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December 2011

  1. A Clever Printer Prank
  2. Ditch GoDaddy, Move Your Domains to Hover or an OpenSRS-Powered Registrar
  3. The Shopify/Twilio Developer Contest Winners
  4. Working with Unix Processes: A New Ebook by Shopify’s Jesse Storimer
  5. Salmagundi for December 20, 2011
  6. Up There with the Big Shots
  7. Deliberations
  8. Salmagundi for Thursday, December 15, 2011
  9. Your Faithful Scribes are Working Away at Fixing the Docs
  10. Featured Shopify App: Custard
  11. Featured Shopify App: Assistly
  12. Introducing Shopify Experts
  13. RailsInstaller: The Easy Way to Install Rails on Windows
  14. Over 100 App Proposals Submitted to the Shopify Fund

November 2011

  1. The Shopify Fund: A Quick Update
  2. Write a Shopify/Twilio App and Win a MacBook Air, LEGO Mindstorms or a Kindle Fire!
  3. Featured Shopify App: Kudyou
  4. Featured Shopify App: Yotpo
  5. Save 40% Off Almost All Pragmatic Bookshelf Titles on Black Friday (November 25th)
  6. Rob Conery: Setting Up Rails on Your Mac for Microsofties
  7. 50 Cent is Now on Shopify!
  8. Featured Shopify App: Accessify
  9. Ruth Morton and Applying Agile Methodologies to IT and Your Career
  10. “The Agile Business” Infographic
  11. Featured Shopify App: Portable
  12. The Shopify Fund, Explained
  13. Toronto Techie Dim Sum on 11/11/11, a.k.a. “Nerd New Year”
  14. ClearFit’s Looking for a Rails Developer
  15. Three Months of CoffeeScript
  16. Malcom Gladwell’s Take: Steve Jobs, Tweaker
  17. It’s My Birthday!
  18. It’s Time to Declare John McCarthy Day – How About Sunday, November 13th?
  19. Shopify Hackfest in Ottawa – Saturday, November 19th
  20. Pixel Union’s Beautiful Shopify Themes
  21. The First “Grand Theft Auto V” Trailer
  22. Free for a Limited Time: Scott Berkun’s New Book “Mindfire” in Ebook Formats
  23. 1% Blogger Attacks 99% Blogger
  24. November is PragProWriMo (Pragmatic Programmer Writing Month)!

October 2011

  1. RAM: Still the Best Upgrade Bang for the Buck
  2. Dennis Ritchie Day
  3. Future Visions
  4. Ooooh Yeah!
  5. Featured Shopify App: Address Labels
  6. Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Angry Birds”
  7. An Animated History of the iPhone
  8. Web Developer vs. SEO “Expert” vs. Social Media “Expert”
  9. It’s Where the Magic Happens
  10. The Shopify Fund
  11. Shopify Gets Funding (Again): $15 Million
  12. Shopify’s Toronto Office: Opening November 1 at Camaraderie
  13. Most Memory Leaks are Good
  14. Featured Shopify App: colorandsize
  15. iPhone 4S Pranks with Siri
  16. Shopify’s Ruby Talks at Confoo
  17. Featured Shopify App: Get Satisfaction
  18. The Cover of Next Week’s New Yorker
  19. We’ve All Been Here
  20. I’ll Admit It, I Laughed
  21. Featured Shopify App: Want Button
  22. Featured Shopify App: KikScore Trust Seal
  23. The Question on Every iPhone 4S Buyer’s Mind

September 2011

  1. Featured Shopify App: Incentify by Points.com
  2. Nicely Done, Microsoft!
  3. This is How a Lot of People Feel About the Changes to Facebook
  4. Scenes from Today’s Toronto Techie Dim Sum
  5. Dear Microsoft: Just Update My Photo and We’ll Be Cool
  6. We’ll Know For Sure Next Year [Updated]
  7. Featured Shopify App: ShopLogic
  8. Toronto Techie Dim Sum: Wednesday, September 21st at noon @ Sky Dragon
  9. The BarCamp Tour Continues, and Shopify Wants to Meet You Along the Way!
  10. Happy 45th Birthday, Star Trek!
  11. Featured Shopify App: Back in Stock
  12. Open Office Hours: This Afternoon at The Roastery (401 Richmond)
  13. Featured Shopify App: Kwantify QR Campaign Manager
  14. Old Office, New Office

August 2011

  1. Reminder: Montreal Shopify Meetup This Thursday!
  2. You Too Can Suck at Github with Chris Coyier!
  3. Super Mario Bros. Does Portal
  4. Deus Ex: Human Revolution Does the Safety Dance
  5. Featured Shopify App: Wishpot Button
  6. Cory Doctorow’s Keynote Address at SIGGRAPH 2011
  7. Steve Jobs: King of All Tech Media
  8. That’s Because USB Plugs Have Quantum Spin
  9. “Pragmatic Guide to Sass” is in Beta!
  10. Shopify Gives “The Oatmeal” “Explosive Poopies of Joy”
  11. How We Use Git at Shopify
  12. Samuel L. Ipsum (or: When Lorem Ipsum Goes Badass)
  13. “No Escape”: A Portal Movie
  14. Abby Fichtner on Pushing Agile to the Next Level
  15. Montreal Shopify Meetup: Thursday, September 1st
  16. A Portal 2 Marriage Proposal
  17. Brandon Watson’s Quick Thinking / I Can Help You Find a WP7 Champ
  18. Salmagundi for Monday, August 22, 2011
  19. It’s Whyday!
  20. Ecommerce is Only Getting Started
  21. HackVAN’s APIses and Prizes
  22. Vancouver Bound
  23. Featured Shopify App: Zibaba Facebook Storefront
  24. Whyday is Friday
  25. We’re in Vancouver This Week!
  26. Escalation of the War Between Developers, Designers and Project Managers…with QA!
  27. Looking for Shopify API Wrapper Libraries
  28. 21 Years Ought to be Enough for Anybody (or, Bon Voyage, Charlie Kindel!)
  29. In Vancouver Next Week for HackVAN
  30. Forever Alone
  31. Fixing Shopify’s Internet Access with a Potato
  32. The Shopify Template Designer’s Cheat Sheet
  33. Skida and Corinne Prevot: Powered by Shopify
  34. My Unicorn Quest at Shopify
  35. The War Between Developers, Designers and Project Managers
  36. Unicorn: Shopify’s Clever, Gamified Achievements System
  37. Spice Up Your Shopify Shop with 10 Free Photos from iStockphoto
  38. In Like Flynn

