new england business and technology




Chris Bowen and I are busting out of our home bases in Massachusetts and taking our long-winded rants and questionable demos on the road across the Northeast!  In the coming weeks, we'll be bringing the latest in developer- and architect-focused content to a town near you.

Join us for a full day of no-fluff deep technical content, plenty of code, 100% guaranteed-to-run demos*, and of course giveaways throughout with a chance to win a Zune at day's end!  [* We'll define "run" as we go.]

Roadshow Schedule and RegistrationRochester, NY February 27th, 2007 8:30am-4:00pm

  • East Region arcCouncil - The topic this month is Web 2.0

    Please join us on February 12th at a local Microsoft office for the next arcCouncil meeting on Web 2.0. Architecture. Michael Platt, Director of Web Architecture Strategy at Microsoft in Redmond will examine the business, social and technical drivers behind this platform and Microsoft’s vision and technologies for the future.  Dion Hinchcliffe, President and CTO, Hinchcliffe & Company and Editor-in-Chief, Web 2.0 Journal | AjaxWorld Magazine will provide an informative exploration of the key aspects of Web 2.0 as it applies to creating application architectures and will explore specific architectural principles and software design issues.

    If you are new to the arcCouncil, it is a bi-monthly meeting of industry architects and features guest presentations by Microsoft product architects, industry luminaries and customers. An arcCouncil is one several program offerings provided under the Microsoft arcStream program. Launched last fall by the Microsoft East Region Developer &