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Free Connected Home Day Event on September 13th
Interested in learning about the cool things you can do with your home computers? Want to see...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/14/2008
Code Camp 10 - Registration and Call for Speakers!
"Dev InTENsity!" We're ready to go with about six weeks until New England's Code Camp 10! CC10 will...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/08/2008
Hartford Code Camp Registration Open
The Hartford area's first Code Camp is coming up quickly (on August 16th) and registration is now...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 08/05/2008
Upcoming Northeast Developer Events - August
Here's the latest developer event summary for these, uh, summery days. (Terrible pun, I...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/28/2008
Essential WCF Featured on ARCast.TV
Thanks to some great work by my colleague Bob Familiar, there's a new ARCast.TV episode featuring...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/22/2008
Boston XNA July 23rd Meeting on 2D Role Playing Game Development
The Boston XNA Developers Group is an open user group for anyone interested in learning about...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/22/2008
John Papa Speaking with Tech Valley and New Hampshire User Groups This Week
John Papa (MSDN columnist, MVP, and INETA speaker) will be visiting the Northeast area and speaking...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/21/2008
Announcing New England Code Camp 10!
It's amazing to say, but we're gearing up for our tenth Code Camp in the New England area! And...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/14/2008
Giving Two User Group Talks on XNA This Week!
Some coincidental scheduling has given me a chance to speak with both the Boston .NET and Beantown...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/06/2008
Code Camp Hartford - Call for Speakers Open
As I mentioned earlier, Code Camp Hartford (the first for the area!) is coming on August 16th. ...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 07/06/2008
Upcoming Northeast Developer Events - July
Summer at last! Time for vacations and relaxation, but there's also plenty going on in the...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/30/2008
Code Camp Hartford - Save the Date!
Fantastic news for northeast developers - a Code Camp is now coming to the Hartford, Connecticut...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/27/2008
Office 2007 Search Commands Add-On
Prompted by recent feedback on a Roadshow visit, I set off to research a bit about the...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/27/2008
June Boston XNA Meeting Canceled
Unfortunately, tonight's (6/23) meeting for the Boston XNA Developers Group will have to be...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/25/2008
Northeast XNA Game Developer Featured on CNN
[Thanks to Lindsay for the heads-up!] Currently featured as the lead Tech story is an article...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/23/2008
Special "Meet the Authors" Event Next Week
A free event has been arranged for next week to celebrate the release of three books featuring work...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/11/2008
Northeast Roadshow Concludes This Week
This week we have the final two stops for our fifth Northeast Roadshow. June 10 - Rochester, NY...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 06/08/2008
ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Released
Great news from the team that's working on bringing Model View Controller to ASP.NET - the Preview 3...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/27/2008
Tips from My Technical Presentations
My role involves spending a good deal of time with technical audiences. Recently, I've been getting...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/27/2008
Boston XNA Developer Group Wednesday
Just a reminder that the Boston XNA Developer Group will be having a meeting at its usual day/time...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/27/2008
Jim O'Neil Blogs!
If you’ve been to our Roadshow or some of the Heroes Happen Here events, you’ve had a...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/27/2008
Northeast Roadshow Starts on Thursday
Bob, Jim, and I will be packing into the car tomorrow as we travel to our first stop of the May/June...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/20/2008
VB Day on May 27th (Waltham, MA)
There are still a few more seats available for the VB.NET Day event coming up on May 27th in...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/19/2008
Three Events in Upstate New York This Week (5/13 - 5/15)
I'm getting ready to head out for a multi-event tour of upstate New York this week: Tuesday, May...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/12/2008
New Hampshire .NET UG Returns on May 15th!
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Pat Tormey has been hard at work revitalizing the New Hampshire...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/09/2008
XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP Released
Been waiting to try your hand at creating XNA games for the Zune? Want to use Visual Studio 2008...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/08/2008
Make Silverlight Games with Popfly Game Creator
Many people have been using Silverlight to create games for the web, but until now, you've had to be...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/04/2008
The Roadshow Rides Again! - May/June Edition
The Northeast Roadshow We're at it again! It's time to pack our laptops and gear to head out across...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 05/02/2008
New England SQL Server User Group Special Event - 5/8
Adam Machanic sends word that the New England SQL Server User Group is hosting a special event on...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/30/2008
Silverlight 2.0 and RIA Development Article Series
Our very own Bob Familiar has been cruising the seas of Silverlight and has recently posted a very...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/30/2008
New Expression Web Community-Based Wiki
An MVP based here in the northeast, Kathleen Anderson has announced on her blog that there is a new...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/30/2008
BarCamp Boston 3 Announced
The next BarCamp for the Boston area has just been announced. BarCampBoston 3 will be on May 17th...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/28/2008
The Digital Dorm Room Tour Has Arrived!
My colleague Edwin Guarin, who focuses on academia here in the northeast, has just kicked off the...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/15/2008
Boston XNA Developers Group Update
The Boston XNA Developers Group is dedicated to learning and using XNA to create games for Windows...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/09/2008
Special Boston Scalability User Group Event - 4/23
On April 23rd, the (recently-formed!) Boston Scalability User Group will serve as host for a special...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/08/2008
Web North of Boston (WebNOB) Kickoff Meeting 4/8
From the "late notice is better than no notice" department, I'd like to pass along word that the new...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/08/2008
Code Camp 9 Registration Limit Increased
The great interest in this weekend's Code Camp 9 has put us over our limit of 500 registrants! We've...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/03/2008
Speaking: RI on 4/1, Syracuse on 4/2, Code Camp on 4/5
A quick note to post my speaking schedule for this week: Tonight (4/1), I'll be at the Rhode Island...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 04/01/2008
Presentation Zooming with ZoomIt
After my Heroes Happen Here talk in Boston about web development with Visual Studio 2008, I got a...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 03/30/2008
The New Hampshire .NET User Group is Back!
Pat Tormey, who runs the New Hampshire .NET User Group, just sent word that the group has a new site...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 03/30/2008
Tech Valley Code Camp in Albany, NY - April 19th
Great news for developers in the eastern upstate New York area - a Code Camp is coming to your neck...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 03/26/2008
Upcoming Northeast Developer Events - Spring 2008
Here's the next batch of upcoming events of interest to developers and architects in the northeast....
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 03/23/2008
Learn XNA at the Next Boston XNA Developers Group Meeting
On March 26th at the next Boston XNA Developers Group meeting, we're starting the process of...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 03/13/2008
Code Camp 9 Update
Things are moving along well for Code Camp 9, coming on April 5th and 6th at the Microsoft offices...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 03/13/2008
TechEd 2008 Birds of a Feather Call for Topics and Voting
If you're planning to go to TechEd in June, consider volunteering to be a moderator for a Birds of a...
Author: Chris Bowen Date: 03/12/2008