July 2011

  1. Ottawa Startup Drinks: Tonight at 8 p.m.!
  2. Attention Contract Developers: Shopify Wants You!
  3. Ottawa Startup Drinks: Thursday!
  4. Ottawa JavaScript/Node.js Summer Meetup Tomorrow (July 27th)
  5. I’m Down with MC Spock
  6. At the Ottawa Rails 3.1 Hackfest
  7. Developing Shopify Apps
  8. Best Coding Practices Poster #2: “Thread Your Computation!”
  9. Best Coding Practices Poster #1: “Only YOU Can Prevent Buffer Overflows!”
  10. Upcoming Tech Events in Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto [Updated]
  11. Camouflage
  12. Aaron Swartz’s Indictment and Demand Progress PAC’s Statement
  13. Scenes from BarCamp NOLA, Part 2
  14. Scenes from BarCamp NOLA, Part 1
  15. Hack Days in San Francisco and New Orleans This Weekend
  16. Shopify Pub Night #2: Tonight @ 5:30 p.m.!
  17. Matz Joins Heroku: It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
  18. Shopify Apps and an Update to the App Wishlist
  19. BarCamp NOLA (New Orleans) This Weekend!
  20. “Sent From My Windows Phone”
  21. How to Make Awesome Diagrams for Your Slides
  22. Shopify Pub Night #2/Ottawa Security Meetup – This Wednesday, July 13th
  23. Hipster Dog on Google+
  24. Google, Microsoft and Apple
  25. An Epic Visit from Epic Meal Time
  26. NOW They Tell Me
  27. Smartphones as Keys
  28. Happy 4th of July from Global Nerdy and the Americ-NYAN Cat!
  29. Check Yo’self Before You Wreck Yo’Self (or: Lessons from the Fitbit Privacy Debacle)
  30. Org Charts of the Big Tech Companies (Plus an Enhancement)
  31. Happy Canada Day!

June 2011

  1. RIP Robert Morris
  2. Hitler Finds Out About Final Cut Pro X
  3. Shopify’s App Wishlist
  4. DemoCamp Ottawa 16 Tonight! (June 29th, 2011)
  5. Shopify’s CodeRetreat with Corey Haines
  6. Anna’s Notes on “Landing Your Dream Job 2.0”
  7. Notes from “Landing Your Dream Job 2.0”
  8. Angry Birds: Kickin’ Ass with Their Shopify Store
  9. Ottawa Techie Events Tonight!
  10. BarCamp Tour Update: Seattle This Weekend, New Orleans Next Month, and Toronto…Soon!
  11. Shopify: Developers Wanted!
  12. Wednesday is Techie Get-Together Night in Ottawa! (“Land Your Dream Job 2.0” and “Node.js Ottawa Pub Nite”)
  13. Selling More Shopify Apps, Part 2: Pictures
  14. Selling More Shopify Apps, Part 1: The Decision-Making Process
  15. One Reason Why Shopify Kicks Ass: Our CEO is Also a Coder
  16. Scenes from Shopify Pub Night #1
  17. Shopify Pub Night Tonight! (Tuesday, June 14th)
  18. State Machines: Know Them! Love Them!
  19. Ecommerce Tips from Shopify
  20. BarCamp Toronto, Anyone?
  21. DemoCamp Toronto 29 Tomorrow! (June 9, 2011)
  22. Trouble, Incorporated
  23. Add SMS to Your Shopify Store with SMSified
  24. Shopify Pub Night: Tuesday, June 14th!
  25. Venn Diagram of the Day
  26. Good JavaScript Reading, Part 3: Ninjas, Good Parts and Dailies
  27. Good JavaScript Reading, Part 2: JavaScript Gardens and Interventions
  28. Random Hacks of Kindness in Toronto This Weekend
  29. The Apple Store’s 10th Anniversary Poster: The Full Text, and in Nice Readable Paragraphs Too!
  30. Good JavaScript Reading, Part 1: Eloquent JavaScript

May 2011

  1. Salmagundi for May 31, 2011
  2. Ruby Foo
  3. R2-Tea-2
  4. Notes from "How to Run a Startup Like Genghis Khan"
  5. X-Muppets
  6. Going to Toronto for Ruby Job Fair and Portland for BarCamp
  7. Designing for Humans (Notes from the Ottawa Social Media Breakfast)
  8. That’s How We Roll in the Wintel World
  9. BarCamp Portland: May 20 – 21
  10. New Business Card, New Email Address
  11. Fabulous Parting Gifts from Microsoft
  12. Manning Deal of the Day: “Natural User Interfaces in .NET” MEAP and Paper Book for $25
  13. rspec::table Employment (or: Ruby Job Fair)
  14. Scans of My “Hacks/Hackers” Notes
  15. A Man with a Plan to Scan (Whenever He Can)
  16. Notes from Hacks/Hackers Ottawa, May 12, 2011
  17. Notes from Last Night’s Ottawa Girl Geek Dinner (May 11, 2011)
  18. Win a Gary Vaynerchuk Power Session!
  19. Erika Moen’s Comics and Shopify
  20. Shopify Perquisites
  21. Scenes from MinneBar 2011
  22. Walking to Work
  23. Tonight in Toronto: “Hello World 2.0” with Edward Ocampo-Gooding and Daniel Beauchamp
  24. No One Will Mistake It for Theirs
  25. I’m in Minnesota, All Right
  26. This Monday at TechTalksTO: Edward and Daniel from Shopify Talk Open Data!
  27. In Transit
  28. “That’s Not OCD” Revisited
  29. That’s Not OCD, You’re Just a Slacker

