All Boston Azure Events (Past, Present, Future)
Show only upcoming events| Title | Description | Starts (EST/Boston time) | Ends (EST/Boston time) |
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| Brian Lambert, Azure Ninja - Azure overview, kick-off meeting keynote speaker |
Brian Lambert headlined an outstanding event, including an excellent crowd. |
Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:00 PM | |
| Update from PDC, digging into "Dallas" and SQL Azure, opening with Boston Azure Theater! |
There were 34 people at this combined meeting of the Boston Azure user group and Ben Day's Beantown .NET group.
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Thursday, December 03, 2009 6:00 PM | |
| Featured for the January 2010 meeting is Ben Day talking about "Windows Azure Storage: Real World Examples" |
Windows Azure Storage isn't a relational database but that doesn't mean that you can't use it in a real application. Sure, you're going to have to work with Azure Storage a little differently than SQL Azure but if you're worried about database size limits and cost, Azure Storage looks pretty good. In this session, Ben will show you how to use Azure Storage from within a Domain Model pattern, n-tier application. Topics will include how to architect your Azure Storage application for unit testability, how to deal with configuration data, how to re-use data access logic using generics, how to save and load complex Domain Model types across multiple tables and blobs in Azure Storage, and how to implement lazy-loading in your Domain Model objects from within a medium-trust hosting environment. Benjamin Day is a consultant and trainer specializing in software development best practices using Microsoft's development tools, Team Foundation Server, and Scrum. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio Team System and a member of the Visual Studio Team System Customer Advisory Council at Microsoft. Recently, Ben became one of the first certified trainers for the new Scrum Developer class from Scrum.org. When not developing software, Ben likes to hang out with his wife and cats, play jazz piano, and geek out on all things food. He can be contacted via http://www.benday.com and http://blog.benday.com. |
Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:00 PM | |
| Sister group "Virtualization Group - Boston" hosting a "Deep Dive Day" Feb 12 in Waltham |
Another local user group Virtualization Group - Boston is hosting Community Virtualization Deep Dive Day on Fri Feb 12, 2010 in Waltham (Jones Road) Of interest to Boston Azure members, part of this relates to the cloud, including Azure topics. Please see |
Friday, February 12, 2010 7:00 AM | Friday, February 12, 2010 5:00 PM |
| Feb 2010 featured speaker:Curt Devlin (Microsoft) on Identity and Geneva |
Our featured speaker is AbstractThe Azure platform presents new challenges for identity management. As developers and architects, we will still have to answer the same two perennial questions: 1) Who are you? 2) And what are you allowed to do? But the traditional on-premise approaches to authentication, authorization and identity lifecycle control are not adequate to meet these new challenges. The Geneva suite of technologies for claims-based identity management can be help because cloud computing can be thought of as a "special case" of federation, with many similar requirements. Together these two paradigms appear to be converging to create the perfect storm of paradigm shifts. However, even WIF, ADFS 2.0 and CardSpace 2.0, will only take us part way to a complete solution in the near term. This session will provide a simple recipe for claims-based identity management in Azure using Geneva, discuss some of the most important reasons why this is necessary, and finally some of the shortcomings we will still have to contend with on the road ahead. The aim is to educate, motivate, and caution. About Curt DevlinCurt Devlin is currently an architect in Microsoft DPE (Developer & Platform Evangelism) focusing on distributed solutions across many industries and customer segments. Curt is a Microsoft veteran of many technology wars, with more than 20 years of experience developing solutions on the Windows and .NET. platforms. He is also a dyed-in-the-wool New Englander with avid interests in sailing, skiing and nearly everything else. Curt blogs as the philosophical architect, plus you can check out his MSDN articles Enterprise Authorization Strategy and SaaS Capacity Planning: Transaction Cost Analysis Revisited. |
Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:00 PM | |
| Mar 2010 feature topic is Intuit Partner Platform for Azure |
