September, 2008

Technorati Tags: techDays_CA Hello Everyone!  While we don’t have all the speakers listed as there are over 60 across the country (most should be there for the end of the week), we do have the sessions and you can sign up for the early bird price right now.  We are going out to the masses later this week and given we’ve limited attendance to 5000 across the country…please take advantage of...

Late last week, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the Silverlight 2 Release Candidate . This is pretty exciting news as it represents a significant milestone towards the go-live of Silverlight 2. The RC release of Silverlight 2 represents a developer release with the intent of providing a glimpse of what the final Silverlight 2 product will look and behave like prior to its release. The...

Mario Cardinal is an independent senior consultant specializing in software architecture. He has 20 years of experience in designing large-scale information systems. He speaks regularly at international conferences, including Microsoft Tech·Ed , Agile2008, DevTeach , and others. He leads the architecture user group for Communauté .NET Montréal and is the architecture track tech chair for DevTeach ...

Hello Everyone!  Your feedback on TechDays has been great and I really want to thank you so much for taking the time to share your comments with me.  I thought, as there has been three major themes in all the questions, I’d share my answers both broadly and individually via direct email. Firstly, thanks for all the positive comments on bringing the technical conference series to Canada. ...

I love Football Sunday. On a Sunday when I have nothing else more important to do there’s nothing more enjoyable to me than sitting down and watching a great game of football. Some of you may be looking at this post already thinking I’m crazy; football is not exactly related to development and I’ve heard more than once from my friends that the sport is as slow as molasses and about as fun as watching...

Hello Everyone!  While I guess the surprise is out.  TechDays is real and no longer just a dream.  We’ve been working hard over the last year to bring a similar experience as TechED across Canada.   Yes, not just in Toronto …..our pilot experience is also in six other cities across the country.  This was not easy, we had many challenges and while we not 100% there…. It...

Rumours have been swirling in the Canadian developer community for some time now about something big being planned by the folks at Microsoft Canada . Until recently, the details surrounding this event have been relatively unknown. Earlier today, D’Arcy Lussier broke part of the story and shared some of the details on his blog . A special thanks goes to D'Arcy for the err... nice photo of my team...

One of my proudest moments last year was when we launched the Ignite your Career webcast series. My worries at the time were around attendance and questions. Would there be enough people? Would there be enough questions to keep the conversation going? Well. You got involved for sure. We had the best turnout at a webcast series and the questions poured in. It was so good that our buddies on the IT Pro...

In this series of blog posts, I will be sharing my perspective on the world of the Windows development. I’ll examine various APIs, frameworks, and tools for building applications that run on the Windows platform. I’ll also share some of the stories of those individuals in the Canadian developer community who are building next generation applications for Windows today. So, what is a Windows developer...

Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) provides a one-stop-shop of information for developers building software on the Microsoft application platform. Over the past number of years, the breadth of information provided by MSDN has grown by leaps & bounds. Additionally, new capabilities like forums, videos, wikis, and many other tools have been added in order to help developers learn and build upon their...