University of Connecticut

Events coming up

Past events

• Node.js on Windows Azure (Peter Laudati)

  Thu, 7 Jun 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud service, providing compute, storage, and other services to enable you to scale apps on demand. Azure is not just a .NET solution. It’s a Windows solution, supporting other languages, including Java, PHP, and most recently Node.js. Node.js?! What’s that?

• MoCloud: Useful Cloud Patterns for Mobile Developers (Dani Diaz)

  Thu, 3 May 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  If you want to spicy up a resume with the latest tech scene buzz words, I can’t think of two better ones than “mobility” and “cloud”. We all know that both of these technologies will play a big role in the future of our industry.

• T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2012 (Lenni Lobel)

  Thu, 12 Apr 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  In this informative and demo-packed session, Lenni will guide you through the T-SQL enhancements in the very latest release of SQL Server. We’ll dive into powerful new windowing enhancements with the OVER clause, new T-SQL functions (all 22 of them!), improved error handling with THROW, server-side

• Mobile MVC Development with jQuery (Rachel Appel)

  Thu, 5 Apr 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  Come see Rachel talk about Mobile Web development using ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML 5, and jQuery Mobile. I tried to get more info out of her, but I guess she wanted it to be an amazing surprise. Rachel currently works for Microsoft as a Sr. Developer Evangelist based in the NYC Metro area.

• Scaling SQL Server using Service Broker (Hilary Cotter)

  Thu, 8 Mar 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  Boost the throughput of your SQL Server applications by using Service Broker! Service Broker is a native messaging framework within SQL Server which allows you to scale SQL Server processes, do asynchronous processing, fire and forget processing, inter server processing and to respond to events with

• Mobile MVC Development with jQuery (Rachel Appel)

  Thu, 1 Mar 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  Come see Rachel talk about Mobile Web development using ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML 5, and jQuery Mobile. I tried to get more info out of her, but I guess she wanted it to be an amazing surprise ;) Rachel currently works for Microsoft as a Sr. Developer Evangelist based in the NYC Metro area.

• SQL Server Performance: Evaluation of Various Features (Linchi Shea)

  Thu, 9 Feb 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  Before you use a new feature with SQL Server, you naturally would wonder about its performance implications. Will it improve or degrade performance, and by how much?

• Windows Phone / Azure Development by Dummies (Leo Junquera)

  Thu, 5 Jan 2012, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  For the past 4 years my nose had been buried in spreadsheets, budgets, PowerPoint presentations, and meetings. Shortly after starting at Microsoft my manager challenged everybody in my role to come up with a better way to manage a shared spreadsheet. How could we get multi-user updating on-the-go?

• Introducing SQL Server 2012 (Kevin S. Goff)

  Thu, 8 Dec 2011, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  Have you ever gotten whiplash as you twist your head in fifty directions, trying to research all the new features in a product? In this session, I’ll go through all the new features in SQL Server Denali.

• Cross-Platform Mobile Development with .NET (Greg Shackles)

  Thu, 3 Nov 2011, 18:00 - 20:30 in One University Place, United States

  With so many dominant players in the mobile space, each with its own stack, the thought of developing for all of them is daunting but unavoidable. Strange as it may seem, .NET developers are actually in the best position of all to do just that.