April 2011

  1. How to Reach Me
  2. Introducing the BarCamp Tour
  3. Shopify’s Build-a-Business Contest and its Crazy-Ass Grand Prize
  4. The Cake is a Liu Kang!
  5. Tomorrow’s Royal Wedding Afternoon Tea with Toronto’s Lady Bloggers
  6. The New Job: Technical Evangelist at Shopify
  7. My Next Job: Final Set of Hints
  8. My Next Job: Even More Hints
  9. My Next Job: More Hints
  10. The Final Countdown, Final Day
  11. My Next Job: A Hint
  12. It’s the Final Countdown, Day 2
  13. It’s the Final Countdown, Day 3
  14. Someone Comes to DPE, Someone Leaves DPE (or: Welcome, Susan Ibach!)
  15. It’s the Final Countdown, Day 4
  16. TorCHI Event: Best Practices in Interface Design and Applying Them to Microsoft Surface
  17. Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now!
  18. Help Wanted: News Editor at GigaOm (San Francisco)
  19. Where to Stay in Minneapolis (May 6th–8th)?
  20. It’s the Final Countdown, Day 5
  21. MobileTeach 2011: May 30th–June 3rd in Montreal
  22. Brandon Foy’s Indie Windows Phone 7 Ads
  23. Internet Explorer 9 / Windows Phone 7 Boot Camps in Ottawa and Edmonton
  24. The Job Offers are Flattering…
  25. Brandon Watson: The Windows Phone Champs’ Big Kahuna
  26. Miguel Carrasco on MIX11, Imaginet and Imaginet Interactive
  27. Mobile Dev’s Shallow Pools, Deep Opportunities, and Tomorrow’s Hackfests
  28. Departure
  29. “Beverley, You’ve Started a Warp Core Breach…IN MY PANTS!”
  30. Scott Hanselman Takes “Jellybean”, the Kinect-Controlled Lounge Chair, for a Spin
  31. Morten Rand-Hendriksen on the MIX Conference
  32. Trouble, Inc.!
  33. John Bristowe Brings on the Awesomesauce
  34. September 13th–16th: Save the Date!
  35. A Quick Wrap-Up of Today’s Windows Phone Announcements at MIX
  36. MIX Day 2 Keynote Live Stream!
  37. ImageThink’s Renditions of MIX11’s Day 1 Keynotes
  38. The World’s Biggest Pac-Man
  39. Get Your Hands on Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1!
  40. SVG Girl
  41. MIX Day 1 Keynote Live Stream!
  42. Scenes from BarCamp Boston
  43. A Little Something for Those Getting Started with CSS…
  44. Windows Phone 7 Hackfests in Vancouver and Toronto This Saturday!
  45. Dzinepress’ Ultimate Collection of HTML5 Tutorials and Useful Links
  46. We’ll Be at MIX11 All Week!
  47. Congratulations, Pushlife!
  48. How the Times Have Changed!
  49. Results from “The Great Canadian Appathon”
  50. Presentation Title of the Day
  51. Catch the MIX11 Sessions, Even if You’re Not in Vegas
  52. Silverlight, HTML5, The Web, The Phone and All That
  53. R.I.P. Ryland Sanders
  54. Site of the Day: Charcuteroulette
  55. O’Reilly’s Ebook Deal of the Day (Tuesday, April 5th)
  56. New Game Development Tutorial at App Hub!
  57. The Road to MIX
  58. ICT Toronto, Five Years Later

March 2011

  1. The Windows Phone 7 Numbers, in Pictures
  2. Worth Reading: “Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development” by Wrox
  3. Really, You Should Just Relax
  4. Manning Deal of the Day: “SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action” for $25 (Monday, March 28th)
  5. Really, You Should Just Turn It On
  6. Talking with Justin Peck About QONQR, “The Geosocial Game of World Domination”
  7. Internet Explorer 9 / Windows Phone 7 Boot Camps This Weekend
  8. Ze Frank’s “Star.Me” on Internet Explorer 9 at SxSW
  9. IE9 Gets Over 2.3 Million Downloads in First 24 Hours
  10. IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps: Updated Schedule
  11. Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp This Friday!
  12. Microsoft and the Relief Efforts in Japan
  13. The Globe and Mail’s Craig Saila on IE9
  14. Internet Explorer 9: Get It Now!
  15. South by Southwest: Austin JavaScript Party Today!
  16. Gladstone Grant on the Great Canadian Appathon
  17. The Code-a-Thon at Ryerson Digital Media Zone
  18. The Austin JavaScript SxSW Party (Sunday, March 13th)
  19. South by Southwest Travel Diary, Entry 1
  20. The Great Canadian Appathon is This Weekend!
  21. IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps
  22. The Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7
  23. The New Windows Phone Ad: “What If?”
  24. At the 2011 MVP Global Summit

February 2011

  1. How Secure is My Password?
  2. What’s a Blogger? What’s a Developer? What are YOU, Online?
  3. Hello! HTML5 and CSS3–Manning’s Deal of the Day (Feb. 21)
  4. Happy Family Day!
  5. Rob Miles’ Books and Videos for New Windows Phone Developers
  6. The “Jeopardy” Episodes with IBM’s “Watson”, All in One Place
  7. Books on Building Games for Windows Phone (and Xbox, and Windows)
  8. More Books on Windows Phone 7 Development
  9. Free Books on Windows Phone 7 Development
  10. Windows Phone Announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
  11. On Writing Apps
  12. Get “Continuous Integration in .NET” For Only $15 (Feb. 13 Only)
  13. Review: The Cisco Linksys AE1000 USB Wifi Dongle and Getting Past the “Claus Curse”
  14. New Articles on The Great Canadian Apportunity’s Blog
  15. Scenes from Seattle, Part 1
  16. Procrastination Flowcharts
  17. Mark Arteaga on Canadian Developers, Windows Phone 7 and the IRS
  18. Foursquare for Sex? (NSFW)
  19. PragPub Celebrates Agile’s 10th Anniversary
  20. Groundhog Day Book Deal on “Silverlight 4 in Action” and “C# in Depth”
  21. Introducing the Great Canadian Apportunity

