On Saturday, December 11, 2010, Canadian MVPs Cory Fowler (@SyntaxC4) and Barry Gervin (@bgervin) met with developers in Mississauga and showed them how developing and deploying applications to Windows Azure is fast and easy. You can read about it on Joey��s post from that Saturday.
Now, AzureFest is back! If you weren’t able to come out in December, now’s your chance to see how you can leverage the skills you already have (.NET, Java, PHP, or Ruby) and the tools you already know (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.) to deploy applications to Windows Azure. You’ll learn everything to you need to know to get up and running with Windows Azure quickly including:
AzureFest is a hands-on event. This means that you’ll be following along in your own development environment and actually deploying your solution during the event. In order to get the most out of the experience, you’ll need to bring a laptop with you that is running Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7 with the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio installed. If you don’t have Visual Studio, or are not working with .NET, that’s OK. Use the language and tools of your choice – help will be on hand to assist you.
You’ll also need to bring a credit card. Windows Azure activations require a credit card even for the trial period, but don’t worry, nothing will be charged to your credit card as the last part of the event shows you how to take down all of your Windows Azure instances.
We’re taking AzureFest across Canada, and will be coming to a city near you. Check out the listings below to get all the information you need about each of the cities. Don’t see a city that’s near you? Keep checking back as we will be adding more cities and dates as we confirm them. If you’d like to help organize an AzureFest in your city or at your user group, please contact me via email, Twitter, or LinkedIn.
Downtown Toronto Microsoft Canada Ernst & Young Tower 222 Bay Street, 12th floor Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:00PM – 9;00PM Click here to register
Presenters: Cory Fowler (@SyntaxC4), Barry Gervin (@bgervin)
Mississauga Microsoft Canada 1950 Meadowvale Boulevard Thursday, March 31, 2011 6:00PM - 9:00PM Click here to register
Vancouver BCIT, Burnaby Campus 3700 Willingdon Avenue Tuesday, April 5, 2011 6:00PM – 9:00PM Click here to register
Presenters: Jonathan Rozenblit (@jrozenblit)
Ottawa Algonquin College Campus 1385 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa Saturday, April 16, 2011 12:45PM – 1:30PM Click here to register
Presenters: Christian Beauclair (@cbeauclair)
Presenters: Cory Fowler (@SyntaxC4)
Fredericton UNB Campus Room 317, ITC Saturday, May 7, 2011 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Click here to register
Quebec City l'École National d'Administration Publique (ENAP), salle 4114 555, boul.Charest Est, Québec, QC Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM Click here to register Presenters: Frédéric Harper (@fharper)
Make sure you register early as space is limited. Make sure to find me when you’re are the event – it will be an opportunity for us to chat about what you’re working on, possible projects to move to the Cloud, and how I can help extend your skills to the Cloud.