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One of the features at the TechDays cross-country conference is the “Ask the Experts” booth, which is staffed all day by speakers (when they aren’t speaking, naturally) and other local tech experts. They’re there to answer attendee questions about Microsoft
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As I write this, we’re getting into the final session of TechDays Toronto, which in my track – Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform – features SharePoint guru Reza Alirezaei doing his presentation, Developing and Consuming Services for SharePoint
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Right now (at the time of this writing) at the Toronto edition of the TechDays cross-Canada conference, in the Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform track, is Bruce Johnson – “the speaker so nice, we put him on twice!” – talking to the audience
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This morning’s sessions in TechDays’ Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform focuses on both the ASP.NET MVC web app framework and recommended object-oriented programming practices, namely the Model-View-Controller pattern with Colin Bowern’s presentation
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It’s Day 2 of TechDays Toronto! and after a hearty breakfast, we’re kicking off the Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform track – my track, and thus to my mind the best one – with Colin Bowen doing his presentation, Introducing ASP.NET MVC , which
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My photos from Anthony Vranic’s session at TechDays , Optimizing Your Application for the Windows 7 User Experience , are a bit dark because I used a different camera; my main camera was on video recording duty. I’m including them anyway, because I’m
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It’s because we have the best obscure pop culture references, as seen in Rob Burke’s presentation on Developing Composite Applications with Silverlight and WPF : (That’s a photo of my manager John Oxley and co-worker Damir Bersinic , used to illustrate
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In planning this year’s TechDays conference, we made some significant changes to the developer tracks: they were reformulated into: A “tools and techniques” track, called Developer Fundamentals and Best Practices , for which my friend and fellow Developer
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TechDays Canada 2009 is Microsoft Canada’s cross-country conference that shows you how to make the most of our currently available tools and technologies. A couple of weeks ago, we held the first TechDays 2009 conference in Vancouver, and it went quite
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Yossi Vardi, according to Wikipedia , is one of Israel’s high-tech entrepreneurs and for over 40 years has funded or helped build over 60 high-tech companies in the fields of software, energy, internet, mobile, electro-optics and water tech. If you’ve
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What are Toronto Girl Geek Dinners? Toronto Girl Geek Dinners are a Toronto-based offshoot of the original London Girl Geek Dinners , whose goal is to make technology accessible and interesting to all age groups and all people, especially women. They’re
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Jon Udell – the developer, information architect, author who wrote about social software before we started calling it that, blogger and Senior Tech Evangelist at Microsoft – will be in Toronto next week and he’ll be at a couple of events that I’m attending.
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Don’t forget that Silverlight on the Silver Screen , ObjectSharp’s free seminar on Silverlight 3 , Expression and SketchFlow takes place in Toronto this Thursday at the Scotiabank Theatre. If you’d like to learn more about the rich-UI applications that
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The covers will be coming off our next generation of user experience tools and technologies on July 9th. That’s when Microsoft will be unveiling Silverlight 3 , which gives you the all the goodness of RIA (Rich Internet Application, although you can use
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If you’re going to be in the area of downtown Toronto next Thursday, May 28th, you might want to check out my presentation, Canada’s Next Top Model View Controller at the next Metro Toronto .NET User Group meeting. I’ll be talking about the ASP.NET MVC
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