Ruth Morton Asks: Can IT Pros Benefit from Agile Metholodologies? One of the people with whom I had the pleasure of working during my days at Microsoft was technology Advisor Ruth Morton, who’s based near Microsoft Canada’s headquarters just outside Toronto. While my audience was developers, hers is what Microsoft calls “IT Pros” – the […]
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If you were to go to Microsoft Canada’s blog for mobile developers as of this writing, you’d still see my photo in the banner: I really have no complaints about still having my face there, even though my last day at The Empire will be five months ago tomorrow. Being the Windows Phone guy was […]
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Clever programmer. Multimedia and performance artist. Whimsical writer. Oddball performer. Howard Hughes-style recluse. All of these phrases are apt descriptions of the guy most of us know only as why the lucky stiff, or _why for short. Bold, Brief and Gone If _why had a personal motto, it might be “Be bold, be brief, be […]
You may have seen the blog entry containing a transcription of my notes from the Geek Girl Ottawa dinner, but have you seen the handwritten originals? One of the items that came in the Bag O’ Stuff that I was given on my first day at Shopify was a Moleskine notebook and a Sacchi ballpoint […]
All right, enough hinting. Time to lay all the cards on the table. Some of you guessed, intuited or ratiocinated correctly: I am going to work at Shopify. My role will be something that I’ve been refining for the past 10 years — both formally at OpenCola, then Tucows and finally Microsoft, and informally with […]
I may be leaving Microsoft’s Canada’s DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) team at the end of this week, but at the same time, we’ve got a great new addition to the team: Susan Ibach (she’s @HockeyGeekGirl on Twitter)! If you were at the TechDays conference in the past couple of years, you’ve probably seen her […]
One of the Canadians at MIX11 was Imaginet’s Miguel Carrasco, whom you may have seen either speaking or track hosting last year at TechDays. He’s a developer, UI guy and Expression Blend MVP, and as such, the content of the MIX conference was exactly the kind of stuff that he was interested in. I caught […]