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I can now announce that Team Awesome came 3rd place in the Photography Challenge and walked away with a giant cheque and trophies! Congratulations to both Team Awesome ( Team Robot Hospital and the rest of the Canadian and U.S. teams) on winning the finals,
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The theme for this year's Imagine Cup is Education - the challenge is "Imagine a world where technology enables a better education for all." (the themes year after year are similar in one way - they challenges students to thing of ways that software can
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This year, I will be travelling to Seoul, South Korea with 9 Canadian finalists as part of the Imagine Cup challenge. I feel very privileged to have been picked to accompany these really talented students to cheer them on! For those of you who are unfamiliar
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Yesterday, I attended an event hosted by the Calgary .NET User Group . Fellow Plumber and agile junkie, James Kovacs delivered a presentation entitled, "Simple Patterns for Simple Problems". Following his presentation, I got a chance to catch up with
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to chat with Michael Amanfi on the roof of my building about his work with Windows Workflow Foundation and specifically, his community project called Team Workflow - a workflow authoring and process automation tool built
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In this final installment, here is an interview with Colin Bowern from Official Community. There were sixteen videos filmed in total and you can view them very shortly from the TorontoCodeCamp.net website. In this segment, Colin is interviewed by Kyle
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Sasha Krsmanovic is the Microsoft MVP lead for Canada. The acronym MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional - they are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world
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Here is a video taken at the Toronto Code Camp on March 31. Chris Dufour, the camp organizer, explains the challenges around planning a large scale community event for developers: Video: Chris Dufour - Live From The Toronto Code Camp 2007
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Here is an interview with Matthew Cassell at the 2007 MVP Summit. In this interview, Matthew talks about some of his academic activities including the Academic .NET Student Conference held in Toronto . He also recounts his meeting with Steve Ballmer ,
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Here is my interview with Chris Dufour ( ASP.NET MVP ), the leader of the East of Toronto .NET User Group . Chris has been really busy in the last year, including organizing the 2007 Toronto Code Camp , sharing his custom DotNetNuke Code Camp Event module
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Video: Vancouver TechFest 2007 - Medhat Elmasry While at Vancouver TechFest 2007 , I got a chance to chat with Medhat Elmasry about the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) . As you'll see in the video, there's a lot of opportunties for developers
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Video: Vancouver TechFest 2007 - Rob Chartier Vancouver TechFest 2007 is underway! Earlier this morning, I took a cab over to British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and was able to catch part of the registration on my video camera. I was also
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Here is a video of Mike, a 3D modeling artist attending the Ottawa Game Camp. In this video, Mike gives his views on some of the 3D frameworks and technologies out there and how XNA measures up. Video: Game Camp Ottawa 2007 - Mike The 3D Artist If you
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My IT Pro counterpart Rod Buike recently posted a video of the Microsoft Digital Ice House . In case you weren't able to visit it, or you want to experience it again, I've added it here: Video: Microsoft Canada’s Digital Ice House Enjoy!
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Last Saturday, Carleton University hosted a Game Camp for students and faculty. The theme of the Game Camp was XNA and Game Studio Express. Christian Beauclair gave an in-depth presentation on how to create a pong game from scratch. We also took a look
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