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TechDays: Bruce Johnson on “SOLIDify Your ASP.NET MVC Applications”, Assless Chaps, Twitter and Opportunities

This morning’s sessions in TechDays’ Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform focuses on both the ASP.NET MVC web app framework and recommended object-oriented programming practices, namely the Model-View-Controller pattern with Colin Bowern’s presentation earlier this morning and now (at the time of this writing) the SOLID principles in Bruce Johnson’s session, SOLIDify Your ASP.NET MVC Applications. […]

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TechDays: Colin Bowern and “Introducing ASP.NET MVC”

It’s Day 2 of TechDays Toronto! and after a hearty breakfast, we’re kicking off the Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform track – my track, and thus to my mind the best one – with Colin Bowen doing his presentation, Introducing ASP.NET MVC, which takes a look at the new web development framework, ASP.NET MVC. If […]

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TechDays: Anthony Vranic on Optimizing Your Application for the Windows 7 User Experience

My photos from Anthony Vranic’s session at TechDays, Optimizing Your Application for the Windows 7 User Experience, are a bit dark because I used a different camera; my main camera was on video recording duty. I’m including them anyway, because I’m trying to keep a complete record of TechDays. The original version of this presentation […]

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Why the “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” Track is the Hippest Track at TechDays

It’s because we have the best obscure pop culture references, as seen in Rob Burke’s presentation on Developing Composite Applications with Silverlight and WPF: (That’s a photo of my manager John Oxley and co-worker Damir Bersinic, used to illustrate heavyweight layer communication in Prism. If you don’t get the pop culture reference, this article on […]

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Barry Gervin: Expression Blend for Developers @ TechDays Toronto

As I write this, we’re well into Day 1, Session 2 of the Toronto edition of the TechDays Canada conference, and ObjectSharp’s Barry Gervin is doing his presentation, Expression Blend for Developers. Since Expression Blend is a UI building tool that is separate from Visual Studio, it’s typically seen as a tool for designers rather […]

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TechDays Toronto 2009 Begins!

Here are a couple of shots from the Toronto edition of TechDays, taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre right now. The Room I’m the lead for TechDays’ Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform track, which I like to think of as the best damned track in the entire conference. The pre-registration numbers for this […]

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The “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” Track at TechDays Canada

In planning this year’s TechDays conference, we made some significant changes to the developer tracks: they were reformulated into: A “tools and techniques” track, called Developer Fundamentals and Best Practices, for which my friend and fellow Developer Evangelist John Bristowe is the track lead A “technologies” track, called Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform, which I […]