March 2010 Meeting
Functional Programming with F# - by Eugene Chuvyrov
The meeting date is Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm. Location: Sarasota Community Foundation, at 2635 Fruitville Rd., Sarasota, FL 34237 (just west of Tuttle on the north side of Fruitville).
Eugene will give us a practical introduction to F#, and will delve into some interesting applications for the language. Eugene is a leader of the Jacksonville .NET user group.
There is hope that there will be pizza at the meeting! :)
Upcoming SarasotaDev Events:
- RIA Services in Real Life, Tue, Apr 6, 2010, by Victor Sumskoy. Victor is excited to share a technology he's been working on.
- Enterprise Library 5.0 - Wed, May 5, 2010, by David Hayden. David's going to talk about what's new.
- Visual Studio 2010 Launch Event - tentatively planned for June 2010. Watch this space for an exciting announcement.
Nearby Developer/User Group Events:
- SQL 2008 R2 New Features and Roundtable - Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6pm at the Sarasota Community Foundation. More info here.
- Sarasota Barcamp - Thu, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:30am at Stingray's (near Lakewood Ranch) - lunchtime event with the discussion topic: Free Resources for Technology Startups! Free (BizSpark and WebSiteSpark) and open source software from Microsoft. More info here.
- Sarasota Web Developers - Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:00pm. ASP.NET MVC and related technologies in a shared learning style. More Info here.
- Orlando CodeCamp - Sat, Mar 27, 2010. Free all-day community event, one of the best in the region. More info here.
- .NET TikiHut Tour on Azure - Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:00 - 5:00 pm at the Microsoft office in Tampa. Joe Healy will provide more info than you probably wanted on developing for Azure. This is the half-day version of what he presented last month in Sarasota. More info here.
- Facebook Development in Azure - Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:30pm at the Microsoft office in Tampa. Jim Zimmerman will talk about doing Facebook application developing in .NET on the Azure platform. Very cool. More info here.
- Barcamp Sarasota Event - Sat/Sun Apr 17 & 18, 2010 at the new Sarasota Polytechnical High School. Join BarCamp Sarasota, learn more about the BarCamp Sarasota conference event, and find the LinkedIn group. Join and get involved to help grow and promote our community's technology, education, and business strengths. You can learn more about the spirit of BarCamp at the BarCamp wiki page.
- Day Of DotNetNuke will be back this year, tentatively scheduled for May 2010. More info here.
Florida CodeCamps in 2010:
The 2010 Florida CodeCamp season is about to start! If you haven't attended in the past, a CodeCamp is a free, all-day Saturday developer event put on by regional developers, for developers. If you've been to CodeCamp in the past, then you know you don't want to miss the 2010 season.
- South FL - Sat, Feb 27, 2010. This is usually the biggest event in the state. Speaker and attendee registration are open!
- Orlando - Sat, March 27, 2010. Speaker and attendee registration is open. Don't miss it!
- Jacksonville - Sat, Aug 28, 2010. It's a long drive north!
- SWFL - Sat, Dep 25, 2010. North of Naples, an easy drive on Saturday.
- Tallahassee - Sat, Oct 23, 2010.
- Tampa - Sat, Nov 20, 2010 (tentative).
Other Developer Events of Interest:
- Microsoft Mix10 - this event will be March 15-17, 2010 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
- DevConnections - this event will be March 22-25, 2010 in Las Vegas.
- Microsoft TechEd 2009 - this event will be June 7-10, 2010 in New Orleans.