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Later this week, the folks who run the site, msfttechdays.com will host a 24-hour virtual event, featuring 95 live sessions (!) available both live or on-demand. Earlier today, I checked out the list of available sessions and was impressed by the developer-specific
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There are lots of exciting announcements coming out of MIX in Vegas this week. Today we shipped Internet Explorer 8 . However, there’s also plenty to celebrate back home around Silverlight and IE8. Check them out! Watching your favorite TV shows
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Yesterday, I interviewed Tony Targonski about the state of computer science in Canada and CompSci.ca : If you haven't had an opportunity to check out CompSci.ca , it's a site dedicated to students and faculty who wish to discuss matters relating to computer
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Team RoboTree (Short Film) The team is well on it's way to create a new short film for the competition. The students were thrown a curveball as the theme and the guidelines for the finals are the same for the second round . Essentially, the goal is to
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Team Robotree includes Dan Tran (left), Media Ridha (bottom centre) taken just before Drake Birmann (top centre), and Ryan Morrison (right) left for tree planting in Northern Ontario for the summer. The students are from Fanshawe College and the University
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Team GreeNet includes Jin Fan and Kevin Muise from School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University , BC. Another team called EcoLid from SFU also competed in the Imagine Cup competition - you can read more about the entry on the CanUX
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Video: Imagine Cup 2008 Finals The Imagine Cup is a global competition that encourages young people to apply their imagination, their passion and their creativity to technology innovations that can make a difference in the world - today. Last year , I
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In less than a month, Energize IT will be rolling into Toronto on Saturday May 24, 2008! It's going to be an amazing event bringing together Developers, Students, Designers, IT Pros, and IT Managers (and anyone excited about IT for that matter) under
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DevTeach Toronto is fast approaching, and features a number of world class speakers including Micorosft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and Regional Directors: There are a number of reasons why you should attend the event. Here's a few to start: Keynote
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As some of you know, I'm a huge fan of DevTeach . I think it's best developer conferences we have here in Canada . Just by looking at this year's schedule and line-up of speakers , it's easy to see why. Not only is the content great, but so are the folks
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The folks at the Edmonton .NET Users Group are looking to do something different for this month's meeting. Earlier today, I received the following e-mail: As you may know, our March meeting is going to be done in a different style than we normally use.
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Les has worked in a small business environment all his life. He especially enjoys Small Business Server for the positive impact it has in enabling small business to do more with less. Les was first awarded SBS MVP in 2002, and is a 2006 Impact Award Finalist
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Windows Live SkyDrive is now available in Canada and will provide you up to 5 GB of free storage space! Do you have problems carrying large files around or maybe source code (or other assets)? Then I'd recommend that you look at this solution. It's a
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Laurent Duveau is a Senior .NET Trainer/Developer and the founding partner of RunAtServer Consulting . He specializes in web development with ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Live and Expression softwares. He also teaches .NET courses as a Microsoft
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A message from Graham Jones, President of VANTUG: By now I expect most of you will have heard about Windows Home Server . Just in case you haven’t, it is an exciting new “consumer” product based upon the proven Windows 2003 R2 technology. It is aimed
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