January 2011

  1. HTML5 and CSS3 for Web Designers
  2. Vote for Canadian Presenters at MIX11 / Save $500 with Early Registration!
  3. GPS Emulator for Windows Phone 7
  4. Forrester Research’s “10 Mobile Trends for 2011” and What They Mean to You, the Mobile Developer
  5. Board Game Jam: This Weekend in Toronto
  6. Shmoocon 2011’s Live Streams
  7. New Zealand Kids and Their Windows Phone 7 App
  8. Smashing HTML 5
  9. East of Toronto .NET User Group Web Camp: Saturday, February 19th
  10. Yesterday’s Coffee and Code at Cloud Free Agent Espresso Bar
  11. Toronto Coffee and Code Today (Jan 26) at Cloud!
  12. Get “SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action” for $25 (Wednesday, January 26th)
  13. Half Off Microsoft Press’ Top 25 Ebooks from O’Reilly (Wednesday, January 26th)
  14. Why You Hate Comic Sans / Design for Hackers
  15. Recommended: “Introducing HTML5”
  16. Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide from Microsoft Patterns and Practices
  17. Get “ASP.NET 4.0 in Practice” Ebook for $15 (Tuesday, January 25th Only)
  18. MIX11: Las Vegas, April 12–14 / Vote for Canadian Sessions at MIX!
  19. Coffee and Code at Cloud: Wednesday, January 26th
  20. January 22 Only: Save 50% off “Natural User Interfaces in .NET”
  21. Unboxing the Samsung Focus from Expansys
  22. Anger is Illogical
  23. Julian and Mark
  24. My Blog Stats for 2010
  25. “Developing for the Third Screen: Windows Phone 7” at Tomorrow’s Metro Toronto .NET Users Group Meeting
  26. HTML5 & CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today
  27. Enter the WebMatrix @ CodeMash: Thursday, January 13th
  28. Save 15% Off ObjectSharp’s Upcoming Silverlight Training in Toronto!
  29. Lifehacker’s List of the Best Windows Phone 7 Apps
  30. Windows Phone 7’s Upcoming Updates
  31. Video Series: “Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners”
  32. Fredericton .NET User Group Meeting on CISSP and Application Security: Thursday, January 27th
  33. Prairie Dev Con 2011 Call for Speakers
  34. Web Camp in Montreal–Saturday, February 5th
  35. And So It Begins (or Frederic’s Officially on Board)

2010 368

December 2010

  1. Windows Phones in Canada
  2. Wishing You Some Nerdy Holidays
  3. Pirates Love Daisies: Uses HTML5, Plays on IE9, Hosted on Azure
  4. Comic Sans Criminal
  5. New Book: Windows Phone 7 Game Development
  6. Lost in the Cloud? Trouble Figuring Azure Out? We Can Help.
  7. Apress’ “Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development” [Updated]
  8. Calgary Coffee and Code: Thursday, December 16
  9. The Humble Indie Bundle #2: Get Great Games and Give to Great Causes!
  10. AzureFest Redux!
  11. The New Yorker Profiles Shigeru Miyamoto
  12. Yaroslav Pentsarskyy: Taking Your Existing SharePoint 2010 Solution to the Cloud (Calgary)
  13. In Calgary This Week
  14. Hacking for Good Causes
  15. AzureFest
  16. Don’t Forget AzureFest This Saturday!
  17. Scenes from the TechDays Winnipeg Aftermath
  18. Scenes from TechDays Winnipeg, Part 2
  19. Winnipeg Coffee and Code: Thursday, December 9th
  20. Scenes from TechDays Winnipeg, Part 1
  21. Donate to the Food Bank at TechDays Winnipeg, Get a Free T-Shirt!
  22. TechDays Winnipeg / Coffee and Code Winnipeg This Week!
  23. Friday Morning Ritual
  24. Technologic’s Inaugural Gathering
  25. Silverlight Firestarter Events in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto
  26. Silverlight Firestarter Tomorrow! (Thursday, December 2)
  27. Visual Basic on Windows Phone: From CTP to RTW to OMFG
  28. Have You Been to MSDN Lately?

November 2010

  1. AzureFest: Saturday, December 11 in Mississauga
  2. Welcome, Frédéric!
  3. Montreal Coffee and Code: Thursday, November 25th
  4. “Building Awesome Apps for Windows 7” Simulcast Tonight!
  5. Yorkville Media Centre’s Windows Web Dev Sessions
  6. We’re at the DIG Conference Thursday and Friday
  7. Windows Phone Developer Briefings in Ottawa, Calgary, Mississauga, Montreal and Toronto
  8. The Windows 7/Windows Live “Palindrome Poem” Ad
  9. I’ll Be at Gamercamp Today
  10. Yellow Peril 2.0
  11. Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 4
  12. Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 3
  13. The Road Home
  14. Want a Free Pass to Gamercamp?
  15. Ottawa Coffee and Code Today (Thursday, November 11) at Bridgehead in the Market
  16. Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 2: In Which I Go a Little Whiteboard Crazy
  17. Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 1
  18. GamerCamp: Toronto November 13 – 14
  19. Speaker Idol Ottawa: Tuesday, November 9th
  20. Go DevMental Ottawa–Tuesday Night!
  21. CloudCamp Ottawa: Tonight at the Hampton Inn Conference Centre
  22. In Ottawa This Week for TechDays
  23. 40% Off Selected .NET Manning Books!
  24. You Say “Middle Age”, I Say “Mack Daddy Age”
  25. Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code at Just Us! Café, Halifax
  26. Toronto Area SharePoint Saturday: Saturday November 13th at Microsoft Canada HQ
  27. HTML and Silverlight are Friends with Benefits
  28. TechDays Halifax: November 2nd and 3rd
  29. Bob Muglia: PDC and Silverlight
  30. Two New Books for Windows Phone 7 Developers

