Craig Flannagan, MSDN Canada's WebLog

Canadian Developer Update - The Power of Community, and the power of focus

As I sit back and think about all of the resources that are out there for developers, it becomes apparent, that there is definetly no lack of resources. I get feedback from a lot of people, on tour, at user groups, from customers, or through feedback on the MSDN Canada Flash newsletter that the key is focusing those resources, finding the really important, the really helpful resources.

So, I thought it would be great to hear from you, on what your favourite resources are. This is a chance for you as developers to help other developers. Depending on how this goes, I'll take the resources that we come up with, organize them and put them out in the Flash, at events, on MSDN, to the user groups, etc.

So, let me know!
Craig.

Published Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:22 AM by Craig Flannagan, MSDN Canada

Comments

 

Ken Cox MVP [ASP.NET] said:

Hi Craig,

You're right, there are tons of resources out there - many of the best are provided by you guys at MSDN.
The problem for us is finding the time to dig into those resources. Attending live events is great but can be costly for those who bill by the hour. I'd like to put in a pitch for taping more of your live presentations and putting them on the Web for viewing and/or download. That way, I can park the video presentation in my second monitor and continue my billable work. If the content isn't what I anticipated, there's no traveling time lost.
BTW, I'm not a fan of chats. Apart from requiring me to focus on the text, slow typists don't make for engaging "speakers".
Thanks for listening!

Ken
MVP [ASP.NET]
Toronto
October 19, 2004 10:48 AM
 

Karl said:

Resource are plentiful, finding them is difficult. I do subscribe to a couple newsletters (vbcity, codeproject), but for the most part ignore them. I'm pretty much at the point where if I don't see the link to the article/cast/chat on weblogs.asp.net or the few other blogs I visit, I'll never see them.

I could probably make better use of msdn's rss capabilities...

Karl
October 19, 2004 1:55 PM
 

Rob Windsor said:


Here are my favorite online resources (not including blogs or newsgroups):

Channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com/

.NET Rocks!
http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks/

Microsoft On-Demand Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/webcasts/ondemand.mspx

MSDN Canada
http://msdn.microsoft.com/canada/

MSDN Magazine
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/default.aspx

Universal Thread
http://www.universalthread.com/
October 19, 2004 2:20 PM
Anonymous comments are disabled

© 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use  |  Trademarks  |  Privacy Statement
Microsoft
Page view tracker