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6th Annual Hartford Code Camp 2013 - Twitter #HFDCC
May 18th 2013 all-day Saturday at the New Horizons Training Center, Bloomfield CT. All Free !
Code Camps are free, all day, developer community driven, technically oriented events covering Microsoft .NET and related technologies. This event will be held on Saturday May 18, 2013 from 9am to 5pm at the New Horizons Training facility in Bloomfield, CT.
Registration for Code Camp 6 is now open! Please register here...
https://clicktoattend.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=169651
Code Camp Speaker presentations submitted to date (updated periodically)
- Introduction to Windows Identity Foundation
- Securing ASP.NET WebAPI Services
- Developing Platform Independent Mobile Apps
- No Library: Pure Javascript and Ajax
- Native Android Development for the Complete Beginner
- SQL Server Integration Services: Getting the Most Out of SSIS/Best Practices
- Micro ORMs (Object-relational mapping)
- Sudoku and Tree : Two Programming Algorithms
- Code-First NoSQL with .NET and Couchbase
- Development Lifecycle with SQL Server Data Tools
- PowerShell for Developers
- Compelling Dashboards using SQL Server SSRS 2012
- Using Knockoutjs and JQuery to Create Richer MVC 4 Applications
- Introduction to Neo4j - NoSQL graph database
- "Big Data – What is it?"
- Create iOS and Android Applications in C# using Visual Studio and Xamarin
- Windows Store, WinRT, C++/CX Native Development
- Scrum Under a Waterfall
- Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces
- Open Space Technology Every Day
- Self-Management and Self-Organization: Agile Games with Motion
- Agile Transformation
- Powering Mobile Applications with Windows Azure Mobile Services
Call for Speakers is still open! Please download the speaker submission form below. Proposals can be for any technology developer topic and sessions will be ~75 minutes in duration. Please see last year (Code Camp 5) sessions for topic examples. Speaker Proposals due April 29th (Mon). Send your form back to ctdotnet@gmail.com.
6th Annual Hartford Code Camp - Speaker SubmissionPlease submit by April 29th (Monday). HFD-CC6-SpeakerSubmission.docx Microsoft Word document [56.8 KB]
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6th Annual Hartford Code Camp 2013 -
Twitter #HFDCC
May 18th 2013 all-day Saturday at the New Horizons
Training Center, Bloomfield CT. All Free !
Code Camps are free, all day, developer community driven, technically oriented events covering Microsoft .NET and related technologies. This event will be held on Saturday May 18, 2013 from 9am to 5pm at the New Horizons Training facility in Bloomfield, CT.
Registration for Code Camp 6 is now open! Please register here...
https://clicktoattend.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=169651
Code Camp Speaker presentations submitted to date (updated periodically)
- Introduction to Windows Identity Foundation
- Securing ASP.NET WebAPI Services
- Developing Platform Independent Mobile Apps
- No Library: Pure Javascript and Ajax
- Native Android Development for the Complete Beginner
- SQL Server Integration Services: Getting the Most Out of SSIS/Best Practices
- Micro ORMs (Object-relational mapping)
- Sudoku and Tree : Two Programming Algorithms
- Code-First NoSQL with .NET and Couchbase
- Development Lifecycle with SQL Server Data Tools
- PowerShell for Developers
- Compelling Dashboards using SQL Server SSRS 2012
- Using Knockoutjs and JQuery to Create Richer MVC 4 Applications
- Introduction to Neo4j - NoSQL graph database
- "Big Data – What is it?"
- Create iOS and Android Applications in C# using Visual Studio and Xamarin
- Windows Store, WinRT, C++/CX Native Development
- Scrum Under a Waterfall
- Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces
- Open Space Technology Every Day
- Self-Management and Self-Organization: Agile Games with Motion
- Agile Transformation
- Powering Mobile Applications with Windows Azure Mobile Services
Call for Speakers is still open! Please download the speaker submission form below. Proposals can be for any technology developer topic and sessions will be ~75 minutes in duration. Please see last year (Code Camp 5) sessions for topic examples. Speaker Proposals due April 29th (Mon). Send your form back to ctdotnet@gmail.com.
6th Annual Hartford Code Camp - Speaker Submission
Please submit by April 29th (Monday).
HFD-CC6-SpeakerSubmission.docx
Microsoft Word document [56.8 KB]
This event is sponsored by (list updated periodically) -
Call for Sponsors is still open! Please send an email to Bob Ohlheiser rjoctdotnet@gmail.com for an information packet. | | 5/18/2013 9:30 AM | 5/18/2013 3:00 PM | |
It's Time to App-up New England!
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30 Apr 2013 5:34 AM
Join us for a series of weekly workshops at both our Cambridge (Boston) and Farmington (Hartford) office locations where we'll help you get your first (or second, or tenth!) application published to the Windows Store - and you get to Keep the Cash!
We'll be running five-hour workshops each Saturday with two different focuses: casual games and API mashups. Come once or come often, and bring your laptop with Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 (Express for Windows 8) to make the most of the opportunity.
The fun begins this Saturday and continues through the end of June; follow the links below to register separately for each event:
Not close to either of these locations? Know of some friends or co-workers that would commit to attending one closer to you – perhaps at your own office? Let me know, and we can try to arrange one in your area!
