Upcoming Developer Events for October - November, 2010

Here’s the latest roundup of events for developers here in the northeast for the rest of October into November. 

As always, if you know of a missing event, please let me know.

-Chris

Connecticut

October 7 
Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT 
“An Introduction to Continuous Integration with TeamCity” – Mark Freedman

October 12 
Connecticut .NET Developers Group – Farmington, CT
“Habits of Successful Software Developers” – Richard Hale Shaw

October 12
Build Guild – Simsbury, CT

NEW GROUP! October 18
New England Silverlight Guild – Farmington, CT (and Cambridge, MA)
Inaugural Meeting – “Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform” – Jesse Liberty

November 2
MSDN ASP.NET Web Platform Firestarter– Farmington, CT
A full day of content progressing through developing with the ASP.NET Web Platform.  ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web Forms, Web Matrix, and more. – Chris Bowen & Rachel Appel

November 9 
Connecticut .NET Developers Group – Farmington, CT

Schedule TBD
Hartford SQL Server Users Group – Farmington, CT
Agile Connecticut - Farmington, CT
Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server UG - Stamford, CT
Connecticut DotNetNuke User Group - Bethany, CT

Maine

October 14
Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME
“Using XLINQ” – Dan Sullivan

Schedule TBD
Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME 
Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME
Maine Microsoft Certification Study Group – Online!

Massachusetts

October 6
Cape Cod .NET User Group - Hyannis, MA
“Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development” – Chris Bowen

October 7
Beantown .NET User Group - Cambridge, MA
“Application Development with NHibernate” – Shaun Avery

October 7
New England Visual Basic Professionals - Waltham, MA
”Utility Roundup” – Various

October 12-13
Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch Event - Cambridge, MASpecial two-day event for developers. (Register separately for each day.)
Day 1 – WP7 Sessions
Day 2 – WP7 Hands-On

October 12 
Build Guild – Salem, MA

October 12
Boston Cloud Services – Waltham, MA

October 14
New England SQL Server User Group - Waltham, MA
“Virtualizing SQL Server” – Brent Ozar

October 14 
Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA

NEW GROUP!
October 18
New England Silverlight Guild– Cambridge, MA (and Farmington, CT)
Inaugural Meeting – “Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform” – Jesse Liberty

October 18
DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Waltham, MA

October 20
New England ASP.NET Professionals – Waltham, MA
“WebMatrix” – Chris Bowen

October 20 
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA

October 21
Boston Azure User Group – Cambridge, MA
“Azure and Silverlight – Better Together” – Ben Day

October 21 
Boston Area SharePoint Users Group – Cambridge, MA
“Ask the Experts”

October 21
Boston WebsiteSpark Group – Cambridge, MA
“Developing iPhone Applications with ASP.NET” – Jim Wilson

October 26
Agile Software Development in VS2010: Test-Driven Development – Michael de la Maza
A “Pay What You Can” Course at the Microsoft Waltham MTC

October 27
Boston XNA Developers Group - Waltham, MA

October 27
Agile Boston User Group - Waltham, MA

October 28
Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA

November 1
New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA

November 4
MSDN ASP.NET Web Platform Firestarter– Waltham, MA
A full day of content progressing through developing with the ASP.NET Web Platform.  ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web Forms, Web Matrix, and more.

November 6
New England {UX} – Cambridge, MA
(Currently sold out)
A new event, featuring a full day with 18 sessions focused on design, user experience, and creativity.

November 30
MSDN Windows Azure Firestarter– Waltham, MA
A full day of content for developers interested in moving to the cloud with Windows Azure.

Schedule TBD
Boston JavaScript Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Boston .NET User Group - Waltham, MA 

Boston BizSpark Meetup – Cambridge, MA
New England Windows Phone User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA
Boston Business Intelligence – Waltham, MA
Cape Cod XNA User Group – Hyannis, MA
IASA New England – Waltham, MA
North Shore Web Geeks – Newburyport, MA
Refresh Boston – Cambridge, MA
Western Mass Microsoft Technology Users Group - Chicopee, MA

New Hampshire

October 20 
NH .NET User Group – Nashua, NH

Schedule TBD
Nashua Scrum Club – Nashua, NH
Seacoast SQL Server Users Group – Portsmouth, NH

New York (Upstate)

October 6
Build Guild – Troy, NY

October 6
Rochester Javascript – Rochester, NY

October 13
Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY
“Windows Phone 7 Launch!” – Andy Beaulieu

October 19
Upstate NY PowerShell User Group – Rochester, NY
“Automating the World with PowerShell” – Joel Bennett

November 16
MSDN Windows Azure Firestarter– Rochester, NY
A full day of content for developers interested in moving to the cloud with Windows Azure.

Schedule TBD
VDUNY - Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY
Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group – Syracuse, NY
Tech Valley .NET Users Group - Latham, NY
Western New York .NET Users Group - Amherst, NY 

Rhode Island

October 13 
Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI
“DMV’s as a Shortcut to Procedure Tuning” – Grant Fritchey

October 20
Providence Geeks – Providence, RI

November 10 
Southern New England SQL Server User Group, Warwick, RI

November 17
Providence Geeks – Providence, RI

Schedule TBD
Rhode Island .NET User Group - Bristol, RI  

Vermont

October 11
Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT
“Virtues of Being a Late Adopter” - Alan Stevens

December 6
Vermont .NET User Group – S. Burlington, VT
“Guidelines-based UI Design – A Developer’s Guide to Intuitive UI” - Everett McKay

Schedule TBD
Vermont SQL Server User Group - Burlington, VT