November 2008 - Posts
We've introduced Morten Rand-Hendriksen couple of times in this blog and followed his amazing journey from learning Expression Web to a Expression Web expert. Recently, he published his first book titled " Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web
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There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's life through interactive, visual, informational, and other aspects of User Experience Design. I invited them to introduce who they are and share their work
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This is the last Silverlight user group meeting of the year. Hope to see you all there! Time: 6:30PM, Tuesday December 2nd, 2008. Location : MSN Office Downtown Toronto, 222 Bay St. Toronto, ON Agenda : 6:30 – 7:30: Animations and Databinding in
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I had the opportunity to present at the Metro Toronto .NET User Group last Wednesday. Even it was the first snow of the winter in GTA, but there were still more than 40 people showed up to listen to my talk on "Building for People: 5 Practical Tips
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Hi Everyone, In the sprit of being transparent and building connections, I thought I would share my teams mandate and goals with you. My team is responsible for one key goal in Canada and that is to build your trust and support you in a manner in
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Note: This is the third post in a three post series on succeeding as a professional in IT during a recession. Without a doubt, most of us are experiencing the most serious economic recession in our lifetimes. There's an awful lot of uncertainty
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Note: This is the second post in a three post series on succeeding as a professional in IT during a recession. Without a doubt, most of us are experiencing the most serious economic recession in our lifetimes. There's an awful lot of uncertainty that
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Without a doubt, most of us are experiencing the most serious economic recession in our lifetimes. There's an awful lot of uncertainty that goes with that; everything from our retirement savings, disposable income and job security. IT as an industry is
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Happy World Usability Day everyone! This year's theme is "Transportation." There are tons of webcasts on the World Usability Day website and a message from Bill Gates. We have the following WUD events in Canada. Listen to a webcast or attending
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Thanks for everyone who came out to the Toronto and Montreal TechDays. The three Silverlight sessions in both cities are extremely popular with long line-up of people wanting to ask questions about after the presentations. Robert Burke (Silverlight Samurai
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Bonjour Montréal ! C'est Philippe Riel, Directeur des communications stratégiques, marchés francophones. L’équipe de Microsoft est en ville cette semaine pour la conférence TechDays, tenue au Palais des Congrès. C’est l’événement de l’année pour
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The above figure is taken from Effective Designs for the Administration of Federal Election As the whole world is waiting for who's going to be the next US president, I came across this interesting interview on ballet design and usability this
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Thanks to all the ladies who joined us at the Women in Technology (WIT) Connection Area at Techdays in Toronto! It was our pleasure to meet everyone. This was the first time we had a networking area and it gave us an opportunity to hear from
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