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 Android is the hottest mobile platform – and AnDevCon is the hottest development conference offering mobile app development training. But you'll learn from more than just our app development classes and Android development tutorials, you will also find hundreds of experienced developers and engineers like you for great networking in between classes. Hang out and network with colleagues as well as our expert speakers at coffee breaks, lunches and our fabulous Attendee Reception.
More than 45 companies will be exhibiting or sponsoring AnDevCon Boston – previous exhibitors include Google, Amazon, GroupOn, Sony, Adobe, Samsung, Qualcomm, TapJoy, RIM, AT&T, Barnes & Noble, HTC, Intel and dozens of others.
Whether you're an enterprise developer, work for a commercial software company, or are driving your own start-up, if you want to build Android apps, you need to attend AnDevCon, May 28-31, 2013 in Boston. Register early and save!
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Android is the hottest mobile platform – and AnDevCon is the hottest development conference offering mobile app development training. But you'll learn from more than just our app development classes and Android development tutorials, you will also find hundreds of experienced developers and engineers like you for great networking in between classes. Hang out and network with colleagues as well as our expert speakers at coffee breaks, lunches and our fabulous Attendee Reception.
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Tech & Developer Events in the Northeast – April 2013
Microsoft
MSFT
1 Apr 2013 1:57 PM
Here’s the latest roundup of tech- and developer-focused events here in the northeastern US (and several online). Most are free, but the exceptions are noted with [$].
If you know of other free (or nearly free) developer-focused events, please let me know.
-Chris
[Last updated 4/3/2013]
Connecticut
April 1
Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group – Stamford, CT
“Test Driven Development: Blueprint Toolbox and Master Craft” – Stephen Ritchie
May 8
New Haven Design & Technology Meetup – New Haven, CT
”Monthly Networking Event”
May 19
Hartford Code Camp 6 – Bloomfield, CT
Schedule TBA
Connecticut SharePoint User Group – Farmington, CT
Connecticut Web Innovators – Hartford, CT
Fairfield County SharePoint User Group – Fairfield, CT
Hartford Tech Meetup – Hartford, CT
Maine
May 14
SharePoint Maine User Group – Portland, ME
Chris McNulty
May 16
Southern Maine Microsoft User Group – Portland, ME
”SQL Server Performance Monitoring”
May 28
Bangor Area .Net Developers (BAND) - Bangor, ME
Schedule TBA
Maine Bytes User Group - Portland, ME
Maine Developer Network - Augusta, ME
Massachusetts
May 6
Boston Python User Group – Cambridge, MA
“May Project Night”
May 7
Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA
”PowerShell on Azure: Turbocharging Azure Automation” – Aleksandar Nikolic
May 13
Drinks on Tap – Boston, MA
“Demos, Drinks and Discussions About Mobile Development (21+)”
May 15
HTML5 Game Development Meetup – Boston, MA
“HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup”
May 15
Boston Accessibility Roundtable – Cambridge, MA
May 18
[$] Security B-Sides – Cambridge, MA
”Launched in mid-2009, Security BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members.”
May 21
Boston Python User Group – Cambridge, MA
“May Presentation Night” – Kenneth Reitz
May 22
Boston Windows Game Developers – Cambridge, MA
May 22
Boston PHP Meetup – Cambridge, MA
“Universal Analytics: The Future of Digital Measurement” – Justin Cutroni
May 23
Boston Predictive Analytics – Cambridge, MA
“Project, Networking, and Startup Night”
May 23
Worcester Web Technology – Worcester, MA
“Using LESS or SASS to Improve Your CSS Workflow”
May 30
Boston Azure Cloud User Group – Cambridge, MA
”Matthew Grace Has an Azure Framework”
May 30
Lean Startup Circle Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Schedule TBA
Beantown ALT.NET Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group - Waltham, MA
Boston Area Pluralsight Study Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston Artists + Coders – Boston, MA
Boston BizSpark Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Boston Business Intelligence – Cambridge, MA
Boston Cloud Services – Waltham, MA
Boston Indies - Boston, MA
Boston Mobile C# Developers’ Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston Node.js Meetup – Boston, MA
Boston Orchard CMS User Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston Software Craftsmanship – Cambridge, MA
Boston Unity Group – Cambridge, MA
Boston Web Design Meetup – Cambridge, MA
Cape Cod .NET – Plymouth, MA
Cascade BOS – Boston, MA
Cloudy Mondays – Newton Center, MA
DotNetNuke Boston Meetup – Cambridge (TBD), MA
Emerging Business Tech – Cambridge, MA
Game Dev Night – Boston, MA
HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston – Cambridge, MA
HTML5 Boston – Boston, MA
