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I Probably Owe You an Email…

…or a phone call, or visit or something along those lines. The past couple of days have kept me quite busy helping run TechDays Edmonton, but that ended yesterday, and I’m spending today helping run Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code Edmonton (it’s at the Second Cup at 102 and Jasper) and getting caught up. […]

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We’re in Edmonton This Week!

As I write this, I’m sitting at Pearson’s Gate 120, awaiting the flight to take me to Edmonton, where TechDays will be taking place on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here’s what we’ll be doing over the week: When Where What Monday, October 4th, afternoon Shaw Conference Centre Setting up the convention centre in the afternoon, followed […]

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Developer Evangelist. Toronto Area. Now Hiring. Maybe You?

Okay, the photo above was a way of getting your attention. This is getting posted on a Friday afternoon, and I know how attentions wander, especially on a lovely bright fall afternoon like the one we’re experiencing in Toronto right now. Microsoft Canada is looking for a couple of Developer Evangelists. One has to be […]

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Montreal/Toronto/Edmonton Event Reminders

Deployment Clinic Today in Montreal Deployment clinics are a little more formal than Coffee and Codes. You can book an exclusive timeslot to deploy and test apps to a Windows Phone 7 device, and there’s one taking place all day at Microsoft’s Montreal office (2000 Avenue McGill College, 4th floor) on the 30th. Email Christian […]

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Quick Updates

I’m sitting in the airport lounge in Vancouver, waiting to board my flight back to Toronto. Some quick updates: TechDays Vancouver went very well. Over 800 attendees catching over 60 technical sessions on Microsoft’s platforms, tools and technologies, all taking place in the beautiful West Building of the Vancouver Convention Centre. Thanks to the presenters, […]

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Intel/Microsoft Parallel Programming One-Day Course: September 20th in Montreal

(If you don’t get the joke, here’s a little explanation.) Moore’s Law isn’t dead; it just ended up taking on a new form. Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, it refers to the observation that for the same amount of money, the number of transistors that can be place on a chip would double every […]

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Cross-Canada Windows Phone 7 “Coffee and Codes” Start Next Week!

The idea behind Coffee and Code is simple: I, along with some of my fellow tech evangelists from Microsoft, take advantage of our status as mobile workers and choose a day to work at a cafe. We announce that we’re doing this and put out a general invitation to come join us – perhaps for […]