Devfish’s Corner

Happy Holidays to all the .NETTers in the fine state of Florida.The year is going to start with the [Test Driven Development Firestarter] http://www.devfish.net/fullblogitemview.aspx?blogid=614 and [SQL Saturday] http://www.sqlsaturday.com/eventhome.aspx?eventid=13 in Tampa in January, the [South Florida Codecamp V] http://codecamp09.fladotnet.com in February, and the Orlando CodeCamp IV in March.  Florida’s outstanding compliment of [local developer groups meetings] http://www.devfish.net/DevCommunities.aspx , and our winter [tiki hut tours]http://www.dotnettikihut.com, which are being scheduled as we speak, and the year will be off with a bang. Hope to see you some events, and have hope you have a great .NET year.

Joe Healy, a.k.a. the DevFish, is the developer evangelist for Florida. He enjoys fishing, games, writing .NET code, and playing with girls, Ryan and Morgan. Visit his blog, or send him e-mail.

 

Lake City Got .NET

Brian Boatright of Lake City, FL informs me they’ve got a .NET group going up by the lakes.  The next meeting should be mid January sometime, topic tbd.  In the meantime, watch their site if and sign up for their codezone group if you’re in the North Central Florida or South Georgia area.  See http://www.nfdotnet.org for details.

 

SQL Saturday Tampa – January 24

Pam Shaw has announced SQL Saturday Tampa on January24.  Call for speakers as well as registration are open.  Check http://www.devfish.net/FullBlogItemView.aspx?BlogId=606 out for more details and the latest updates.

 

South Florida CodeCamp V – February 7

The oldest ongoing codecamp in Florida, last year South Florida CodeCamp drew over 500 people.  For its fifth straight year, code camp leader Dave Noderer has stepped up and put the event on!  Dave opened registration and call for speakers for this year’s event on Saturday, February 7.  See http://www.devfish.net/FullBlogItemView.aspx?BlogId=607 for speaker request and actual event registration itself.

 

LOCAL EVENTS

BahaNET – Nassau, Bahamas ( http://www.bahanet.org )

1/15/2009 – Toolshed with Russ Fustino

 

Boca Raton DotNetNuke Group ( http://dotnetnuke.meetup.com/44/ )

See website

 

Central Florida Biztalk User Group ( http://www.cfbtug.org )

12/18/2008 – Biztalk and the Healthcare HL7 Accelerator – Shawn Cutter

 

Florida PowerShell User Group – Miramar, FL ( http://www.flpsug.com )

1/8/2009 – Meeting

1/13/2009 – Open session in Naples, FL

1/24/2009 – Tampa SQL Saturday – SQL Server and Powershell

 

Ft. Lauderdale / Miramar ( http://www.fladotnet.com )

1/13/2008 – Intro to C# for the VB Developer

2/7/2009 – CodeCamp V

 

Ft. Walton Beach, FL ( http://www.gulfcoastdotnet.org )
1/15/2009 - tbd

 

Gainesville, FL – GatorMUG ( http://www.gatormug.org )

1/15/2009 – Silverlight – John Papa

 

GoldCoast User Group – Boca Raton, FL ( http://www.gcdotnet.com )
1/8/2008 – New Data Mining Capabilities – David Cobb

2/12/2008 - Developer Opportunities using Cloud Services, Silverlight and WPF with CRM 4.0, by Joe Homnick

 

International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners  (click on Florida Tampa Chapter) ( http://www.iamcp.org/pages/default.aspx )

See website

 

Jacksonville Arch SIG ( http://jaxarcsig.spaces.live.com )

1/27/2009 - Jeff Barnes, A Lap Around Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform; Eugene Chuvyrov, Cloud Computing on Google App Engine and Amazon EC2
2/24/2009 - Sean Chambers-Intro to Domain-Driven Design

 

Jacksonville .NET Developer Group ( http://www.jaxdug.com )

1/7/2009 – VS2008 Service Pack 1 – Joe Healy

 