jQuery Boston Meetup – Boston, MA
Kinect Boston Users Group – Cambridge, MA
MetroWest Web Developers – Maynard, MA
New England F# User Group – Cambridge, MA
New England Windows Phone User and Developer Group - Waltham, MA
North Shore Web Geeks – Newburyport, MA
OpenHack Boston – Boston, MA
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Cambridge, MA
Web Innovators Group – Cambridge, MA
New Hampshire
April 2
NH .NET User Group, Concord – Concord, NH
“JavaScript Games for Windows 8 with CreateJS” – Chris Bowen
April 3
Seacoast NH WordPress Developers – Portsmouth, NH
April 10
Portsmouth Startup Meetup – Portsmouth, NH
“Startup Meetup – Beer and Pizza”
April 11
Granite State SharePoint User Group – Nashua, NH
”Automating Business Processes with SharePoint: InfoPath, Workflows, MS Access – 2010, 2013” – Marcel Meth
April 17
Nashua CLOUD .NET User Group – Nashua, NH
”Basic Windows Phone 8 Application Development with XAML & C#” – John Garland
Schedule TBA
eBrew – Portsmouth, NH
Joomla NH User Group – Durham, NH
NH .NET User Group, Nashua – Nashua, NH
NH .NET User Group, Seacoast – Portsmouth, NH
NH Database Meetup – Manchester, NH
NH PHP – Manchester, NH
Seacoast SQL Server Users Group – Portsmouth, NH
Systems Engineering and Administration Technical User Group – Portsmouth, NH
Web Dev Meetup – Portsmouth, NH
New York (Upstate)
April 2
AppRochester – Rochester, NY
April 2
Ithaca Web People – Ithaca, NY
”Beer and Code”
April 3
Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
April 4
Rochester Tech Startups – Rochester, NY
”Startup Drinks”
April 5
Refresh Rochester – Rochester, NY
“How to Stay Authentic in a Self-Marketing World” - Andrea Levendusky
April 6 & 7
Hack Upstate – Syracuse, NY
April 8
Capital Area SQL Server Users Group – Albany, NY
Alex Silverstein
April 9
Microsoft Developers of Western NY – Buffalo, NY
“Bridging the Gap Between Business Administration and Development
April 9
Buffalo PHP – Cheektowaga, NY
April 17
Rochester Tech Startups – Rochester, NY
”Lessons Learned at SoftLock.com” – Jon Schull
April 18
Rochester Ruby Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
April 20
BarCamp Rochester – Rochester, NY
April 23
Syracuse Innovators Guild – Syracuse, NY
”An Introduction to Knockout.js Framework”
April 24
OpenHack Rochester – Rochester, NY
May 1
Rochester JavaScript Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
May 2
Rochester Tech Startups – Rochester, NY
”Startup Drinks”
May 7
Ithaca Web People – Ithaca, NY
”Beer and Code”
May 11
SQL Saturday Rochester – Rochester, NY
May 14
Buffalo PHP – Cheektowaga, NY
May 15
Rochester Tech Startups – Rochester, NY
”Quick Pitch Night”
May 16
Rochester Ruby Meetup (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
Schedule TBA
Build Guild – Troy, NY
Central New York .NET Developer Group - East Syracuse, NY
IA/UX Rochester (Coworking Rochester) – Rochester, NY
OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) – Rochester, NY
Rochester SharePoint User Group – Rochester, NY
Syracuse Game Makers – Syracuse, NY
Tech Valley .NET Users Group – Albany, NY
Upstate NY PowerShell Users Group – Rochester, NY
Visual Developers of Upstate NY - Rochester, NY
Western New York Back Office Technology User Group – Blasdell, NY
Western NY SQL Server PASS – Amherst, NY
Rhode Island
April 3
Rhode Island SharePoint User Group – Providence, RI
”SharePoint 2013 – IT Pro Overview” – Jason Himmelstein
April 10
Southern New England SQL Server Users Group – East Greenwich, RI
“SSIS Best Practices, Tips and Techniques” – Bryan Cafferky
April 11
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
”Freeform discussion of all things web”
April 16
WordPress Providence Meetup – Providence, RI
“Mobile Ready Responsive Sliders and Slideshows” – Michael Tracy
April 17
Providence Geeks – Providence, RI
April 23
Providence UX Meetup – Providence, RI
”Designers with Drinks”
May 9
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour – Providence, RI
”Freeform discussion of all things web”
May 15
Providence Geeks – Providence, RI
May 28
Providence UX Meetup – Providence, RI
”Designers with Drinks”
Schedule TBA
MoDevRI (Mobile Developers & Entrepreneurs) – Providence, RI
Prov.JS – Providence, RI
Providence Functional Programmers – Providence, RI
Providence PHP Meetup – Providence, RI
Vermont
April 10
*New Group!*
Burlington JavaScript – Burlington, VT
”Lighting up with Ember.js” – Peter Brown
“Paper.js” – Ian Metcalf
April 13
[$] Girl Develop It Burlington – Burlington, VT
”Intro to HTML/CSS”
April 15
Vermont .NET User Group – Winooski, VT
April 29
Northern Vermont SharePoint Users Group – Essex Junction, VT
“SharePoint 2013: What’s New in Social” – Erica Toelle
May 13
Vermont .NET User Group – Winooski, VT
Schedule TBA
Burlington PHP Users Group – Burlington, VT
Burlington Web Application Group (BTVWAG) – Burlington, VT
New England, Events, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Northeast
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User Groups of The Month.