As part of the recent joint announcement by Intuit and Microsoft, the Windows Azure SDK for Intuit Partner Platform is a set of tools, code samples and services designed to make it easy for developers of SaaS applications developed on Windows Azure to federate those SaaS apps on to IPP and sell them to millions of Intuit customers in the Intuit Workplace App Center. In this talk, we’ll provide a high level overview IPP and provide details on how to use Windows Azure SDK for IPP. Windows Azure SDK for IPP is currently available as an open beta, with a V1.0 release expected to be available soon. The Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) is the fastest and easiest way to build SaaS applications capable of integrating with QuickBooks data and the easiest way to sell your SaaS applications to millions of Intuit customers in the Intuit Workplace App Center! |
Thursday, March 25, 2010 6:00 PM | |
| Jason Haley - Hands On with Azure SDK |
NOTE THIS MEETING IS ON April 29th - THE 5th Thursday of April - this is not typical (we usually meet on the 4th Thursday). Main topic: Jason Haley leads a "hands on" session: Windows Azure SDK Walkthrough This session is designed to be hands on - so bring your laptop. Prerequisites are listed below. If you want help getting configured, there will be help available from 6:00 -6:45 PM before the March and April meetings. But don’t plan to wait for the last minute if you can help it! If you don’t have a laptop, come anyway and you can pair up with someone who does. We will dig into the Windows Azure SDK samples and utilities - as well as the Azure Training Kit samples (time permitted). We be working locally (no internet connection requires) with the Development Fabric and Development Storage – which will give you a great feel for how you can get started developing your Azure applications. Prerequisites:
Jason is a local Independent consultant who specializes in Microsoft technologies and lately has been spending a lot of time getting to know Windows Azure. Jason blogs at jasonhaley.com/blog. |
Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:00 PM | |
| Boston Azure Firestarter May 8th |
UPDATE: Summary of event, photos, resources see bostonazure.org/firestarterORIGINAL EVENT POSTING FOLLOWS![]() Boston Azure FirestarterThe Firestarter is all-day... hands-on... and free... Come learn about Windows Azure. Bring your ready-to-code-with laptop (or pair up with someone else). By the end of the day, you will have learned a lot about Windows Azure and you will have cut some code of your own with the help of expert Firestarter staffers.Registration now open!Registration is FREE (though total number of attendees is limited). To register now for Firestarter click here!!SCHEDULE (DRAFT/SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
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Saturday, May 08, 2010 8:00 AM | Saturday, May 08, 2010 6:30 PM |
| Michael Stiefel on SQL Azure | Michael Stiefel is our featured speaker. Abstract: When you put data in a computing cloud, the requirements of consistency, availability and partitioning can conflict. This means when building highly available and scalable applications, you may have to give up classic ACID database transactions and relational database features such as foreign keys, joins, and stored procedures. How do you then handle data versioning, and latency? The Microsoft cloud platform gives you two data technologies: Tables, and SQL Azure. When do you use one or the other? This talk will talk about how to architect, design, and implement data storage in this new world. | Thursday, May 27, 2010 6:00 PM | |
| Night of Hacking - The Boston Azure Project | A night of HACKING. Abstract: This is the first meeting dedicated entirely to the Open Source Boston Azure Project. Bring your Azure-powered laptop if you have one - otherwise, plan to pair up with someone, or contribute in design or process discussions. | Thursday, June 24, 2010 6:00 PM | |
| Night of Hacking - The Boston Azure Project | A night of HACKING. More hacking, less talking on Boston Azure Project. Bring your Azure-powered laptop if you have one - otherwise, plan to pair up with someone, or contribute in design or process discussions. Get familiar with the Boston Azure Project CodePlex site. | Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:00 PM | |
| Chris Bowen on ASP.NET MVC | ASP.NET MVC is a hot topic. It is the new and shiny technology to use for building web sites in .NET. Come learn about ASP.NET MVC generally from Chris Bowen of Microsoft. Note that this is not just a talk about MVC - it also delves into how MVC fits into an Azure context. The Boston Azure community web site - http://bostonazure.org - is built using ASP.NET MVC - and if you are joining the fun on the Boston Azure Project, you will have extra reason to learn about MVC on Azure. | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:00 PM |




