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November Tech Calendar
See also Chris' round up of the recurring user group and meetups dates for November....
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/31/2011
Torn Between Two (Code) Camps
It’s a busy weekend in the Boston area in terms of tech camps, but I’m planning on making the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/26/2011
Upstate New York Tech Events
I tend to be a bit Boston-centric given my physical location and where the population center of the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/26/2011
Photo Mosaics Part 7: Service Bus
Ok, it’s been a really, really long time since my last substantive Windows Azure post, but...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/20/2011
MS Dev WNY - Buffalo Area Developers Group Kicks Off!
Next Wednesday, Oct. 26th, MS Dev WNY (the rebranded presence of the Western New York .NET User’s...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/20/2011
Mango Montage–Windows Phone Camp “Kick-off”
On October 12-13, at the Marriott in Kendall Square (Cambridge MA) – said to be one of the most...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/17/2011
Business Intelligence Camp Wrap-up
This past Saturday, over 75 area technologists gathered at the Microsoft Office in Waltham for the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/17/2011
New England Code Camp–Sweet Sixteen
It’s that time again, New England Code Camp will be held on October 29th, 2011 at the Microsoft...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 10/06/2011
October Tech Calendar
Yikes, the year is almost 3/4 gone! Looks like a busy month ahead of us tech-wise – starting...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/28/2011
Code Camp NYC–October 1, 2011
For those of you on the southern edge of Chris’ and my stomping grounds (or those of you looking for...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/22/2011
Business Intelligence Code Camp–October 15th
The Boston Business Intelligence User Group is holding its second New England Business Intelligence...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/20/2011
Windows Phone Camps (Boston, Burlington, New Paltz, and more!)
Another update, an additional stop at the University of Rochester on November 15th has been added....
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/16/2011
Entity Framework Boot Camp (Oct. 3–7th)
Perhaps you’ve heard of some of the significant new features of Entity Framework 4.1, including...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/08/2011
Three New-ish Microsoft Meetups in Cambridge
With Labor Day (the unofficial end of summer) behind us and the kids - or maybe even yourself – back...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/07/2011
Photo Mosaics Part 6: Roles
The last three posts of this series went into some detail on the various storage aspects of the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 09/02/2011
September Tech Calendar
Here’s the ‘back to school’ edition of the more significant, non-monthly technical...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/31/2011
New England Mobile .NET Developers’ Meetup
A new group focused on mobile development with the .NET platform is kicking off on Wednesday evening...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/22/2011
Photo Mosaics Part 5: Queues
Our look at the internals of my Azure Photo Mosaics program continues with this coverage of the use...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/22/2011
The Social Media Collective @ NERD
If you’re a technology geek in the greater Boston area, chances are you’ve attended at least one...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/18/2011
Windows Azure Price Slashing!
Just got some great news regarding updates to the pricing structure for Windows Azure that not only...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/16/2011
Photo Mosaics Part 4: Tables
In this continuation of my deep-dive look at the Azure Photo Mosaics application I built earlier...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/16/2011
Register for SharePoint Saturday, New Hampshire
The very first SharePoint Saturday in New Hampshire will be held on Saturday, September 24th, at...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/15/2011
Photo Mosaics Part 3: Blobs
Given that the Photo Mosaics application's domain is image processing, it shouldn't be a surprise...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/11/2011
On-line Windows Azure and SQL Azure Expo
I’ve just updated my August Tech Calendar post with this free, on-line event sponsored by the SQL...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/09/2011
New Innovation Meetup in New Hampshire
If you're a startup or entrepreneur (or just a run-of-the-mill techie like me) in southern New...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 08/09/2011
August Tech Calendar
Updated 8/9 to include the SSWUG Windows Azure and SQL Azure on-line event Here’s a round-up of the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/31/2011
Inside the Cloud
The Global Foundation Services team, the folks at Microsoft who 'run the cloud,' have just released...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/27/2011
The Kids are Alright
... or "what I did on summer vacation." Did you know that "evangelist" comes from the ancient Greek...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/26/2011
Photo Mosaics Part 1: Application Workflow
Hopefully you’ve had a chance to grab the Photo Mosaics application and set it up in your own...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/21/2011
Photographic Mosaics in Windows Azure: A New Series
During our last Windows Azure live event series, the Azure TechJam (get materials here), I...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/18/2011
Student Summer Windows Phone App-a-Thon
If you have a college student on summer break at your house (as I do), you might be lamenting that...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/11/2011
Troubleshooting Endpoints on a WCF Web Role
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on enhancing a Windows Azure example application...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 07/11/2011
Rock, Paper, Azure LIVE in Cambridge–Jun 23rd
If you follow my blog, you know that some of my evangelist colleagues and I put together a series of...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 06/18/2011
HTML5 and CSS3 support in Visual Studio 2010
Just a quick post to pass on the release of the Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (and...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 06/16/2011
Windows Phone Firestarter–Syracuse-June 11th
If you’re in the upstate New York area, you won’t want to miss this great opportunity for a...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 06/07/2011
Events are Bustin’ Out All Over
As you’re focusing on your Memorial Day plans and the unofficial beginning of summer, take note that...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/26/2011
Participate in TechEd Without Leaving Home
I’m not at TechEd North America, which starts today in Atlanta, but that doesn't mean I (or more...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/16/2011
Special Event: Future of Web and Search
If you’re in the greater Boston area on Wednesday, Xconomy and Microsoft’s New England Research and...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/09/2011
Augusta Business Intelligence Event–May 16th
Those of you in the Boston area are likely aware of the community that has been built up around the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/04/2011
Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter
This is a great opportunity to catch one of the true rockstars of .NET development talking about the...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/04/2011
New England Code Camp 15–This Weekend!
Derby Day may be the greatest two minutes in sports, but it’s got nothing on the value and fun of...
Author: Jim O'Neil Date: 05/03/2011