Registration for SQLBits II IS now open.

If this a super data-oriented event; if you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, click here.

More details can be found here:
http://www.sqlserverfaq.com/sqlbits/

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Location: Microsoft, Thames Valley Park, Reading
Date: 31st January 2008
Time: 6pm

Agenda
Microsoft’s James O’Neill and Vista Squad’s Ray Booysen will be giving a talk on Windows Server 2008 and Virtualisation.

They will show us some more detail on Silverlight. Some exciting give-aways at this meeting, one copy of Windows Vista Ultimate courtesy of Microsoft and 2 free licenses for Resharper courtesy of Jetbrains.

Further information about this event and Vista Squad can be found here.

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DDD Scotland takes place on the 10th of May 2008, in Glasgow.

The Call For Speakers closes w/c 4th February 2008 – if you are interested in speaking at this community event, please get in touch via this page.

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BarCamp Scotland will be held on Saturday the 2nd of February 2008 from 10.00 to 21.00 GMT in the Concourse of the Appleton Tower at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.

For further information, please visit this web page:

http://barcamp.org/BarCampScotland2008

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Chris Dalby, Live Meeting guru extraordinaire, is holding a web-cast tomorrow at 1600 GMT. Microsoft’s Mark Deakin is also going to be present, so if you’re looking for any advice about Live Meeting or unified communications, this is the web-cast for you!

Event organising with Live Meeting 2007 and Round TableDate: Wednesday January 24th 2007, 4pm GMT
Speakers: Chris Dalby: Live Meeting User Group and Mark Deakin, Microsoft UK
Where: Online – Live Meeting webcast
Product: Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007
Audience(s): Users, presenters, developers and resellers of Live Meeting
Duration: 60 Minutes ish
Language: English.

More information and sign up details can be found here:

http://livemeetinguser.org/blogs/announcements/archive/2008/01/23/round-table-webcast.aspx

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Barry’s delivering an MSDN geekSpeak session next month.

Barry Dorrans talks about problems and solutions when implementing a Windows CardSpace identity provider in the real world.

More details, and a means of submitting your own questions, can be found here:

http://idunno.org/archive/2008/01/18/upcoming-msdn-webcast–geek-speak-quotproblems-and-solutions-when.aspx

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Windows Server 2008 for developers – 23rd and 24th January 2008 – sign up here.

Session 1: Windows Server 2008 Part 1 and Session 2: Windows Server 2008 Part 2
Whether you are building Web applications or writing core server-based system services, Windows Server 2008 provides many new features that you can leverage to build more secure, flexible, and innovative applications. In this 2-session event we will go through the “Top 7 Ways to Light Up Your Apps on Windows Server 2008”. Demos will include IIS7, PowerShell, Transactional File System (TxF), restart/recovery APIs plus more.

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Building Dynamic Web Applications with Microsoft Silverlight – 19th and 20th February 2008 – sign up here.

Silverlight is Microsoft’s new cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering rich media experiences and interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight provides a highly productive platform for designers and developers to collaborate in building a new generation of web experiences enabling you to build visually stunning interactive content and applications that run on multiple browsers and operating systems.

Join us for a spin around the XAML Canvas to experience the capabilities of the Silverlight platform. We’ll take an in depth look at what Silverlight is and how we can make use of it in web applications. We’ll look at both the 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the technology and probe into the programming model and tools you’ll need to build compelling Silverlight applications. We’ll also look at some related topics such as calling back-end services and asynchronous content download.

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