.gatormug.org )
110/18/2007 - SQL Server 2008 by Brian Knight (MVP)
11/15/2007 - VS 2008 Pre-Launch Event - Joe Homnick (MVP)

GoldCoast User Group ( http://www.gcdotnet.com )
10/11/2007 - Paul George - Windows Server 2008 Pre-Launch Event
11/8/2007 - Corey O'Mara - Visual Studio 2008 Pe-Launch Event
12/7/2007 - 13th Annual Holiday Meeting and Party

HUNTUG (All events Huntsville, AL) ( http://www.huntug.org )
9/9/26/2007 - It’s All About the Tools (LINQ, WCF and Silverlight) - Russ Fustino of Microsoft
10/9/2007 - Kathleen Dollard (MVP) - topic tbd but .net related
10/15/2007 - Gridlocked in your development efforts – Scott Shorter of FarPoint Technologies
11/13/2007 - .NET U on Web Technologies, Part 1 (Silverlight, AJAX) - Doug Turnure of Microsoft and other speakers
11/19/2007 - .NET U on Web Technologies, Part 2 (Silverlight, AJAX) - Doug Turnure of Microsoft and other speakers

Jacksonville .NET - Jacksonville, FL ( http://www.jaxdug.com )
9/27/2007 - ArchSIG - Architecting Solutions Based on Customer Requirements - Bayer White
10/3/2007 - Consulting and Unit Testing Tips - Andrew Connell (MVP) and Corey Gusden

Jacksonville Office Geeks ( http://www.jacksonvilleofficegeeks.org )
9/27/2007 - Creating Publishing Sites with MOSS 2007 Web Content Management - Andrew Connell (MVP)

Jacksonville SQL Server ( http://jacksonville.sqlservercentral.com ) see website

Lakeland .NET ( http://www.cfdotnet.org )
11/13/2007 - speaker tbd

Miami User Group ( http://www.miamiusersgroup.org ) see website

Mobile, AL - ( http://www.loweraldotnet.org )
9/26/2007 - Doug Turnure of Microsoft - "tbd"
10/6/2007 - Alabama .NET CodeCamp V - Birmingham - http://www.alabamacodecamp.com

Montgomery, AL .NET User Group ( http://www.simplifi.com/madev )
110/6/2007 - Alabama .NET CodeCamp V - Birmingham - http://www.alabamacodecamp.com 10/17/2007 - Farpoint Technologies Roadshow

NAPLES, FL ( http://www.naplesdot.net )
10/17/2007 - Mike Culver of Amazon - Amazon Web Services
12/13/2007 - Patrick Hynds (MVP) - Web Security
12/14/2007 - Naples .NET UG Poker Tournament

ONETUG.ORG ( http://www.onetug.org )
10/18/2007 - Mike Culver - Amazon Web Services for the .NET developer
12/15/2007 - Day of Silverlight - Jesse Liberty of Microsoft, John Papa (MVP) of ASPSOFT

Orlando Sharepoint Users Group ( http://www.mossmosis.com/schedule_orlando.html )
10/10/2007 - speaker tbd
12/12/2007 - speaker tbd Orlando SQL Server ( http://www.opass.org )
10/9/2007 - Bill Graziano of SQLTeam.com - "What I wish developers knew"
11/9/2007 - Joe Celko on SQL 11/10/2007 - SQL Saturday - http://www.sqlsaturday.com

SARASOTA .NET DEVELOPER GROUP ( http://www.sarasotadev.net )
10/16/2007 - Visual Studio Macro Development - Kennon McCaa

SARASOTA SQL SERVER GROUP ( http://www.sarasotasql.net )
10/9/2007 - SQL2005 Implementation by John Hennesey
11/10/2007 - SQL Saturday - http://www.sqlsaturday.com Space Coast / Melbourne, FL ( http://www.scdnug.org )
10/15/2007 - Mike Culver of Amazon - Amazon Web Services for the .NET Developer

TALLAHASSEE .NET ( http://www.tlhdotnet.net ) see website

Tampa Bay Office Geeks Association ( http://floridaofficegeeks.org/TOGA/default.aspx )
10/29/2007 - Configuring and Extending Enterprise Search with SharePoint Server 2007 - Shane Young (MVP) and Ted Pattison (MVP)

Tampa Bay .NET ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
10/18/2007 - Data Access Layer Code Generation Using the Repository Factory And More - David Hayden (MVP)

TAMPA BAY SQL SERVER ( http://www.tampasql.com ) see website

Tampa Bay SQL Server Business Intelligence ( http://tampasqlbi.sqlservercentral.com )
10/8/2007 - Rob Hatton 11/5/2007 - tbd
12/3/2007 - tbd

West Palm Beach ( http://www.fladotnet.com ))
9/25/2007 - West Palm Beach - Skin a Nuke! DotNetNuke skinning - Tracy Wittenkeller of TWorx
10/23/2007 Building an ASP.NET website using LINQ to SQL - Larry Port of Otive LLC
11/27/2007 - West Palm Beach - Mary Chipman of Microsoft - topic tbd