September, 2007

This is for my fellow application developers who may be helping their IT Pro counterpart or wear both hats. Marco Shaw, from the Maritimes, has started a blog series on invoking cmdlets in PowerShell. Head over to his blog to read about it.

The realDEVELOPMENT_07 tour is coming to a Canadian city near you, and the focus is helping you be successful in your day to day jobs. This half day event will provide you with cool tips, tricks and tools to help you tackle the real Web development challenges you see everyday both in the browser and on the server. You will learn how to debug and gain visibility in your AJAX and Javascript-based applications...

Wes MacDonald, from Ottawa, discovered a cool piece of news if you want to host some ASP.NET site. Check this post on his blog for more info.

One of the amazing stories to come out of X07 Canada is that of David Hu (shown below on the right, beside David Flook), a grade 10 student from Toronto who created a cool XNA game called WarPong. His story has spread throughout the blogosphere including prominent magazines such as Wired , Blog New Channel , and others . Here are other great links about David and his game: http://blog.wired.com...

Blake McNeill ( MVP Profile ) is primarily a software designer who's history involves the design and development of a number of commercial software products ranging from engineering simulation tools, to banking systems, to medical systems, to security tools and pretty well all points in-between. While always being cognizant of security issues the voyage into security began when brought on to SecurityFocus...