This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection. If you have a TechNet subscription, you’re in luck – you can download the official ISO files for the RTM version of Windows 7, both 32- and 64-bit! You can grab it right now at: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx My co-worker Rick Claus, Senior IT Pro Evangelist with Microsoft Canada […]
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A Busy Week
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection. It’s gonna be a busy week for me — there’s a lot going on! Monday: Damian Conway and The Missing Link On Monday evening, I’ll be catching Damian Conway’s presentation, The Missing Link. There’s nothing quite like a Damian Conway presentation – they’re equal parts computer science, […]
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection. SOLID Seems to be Everywhere These Days Robert C. “Uncle Bob” Martin first gathered the object-oriented design principles that would eventually go under the acronym SOLID almost fifteen years ago, but the SOLID principles have been making the rounds lately. Before I talk about the SOLID principles, […]
I’m going to be in Ottawa this week doing a presentation on web accessibility, so I’m taking advantage of my being there and declaring a Coffee and Code event for this Thursday, June 18th at the Bridgehead Cafe at 109 Bank Street (at the corner of Bank and Albert). It’ll run from 12:00 noon to […]
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Mapping the Journey
Creative Commons photo by "ishrona". Click to see the original. This article originally appeared in Canadian Developer Connection. It’s been just over four months since I joined Microsoft, and it feels like both a brief moment and a very long time. Although I’ve been a developer evangelist/advisor before, my experience has largely consisted of independent […]
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My Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremony
On Tuesday, the day that Barack Obama got sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, my 3-month probationary period at Microsoft also ended and I became a full-fledged Microsoft Developer Evangelist. I figured that if Obama could have a swearing-in ceremony to mark his official entrance into his new job, why couldn’t […]
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Vangroovy Scenery
Hello from Vangroovy! I’m at the Vancouver Convention Center to speak at the Microsoft Techdays Canada conference. Here’s the Centre, as shown on the web site and postcards. It does look like this in the summer: Here are the photos I took looking out onto the ocean from the Centre this morning: My hotel is […]