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Wednesday

Livermore, 6:30: Beth Massi, “LightSwitch Advanced Development and Customization Techniques”

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San Francisco, 6:30: Joel Champagne, “SQL Testing Frameworks”

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Thursday

San Francisco, 6:00: Carl Grimm, ““SharePoint Search: Do I Really Need FAST?”

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Coming up soon

• July 19, Mountain View: Denise McInerney, “BEGIN…COMMIT” is Not Enough: Understanding Transactions
• July 20, SanFrancisco: Mark Abramson, “ORM/Object Relational Mapping: payoffs and pitfalls from open source to commercial ORMs”
• June 21, Mountain View: How to Collaboratively Manage Excel-Based Process Data in SQL Server
• June 29, Santa Clara: Herb Sutter, C++ Now and Forever
• October 8 and 9: Silicon Valley Code Camp 11!

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Tuesday

San Francisco, 9:00 to 5:00: Azure ISV Workshop

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Wednesday

Livermore, 6:45: Gustavo Cavalcanti, WPF/Silverlight Resources Tips and Tricks

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San Francisco, 6:30: SQL Server Health Check with Brad McGehee

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Thursday

San Francisco, 5:30: SharePoint User Group meeting

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San Francisco, 7:00: Silverlight User Group  meeting

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Saturday

Sacramento, 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM: Doug Holland, “Windows Phone 7 Unleashed”

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Coming up soon

• June 13, San Francisco: Bill Appleton, Building Rich Applications Targeting Heterogeneous Cloud Platforms
• June 18, Folsom: SharePoint Saturday Sacramento
• June 28, Sacramento: Doug Holland, Windows Phone 7 Rocks!
• June 29, Mountain View: Ben Riga, Windows Phone 7 Mango Release
• July 19, Mountain View: Denise McInerney, “BEGIN…COMMIT” is Not Enough: Understanding Transactions
• June 21, Mountain View: How to Collaboratively Manage Excel-Based Process Data in SQL Server
• October 8 and 9: Silicon Valley Code Camp 11!

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Sorry for not posting last week  - I have been travelling around and couldn’t find the time to update this page!

Wednesday

San Francisco, 9:00 to 12:00: TechNet Events Presents: Meet Windows PowerShell - No Matter Who You Are

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Livermore, 6:00: Bruno Terkaly, “The Windows Azure AppFabric”

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Thursday

San Francisco, 5:30: “SharePoint Rap Session”

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San Francisco, 7:00: Silverlight User Group meeting

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Coming up soon

• May 18, San Francisco: Visual Studio LightSwitch
• May 19, Mountain View: Mark Seeman, “Dependency Injection: Principles, Patterns, and Containers”
• May 20, Mountain View: Microsoft Web Camp, day 1
• May 21, Mountain View: Microsoft Web Camp, day 2
• May 23, San Francisco: David Chappell on Cloud Platforms Today: A Perspective
• October 8 and 9: Silicon Valley Code Camp 11!

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Monday

6:30, San Francisco: Peter Kellner, “Leverage the Cloud to Synchronize Files”

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Tuesday

San Francisco, 9:00 – 12:00: TechNet Events presents “Managing Assets in the Cloud”

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San Francisco, 1:00 – 5:00: MSDN Events presents “Understanding Azure”

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Wednesday

San Francisco, 6:30: Mark Abramson, “Object Relational Mapping: From Roll Your Own To State Of The Art”

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Livermore, 6:30: Deborah Kurata, “Best Kept Secrets in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0”

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Thursday

San Francisco, 5:30: Chris Riley, “ECM 101: A Practical Approach to SharePoint Content Management”

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Coming up soon

• April 19, Mountain View: Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010
• April 20, San Francisco: Jake Ginnivan, “Develop .NET applications for Office with VSTO”
• April 20, Mountain View: “Agile design and development methods for Microsoft Azure”
• April 26, Mountain View: HTML5 and Browsers: Community Night
• April 30, Mountain View: Talk Cloudy to Me!
• May 4, Mountain View: The Software Architect
• May 7: SuperHappyDevHouse 44
• May 11, San Francisco: TechNet Events Presents: Meet Windows PowerShell - No Matter Who You Are
• October 8 and 9: Silicon Valley Code Camp 11!

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Sorry for the broadcast interruption last week, but I was travelling and didn’t find the time to update – my apologies.