October 2010

  1. Random Hacks of Kindness: December 4–5 at University of Toronto
  2. TechDays Halifax: November 2 – 3
  3. If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be AndroidTO (and TechDays Eve and CloudCamp too)
  4. Windows Phone App Challenge #2: Area Gas Prices
  5. .NET MEAP Books at Half Price!
  6. What I’m Up To This Week
  7. CloudCamp Toronto is This Tuesday!
  8. We’re Looking for Canadian Windows Phone 7 Apps
  9. 31 Days of Windows Phone 7
  10. I’ll Take Two for My Desk, Please
  11. Drupal Camp Toronto 2010
  12. Imaginet’s “Unlock the Power of Visual Studio 2010” Events in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary
  13. Windows Phone App Challenge #1: The Pomodoro Timer
  14. Join the “Ignite Your Coding” Mobile Development LinkedIn Group!
  15. “Who Poked the Sleeping Dragon?” and Other Microsoft Metaphors
  16. Peter Henry on Submitting a Windows Phone App to Marketplace
  17. “Smiles” for Windows Phone 7
  18. Meet Some of Your Fellow Canadian Windows Phone Developers
  19. Got a Windows Phone 7 App? Let Joey Know!
  20. Ottawa and Toronto Coffee and Codes on Thursday October 14
  21. Try Out Your Apps on a Real Windows Phone at Coffee and Codes and Deployment Clinics
  22. The New Windows Phone 7 Ads and a Big Hint for Your App Designs
  23. Windows Phone 7 Launch Today
  24. I Probably Owe You an Email…
  25. Scenes from TechDays Edmonton, Part 4
  26. Scenes from TechDays Edmonton, Part 3
  27. Scenes from TechDays Edmonton, Part 2
  28. Scenes from TechDays Edmonton, Part 1
  29. We’re in Edmonton This Week!
  30. TWC9: ASP.NET Fix, Xamalot, Must-Have Tools for MVC Developers and More
  31. Developer Evangelist. Toronto Area. Now Hiring. Maybe You?
  32. Get Your Windows Phone 7 Apps Ready for Marketplace!
  33. Half Off Manning’s .NET MEAP Ebooks – October 1st Only!

September 2010

  1. A Scene from Today’s Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code
  2. Montreal/Toronto/Edmonton Event Reminders
  3. “BieberSmash” at Tonight’s Canada’s Technology Triangle .NET User Group Meeting
  4. Montreal Coffee and Code Today!
  5. Talking XNA with Shawn Hargreaves and Charles Cox
  6. “Speaker Idol”: Montreal, October 25th
  7. Toronto’s Hot Tech Scene
  8. Windows Phone 7 Hands-On Lab in Ottawa: Saturday, October 2nd
  9. This Week’s Coffee and Codes / Deployment Clinics
  10. Microsoft’s Developer Guidance Maps
  11. If Art Galleries Ran Like the Internet
  12. “Azure in Action” eBook for $15
  13. TWC9: VB for WP7, ASP.NET Vulnerability, WCF Services, String Formatting Cheat Sheet and More!
  14. DemoCamp Toronto 27: Wednesday, October 6th
  15. So That’s What We Do
  16. Visual Basic for Windows Phone!
  17. Don’t Just Get Ready…Get Microsoft Platform Ready!
  18. Join the “Ignite Your Coding” LinkedIn Group!
  19. “The iPhone of Night Clubs”
  20. Half Off Manning’s SharePoint Books Today (Sept. 22)
  21. Fredericton .NET User Group Meeting Tonight (Sept. 22)
  22. This Saturday: SharePoint Saturday in Vancouver
  23. This Saturday: “Introduction to B.I.” in Montreal (Samedi .NET)
  24. This Week’s Coffee and Codes
  25. Geek Hero: Timothy Dalby and “Find-A-Home”
  26. Jeff “Cooking for Geeks” Potter’s Book Tour
  27. Windows Phone 7 Advanced Training Today!
  28. ScottGu’s Workaround for the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability
  29. Upcoming Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Codes / Deployment Clinics
  30. Tonight at HacklabTO: Cooking for Geeks!
  31. FITC Mobile 2010
  32. Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 5: Day 2 and Beyond
  33. Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 4: Go DevMENTAL
  34. Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 3: The Surroundings
  35. I Need “Booth Brains”!
  36. Quick Updates
  37. They Know Us Well
  38. Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 2
  39. Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 1
  40. How to “Make the Rounds” at TechDays / Mobile Innovation Week
  41. This Week: TechDays Vancouver and Mobile Innovation Week Toronto
  42. Intel/Microsoft Parallel Programming One-Day Course: September 20th in Montreal
  43. Cross-Canada Windows Phone 7 “Coffee and Codes” Start Next Week!
  44. Early Bird Prices for TechDays Toronto Disappear Soon!
  45. Get “Silverlight 4 in Action” for Half Price!
  46. Windows Phone 7 Blogger Night in Toronto
  47. SharePoint Saturday Vancouver 2010: Saturday, September 25th
  48. Fredericton .NET User Group / OData on September 22nd
  49. Le 25 Septembre: Samedi .NET– Introduction au B.I.
  50. Test Your App on a Real Windows Phone in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal
  51. Windows Phone 7 Goes RTM

