Sunday, July 25, 2010, 9:53 PM
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Tuesday
6:30, San Francisco: Steve Andrews’ Geek Road Trip visits SF; come practice your Jedi skills in protecting your code, with “May the Source Stay With You”.
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Upcoming events
- August 4, Mountain View: Juval Lowy, A Modular Approach to the Development Process
- August 5, Mountain View: Garth Honhart, “Got Data? Data Quality and Stewardship”
- August 11, Livermore: Doug Holland, Visual Studio 2010 Code Generation
- August 16, San Francisco: Exploring F# from a C# developer’s perspective
- August 22, San Francisco: Cloud Computing Developers Group
- August 31, Sacramento: Doug Holland
- September 11, San Ramon: SharePoint Saturday
October 9th and 10th, Los Altos Hills: Silicon Valley Code Camp 2010!

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Monday, July 19, 2010, 1:14 AM
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Tuesday
6:30, Mountain View: Brent Ozar, "The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won't Scale"
Wednesday
San Francisco, 6:30: Damian Edwards, "jQuery: The way JavaScript should be"
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October 9th and 10th, Los Altos Hills: Silicon Valley Code Camp 2010!

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Monday, July 12, 2010, 5:15 AM
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Monday
6:30, San Francisco: Bruno Terkaly explains the Azure AppFabric
Wednesday
6:45, Livermore: Beth Massi will tell you all about “Creating and Consuming OData Services”
6:30, San Francisco: Ross Mistry discusses “Multi Server Management with SQL Server 2008 R2”
Upcoming events
- July 20, Mountain View: The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won't Scale
- July 21, San Francisco: Damian Edwards, jQuery: The way JavaScript should be
- July 27, San Francisco: Steve Andrews “May the Source Stay With You”
- August 4, Mountain View: Juval Lowy, A Modular Approach to the Development Process
- August 5, Mountain View: Garth Honhart, “Got Data? Data Quality and Stewardship”
- August 16, San Francisco: Exploring F# from a C# developer’s perspective
- August 31, Sacramento: Doug Holland
October 9th and 10th, Los Altos Hills: Silicon Valley Code Camp 2010!

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Monday, July 05, 2010, 12:53 AM
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Happy 4th of July to all the .Net community in North California!
Edit: sorry for the mistake, the Business Intelligence talk is taking place on August 5th and not July 5th.
Monday
6:30, Mountain View: Garth Honhart, “Got Data? Data Quality and Stewardship”
My apologies! This event is taking place on August 5th, and not July 5th.
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Wednesday
6:30, Mountain View: Thomas Lee will run “A lap around PowerShell”
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Thursday
6:00, Fresno: Brad Irby, “Best Practices in Software Re-engineering”
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7:00, San Francisco: Silverlight User Group meeting
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Upcoming events
- July 12, San Francisco: the Azure AppFabric
- July 14, Livermore: Beth Massi, Creating and Consuming OData Services
- July 14, San Francisco: Ross Mistry, Multi Server Management with SQL Server 2008 R2
- July 20, Mountain View: The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won't Scale
- July 21, San Francisco: jQuery: The way JavaScript should be
- August 4, Mountain View: Juval Lowy, A Modular Approach to the Development Process
- August 16, San Francisco: Exploring F# from a C# developer’s perspective
October 9th and 10th, Los Altos Hills: Silicon Valley Code Camp 2010!

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Sunday, June 27, 2010, 11:55 PM
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Tuesday
6:00, Sacramento: Sara Ford, Visual Studio 2010 Tips & Tricks
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Wednesday
6:30, San Francisco: Steve Bockman and Rob Myers, “Making pair programming fun and effective”
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Thursday
6:30, San Francisco: Dan Bulos, “Why Cubes? The benefits of using Analysis Services”
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Monday, June 21, 2010, 12:07 AM
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Saturday
Mountain View: SuperHappyDevHouse38
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Sunday, June 13, 2010, 10:44 PM
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Tuesday
8:00 – 12:00 and 1:00 –5:00, Mountain View: MSDN & TechNet event Launch 2010 Highlights
Event info here (TechNet) and here (MSDN)
6:00, San Mateo: “Got Support?” – an exceptional discussion with the DotNetNuke user group, all about you. Bring your DNN questions and issues!
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6:30, Mountain View: Brad Schulz, “OVER Exposed: An In-Depth Look at the SQL Server OVER Clause”
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Wednesday
6:30 pm, San Francisco: Jeff Atwood discusses his experience creating “StackOverflow, building social software for the anti-social”.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010, 11:11 PM
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Monday
6:30, San Francisco: inaugural meeting of SF#, the San Francisco F# user group.
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Wednesday
6:00, Livermore: Mathias Brandewinder will talk “For Those about to Mock”
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6:30, San Francisco: Solomon Waters on the Seven Deadly Sins of Database Design.
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Thursday
6:30, Mountain View: Phil Hummel, “SQL Server 2008 R2: The BI Release”
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Saturday
9:30 – 4:30, Cupertino: Glenn Block leads the path to Mastering the Managed Extensibility Framework.
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Upcoming events
- June 15, Mountain View: TechNet Events Presents: Launch 2010 Highlights
- June 15, Mountain View: MSDN Events Presents: Launch 2010 Highlights
- June 15, Mountain View: Indexing Guidelines - Strategies, Implementation, and the Index Life Cycle
- June 15, Brent Ozar (Quest): SQL Server Performance Tuning for Race Car Drivers
- June 15, Mountain View: Greg Larsen, “Indexing Guidelines”
- San Francisco, June 16: Jeff Atwood, Stack Overflow: Building Social Software for the Anti-Social
- June 26: SuperHappyDevHouse38
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 8:32 PM
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Just to announce the appearance of two new .Net-related groups in the Bay Area:
SF# is a group of developers in the San Francisco Bay Area who have an interest in the F# programming language. Novices and experts are both welcome.
First meeting on June 7.
Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group is a User Group to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences around the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack
First meeting on June 10.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010, 10:22 PM
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Tuesday
San Francisco, 6:30: Mark Vinokur on Citrix XenDesktop
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San Francisco, 6:30: San Francisco Bay.Net NerdDinner!
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Wednesday
Mountain View, 6:30: Nik Kalyani, co-founder of DotNetNuke ,will discuss “Moving Your ASP.NET App to the Cloud”.
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Coming up soon
- June 9, San Francisco: Seven Deadly Sins of Database Design
- June 12, Cupertino: MEF education day with Glenn Block
- June 15, Mountain View: TechNet Events Presents: Launch 2010 Highlights
- June 15, Mountain View: MSDN Events Presents: Launch 2010 Highlights
- June 15, Mountain View: Indexing Guidelines - Strategies, Implementation, and the Index Life Cycle
- June 15, Brent Ozar (Quest): SQL Server Performance Tuning for Race Car Drivers
- June 15, Mountain View: Greg Larsen, “Indexing Guidelines”
- San Francisco, June 16: Jeff Atwood, Stack Overflow: Building Social Software for the Anti-Social
- June 26: SuperHappyDevHouse38
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