The Granite State (NH) Windows Phone Users Group
The Granite State (NH) Windows Phone Users Group holds free, community-supported monthly meetings for all things Windows Phone. Our regular monthly meeting are held at the Microsoft Store in Salem, NH, and our very first regular monthly meeting will be May 16th. We’ll be meeting every 3rd Thursday of the month thereafter. Free registration at http://granitestatewinphone.eventbrite.com is limited. Come learn about Windows Phone as a platform for communication, collaboration, business, and entertainment, along with tips, tricks and secrets from pros in Windows Phone that you will only find at the Granite State (NH) Windows Phone Users Group! @nhwinphoneug / #NHWPUG
The Granite State (NH) SharePoint Users Group
The Granite State (NH) SharePoint Users Group holds free, community-supported monthly meetings for all things SharePoint. We meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month, 6-8PM. Please check our website for location, which varies monthly between Daniel Webster College in Nashua, and the Microsoft Store in Salem, NH. Free registration is at http://granitestatesharepoint.eventbrite.com, and includes pizza. Going into our third year, we have speakers and topics scheduled through the year and available to see on our website at http://www.granitestatesharepoint.org. Please also find us on LinkedIn. Come learn tips, tricks and secrets from pros in SharePoint that you will only find at the Granite State (NH) SharePoint Users Group! @nhsharepointug / #NHSPUG | | 5/31/2013 12:00 AM | 5/31/2013 11:55 PM | |
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Master the Tools for Building a Faster, Stronger Web
Velocity puts you face to face with dozens of speakers and hundreds of your peers working on the web's toughest challenges. Join us for three intensive days dedicated to web performance, operations, mobile performance, DevOps, and more.
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P.S. The Call for Speakers for Velocity Europe ends soon. If you have a story or teachable moment to share, submit a talk by 16 May, 2013.
Speed Reads
Fast Takes You Might Not Want to Miss
AWS Gets Node.js
Node.js is now on AWS. The GA release of the AWS SDK for Node.js can be installed through npm as aws-sdk.
GitHub on GitHub
How does GitHub build its platform? Zach Holman answers as he dishes on how GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub.
Testing Code
A common issue that arises in creating OCUnit tests in iOS is how to test code that uses Core Data. James Turner says there's no reason to leave your database-centric code untested and offers step-by-step instructions on getting it done.
Make Some Noise
After spending an entire weekend (or longer) coding some amazing project, what's the best way to go about sharing your code far and wide? Peter Cooper offers a comprehensive three-step plan to make the proper noise to make your code more discoverable.
Inaugural Conference
Jon Fingas says Dropbox may well be the vanguard in assisting developers to exploit the cloud storage services space with its new DBX conference. But you have to apply for an invitation to buy a ticket.
Easy Debugging
Are you a bad programmer or a great programmer? Henrik Warne says the logs don't lie: "A great programmer adds logging and tools that make it easy to debug the program when things fail."
Unconference Conference
WebPerfDays is nigh—coming May 18 in Amsterdam. There's even an "ask an expert anything panel" with Steve Souders, Andy Davies, and Arbo van Monkiewitsch, and others!
Sharpen Your Chef Skills
Free Webcast: Tuesday, May 14, 10am PT
If you use and love using Chef and are looking to build or sharpen your skills, you're invited to join Etsy's Jon Cowie for a free webcast May 14—Michelin Starred Cooking with Chef at Etsy.
Equip yourself with ideas, best practices, and thinking patterns to help you get more out of Chef, and build a dependable and resilient Chef infrastructure. Designed with the intermediate to advanced Chef user in mind, the live, interactive format will allow you to hit Jon up with your most pressing questions.
The Interactive Bit
We Asked, You Answered
Last week, we asked what kind of advice you'd give to students just learning to code. Rachel Willmer advocated learning a way of doing test-driven design early on. "Then you can start by writing code that does the job," she said, "and then incrementally change it to apply better techniques as you learn them, while still knowing the code works."
End Zone
Wet Pi
Does a Raspberry Pi need watercooling? Simon Sharwood noted it could come in handy when running the device in turbo mode. Handy or not, a developer named Phame thought it sounded like a fun challenge and built what may be the world's first Watercooled Raspberry Pi.
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· Velocity June 18-20, Santa Clara, CA
· Speed Reads
· Sharpen Your Chef Skills
· The Interactive Bit
· Wet Pi
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Windows 8 Game and App Mashup Series
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Please join us at a FREE Windows 8 Developer Workshop near you!
Check out the sessions below and select the workshop that best fits your needs — or join us for both events. The choice is yours. Keep in mind, separate registration is required.
Game Development for Beginners
In this beginner level workshop we will cover the basics of game design, programming and publication. We will build a casual game and publish it to the Windows Store. This workshop is great for students, hobbyists and professional developers who want to learn the basics of game development and publish their first app to the store as no programming skills are required!
Windows 8 App Mashup Series
In this workshop you will learn how to develop Windows 8 apps based on well-known web service API's such as Twitter, Bing Maps, Meetup, Singly and APIs from Mashery such as ESPN, Rotten Tomatoes and Active.com. Your app could entertain or even change the world. This workshop is great for students, hobbyists and professional developers who want to learn the basics of app development and publish their first app to the store.
