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Road Trip Diary, Part 6: Return Trip

With TechDays Montreal wrapped up – and yes, I’ll post photos from the actual conference soon – it’s time for me and Damir to pack up our stuff, board the Ford Flex and head on home. As I write this, we’re on Highway 401, just about 100 kilometres east of Kingston. Damir’s at the wheel, […]

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“Get Excited and Make Things”

As a Developer Evangelist, it’s my job to make sure that programmers are inspired to build software. In the pursuit of that goal, I’ve the picture below as the last slide in my presentations at TechDays and Career Demo Camp. I’ve had a number of requests for the image, so I’m sharing it below: Click […]

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More Photos and Videos from the Road Trip

The Ford Flex Here’s the Ford Flex that we drove to TechDays Montreal, parked in front of my building: Here’s the interior, as seen from the front passenger-side door: Here’s the back of the Flex, with Damir applying (non-permanent) Bing and Windows 7 stickers to the windows: Here’s the magnetic bumper sticker we affixed to […]

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Demo Night in Canada: Wednesday December 9 in Ottawa

Demo Night in Canada The “DemoCamp”-style event happening in Ottawa next week (which coincides with TechDays Ottawa) has an official name: Demo Night in Canada! It’ll take place in the Hampton Inn Conference Centre (200 Coventry Road, Ottawa ON)  on Wednesday, December 9th at 7:00 p.m.. Demo Night in Canada is a free-as-in-beer event where […]

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Road Trip Video #1: The Boss Reluctantly Hands Over the Keys to the Ford Flex

In case you didn’t see yesterday’s blog entries, we spent most of yesterday on a little road trip from Toronto to Montreal. We took nine hours making a journey that normally takes about five, but that’s because we made a number of stops along the way, demonstrating Bing to random passers-by and trying out the […]

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Road Trip Diary, Part 5: Avril Lavigne’s Hometown and My Alma Mater

Avril Lavigne’s Hometown While on the road, we sent out a tweet asking anyone who was near the route we were taking to Montreal if they’d like to catch up with us. We got a message back from our friend Todd Lamothe (who’ll be presenting at TechDays Ottawa next week), who works in Avril Lavigne’s […]

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DemoCamp in Ottawa: Wednesday, December 9th

Mark Wednesday, December 9th on your calendars: that’s when Ottawa’s having it’s next DemoCamp! This one’s a special edition, with the space provided by Microsoft (it’s the venue for the Techdays Ottawa conference, which isn’t being used in the evening) and the presentations gathered by both Ottawa IT Community.ca and Startup Ottawa. This DemoCamp will […]