August 2010

  1. Windows Phone 7 App: Rubik’s Cube
  2. Windows Phone-a-Palooza [Updated]
  3. WordCamp Montreal and WebMatrix
  4. Join the “Windows Phone Canada” LinkedIn Group
  5. “HTML5 Up and Running”– Only $9.99 Today!
  6. Why You Should Keep Your Facebook Profile Private
  7. Windows Phone 7 Montreal Bootcamp on Monday!
  8. WhyDay: Today, August 19th
  9. Andrew Stellman’s C# “Inner Circle” Discussion, Game Challenge and C# Video Q&A
  10. Learn Windows Phone 7 with the “Jump Start” Course
  11. TechDays 2010 & TechNet Subscriptions – Helping You to Continue Your Learning
  12. Get Your Game on with Windows Phone 7
  13. TWC9: Lots of Windows Phone 7 Stuff, SQL Cop, WCF for Large Data
  14. THIS is How You Do It: The USGA Golf Score App for Windows Phone 7
  15. “C# in Depth” and “Azure in Action” for the Price of One Book–Today Only (August 15th)!
  16. David Crow Answers 5 Questions and Visits Vancouver
  17. Windows Phone Coffee and Code
  18. Discuss C# with the “Head First C#” Author, Save Big Bucks on “Head First C#” Too!
  19. Today Only: 50% off Manning’s Silverlight Books
  20. Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code: Downtown Toronto, Thursday, August 12th
  21. Perspectives on Clojure and F#
  22. New Internet Explorer 9 Videos
  23. Windows Phone 7 App: Deluxe Moon
  24. Windows Phone 7 App: Ave Comics
  25. Internet Explorer 9, Platform Preview 4
  26. Half Off Manning’s SharePoint Books!
  27. Windows Phone News: Life of the Party, Petzold’s Book Updated, Glow Air Hockey
  28. Windows Phone 7 Game: BulletAsylum
  29. Last Day to Register for TechDays Vancouver at the Early Bird Price!
  30. A Touchy Subject
  31. One of Toronto’s Top Tweeters

July 2010

  1. Register for TechDays Vancouver Before the Early Bird Price Expires
  2. Building Tapworthy Apps for Windows Phone 7
  3. Telus Tells Us The Unvarnished Truth [Updated]
  4. What’s Happening with Windows Phone 7 [Updated]
  5. Limbo
  6. Vacation’s Over
  7. On Vacation
  8. Free Online Training for Windows Phone 7 Development
  9. The Hot Dog That Got Away and Why You Should Register for TechDays 2010 Now
  10. Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp
  11. Now in Beta: Windows Phone Developer Tools!
  12. Techmeme: One-Stop Tech News and Your Ticket to Nerd Rock Stardom
  13. TWC9: WebMatrix, Razor, Debug MSBuild Files and Beer-Fetching Robots
  14. A “Whiteboard Jam” on Monads and Coordinate Systems
  15. The jQuery Online Conference: Monday, July 12th – Everywhere!
  16. Thinking of Moving to the Cloud? Get Free Compute Time with Windows Azure
  17. The Mobile Dev Rap Battle: Native Code vs. Web Apps
  18. Introducing WebMatrix
  19. Yuri Gurevich: “Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, Part 1 of n”
  20. A Must-Read for Mobile Developers: The Mobile Developer Economics 2010 Report
  21. Uncle Bob: All Our Programming Languages Boil Down to Sequence, Selection and Iteration
  22. Ten Things You Need to Know About Design
  23. TWC9: IIS Express, SQL Compact, Silverlight Pivot Viewer, Zip Support in System.IO, .NET on a Bike and More!

June 2010

  1. Dive Into HTML 5
  2. IE’s Big Leap Forward
  3. Conflict Minerals and Blood Tech
  4. Internet Explorer 9 Videos on Channel 9
  5. .NET Rocks’ Live Weekend
  6. Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp: Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto
  7. IE9’s Hardware-Accelerated Canvas in Action
  8. Internet Explorer 9: Kicking Ass and Acid3 with Platform Preview 3!
  9. Turning Up Where Least Expected
  10. Launchlist: A Checklist for Web Developers and Designers
  11. Crunch Time for Windows Phone
  12. Gizmodo’s Vendetta
  13. “I’m Comic Sans, Asshole!”
  14. Best Phone Case Ever
  15. It’s One of the Perks of the Job
  16. Windows Phone Workshops
  17. HTML5 and RIAs: Friends with Benefits!
  18. Adobe Photoshop, Literally
  19. GovCamp’s Coming to Toronto: Thursday, June 17th
  20. Kick-It: Buy Windows Server, Donate to a Good Cause
  21. Betty White, Jedi Master
  22. A11yCamp: June 8 at the University of Guelph
  23. PressHarbor Rocks!
  24. Getting Paid to Work for Ballmer is Pretty Nice
  25. Catching Cory Doctorow’s “For the Win” Book Launch Tonight
  26. Scott “UnMarketing” Stratten: “First Name and Email are Enough” and Other Thoughts on Online Interaction
  27. Maritime DevCon: June 18th in Moncton
  28. New SharePoint 2010 Books from Wrox
  29. Games, News, Maps, Social and Music are the Most Downloaded Mobile App Types: Nielsen

May 2010

  1. My Photos from Make Web Not War 2010
  2. At Make Web Not War
  3. Dan Pink on What Motivates Us
  4. We’ll Be in Montreal This Week
  5. Prairie Dev Con 2010: Regina, June 2 – 3
  6. Hand Eye Society Indie Game Social: Toronto, May 27th
  7. Bring a Friend to Make Web Not War, Get Great Swag!
  8. VP8 Support in Internet Explorer 9
  9. Shape the Future at Canada GovCamp
  10. The “Social Media Revolution 2” Video
  11. The Geek Alphabet
  12. Toronto Developer Lunch, Friday May 14th
  13. I Don’t Think They Wanted to Use That Photo
  14. Toronto-Montreal NerdTrain (Departs Tuesday, May 25th, Returns Friday, May 28th)
  15. Mesh Conference: Toronto, May 18th – 19th
  16. Kathy Sierra: “Make a Better FM”
  17. MeshU Workshops: Toronto, May 17th
  18. GovCamp: Ottawa, May 31 – June 1, 2010
  19. Babbage and Lovelace Get the “Space: 1999” Treatment
  20. Ruby Stuff: IronRuby 1.0, IronRuby Reading and a Ruby Job Fair
  21. New Programming Jargon
  22. “Developer Junior” on Webnation
  23. IE9 Platform Preview 2
  24. Make Web Not War / MonDev (Open Source Week) in Montréal / $50 Round Trip Train to Montreal
  25. If You Speak Python, Science Also Needs Your Brain!
  26. Developer Junior: Making Your Own Movies with Live Movie Maker / Appearing on “Webnation”
  27. If You Speak Database, Science Needs Your Brain!
  28. Scenes from Toronto Code Camp 2010