For more information or to register, visit > www.msdnevents.com OR CALL 1-877-MSEVENT
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| API: Yelp |
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| API: Untapped |
Cambridge, MA |
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In addition to the API’s listed we will be providing an complete portfolio of starter kits covering these API’s:
- Univision
- GeoNames + Wikipedia
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Meetup
- Worldwide Telescope
- Earthquakes and Bing Maps
- World of Warcraft
- Active.
- Scoreroid
- Untapped
- Yelp
- Tom-Tom
- Stackoverflow
- Edmunds
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Tumblr
- Chuck Norris
Getting Ready for the Game Workshops
This workshop is hands-on, so to get the most out of the event we strongly encourage you to bring your laptop configured with the following:
1. Mac users only: Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion
2. Windows 8 (a 90-day evaluation version available here)
3. Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8 (free)
4. Scirra Construct 2 (free version)
To publish to the Windows Store you will also need a Windows Store developer account:
1. If you are a student, use the DreamSpark benefits for a free account
2. If you are an MSDN Subscriber, use the one-time free account benefit associated with MSDN
3. Otherwise, the account is $49 per annum, but with your first published app, your cost is covered via the Keep The Cash promotion (subject to Terms and Conditions)!
Lastly, for continued learning and access to other programs focused on Windows 8 and Windows Phone development, we highly recommend signing up for the free App Builder program.
Getting Ready for the API Mash Workshops
This workshop is hands-on, so to get the most out of the event we strongly encourage you to bring your laptop configured with the following:
1. Mac users only: Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox or VMWare Fusion
2. Windows 8 (a 90-day evaluation version available here)
3. Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows 8 (free)
To publish to the Windows Store you will also need a Windows Store developer account:
1. If you are a student, use the DreamSpark benefits for a free account
2. If you are an MSDN Subscriber, use the one-time free account benefit associated with MSDN
3. Otherwise, the account is $49 per annum, but with your first published app, your cost is covered via the Keep The Cash promotion (subject to Terms and Conditions)!
Lastly, for continued learning and access to other programs focused on Windows 8 and Windows Phone development, we highly recommend signing up for the free App Builder program.
Don't forget to check out the "Keep the Cash Rewards" offer to see how you can get $100 for publishing your app(s) in the Windows Store and/or Windows Phone Store. Publish your app before June 30, 2013 and you can get a $100 virtual Visa card for every qualified app you enter (up to $2000*). Learn more.
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Windows Server 2012 Loadfest
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Windows Server 2012 Load and Lab - Primary Focus on installing and Managing, with a dose of Hyper-V
This is an day training event for the North East US (New England) Region.
The Boston Area Windows Server User Group (www.WindowsBoston.org) is providing a training class for their members and to the local technology community.
Sponsored by Microsoft Corporation and Bluefin Technical Services.
The topic will be how to install Windows 2012 and Hyper-V 3.0. The primary focus will be on Windows Server 2012.
The presentation will be put on by volunteer steering committee members and local technology leaders Clyde Johnson, President of Windows Server User Group and Dan Stolts, IT Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation.
Leave work for the Day and learn how to deploy and use Windows 2012. Both Boot to VHD and bare metal installs will be happening. You are welcome to bring your server and get it ready to drop into your work environment. If you would rather just get it running on your laptop, that is ok too.
We will start the day with lecture while you get everything setup and ready to build. We then jump into Hands-On-Labs and walk you (step-by-step) through the installation process.
We will have experts on hand to answer your questions on Windows Server 2012.
You will need to bring your own media. If you want to use evaluation software, please download it from http://aka.ms/getwin2012 .
To get the most out of the labs, download the VHD and the ISO. We will use the VHD for Boot2VHD and for getting some Hyper-V guests setup and communicating with each other.
If you have the time, you might want to also download System Center 2012 http://aka.ms/SC2012Eval and we will help you get your private cloud deployment started.
- 4 GB RAM (8 GB preferred)
- At least 60 GB of free disk space (75 GB preferred)
- x64 compatible processor with hardware assisted virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V technology)
- Installed OS of Windows Server 2012 (Preferred), Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 8
- NO Drive encryption technology (Bitlocker or 3rd party)
- One Network Patch Cable [optional]
- Download Windows Server 2012 Trial http://aka.ms/getwin2012 (VHD and ISO) [Optional: production media if you like.]
- Power Strip
Download required Windows Server 2012 VHD from the link above (You will need the VHD!!!!)
Please note that Virtualization software will NOT work with most of the labs. Installing to bare metal or Boot2VHD is required.
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Who’s on 8: Donate Boston
8 May 2013 5:56 AM
 As my evangelism focus and interaction has moved more and more to helping developers build apps (versus just presenting on latest technology X), I have to say it’s been incredibly rewarding and enlightening to see the great ideas and experiences you continue to channel into Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
Every once in a while though, someone just comes along that takes me completely off guard and makes me go ‘wow;’ Gary Ritter is that most recent ‘someone.’
I first met Gary at The Boston Hackathon just about a month ago, where he was one of 40 or so building and showcasing their apps over the weekend. Little did we know at the time that the conversations we had there (on New England GiveCamp and Gary’s introduction to Windows Phone) would occur less than 24 hours before a horrific attack on the city of Boston.
