by Joey deVilla on November 13, 2009
by Joey deVilla on September 16, 2009
The second installment of the Ignite Your Career webcasts takes place tomorrow, Thursday, September 17th, from 12:00 noon to 1 p.m. Eastern (9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Pacific). This will be the second of four Ignite Your Career webcasts taking place this month, and this week’s topic will be Internal or External Training – Know Your Options. Here’s the abstract:
Maintaining your technical and personal skill sets are critical to being successful in the job you already have and anything you might be looking to progress into. Unfortunately, the option of external training might not be available to you at this point in time. How can you take advantage of internal resources like job shadowing, mentoring, internal courses, study groups as well as external training activities when available? How can you pitch setting up new training options to your team and managers? Looking externally – what about valuable online free offerings, professional associations and community events? This session will bring information together to equip you with the knowledge and resources required to get the ball rolling.
The panel of industry experts speaking at this webcast will be:
Ignite Your Career is presented by Microsoft Canada and is about helping you make the most out of your career and make the best career choices. As such, it’s “platform neutral” – whether you develop on .NET, the iPhone or Ruby on Rails, the topics covered in Ignite Your Career apply to you.
It doesn’t cost a thing to catch an Ignite Your Career webcast. Simply register at the Ignite Your Career site.
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
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by Joey deVilla on August 7, 2009
by Joey deVilla on April 24, 2009
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
If you’ve been meaning to get into building rich internet applications using Silverlight, you might want to check out The Silverlight Tour. Billed as “a worldwide three-day course on Silverlight”, the Tour mixes lectures, demonstrations and hands on labs, covering Silverlight development from three angles:
- Design
- Development
- Server-Side Code
The Silverlight Tour people have been keeping up with the latest developments. While they cover development in Silverlight 2, they’ve already updated their seminars to cover the latest and greatest features in the upcoming Silverlight 3.
According to their site, here’s what you get:
- 3 days of intensive Silverlight 2 and 3
- Coverage of Expression Blend and Visual Studio
- Architect Silverlight Solutions
- Understand the full Control Model and Customization
- Data Access and Web Services
The full details are covered in their workshop outline.
They’ve announced a set of Canadian tour dates, most of which are in the summer:
- Montreal: July 13 – 15
- Vancouver: July 20 – 22
- Ottawa: August 3 – 5
- Quebec City: August 10-12
- Toronto: November 11 – 13
Registration for this hardcore three-day workshop is $1995 – the registration page is here.
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Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, and it’ll be going live very soon – expect to hear a number of announcements about it from next week’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC).