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Speaker Idol Ottawa: Tuesday, November 9th

Speaker Idol takes place tomorrow night at the TechDays Ottawa venue – that’s the Hampton Inn Conference Centre on 100 Coventry Road. It’s a competition where new speakers – that’s right, these are people who aren’t “the usual suspects” who you’d expect to see speak in front of Ottawa’s tech community – get to test […]

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Go DevMental Ottawa–Tuesday Night!

Since TechDays – Microsoft Canada’s cross-country developer and IT pro conference visiting 8 cities across Canada this fall – is a two-day event, we’ve got the venues for the entire 48-hour period, including evenings. Rather than have the session rooms (which are already set up for an audience, complete with A/V and seating) lie fallow, […]

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CloudCamp Ottawa: Tonight at the Hampton Inn Conference Centre

Creative Commons Photo by Numan Q. TechDays, Microsoft’s cross-Canada conference for developers and IT pros, offers its space to tech communities to hold events free of charge when TechDays itself isn’t happening. Last year it was a series of “Camp” style events along the lines of DemoCamp abd FailCamp, and this year, CloudCamp is holding […]

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What I’m Up To This Week

It’s going to be a busy week for Yours Truly… Monday: Windows Phone Deployment Clinic On Monday, I’ll be helping out at the Windows Phone Deployment Clinic at Microsoft Canada HQ in Mississauga (1950 Meadowvale Boulevard, off Mississauga Road, north of Highway 401), where you can book some time to test your apps on a […]

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Peter Henry on Submitting a Windows Phone App to Marketplace

Ottawa-based developer Peter Henry (you might have seen him speak at TechDays Ottawa last year, and he’s also presenting this year) wrote a simple Windows Phone 7 app called miFlashlight, submitted it to Marketplace and documented the experience for the benefit of his fellow programmers. When it comes time for you to submit an app […]

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Meet Some of Your Fellow Canadian Windows Phone Developers

Last month, we held a little party where we invited Toronto-area tech press and bloggers to meet some local Windows Phone 7 developers and see what they were working on. This video was shot at the party and features Yours Truly and the developers: The developers featured in this video are: Mark Arteaga: Owner/developer at […]

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Windows Phone 7 Launch Today

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving today, which means it’s a day off here, but it’s a regular working day for our American neighbours, and it’s the day that a lot of big announcements about Windows Phone 7 get made at an event in New York City. As Mary Jo Foley points out in her article on today’s […]