How all those threads play out is a compelling and impactful story, and I asked Gary to share his intensely personal triumphs in his own words:
I moved into an accounting position in 2004 and was amazed when I got introduced to Microsoft Excel, with the impressive formulas that could automate complex tasks. I dove in head first into teach myself Excel and today am “the” expert for everyone I know. Part of unlocking all of Excel’s potential meant I had to master VBA to write Excel add-ins and macros. It was a long struggle to learn alone but has paid off.
I had always day dreamed of trying to teach myself mobile apps too. I was previously an iOS fan and wanted to learn iOS development, but I wasn’t about to shell out money on a Mac so that I could pick up a hobby. I eventually got my first Android phone and looked into that platform but the SDK and configurations and multiple installs needed to just get ready to start trying was hopeless for a noob hobbyist like me. To compound that, I ended up REALLY hating Android and actually sold it so I could go back to a “dummy” phone.
In Summer 2012 I got a Windows Phone Lumia 710 and it immediately won me over. The OS is amazing, Nokia was by far my favorite phone maker already, and the integration with Office and SkyDrive seals the deal. Excel on my phone? YES PLEASE!
In May I developed a very uncommon adult onset of Tourette's Syndrome and by Fall it rapidly progressed to put me in the top few percent of severity with uncontrollable outbursts of terrible language and exhausting body movements. Being able to focus and concentrate on something intently is extremely therapeutic during a bad episode of tics and I found that while working on complicated Excel projects at work, my symptoms would disappear entirely! I of course can’t spend my free time making spreadsheets with no purpose so I decided to look into other options. Come to find out I can write Windows Phone apps in VB.NET, which is extremely similar to the VB6/VBA I already know. Unlike Android, Visual Studio is a simple one step download and then it’s ready to go. Plus it’s totally free to students with a college e-mail address!
I read countless webpages, help files, and how-to articles along the way and was able to get my first app published to the Windows Phone store in September 2012. After half a year, I have four apps available with a total of 4500 downloads and 600 purchases with another app really far along in development.
After the Boston Marathon bombings, I wanted to find a way to help. Not being in a position to donate much money, I thought I could make it easier for other people to share info and make donations. I quickly whipped up the “Donate Boston” app the day after the bombings and it’s a simple compilation of contact information for Boston police, the Red Cross, area hospitals, and investigators along with links to quickly make a donation right from your phone to several charities that are supporting victims and also to several funds set up for specific people affected by that day. I also set up a PayPal account of my own so people have the option to send funds to me with a note asking for a specific beneficiary. I am keeping zero donation dollars for myself and the app is free with no ads.
I just hope that if people easily share the app with friends and have a convenient way to lend a helping hand to some fellow Americans whenever they’re able for whatever amount they’re able - then maybe it’ll help someone get their medical bills paid, or get a prosthetic they might not have afforded otherwise.
So please share “Donate Boston” with every Windows Phone user you know. Many people still have unbelievable expenses and complications in their future and every cent you can spare helps.
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TechEd
Get Your Tickets While You Can
Last year TechEd sold out so don’t wait until the last minute to sign up. Just do it now!
TechEd 2013 North America will take place June 3-6 in New Orleans. TechEd is Microsoft’s premiere conference for IT Professionals and Enterprise Developers, offering the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft’s products, solutions, tools, and services.
I have had the privilege to speak at TechEd and let me tell you it is a great event. It will bring the best of the best technology speakers from all over the world. My friend Matt Hester will deliver an instructor led lab on Windows Azure IaaS twice. The first on June 4th and the second on June 5th. Here is the session description: Getting to Know Windows Azure IaaS, Part 1
To learn more about TechEd please visit here: TechEd North America Home Page
To register for TechEd please click here: TechEd Registration Page
If you have never been here is just some of the value of TechEd:
- Learn about the future of Microsoft’s products, solutions and services directly from the leaders with news, announcements, and demos.
- Connect with Microsoft and industry thought leaders, and fellow attendees that share your technology interests and business challenges.
- Explore in Hands-on Labs and Technical Learning Centers designed to give you practical experience with the latest tools and technologies.
- Value:
- Interact w/ Microsoft experts and get your questions answered
- Network with peers and colleagues
- Hands-on experience through technology labs
- 50% off certification testing to registered attendees
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About Dan Stolts ITProGuruDan Stolts (The "ITProGuru") is a technology expert who is a master of systems management and security. He is proficient in many Microsoft products especially in the server area (Windows Server, System Center, Exchange, SharePoint, Virtualization, Etc) and holds many certifications including MCT, MCITP, MCSE, TS, etc. Dan is currently specializing in System Management and Security and is also very passionate about virtualization technologies. Dan is and has been a very active member of the community. He is president of Boston User Groups, Founder of Virtualization Group Boston, Founder of North East Leaders and serves on many IT Community group boards. He is in the process of writing his first book on building technology communities. He is a believer in social networking and can be reached on twitter @ITProGuru. He has participated in many non-technology community groups such as: Rotary Club, Lions Club, local Chambers of Commerce and is a mentor for the local high schools. Dan is an enthusiastic advocate of technology and is passionate about helping others. Dan's lifelong passion has been and continues to be to help and teach others!
