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

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

Ken Cox MVP [ASP.NET] — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:48:00 GMT

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

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

Karl — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:55:00 GMT

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

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

Rob Windsor — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:20:00 GMT

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/