April 2010

  1. PowerPoint is NOT the Enemy
  2. This Week on “Ignite Your Coding”: Uncle Bob!
  3. So You Need a Typeface…
  4. Toronto Code Camp: Saturday, May 1st!
  5. Apple, Windows Phone 7 and Burning the Boats (or: Why I Think Windows Phone 7 Doesn’t Have Copy and Paste)
  6. Talking to the Kids in Their Language
  7. This Week on Ignite Your Coding: Jeff Atwood!
  8. Kudos for Kodu
  9. EnergizeIT This Week
  10. EnergizeIT Academic Visits
  11. Superstitious and Mathematically Incorrect
  12. Developer Junior: Creating Your Own Games with Kodu
  13. This Week on Ignite Your Coding: Scott Hanselman!
  14. Visiting Victoria
  15. EnergizeIT Goes to Kelowna
  16. Flying to Kelowna
  17. Interview on ASP.NET MVC and Open Source at Microsoft
  18. This Week on “Ignite Your Coding”: Richard Campbell

March 2010

  1. Scenes from the Project I was Working on Yesterday
  2. The “500 Worst Passwords”
  3. Hoodie as Laptop Bag
  4. Be a Windows Phone 7/Imagine Cup Rock Star!
  5. The FTW! Coding Competition
  6. David Laribee Today on Ignite Your Coding
  7. Ignite Your Coding, Episode 3: Jeremy Miller
  8. Ignite Your Coding, Episode 2: Glenn Block
  9. “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, Deconstructed
  10. Much Clearer Than “PC LOAD LETTER”
  11. David Laribee on Thursday’s “Ignite Your Coding”
  12. MIX10 Thoughts: Design, Windows Phone and Bill Buxton
  13. Flamewars, 1839 Style
  14. Azure, as Explained by Christian Beauclair
  15. SQL Injection and the “Flintstones/Jetsons” Way to Deal with Licence Plate Cameras
  16. Windows Phone 7 Session Videos and Slides, Organized and Explained
  17. MIX10 Day 2 Keynote
  18. Ignite Your Coding, Episode 1: Andy Hunt
  19. How to Make a Conference Pay Off
  20. MIX10 Day 1 Keynote
  21. Take Internet Explorer 9 for a Test Drive!
  22. Jeremy Miller on Thursday’s “Ignite Your Coding”
  23. Meet the Stars of “The Hangover 2”
  24. EnergizeIT 2010: Coming Very Soon!
  25. Hello from MIX10!
  26. Reporting from MIX10 Tomorrow!
  27. Back to Daylight Saving Time!
  28. Mario Cardinal at ConFoo
  29. Ignite Your Coding: This Afternoon with Glenn Block!
  30. Counting Down to Seven: XNA Game Studio 4.0!!!!
  31. Counting Down to Seven: Charlie Kindel Demos His Windows Phone 7 Handset to CNET’s Ina Fried
  32. Thursday’s “Ignite Your Coding” Webcast: “Composable Applications FTW” with Glenn Block
  33. Counting Down to Seven: User Experience with Microsoft User Experience Gurus Bill Buxton and Albert “Windows Phone 7” Shum
  34. TWC9: 100th Episode, Featuring VS2010 RC Tips, WPF and Bonus Footage
  35. My Chair, My Enemy
  36. Counting Down to Seven: The Windows Phone Sessions at MIX10
  37. Counting Down to Seven: “Platformer” Running on Windows Phone 7
  38. Kevin Pang on How .NET Data Access Fanboys See Each Other’s Strategies
  39. Yes, There WILL be an “Ignite Your Coding” RSS Feed
  40. Cloud Cover, Episode 3: Worker Role Endpoints
  41. Counting Down to Seven: Exploring XNA
  42. Ignite Your Coding Begins Today – 2 p.m. Eastern with Andy “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning” Hunt!
  43. Counting Down to Seven: The Most Active Mobile Social Networkers Are…
  44. Ignite Your Coding: This Thursday at 2pm Eastern!
  45. Counting Down to Seven: Millennials and Mobile
  46. TWC9: MIX10, Tweets from Your TiVO, Touch UI Gesture Icons and More

February 2010

  1. Cloud Cover, Episode 2: RoleEntryPoint, Windows Azure’s Billing Model and Troubleshooting Initializing-Busy-Stopping
  2. AlignIT Webcast Series in March and April
  3. The “What’s New in Visual Studio” Sessions – March 1st through 9th in Selected Canadian Cities [Updated]
  4. Counting Down to Seven: 7 Rules for Your Mobile Strategy
  5. Happy iBirthday, Steve Jobs!
  6. Counting Down to Seven: Charlie Kindel and the Windows Phone 7 Team’s Focus
  7. var article = new List<InterestingDeveloperStuff>();
  8. Counting Down to Seven: The 7th Mass Medium and its 7 Unique Qualities
  9. Cloud Cover, Episode 1
  10. EnergizeIT: Coming to 20 Cities Across Canada
  11. Ignite Your Coding Starts March 4th with Andy “Pragmatic Programmer” Hunt!
  12. Windows Phone 7: Challenge Accepted!
  13. Counting Down to Seven: Lou Reed, Mobile App Designer
  14. “Our Fine Tradition of Clumsy Names”
  15. Albert Shum on Windows Phone 7
  16. Are You Going to MIX10?
  17. Windows Phone 7 Series: Now That’s More Like It!
  18. It’s a “Portal” Day Today
  19. The Life and Times of Internet Explorer 6
  20. The “Ignite Your Coding” Podcast Series
  21. Congrats, “Mudge”, on Landing the DARPA Gig!
  22. Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate [UPDATED]
  23. Hello, Kodu!
  24. CUSEC 2010 Keynote: Douglas Crockford – The Software Crisis
  25. The Evolution of Type Taste from Grade School to Present
  26. Lessons from the Other Side