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An excellent SharePoint training conference should have an outstanding faculty, top-notch classes and lots of opportunity for networking.
You’ll experience all that and more at SPTechCon Boston, August 11-14. Register today for the best rates.
Make your travel plans to attend SPTechCon: The SharePoint Technology Conference and experience:
- Eight full-day and half-day tutorials.
- 90+ technical classes on every aspect of SharePoint.
- World-class speakers, including Robert Bogue, Andrew Connell, Ben Curry, Bill
- English, Susan Hanley, Scott Jamison, Todd Klindt, Jennifer Mason, Chris McNulty, Mark Rackley, Peter Serzo, Eric Shupps, Heather Solomon, and Shane Young.
- Three inspiring and informative keynote addresses.
- The popular Women in SharePoint Luncheon.
- Meetup with SharePoint Experts
- A packed exhibit floor with 50+ SharePoint solutions providers.
- Lightning talks, a Networking Reception, an Ice Cream Social, and a SharePoint User Group Meeting.
- Lots of chances to win books and hardware, including the famous Winner’s Circle
- And lots more besides.
If your techie instincts are saying, “I want to go there,” don’t fight it. You’ll learn a lot in the classes and tutorials, make excellent connections – and get to experience the best of Boston.
Register today for the best pricing!
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IT PRO User Group
http://www.IT-Pro.org
At New England Institute of Technology, E. Greenwich, RI
Click here for more information and directions.
About IT-Pro User Group
The IT-Pro Users Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping IT Professionals keep their skills on the cutting edge of the industry. Established in 1993, we are an official Microsoft user group but also support most other operating systems and technologies. The goal of the group is to pool our knowledge and resources so our members stay informed about technology, security, best practices, innovations and procedures. Everything an IT pro needs to keep their career moving forward.
Our meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each Month, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at
New England Institute of Technology, East Greenwich Campus
1408 Division Rd. East Greenwich, RI 02818
- in the Hall of Fame Room
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The meetings start with a 15-minute President's Forum, which includes club business, technology information, and "Members Asking Members" which is an open floor for IT problems and solutions. A guest speaker follows this. We have an IT expert or a technical representative of a major manufacturer do presentations and sometimes club members.
IT-Pro User Group has a listserv to help our members stay in touch. It allows members to seek help from other members on tough questions. Special announcements and meeting reminders also channel through it.
IT-Pro User Group meetings are open to all IT professionals and others interested in IT technologies.
Up and Coming Meetings.
May 15, 2013
John Kelbley, Microsoft Server Specialist - Deep Dive into Hyper-V
June 19, 2013
Jack Daniel - The state of security (or lack thereof) and the implications for small to mid-sized organizations.
Jack is an open source and security expert and does a great presentation.
July & August 2013
Summer Break - No Meeting.
September 18, 2013
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mHealth + Telehealth World 2013
As the nation’s healthcare landscape shifts to more consumer driven and accountable care models, mobile platforms, telehealth and other technology solutions are becoming a means to connect to the patient outside the traditional clinical setting. Convening senior executives from health care providers, payers, pharmaceuticals, vendors, government and associations, the mHealth + Telehealth World 2013 is the must attend event for health care executives interested in hearing real world case studies on how to integrate these tools to provide services that will reduce costs, improve outcomes and transform the delivery of care.
As siloed systems and devices start to fade away, World Congress also integrates two events the 5th Annual mHealth World Congress with the 2nd Annual Telehealth Congress. Joint keynote speakers on the first and last days examine these technologies in the context of the ever-shifting healthcare landscape. Keynote topics include:
Urgent need for connected health for prevention and care management
Engage patient and family for meaningful use
Improve medication adherence
Integrate into system infrastructure and clinical workflows
Validate business and clinical models
Capture and analyze actionable data
On Day 2, in both mHealth and Telehealth experts will dive deep into case studies on their clinical and business strategies to build and develop sustainable programs. Summit deep-dive case studies include:
The 5th Annual mHealth World Congress
- Insight into the current and coming regulatory landscape
- Build mobile into the continuum of care
- Extend care from hospital to home
- Scale your pilot program
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- Establish a sustainable financial model
- Overcome legal and regulatory barriers
- Growth program internally and internationally
- Define the clinical focus and outreach
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"Our representatives very much enjoyed the conference and found the sessions both informative and fascinating."
- Lauren Siegel, Administrative Assistant, CCBC to Nebeyou Abebe and Anjum Khurshid, Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI)
“I enjoyed the congress immensely. I learnt a lot and am grateful for the opportunity to share our experience with a very discerning peer group.”
- Santanu Biswas, Director eHealth Services, du
“I’d like to congratulate you on a wonderful event. The content and speakers are top shelf!”
- Steven Miles, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Really great job you’ve done here. If you have another conference on Telemedicine event, we will be back”
- Jay Culver, Director of strategic accounts, GlobalMed
“This is a really great conference! The networking and content are excellent”
- Mike Ross, Chief Medical Officer, NaviNet
"It was extremely exciting for Ayogo to rub shoulders with the other entrepreneur competitors and more broadly, with the innovators from large and small companies that attended the Summit. It was invaluable to learn from the big companies about the barriers to innovation, and how to circumvent them. The mobile health world changes so quickly that Ayogo really values its annual pilgrimage to the World Congress mHealth events."
