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Western Mass.NET Users Group

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Events

November 2008 - Posts

  • Tuesday Dec. 2nd - Groove for Developers (in stereo)

    The Western Mass .NET Users Group is hosting its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 2nd at 6:00 PM at the MassMutual Learning Center in Chicopee, MA.  Free pizza, drinks and dessert will be provided compliments of MassMutual.  Directions are below.

    Presentation Abstract:

    Groove is the creation of Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect @ Microsoft). Groove is a highly-secure peer-to-peer collaborative platform that brings people and applications together rapidly. Groove is part of the Microsoft Office Suite and integrates with SharePoint. It is used within Government agencies and big & small corporations. This session will give an overview of Groove and show it from a .NET developer’s perspective - the use of the Groove API – GWS (Web Services), CodePlex’s  GWS wrapper,  DataBridge & SharePoint integration. All with plenty of examples & .NET code. The presentation will be on two screens ('stereo') showing the peer-to-peer capabilities of Groove.

    About the Presenter:

    Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is a Architect/Tech-Lead at ArrowPoint KeyTech (Hartford CT) and was awarded a MVP for Groove:Architecture - http://tinyurl.com/sbcmvp He blogs when he can at http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee and is also an Acting Director of the Connecticut .NET Developers Group www.ctdotnet.org

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    Meeting Details
    Tuesday, December 2nd at 6:00 PM
    MassMutual Learning & Conference Center
    350 Memorial Drive
    Chicopee, MA 01020
    Telephone: (413) 598-9898

    From the West
    Take I-90 East (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee).
    Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33.
    The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on
    the Right.

    From the East
    Take I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee).
    Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33.
    The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on
    the Right.

    From the South
    Take I-91 North
    to Rte. 291 East in Springfield. Follow Rte. 291 East to Exit 6
    (Ludlow/Chicopee Falls). Follow exit ramp to first Stop sign. Take
    a Right onto Fuller Road. Continue on Fuller Road to third traffic
    light. Take a Left at light onto Memorial Drive (Rte. 33). Take a
    Right into MassMutual Learning & Conference Center entrance.

    If you have questions, please direct them to:
    Dan Caron
    User Group Leader, Western Mass .NET Users Group

    Posted Nov 24 2008, 12:23 PM by dancaron with 2 comment(s)
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  • Social Night was a good time

    Last night we met at Boston Billiards for some pool, food and drinks.  It was a good time - we had two pool tables and 6 people showed up.  It sounds like everyone liked the idea of going out and shooting some pool as a group.  So I will schedule this again for early 2009.  It was a great way to spend a couple hours after work...just chatting with the guys and shooting pool...and surprisingly for a bunch of .NET developers - learning about how Mac's and IPhones are, in many ways, better than Microsoft technologies.  It would be great if we could get a larger crowd - but the small group was great last night.  Let me know if West Springfield is too out-of-the-way for people.  It's right off of I-91 and they have pretty good bar food.  Though, it would have been better if they didn't run out of BBC beer and bacon. 

    Dan

  • Northeast Roadshow coming to Waltham and Farmington in December

     From Chris Bowen's blog:

    "We just couldn't take not being out on the road, talking about tech, so we're heading back out again in December for the Winter Northeast Roadshow! 

    This, our seventh Roadshow, will feature a ton of great stuff like jQuery and ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, WPF, WF, Silverlight and WCF/REST, and even some interesting things from Microsoft Research!"

     

    More info here:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2008/11/11/join-us-for-the-winter-northeast-msdn-roadshow.aspx

     

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