Categories
Uncategorized

Scenes from the TechDays Winnipeg Aftermath

For most people, TechDays ends after the last speaker has finished his or her presentation, the requisite goodbyes have been said, the last of the cookies has been taken from the snack tables and everyone has shuffled out the door and back into reality. For us, TechDays stretches on a little longer. Even though we’ve […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Scenes from TechDays Winnipeg, Part 2

As one of the people behind TechDays, I have become a machine that turns caffeine into conferences: Here are Dana Epp and John Bristowe chilling out in the speaker lounge: At TechDays, we have a little post-mortem meeting at the end of each day to assess how the day went, what needs fixing, and to […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Scenes from TechDays Winnipeg, Part 1

Most of the DPE team (including boss-man John Oxley) are in Winnipeg this week to run TechDays. In between my responsibilities as the guy in charge of the developer sessions, I’ve been running around snapping photos and thought I’d share some with you. Here are my pics of the presenters in both developer tracks, "Developing […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Donate to the Food Bank at TechDays Winnipeg, Get a Free T-Shirt!

We Microsoft Canada evangelist types love a good cause, and we can’t think of a better cause than feeding people, especially during the holiday season. That’s why we’ve had food drop-off boxes at all TechDays events, including TechDays Winnipeg, which takes place tomorrow and Wednesday. Bring a non-perishable food item to TechDays, and we’ll collect […]

Categories
Uncategorized

TechDays Winnipeg / Coffee and Code Winnipeg This Week!

Wikimedia Commons photo courtesy of "Wpg Guy". Click to see the original. This week, the gang and I will be in Winnipeg for TechDays (Tuesday, December 7th and Wednesday December 8th) to bring the knowledge from TechEd North America 2010, MIX10 and PDC and to catch up with our developer, IT Pro and manager friends. […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 4

Just a few more pictures from TechDays Ottawa, starting with Louis-Philippe Pinsonneault from RunAtServer: Here’s Wes MacDonald doing the presentation on SharePoint development for ASP.NET developers: Meanwhile, in the “Local Flavours” track, Colin Melia did a session in which he built a Windows Phone 7 application from “File-> New”, right in front the audience, in […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 3

And now, more pictures from TechDays Ottawa, the fifth in our series of eight cross-Canada conference for developers and IT pros building on the Microsoft platform. Here’s an overhead view of the Rogers booth, where they were running a handy phone recharging service, talking about their Catalyst API for mobile developers and showing off the […]