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TechDays Montreal: Next Week!

TechDays Canada, Microsoft’s cross-country conference covering how developers and IT pros can best make use of current Microsoft tools and technologies, hits Montreal next week. As with TechDays Halifax, which took place earlier this month, Techdays Montreal is completely sold out – there aren’t any tickets left to be had for love or money. TechDays […]

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Scenes from TechDays Calgary

I – along with a good chunk of Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team – am in Calgary for the fourth leg of the TechDays Canada seven-city tour. TechDays Calgary is taking place in the BMO Centre on the Calgary Stampede grounds. Wanting to be a good guest, I decided to observe a local […]

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Next Week: TechDays Calgary

The next stop on the TechDays Canada cross-country conference tour is Calgary! We’ll be there for most of the week, and the conference itself takes place on Tuesday, November 17th and Wednesday, November 18th at the Calgary Stampede Roundup Centre. After that, we’ve got the following dates in December: Montreal (Sold out!) – December 2nd […]

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TechDays Halifax / Halifax Coffee and Code Next Week!

TechDays, Microsoft’s cross-Canada conference for developers and IT pros took a break in October, but returns in November to complete its tour of the five remaining cities, starting in Halifax! I, along with the rest of the TechDays team will be in Halifax and places nearby starting this weekend and for most of next week: […]

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TechDays Canada Roundup

TechDays Toronto Wraps Up TechDays Toronto took place last Tuesday and Wednesday, and it was a success! Over 1200 people registered to attend, and based on the attendee comments I’ve received, both face-to-face and online, people found their experience there both valuable and enjoyable. As much as we hope the attendees learn at TechDays, we […]

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TechDays: Reza Alirezaei on Developing and Consuming Services For SharePoint

As I write this, we’re getting into the final session of TechDays Toronto, which in my track – Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform – features SharePoint guru Reza Alirezaei doing his presentation, Developing and Consuming Services for SharePoint. If you ask me the question “What is SharePoint?”, I’d most likely give you a description that […]

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TechDays: Bruce Johnson on Building RESTful Applications Using WCF

Right now (at the time of this writing) at the Toronto edition of the TechDays cross-Canada conference, in the Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform track, is Bruce Johnson – “the speaker so nice, we put him on twice!” – talking to the audience about Building RESTful Applications Using WCF. REST – as in REpresentational State […]