- Paul Prescod, CTO, Ayogo Games
mHealth Innovation Exchange
“Thank you for the opportunity to share our solution with such a great group of decision-makers. These forums are very important to us.”
- Paul Prescod, CTO, Ayogo Games
Call for Papers: Submit Abstract for Presentations
mHealth + Telehealth World 2013 is now accepting abstract submissions for 2013! Deadline is March 24, 2013. Click here for details.
Get a $200 discount off the prevailing fee by using code GEZ656 when prompted. www.worldcongress.com/mHealth
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SPTechCon is the best-ever SharePoint training event. Held twice each year, the classes, tutorials, keynotes, receptions and exhibit hall at SPTechCon overflow with SharePoint technology and SharePoint energy.
If you missed SPTechCon San Francisco in February, watch this three-minute video and hear what your colleagues say about SPTechCon.
After you watch the video, we invite you to register for SPTechCon Boston, August 11-14. Come to Boston and learn from 90+ technical classes and tutorials that cover every aspect of SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2010.
Sign up for the full four-day program today for only $1,299. Take advantage of all the full-day and half-day tutorials, in addition to the classes and keynotes. That's $500 off the normal registration price. Big savings!
Pressed for time? Skip the tutorial day, and come for three days only, Aug. 12-14. Sign up now for only $1,145 – that's a $350 discount.
Watch the SPTechCon video and sign up today for the biggest savings. See you in Boston!
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Did you miss Big Data TechCon in Boston? Join us in San Francisco — and sign up early for your best savings.
The second Big Data TechCon is coming to the San Francisco Bay Area on October 15-17. Register for the three-day conference by May 17 for only $995. That's a full 37.618% discount from the full registration of $1,595. Save $600 by signing up right away – the price goes up the next day.
The technical program for Big Data TechCon San Francisco is still being finalized – but look at the classes and tutorials at last month's Big Data TechCon in Boston:
Technical Classes
- Apache Cassandra – A Deep Dive
- Building an Impenetrable ZooKeeper
- Data Modeling and Relational Analysis in a NoSQL World
- Distributed Search and Real Time Analytics
- How to Integrate Structured and Unstructured Data with Avro
- Taming Elephants, Bees and Pigs – The Big Data Circus
- Visualizing Your Graph
- Analytics Maturity Model
- Beyond Map/Reduce
- Big Data Science: Extracting Truth from Large, Multi-structured Data
- Distributed Search and Real Time Analytics
- Getting Started with R and Hadoop
- Hands-on MongoDB
- An Overview of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform
- Large-scale Entity Extraction, Disambiguation and Linkage
- Getting Started with Predictive Modeling: Simple Models and Basic Evaluation
- Hadoop Programming with Scalding
- Mastering Sqoop for Data Transfer for Big Data
- Real-Time Hadoop
- Untangling the Relationship Hairball with a Graph Database
- Hadoop by Example
- Hands-on Hadoop for Developers – Understanding Map/Reduce
- How to See and Understand Big Data
- In-Database Predictive Analytics
- NoSQL for SQL professionals
- Seven Deadly Hadoop Misconfigurations
- The Dark Sides of Predictive Modeling: Tricks and Pitfalls
- Building Applications Using HBase
- Building Successful Data Science Teams
- Extending Your Data Infrastructure with Hadoop
- Matrix Methods with Hadoop
- Microsoft's Big Data Story
- Oozie: A Workflow Scheduler for Hadoop
- Building Your Own Facebook Graph Search with Cypher and Neo4j
- Hadoop Backup and Disaster Recovery 101
- HBase Schema and Table Design Principles
- High-Speed Data Ingestion with Sharded NewSQL Databases
- How to Fit a Petabyte in Apache HBase
- What You Can Do with a Tall-and-Skinny QR Factorization on Hadoop
- Implementing a Real-Time Data Platform Using HBase
- Implementing a Simple Mongo Application
- Introduction to Apache Pig
- Map/Reduce Tips and Tricks
- Selecting the Right Big Data Tool for the Right Job, and Making It Work
- Using Apache HBase's API for Complex Real-Time Querie
- A Survey of Probabilistic Data Structures
- Building High-Volume Web Applications
- Running Mission-Critical Applications on Hadoop
- Visualizing Big Data in the Browser
Half-Day Tutorials
- Crash Course in Machine Learning
- Getting Started with Cassandra
- Hands-on NoSQL for the DBA
- Introduction and Best Practices for Storing and Analyzing Your Data with Apache Hive
- Introduction to Hadoop, Map/Reduce and HDFS for Big Data Applications
- A Case Study: Data Visualizations and Insight Into How America Eats at Restaurants
- Hadoop Data Warehousing with Hive
- Hands-on Google BigQuery and Google Predictive API
- Hive, Pig, Cascading and Codd: A Crash Course in Map/Reduce Relational Languages
- Programming with Scalding and Algebird
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