by Joey deVilla on October 5, 2009
TechDays Toronto Wraps Up
TechDays Toronto took place last Tuesday and Wednesday, and it was a success! Over 1200 people registered to attend, and based on the attendee comments I’ve received, both face-to-face and online, people found their experience there both valuable and enjoyable.
As much as we hope the attendees learn at TechDays, we learn a lot at TechDays too. By holding events where you get to meet us face-to-face and talk to us, we learn about what you need to boost your knowledge, skills and career. If you have any questions, comments, concerns or suggestions about TechDays, please let us know! Leave a note in the comments or feel free to drop me a line.
When Halifax got added to the cities in TechDays Canada’s cross-country conference tour, there was some concern about how many people would register. It’s the first time we’ve held a conference of this scale and scope in the Maritimes, but it turns out that we needn’t have worried: as of Thursday, every available seat for TechDays Halifax’s venue has been sold.
Thanks for being so enthusiastic, Halifax techies, and we look forward to putting on a worthy event!
TechDays Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa and Winnipeg Coming Up
The early bird pricing – that’s $299 Canadian – is still available for the other TechDays Canada cities:
- Calgary (November 17-18)
- Montreal (December 2-3)
- Ottawa (December 9-10)
- Winnipeg (December 15-16)
With over forty intermediate- to expert-level sessions covering Windows 7, SharePoint, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, Expression Blend, Windows Server 2008 R2, WCF, Visual Studio, Hyper-V, System Center, Silverlight and more, TechDays Canada is your chance to learn about how to make the most of the Microsoft tools and technologies that are available right now. Register today!
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
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by Joey deVilla on June 15, 2009
I’m going to be in Ottawa this week doing a presentation on web accessibility, so I’m taking advantage of my being there and declaring a Coffee and Code event for this Thursday, June 18th at the Bridgehead Cafe at 109 Bank Street (at the corner of Bank and Albert). It’ll run from 12:00 noon to 5 p.m..
I will be joined by my fellow Microsoft evangelists from the area, the guys I like to refer to as “Les Bons Gars”:
- Christian Beauclair
- Rick Claus
- Pierre Roman
Come on and down and join us at the Bridgehead for some coffee, food and conversation! We’ll be there to answer questions, hear your comments, show you what we’re working on and even hook you up with a copy of the Windows 7 Release Candidate.
This would be a good time for you Ottawa-area Developers and IT Pros to come and give us your suggestions for the upcoming TechDays 2009 cross-Canada conference, a two-day deep-dive conference covering what you can do with Microsoft Tools and Technologies. TechDays will stop at Ottawa on December 9th and 10th, and we’re picking out our topics and speakers. Come by Ottawa Coffee and Code this Thursday and let us know what you’d like to see and if you’d like to present at TechDays 2009!
(Creative Commons photo of the Peace Tower at Night taken by the Poissant Family.)
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by Joey deVilla on April 27, 2009
Creative Commons photo by 416style.
If you’re in the Ottawa area and want to sharpen your .NET development skills and meet other .NET developers, you’ll want to come to the Ottawa Code Camp taking this place this Saturday at Algonquin College. The Code Camp will feature three tracks, spanning twelve sessions in the agenda:
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Advanced C# “Birds of a Feather” Session
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Building Applications Faster by Using Dynamic Access Modifiers
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The Busy Developer’s Guide to .NET 3.5 SP1
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Doing “It” with Team Build 2008
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How to Start Developing for Sharepoint
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How and When to Use Agile Methods in a Dinosaur Organization
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Introduction to IoC with Entity
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The Microsoft Sync Framework
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Mono EC2
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Tools and Techniques to Debug Live .NET Applications
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Top 10 Umbrellas
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Windows Services Down and Dirty
For details about the sessions and when they’ll take place, see Ottawa Code Camp’s Sessions and Agenda pages.
Like the other Code Camps, the Ottawa Code Camp is an event organized by and for the developer community, and registration is free – all you have to do is sign up to attend. Whether you’re an experienced .NET developer or just curious about Microsoft’s developer tools and tech, you should be at Ottawa Code Camp!
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by Joey deVilla on April 2, 2009
This article originally appeared in the Coffee and Code blog.
Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team is hosting a Coffee and Code in Ottawa next week! They’ll be there for the EnergizeIT cross-Canada tour and they’re holding a Coffee and Code on Tuesday, April 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Bridgehead at 109 Bank Street (at the corner of Bank and Albert).
“Les Bons Gars”, Christian Beauclair, Rick Claus and Pierre Roman will be hosting this event, where he’ll talk about EnergizeIT, the future of Windows from the client to the cloud, the industry in general and anything else!
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