Jacksonville Office Geeks ( http://www.jacksonvilleofficegeeks.org )
See website

 

Jacksonville SQL Server ( http://www.jssug.com )
See website

 

Lakeland .NET ( http://www.cfdotnet.org )
1/20/2009 – tbd

2/17/2009 – tbd

3/17/2009 – tbd

3/17/2009 – tbd

4/21/2009 – tbd

5/19/2009 – tbd

6/16/2009 – tbd

7/21/2009 – tbd

8/18/2009 – tbd

9/16/2009 – tbd

10/21/2009- tbd

11/18/2009 – tbd

12/16/2009 - tbd

 

Southwest Florida .NET Developer Group ( http://www.swfldev.net )

1/6/2009 – Does Green IT Matter? – Kathy Malone

1/13/2009 – Powershell Open Session – Max Trinidad

 

Orlando Dotnetnuke ( http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net  )

1/6/2009 - DotNetNuke v5.0 Module Development – Stan Schultes

 

Orlando .NET User Group ( http://www.onetug.org )
1/29/2009 – XNA Game Studio – Joel Martinez

3/28/2009 - .NET CodeCamp Orlando

 

Orlando SQL Server ( http://www.opass.org )

1/13/2009 - tbd

Pensacola .NET ( http://pjcdotnet.events.live.com/default.aspx )

see website

 

Pensacola SQL Server ( http://www.pensacolasql.com )

1/29/2009 – Bulk Loading of SQL in Space

 

Sarasota IT Pro Group ( http://www.sarasotaitpro.org )

See website

 

Sarasota .NET Developer Group ( http://www.sarasotadev.net )

1/22/2009 – Aspect Oriented Programming – David Hayden

2/2009 – A Lap Around VSTS 2010 – Brandon Kelly

3/2009 – tbd – Ambrose Little returns

 

Sarasota SQL Server Group ( http://www.sarasotasql.net )

See website

 

South Florida Sharepoint User Group ( http://www.sharepointgroups.org/sfsug  )

1/8/2009 – tbd

 

South Florida SQL Server ( http://www.gcsqlgroup.com )

1/22/2009 – Securing SQL Server Best Practices - Brian Knight

2/5/2009 - tbd

 

Space Coast / Melbourne, FL ( http://www.scdnug.org )
1/21/2009 – Datasets and related Controls – Walter Williams

 

Tallahassee Sharepoint Developers ( http://www.tallahasseespeed.com )

See website

 

Tallahassee .NET (http://capitalcitydotnet.net )

1/8/2009 – Game Development with the Silverlight Platform – Christopher Bennage

1/15/2009 – Arch Sig #10 – Round Table

2/5/2009 – tbd – Todd Bleeker

2/12/2009 – Arch Sig #11 – Special Event

 

Tampa Bay Agile Group ( http://agiletampa.spaces.live.com )

See website

 

Tampa Bay Architecture Special Interest Group (IASA) ( http://tampabayiasa.eventbrite.com )

1/29/2009 – Fix the Architecture – Open Discussion

2/26/2009 –

3/26/2009 –

4/30/2009 –

5/28/2009 –

6/25/2009 –

7/30/2009 –

8/27/2009 –

9/19/2009 –

 

Tampa Bay Office Geeks Association ( http://floridaofficegeeks.org/TOGA/default.aspx )

1/12/2009 – Web Content Management – Andrew Connell

2/23/2009 – Sharepoint Workflow – Chris Predeek

3/23/2009 – tbd

4/20/2009 - tbd

 

Tampa Bay .NET ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
see website

 

Tampa Bay User Experience Group ( http://www.tampaux.org )

See website

 

TAMPA BAY SQL SERVER ( http://www.tampasql.com )
1/20/2008 – TBA

1/24/2008 – SQL Saturday #10

 

Tampa Bay SQL Server Business Intelligence ( http://tampabaybi.sqlpass.org )

See website

 

West Palm Beach ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
1/27/2009 – Data Binding, WCF, and RESTful Services with Silverlight 2 – John Papa

 

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