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How to Make a Conference Pay Off
Pictured above: The scene at MIX10 after the Day 2 Keynote. Whether you’ve just come back home from SxSWi, are heading back home from MIX10 or expect to go to a conference sometime soon, you want to...
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Scenes from Toronto Code Camp 2010
The fifth annual Toronto Code Camp took place on Saturday at Seneca College’s Campus at York University. This was the most ambitious one by far, with the number of sessions increased from 25 to a...
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MeshU Workshops: Toronto, May 17th
MeshU – short for “Mesh University” – takes place on Monday, May 17th at the MaRS Collaboration Centre (101 College Street, just east of University). It’s a series of workshops for web designers,...
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Mesh Conference: Toronto, May 18th – 19th
The 2010 Mesh Conference – the fifth one – takes place at Toronto’s MaRS Collaboration Centre on Tuesday, May 18th and Wednesday, May 19th. Its organizers call it “Canada’s Web Conference”, and it is:...
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Toronto-Montreal NerdTrain (Departs Tuesday, May 25th, Returns Friday, May 28th)
A quick reminder: if you’re looking for cheap transport to Montreal for MonDev, Montreal’s Open Source Week (which concludes with the Make Web Not War conference), we’ve booked an entire VIA Rail car...
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Prairie Dev Con 2010: Regina, June 2 – 3
It’s not too late to register for Prairie Dev Con, the prairie developer conference, which takes place in Regina next week on Wednesday, June 2nd and Thursday, June 3rd – in fact, you can still get a...
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We’ll Be in Montreal This Week
Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team is headed to Montreal this week, where we’ll be getting together for our annual team meeting as well as to help run the Make Web Not War...
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The business of helping out with the NerdTrain, the Make Web Not War conference, associated activities and participating in a team offsite meeting has kept me a busier than I expected to be – in fact,...
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Maritime DevCon: June 18th in Moncton
If you’re a developer out in the Maritimes, you might want to check out Derek Hatchard’s Maritime Dev Con, which takes place on June 18th in Moncton. It’s a single-afternoon, two-track conference –...
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GovCamp’s Coming to Toronto: Thursday, June 17th
GovCamp in Toronto! First came GovCamp in Ottawa (May 31st – June 1st), and now GovCamp is coming to Toronto! GovCamp is an “Open Government” or “Goverment 2.0” unconference with these two goals: For...
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Le 25 Septembre: Samedi .NET– Introduction au B.I.
If you’re in Montreal on September 25th and want to learn about developing BI applications – that’s BI as in “Business Intelligence” — La Communauté .NET Montreal’s Samedi.NET event, Introduction au...
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How to “Work the Room” at TechDays / Mobile Innovation Week
Why Work the Room? If you’re attending TechDays in Vancouver, Mobile Innovation Week in Toronto, or any other conference anywhere else, you should keep in mind that while we spend a lot of energy on...
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Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 1
Hello from Vancouver! I’m here at the first stop of TechDays, Microsoft’ Canada’s 8-city cross-country conference series for developers and IT pros. It’s a gorgeous, sunny and almost cloudless day, a...
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Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 3: The Surroundings
For the past couple of years, we’ve held TechDays Vancouver at Vancouver Convention Centre’s East Building, but this year, we got to hold it at the brand new West Building. If you followed the...
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Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 5: Day 2 and Beyond
Day 0 (The Day Before) TechDays typically happens on a Tuesday and a Wednesday; we usually arrive on the Sunday or Monday in order to prepare the venue, our speakers and our own presentations. The...
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This Saturday: “Introduction to B.I.” in Montreal (Samedi .NET)
Don’t forget that a Samedi .NET event is taking place this Saturday, September 25th in Montreal: Introduction au B.I., or as they say en Anglais, Introduction to B.I.. As in Business Intelligence. For...
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This Saturday: SharePoint Saturday in Vancouver
Creative Commons photo by Jason V. Click the photo to see it on its original page. Don’t forget that this Saturday, September 25th, is the first SharePoint Saturday in Vancouver! It’s a FREE public...
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What I’m Up To This Week
It’s going to be a busy week for Yours Truly… Monday: Windows Phone Deployment Clinic On Monday, I’ll be helping out at the Windows Phone Deployment Clinic at Microsoft Canada HQ in Mississauga (1950...
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Toronto Area SharePoint Saturday: Saturday November 13th at Microsoft Canada HQ
“Want a job? Learn SharePoint!” said the article in O’Reilly Radar last year. The U.S. and Canadian federal governments, banks, businesses and all manner of organizations with lots of people, projects...
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Prairie Dev Con 2011 Call for Speakers
There is no shortage of developer conferences in Canada’s “MTV” cities, where MTV stands for Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. That’s not surprising given their population densities, but they’re not...
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