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Upcoming Technology Events in the Western NY Area

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Here are a few tech events in the next month or so near Buffalo. I’ll be attending all of these. It’s really nice to see a fairly active tech community in the area, especially given the economy.

  • BarCamp Buffalo - tonight (3/31/09) at 7:30 PM at the Pearl Street Grill & Brewery. Informal presentations and networking for anyone interested in web and other tech topics. And really good microbrews!
  • Western NY .NET Users Group - Monday 4/6/09 at 6:00 PM at the Bulger Communication Center at Buffalo State College. Dan Martin is presenting an introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
  • Toronto Code Camp - Saturday 4/25/09 at the Manulife Financial Corporation, 200 Bloor Street East, in Toronto. This is a free all-day conference focused on .NET development.

See you there!

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WNY .NET User Group Meeting Tomorrow

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

WNY DNUG LogoIt’s late notice, but if you’re a software developer in the Buffalo metro area, you might like to attend tomorrow’s meeting of the Western New York .NET User Group. Dave Stevenson is coming in from Rochester to speak about LINQ to SQL. Should be very educational, and afterwards we always go out for drinks and continue talking tech in a more casual venue.

We generally meet at 6:00 PM the third Thursday of each month, usually at the KnowledgeAir offices in Suite 628 in the Larkin at Exchange building at 726 Exchange Street, Buffalo. There’s always great presentations, great networking and mingling with fellow developers, and lots of free stuff to raffle off (developer tool licenses and more). Oh, and free pizza.

I’m hoping to put together a presentation on Windows Forms development (and the wider history of Windows desktop programming) to present at the group at some point, since it’s an unfamiliar topic to many developers, compared to ASP.NET programming. For some reason, much of my professional work over the past five years has involved Windows Forms, so I think I’m in a good position to teach some of the tricks that you won’t get in the beginner documentation.

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