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Stack Overflow DevDays Toronto

October 26, 2009
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On Friday, the Stack Overflow DevDays travelling conference, which covers ten cities in North America and Europe in a month, took place in Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. The sold-out conference was packed enthusiastic developers from both the Toronto area as well as cities within driving distance as well as a large number [...]

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Explore Design ‘09

October 14, 2009
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I’m going to be “booth-bunnying” today and tomorrow at the Microsoft area of the Explore Design fair, which bills itself as “North America’s first design education fair for youth”. It’s an event where young people can find out about the creative, technical and career possibilities offered by the field of design. There’s a wide [...]

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Trouble, Incorporated

October 6, 2009
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One of the features at the TechDays cross-country conference is the “Ask the Experts” booth, which is staffed all day by speakers (when they aren’t speaking, naturally) and other local tech experts. They’re there to answer attendee questions about Microsoft tools and technologies, tech trends, the industry in general, the local job scene and so [...]

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TechDays: Reza Alirezaei on Developing and Consuming Services For SharePoint

September 30, 2009
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As I write this, we’re getting into the final session of TechDays Toronto, which in my track – Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform – features SharePoint guru Reza Alirezaei doing his presentation, Developing and Consuming Services for SharePoint.
If you ask me the question “What is SharePoint?”, I’d most likely give you a description that [...]

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TechDays: Bruce Johnson on Building RESTful Applications Using WCF

September 30, 2009
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Right now (at the time of this writing) at the Toronto edition of the TechDays cross-Canada conference, in the Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform track, is Bruce Johnson – “the speaker so nice, we put him on twice!” – talking to the audience about Building RESTful Applications Using WCF.

REST – as in REpresentational [...]

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TechDays: Anthony Vranic on Optimizing Your Application for the Windows 7 User Experience

September 29, 2009
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My photos from Anthony Vranic’s session at TechDays, Optimizing Your Application for the Windows 7 User Experience, are a bit dark because I used a different camera; my main camera was on video recording duty. I’m including them anyway, because I’m trying to keep a complete record of TechDays.

The original version of this [...]

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Why the “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” Track is the Hippest Track at TechDays

September 29, 2009
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It’s because we have the best obscure pop culture references, as seen in Rob Burke’s presentation on Developing Composite Applications with Silverlight and WPF:

(That’s a photo of my manager John Oxley and co-worker Damir Bersinic, used to illustrate heavyweight layer communication in Prism. If you don’t get the pop culture reference, this article on [...]

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TechDays Toronto 2009 Begins!

September 29, 2009
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Here are a couple of shots from the Toronto edition of TechDays, taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre right now.
The Room
I’m the lead for TechDays’ Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform track, which I like to think of as the best damned track in the entire conference. The pre-registration numbers for this track [...]

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The “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” Track at TechDays Canada

September 28, 2009
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In planning this year’s TechDays conference, we made some significant changes to the developer tracks: they were reformulated into:

A “tools and techniques” track, called Developer Fundamentals and Best Practices, for which my friend and fellow Developer Evangelist John Bristowe is the track lead
A “technologies” track, called Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform, which I lead. [...]

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TechDays Toronto Schedule and Details / FailCamp Toronto 3

September 27, 2009
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TechDays Canada 2009 is Microsoft Canada’s cross-country conference that shows you how to make the most of our currently available tools and technologies. A couple of weeks ago, we held the first TechDays 2009 conference in Vancouver, and it went quite well. This week, TechDays makes the second stop of its seven-city tour: Toronto, on [...]

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TechDays Vancouver 2009: Day Two at the “Microsoft Platform” Track

September 16, 2009
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Vancouver Convention Centre, as seen from the Fairmont Hotel across the street
Yesterday marked Day 2 of the TechDays Vancouver 2009 conference. The track that I’m in charge of is the most broad one: Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform. With such a wide array of topics that I could cover, I decided to focus on four [...]

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TechDays Vancouver: Scenes from the “Platform” Track

September 14, 2009
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It’s Monday, September 14th, which means that TechDays Canada 2009 has begun! We’re at the Vancouver Convention Centre in beautiful Vangroovy, the first city of sevencities we’re visiting in our tour. We’re travelling across Canada throughout the fall to show off the latest and greatest things that developers and IT pros can do with [...]

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Your Last Day for TechDays Vancouver or Toronto at $299!

August 31, 2009
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Today is your last chance to register for TechDays Canada 2009’s Vancouver (September 14 – 15) and Toronto (September 29 – 30) conferences at the early bird price of CDN$299. Tomorrow, the price doubles to CDN$599 – that’s the price for procrastination!
I’ve written a lot about TechDays Canada 2009 lately, so I think I’ll close [...]

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TechDays Toronto and Vancouver: 2 Days Left for the Early Bird Rate

August 30, 2009
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The early bird registration price for TechDays Vancouver (September 14th – 15th) and TechDays Toronto (September 29th – 30th) will disappear after Monday, August 31st. If you want to catch TechDays at the ultra-cheap rate, you should register now!
Here’s a quick graphic recap of what TechDays Canada 2009 is all about:

Rather than asking Canadian developers [...]

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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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