Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next couple of weeks for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest:

DC

Continuous Integration: Blueprint, Toolbox, Master Craft
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:30 PM, Washington, DC
The practice of continuous integration (CI) has the ability to transform software development from a set of manual processes to a logical series of reproducible, automated processes. There are three concepts that are key to continuous integration; the blueprint, the toolbox, and the master craft. This session presents the CI lifecycle as a blueprint. You will see and understand the series of development processes that establish an effective, automated progression from source code to a packaged deliverable. You will learn about the CI server, which is the fundamental tool that initiates, performs, coordinates, and reports throughout the CI phases. The toolbox includes both the CI server and the combination of technologies that support CI. Continuous integration is a master craft of Agile engineering. To help you be effective with continuous integration, this talk demonstrates both the knowledge and skills needed to achieve the desired results of CI and to maximize its value.

About the Speaker: Stephen Ritchie is the author of Pro .NET Best Practices (http://www.apress.com/9781430240235). He has been writing software professionally for over 20 years. He works as a software development consultant at Excella Consulting in the Washington, D.C. area. His passion for following best practices has taught him to appreciate the value of experience, practical know-how, and continuous learning. Stephen is the .NET best practices steward at Excella Consulting, working with .NET project teams to facilitate and sort out the helpful practices from the unhelpful ones, the practicable from the impracticable, and the "sounds good" from the "it really is good" practices and principles.
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MD

RockNUG Robocode (Release 6.8.1)
Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:00 AM, Rockville, MD
This out-of-band release of RockNUG will be a programming competition. The contest will be Robocode. See the website for details and to sign up!
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Online

Microsoft SLG Seveloper Day
Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:30 AM, Online
Be our guest and attend in person to experience all of the incredible new features of Visual Studio 2012 first hand.

Experience powerful possibilities.
Discover how Visual Studio 2012 allows you to collaborate better and be more agile. See how it helps you turn big ideas into more compelling apps. Experience how it integrates best practices that accelerate development and deployment.

Seating is limited, so register today, we hope to see you there!

Agenda:
Time Topic
9:00am-9:30am Welcome & Session Introduction
9:30am-10:30am What’s New in the Visual Studio 2012 Integrated Development Environment
10:30am-10:45am Break
10:45am-11:30am Visual Studio Advanced Features including Intelli-trace & Code Reviews
11:30am-1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm-2:30pm Team Foundation Server 2012
2:30pm-2:45pm Break
2:45pm-4:00pm Quality Enablement using Feedback Tool, Storyboarding, Exploratory Testing, Coded UI Test, Load Testing
4:00 Adjourn
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VA

RADNUG February Meeting
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:30 PM, Fredericksburg, VA
Rappahannock Developers .NET User Group's February meeting.

We'll be talking about mocking as it pertains to unit testing - what it is and how it is useful. We'll talk about some freely available mocking frameworks and demonstrate using mocks with one of them in the course of unit testing a class.

Note that RADNUG is now meeting at the SimVentions building - thanks to SimVentions for providing a great facility for our meetings!

Hope to see you there!
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Microsoft Visions Conference
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:00 AM, Glen Allen, VA
This is a free mini-conference at the Microsoft building in Richmond. Focus is on new technologies, including SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, Azure, Windows 8, etc.
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