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Reminder: 3 Days Left for TechDays Vancouver and Toronto at $299

August 29, 2009
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If you want to attend TechDays Vancouver (September 14 – 15) or TechDays Toronto (September 29 – 30) at the early bird rate, you’ve got 3 days left! After Monday, August 31st, you’ll have to pay the full $599. Register now and save!

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The TechDays $299 Deal

August 25, 2009
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The Early Bird Price is Going Away Soon
The $299 early bird pricing for TechDays Canada 2009’s Vancouver and Toronto stops will vanish after Monday, August 31st. From September 1st onward, if you want to catch TechDays in Vancouver (Monday, September 14th – Tuesday, September 15th) and Toronto (Tuesday, September 29th – Wednesday, September 30th), you’ll [...]

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Science 2.0: Choosing Infrastructure and Testing Tools for Scientific Software Projects

July 30, 2009

C. Titus Brown delivering his presentation.
Here’s the first of my notes from the Science 2.0 conference, a conference for scientists who want to know how software and the web is changing the way they work. It was held on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 29th at the MaRS Centre in downtown Toronto and attended by [...]

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Open Source Language Roundtable Webcast: Wednesday, July 22nd

July 20, 2009

O’Reilly’s conference on Open Source, OSCON, takes place this week in San Jose, California. One of the events taking place at OSCON is the Open Source Language Roundtable, the abstract for which appears below:
We all have our favorite languages in our tool-belt, but is there a ‘best’ overall language? If anyone can hash that out, [...]

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TechDays 2009

June 22, 2009

Summer may just be starting, but we’re already working on on Microsoft’s big conference for the fall, TechDays 2009. It’s our cross-Canada conference for Developers and IT Pros that covers Microsoft tools and technologies that are available right now.
I was a presenter at TechDays 2008, and this year, I’m in charge the Developing for the [...]

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Videos from the 2009 RSA Conference

May 15, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

The 2009 edition of the RSA Conference, the biggest and best-known cryptography and information security conference, took place last month in San Francisco. Each year, the conference has a theme based on or relevant to crypto or infosec, and this year’s theme was Edgar Allen Poe (previous [...]

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The Empire’s Coming to WordCamp Toronto 2009!

May 2, 2009

WordCamp Toronto 2009, the Accordion City-based conference dedicated to the Wordpress blogging platform (which this blog runs on), takes place next weekend, May 8th through 10th. It’s a three-day, three-track conference with offerings for Wordpress users of all types, from those just getting started with blogging to hardcore developers and designers plumbing deep into Wordpress’ [...]

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The 2009 Lang.NET Symposium / 2009 DSL DevCon

April 12, 2009

I know it’s incredibly short notice, but I just found about these myself. If:

the design and implementation of programming languages, virtual machines and compilers, multi-language libraries and IDEs is your cup of tea, and…
you’re going to be in or near Redmond this week

…then you might want to check out these conferences:

First, there’s the [...]

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My Afternoon at MeshU

April 11, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
I caught the afternoon sessions of MeshU, the day of workshops that precedes the Mesh Conference. MeshU had three tracks – Design, Development and Management – and I chose to attend the sessions in the Development track.

Leigh Honeywell on Writing Secure Software
First up was HackLabTO cofounder Leigh Honeywell, [...]

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Toronto Code Camp: Saturday, April 25th

April 10, 2009

Whether you’re an old hand at developing for Microsoft’s platforms or completely new to The Ways of The Empire, you’ll find the upcoming Toronto Code Camp to be a great way to get some deep information on .NET development as well as a way to meet some of the most active and engaged members of [...]

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EnergizeIT 2009: Coming Soon!

February 23, 2009

It’s been announced on Canadian Developer Connection, but I thought I’d mention it here: we folks at Microsoft Canada are gearing up for the 2009 edition of EnergizeIT, a cross-country tour where we’ll show off our upcoming tools, technology and platforms.

For starters, we’ll be showing off Windows 7. I’ve been running it on [...]

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FutureRuby: July 9th – 12th, 2009

February 23, 2009

First Came RubyFringe

I can’t talk about FutureRuby without first talking about RubyFringe.
Last July, the fine folks at Toronto’s Little Coding Shop That Could – Unspace – created one of the best and most memorable conferences I’ve ever attended: RubyFringe. RubyFringe made its mark by taking the standard geek conference formula and turning it on its [...]

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We’ll be in Seattle This Week!

February 1, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
Starting tonight (Pacific Coast Time), John Bristowe, I, and a few other folks from Microsoft Canada’s De veloper & Platform Evangelism team, will be in Seattle all next week to attend Microsoft’s 8th TechReady conference. TechReady is a Microsoft internal conference where ‘Softies from all over the [...]

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I’m in Calgary Next Week

December 4, 2008

I’ll be in Calgary from Monday to Friday next week, catching up with my friend and co-worker John Bristowe (he’s Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist for Western Canada) and speaking at the Tech Days conference.
If you use (or are thinking of using) The Empire’s technologies, Tech Days is a pretty good place to get immersed. [...]

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RubyFringe was Profitable, People are Happy, and the Sky Didn’t Fall. What Now?”

July 31, 2008

Over at Rethink, the blog of Accordion City-based development shop Unspace, Pete Forde shares his thoughts on the RubyFringe conference in an articles titled RubyFringe was Profitable, People are Happy, and the Sky Didn’t Fall. What Now?”.
The article covers all kinds of things including:

A loving poke at RailsConf (”A 400 person conference doesn’t become better [...]

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