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    Jean-Luc David
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October 2007 - Posts

Silverlight Briefing Summary
Over the past 3 weeks, I have been touring across Canada giving a half-day briefing on Silverlight. It was an incredible experience as it certainly opened my eyes to what types of things are being done with Silverlight today and the buzz it has generated Read More...
Guest Blogger: MVP Award Program - What is it all about? (Part 1 of 2)
Hello Canadian Developers, By the way of introduction, my name is Sasha Krsmanovic and I am the MVP Lead for Canadian MVPs. Your developer advisors asked me to publish a few posts here in order to introduce the MVP Award Program to Canadian Developers. Read More...
Windows Live Services Webcast
Last week I conducted a webcast on Windows Live Services. The turnout was fantastic and there was great participation at the end of the webcast. Thanks to those of you who attended! For those of you who could not attend, you can always watch the webcast Read More...
All you ever wanted to know about Microsoft Licensing
One of the things that we hear quite a bit about is that our software licensing policies, processes and options are too complicated. I'll admit that it can certainly be a complicated and mind-numbing process to wrap your head around the various licensing Read More...
Developer Night in Canada resources
Here's a list of the resources mentioned during the Developer Night in Canada user group tour that is going on right now. VB Run - Home of everything that has to do with VB6 development on MSDN Pattern and Practice book on upgrading VB6 to VB.NET 2005 Read More...
realDEVELOPMENT 07 in Full Swing! (Updated)
Update: You can find copies of the presentations we used at the following URLs: Building Better Websites (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007) Developing Web Applications Today (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007) If you have any questions about these presentation, Read More...
A Conversation With Dick Hardt (Sxip Identity)
Last month, I had the opportunity to interview Dick Hardt about digital identity and why it's an important topic for developers to understand. A Conversation with Dick Hardt (MP3) Resources Dick Hardt's OSCON 2005 Presentation on Identity 2.0 www.OpenID.net Read More...
Quick Troubleshooting Tip #1: Ask the Experts on the Microsoft Forums
During the course of developing websites (or any software development project for that matter), it's quite natural to encounter errors and problems that you can't solve right away or you need additional expertise to help troubleshoot it. There are two Read More...
Cool news for hardcore developers
If you are swamped in a project right now or just starting up in your journey in .NET, you should ignore this post. On the other end, if you are the ultimate geek with some time on your hand you may want to head over Scott Guthrie's blog and check out Read More...
MVP Insider - Q & A with Chris Maunder (Visual Developer - Visual C++)
Chris is the Co-founder, Administrator, Architect, Chief Editor and Shameless Hack who wrote and runs The Code Project – a community site for software developers with 4.5 million members. He's been programming since 1988 while pretending to be, in various Read More...
Ignite your Career
We have created an article on the Ignite your Career series of webcast with details on the one that happened so far. This article will be updated as we move forward. Send us your questions or comments. Read More...
Silverlight Briefing Webcast
Last Thursday (September 25), I conducted a webcast on the topic of Silverlight. To those of you who were able to make it in person, I want to thank you for taking the time to attend! It was very well attended and we were even able to sweeten the pot, Read More...
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