Well folks, it's that time again!  SharePoint Saturday rolls into Philadelphia (the Fort Washington area to be specific) for a Saturday full of SharePoint stuff.  Come on out and join SharePoint architects, administrators, developers, and other professionals who work with SharePoint for this SharePoint Saturday event on May 8th, 2010.  The day will be filled with educational and informative SharePoint 2010 sessions and provide you with an excellent opportunity to network with Microsoft MVPs and other SharePoint professionals in Philadelphia area.

SharePoint Saturday is FREE and is open to the public!  Click here to register cause it'll fill up fast!

Date: May 8th, 2010
Time: 8:00am - 5:00 pm
Location: DeVry University Campus, 1140 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, PA 19034

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So register, come on out, mingle with folk of like mind, and just have an all around great day of SharePoint sessions! - M

MSDN is having 2 online chats on SharePoint, April 27 from 7pm - 8pm EST, and April 28 from 12pm - 1pm EST.  Why don't you sign up and catch up on some SharePoint technical goodness?  I'm lucky enough ot be on the April 28th call.  Sign up, sign in, sign on, and have at it! - M

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx

Getting closer to GA folks...the 2010 bits (see screens) appeared for me on my TechNet subscription...have at it! - M

Just announced on the MSDN SharePoint Blog, SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 have gone RTM today.  The applications will slowly be released to the masses over the coming weeks with general availability come May 1.

It's almost here...

- M

Just when I'm going to get the ball rolling, crazy things like work get in the way.  So, after much scrambling, here's hoping to being back on track with my blogging, and what better way to start off than to say "Hey, come on out to Philly.NET's Code Camp 2010.1!"  Code Camp, run by the Philly.NET User Group is a gathering of geeks for all things .NET (and a few tracks of ALT.NET) run a couple times a year.

Code Camp is an excellent opportunity to network with 500+ of philly's finest developers, consultants, and IT decision makers.  It will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, April 10 from 8:30-5:00.  I will be doing a track on SharePoint 2010 Feature Development with Visual Studio 2010.  It'll go over the changes since VS 2008, and how it's much more streamlined, with demos/walkthroughs.

Philly.NET's Code Camps are entirely free events.  Below are just a couple of details about it:

• Lots of code, just say no to slides!
• 8 hours of learning and networking
• 60 sessions by 60 speakers (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)
• 12 tracks (two recorded live by Microsoft MSDN)
• 600 seats with tables (laptops welcome)
• Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack
• Raffles and prizes at lunch and closing

So, if you feel like hanging out with a bunch of your fellow geeks, come on out!  It'll be a blast! - M