Monday

San Francisco, 6:30: Darren Platt, “F# for Python Developers”

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Wednesday

Livermore, 6:30: Beth Massi, “Build Business Applications Quickly with Visual Studio LightSwitch”

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San Francisco, 6:30: Sumeet Bansal, “Flash Storage For SQL Server - Is It Right For You?”

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Fresno, 6:30: Paul Sheriff, “Silverlight MVVM Made Easy”

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Coming up soon

• March 15, Mountain View: Lap Around Windows Azure
• March 16, San Francisco: 15 Web Performance Tips: Getting things Right on the Client
• March 16, San Mateo: Pushing Pixels in the DotNetNuke Ecosystem
• March 29, Mountain View: MSDN Events Presents: SharePoint
• March 30, San Francisco: Monitoring Azure
• April 6, Mountain View: Building a Business Dashboard
• April 7, San Francisco: Dimensional Modeling Fundamentals for the SQL Server Platform
• April 13, ?: Object Relational Mapping: From Roll Your Own To State Of The Art
• April 14, San Francisco: Silverlight User Group
• May 4, Mountain View: The Software Architect

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Wednesday

Livermore, 6:30: Cal Schrotenboer, New Features in SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data and FileStream

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San Francisco, 6:30: Rob Loranger, The Five Leverage Points for SQL Server Performance and Management

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Thursday

San Francisco, 7:00: Silverlight User Group meeting

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Coming up soon

• February 19, San Jose: Super Happy Dev House 42
• February 23, San Francisco: Windows Azure - All About AppFabric
• February 26, Mountain View: MVC & jQuery Web Camp
• March 2, Mountain View: Clean Code – Why writing Clean Code makes us more efficient
• March 3, Mountain View: Scorecards and Dashboards with SSAS
• March 29, Mountain View: MSDN Events Presents: SharePoint

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Tuesday

San Francisco, 6:30: Noah Gift, Map Reduce, F# and Azure: Using Big Data Techniques to Parse Logs

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Wednesday

Livermore, 6:00: Ward Bell, MVVM for Silverlight

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San Francisco, 6:30: Managing Test Data and Stress Testing Your SQL Applications

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Thursday

San Francisco, 7:00: Ievgen Tiutiunnyk, "Tools and Approaches for Silverlight Unit Testing"

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Coming up soon

• January 18, Mountain View: SQL Server Denali preview
• January 18, Sebastopol: Windows Phone 7 meets Cloud Computing
• January 19, San Francisco: Blend for Developers: Design with Data
• January 27, San Francisco: the Windows Azure AppFabric
• February 2, Livermore: HTML 5 Crash Course with Scott Stanfield

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Monday

San Francisco, 6:30: Neil Mackenzie, Windows Azure Diagnostics

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Tuesday

San Francisco, 6:30: BlueCat Networks, Advanced Group Policy Management, Essential IPv6 for Admins

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Wednesday

Livermore, 6:45: bring your .NET questions to the panel for an open discussion

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Thursday

San Francisco, 7:00: Silverlight User Group meeting

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Fresno, 6:30: Travis Lowdermilk, Exploring Windows Phone 7

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• January 11, San Francisco: Map Reduce, F# and Azure: Using Big Data Techniques to Parse Logs
• January 18, Mountain View: SQL Server Denali preview

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Wednesday

6:30, San Francisco: Beth Massi, “Consuming Odata Services for Business Applications”

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6:45, Livermore: Doris Chen, “jQuery Makes Writing JavaScript Fun Again”

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Thursday

7:00, San Francisco: Silverlight User Group meeting

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Upcoming events

• November 16, Mountain View: Dean Richards, “Query tuning: get it right the first time”
• November 30, Sacramento: .NET grab bag with Alan Cobb and Eric Neff

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My apologies for the delayed post, and the silence last week – some server issues have been preventing me from posting! We are back on track, with loads of Windows Phone 7 events coming up.

Tuesday

Moutain View, all day: Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch: Jump Start Your Mobile Development

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Wednesday

Mountain View, all day: Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch: Unleash Your Best App Workshop

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Livermore, 6:45: Peter Tweed, What is this Windows Phone 7 Development?

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Thursday

San Francisco, 7:00: Windows Phone 7 Design and Development

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Upcoming events

• October 19, Mountain View: Distributing Data Techniques with SQL Server 2008 R2
• October 20, San Francisco: Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch: Jump Start Your Mobile Development
• October 21, San Francisco: Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch: Unleash Your Best App Workshop
• November 10, San Francisco: Beth Massi, Consuming Odata Services for Business Applications

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