Thursday, February 02, 2006 - Posts

TechEd 2006 Boston Details and Registration Now Available

The TechEd 2006 site has now been updated with details about the June 11-16 event in Boston.  Registration is now open as well.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/default.mspx

Interesting details:

  • Early Bird (by 4/14) cost is $1,795
  • A Sunday night keynote with Ray Ozzie and Kurt DelBene
  • The special attendee event will be at Fenway Park.  (Unfortunately the Red Sox will be out on a road trip, but it should be a great night of food, drink and music.)
  • The Technical Learning Center
  • The standard staples of Bird-of-a-Feather sessions, Chalk Talks, Expo Hall, MCP testing, Hands-On Labs and Jam sessions are fully intact

While I usually enjoy being able to travel to a distant city to get away and "geek out" for the week, it's going to be great having it right in our back yard.

I hope to see you there!

-Chris

Upcoming Greater Boston Developer Events

There's a good number of developer events coming in the next couple of months, so here's a list of what I'm aware of:

February 2, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Beantown .NET User Group (Downtown Boston)
Jason Haley - "Practical Disassembling"

February 2, 6:15 - 8:30 PM
New England Visual Basic Professionals
Ben Sabitini - "Real-time monitoring of production applications with AVICode"
Pat Tormey - "Dot Net Nuke"

February 7, 6:00 PM
Western Mass .NET User Group
David Schein - "Introduction to XML"

February 8, 5:30 - 9:00 PM
Boston .NET User Group
5:30-7:00 PM, Technology Cabana
7:00-9:00 PM, Jesse Liberty - "Personalizing Your Web Site with ASP.NET 2.0"

February 9, 5:30 - 8:00 PM
New England C# User Group
Phil Denoncourt - "New Features of the 2.0 Framework"

February 15, 6:30 PM
Club Pocket PC - Boston
Steve Hughes & Thom Robbins - "Multimedia Madness!"

February 16, 6:00 - 8:30 PM
New Hampshire .NET User Group
Joe Stagner - "Introducing Windows Mobile 5.0"

February 21, 6:00 - 8:ish PM
Boston Area Geek Dinner

February 25, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Enterprise Mobility Mini Code Camp
Don Sorcinelli

February 28, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Connecticut .NET User Group
Miguel Castro - "ASP.NET v2.0 Development"

February 28, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
New England SharePoint User Group
Chris Chalmers - "Presence Enabling SharePoint with Microsoft Live Communication Server"

March 1, 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Thom Robbins - "Virtual Earth Madness"

March 2, 6:15 - 8:30 PM
New England Visual Basic Professionals
Adam Machanic - "ADO.NET Enhancements for SQL Server 2005"

March 8, 5:00 - 8:30 PM
Boston .NET User Group
5:00-6:30 PM, Technology Cabana
6:30-8:30 PM, Michael Stiefel - "Introduction to Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation"

March 23, 6:30 PM
Cape Cod .NET User Group
Ben Day, "NHibernate"

March 25, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Mini Code Camp - Security Edition
Patrick Hynds & Duane Laflotte

April 6, 6:15 - 8:30 PM
New England Visual Basic Professionals
Jesse Liberty - "Creating Personalized Sites with ASP.NET 2.0 and VB 2005"

May 6 & 7
Code Camp V: "Code Frenzy!"

Please let me know if I've missed anything. 

As I've said before, we're fortunate to have such a strong developer community in the greater Boston area.  I hope to see you at some of these events!

-Chris