January 2010

  1. Behind the Scenes at “Star Trek: The Next Generation”
  2. CUSEC 2010 Keynote: Greg Wilson – “Bits of Evidence”
  3. CUSEC 2010 Keynote: Reg Braithwaite – “Beautiful Failure”
  4. CUSEC 2010 Keynote: Pete Forde – “NSFW”
  5. CUSEC 2010 Keynote: Matt Knox – “On Weakness”
  6. Montreal Bound
  7. My Presentation at CUSEC 2009: “Squeezeboxes, Start-Ups and Selling Out: A Tech Evangelist’s Story”
  8. Netbook Experiment Report #1
  9. The “Mythbusters” Poster
  10. CUSEC 2010: Montreal, January 21 – 23
  11. jQuery 1.4 Released / 14 Days of jQuery
  12. Multitasking in the “Mad Men” Era
  13. A Little Netbook Experiment
  14. Colin Melia’s Pitch for His MIX10 Presentations
  15. Jason Alderman’s Pitch for His MIX10 Presentation
  16. MIX10 Web/UX Conference: March 15 – 17 in Las Vegas
  17. Mathew Ingram Joins GigaOM
  18. Visual Studio 2010 Event in Kitchener-Waterloo: Thursday, January 21st
  19. “I’m With @Stupid” T-Shirt
  20. Microsoft and the W3C SVG Working Group: A Step in the Right Direction
  21. Cloudy (with a Chance of Mobile)
  22. Folda Lisa
  23. Building Apps People Need (and are willing to pay for)
  24. Qixing’s Big Move
  25. The “Spock, Paper, Scissors” T-Shirt

2009 438

December 2009

  1. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
  2. Apress’ “Windows Azure Platform”…and Discounts!
  3. “Accordion Guy” and “Global Nerdy” Stats for 2009
  4. The Vendor/Client Relationship
  5. The “Fanboys” Meme Continues (Microsoft Languages as Seen by Their Fanboys)
  6. Top 25 Companies in 1999/2009 and Consumerization
  7. I Think I’ve Created a Monster (or: Programming Language Fanboys)
  8. Geek Book Deals from Manning and Apress
  9. Scenes from TechDays Winnipeg
  10. D’Arcy Lussier on Luchador Hijinks and Dot-Netrosexuals
  11. How Fanboys See Operating Systems
  12. Working in the Kitchen
  13. Next Stop: Winnipeg!
  14. Demo Night in Canada
  15. Scenes from TechDays Ottawa
  16. Setting Up TechDays Ottawa
  17. Ottawa Road Trip Diary, Part 2: The Flying J Truck Stop
  18. Ottawa Road Trip Diary, Part 1: Slow Going
  19. Demo Night in Canada: Wednesday Night!
  20. Microsoft’s Open Source Party in Montreal
  21. This Week: Ottawa!
  22. Power Outlets with USB Ports
  23. TechDays Montreal, Day 2
  24. Career Demo Camp Montreal
  25. TechDays Montreal, Day 1
  26. Road Trip Diary, Part 7: Living on the Edge
  27. Road Trip Diary, Part 6: Return Trip
  28. Setting Up for TechDays Montreal
  29. “Get Excited and Make Things”
  30. More Photos and Videos from the Road Trip
  31. Demo Night in Canada: Wednesday December 9 in Ottawa
  32. Road Trip Video #2: Damir Picks Me Up
  33. Road Trip Video #1: The Boss Reluctantly Hands Over the Keys to the Ford Flex
  34. Road Trip Diary, Part 5: Avril Lavigne’s Hometown and My Alma Mater

November 2009

  1. Road Trip Diary, Part 4: More Big Apple
  2. Road Trip Diary, Part 3: The Big Apple
  3. Road Trip Diary, Part 2: The Blogging Rig
  4. Road Trip Diary, Part 1
  5. The Power of Positive Deviance
  6. DemoCamp in Ottawa: Wednesday, December 9th
  7. TechDays Montreal: Next Week!
  8. Confessions of a Public Speaker
  9. Sacha Chua’s “The Shy Connector”
  10. Silverlight Salmagundi
  11. Career Demo Camp Montreal: Wednesday, December 2nd
  12. Scenes from TechDays Calgary
  13. Developer Night in Canada: Joel Semeniuk on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
  14. Windows Azure Training Videos
  15. Next Week: TechDays Calgary
  16. Cory Doctorow’s “Makers” Launch Tonight
  17. New Book: Ultra-Fast ASP.NET
  18. WinMoDevCamp Toronto’s Agenda
  19. The Twitter Developers’ Checklist
  20. The Facebook/.NET SDK
  21. Taking JavaScript Performance to the Extreme with Thomas Fuchs
  22. WinMoDevCamp Toronto This Wednesday!
  23. First a Django Guy and Now a Microsoft Guy: “Thank You, Rails”
  24. Halifax Coffee and Code This Afternoon – Just Us Cafe on Barrington
  25. The New Yorker’s Hallowe’en Cover and Why You Should Go to WinMoDevCamp

October 2009

  1. One-Handed Computing
  2. TechDays Halifax / Halifax Coffee and Code Next Week!
  3. WinMoDevCamp Toronto: Wednesday November 11th at Microsoft’s Mississauga Office
  4. Azure/Silverlight Hallowe’en App
  5. Spider-Man on Chat Rooms
  6. Computer Problem of the Day
  7. Is Your Code a Candidate for “There, I Fixed It”?
  8. Stack Overflow DevDays Toronto
  9. 27 Takes on Windows 7
  10. Mississauga SharePoint User Group Inaugural Meeting – Monday, October 26th
  11. Windows 7: Even Linus Approves!
  12. Burger King’s Windows 7 Whopper
  13. Me and Steve B.
  14. Tonight on “The Hour”: Steve Ballmer and Snoop Dogg
  15. Scenes from the Canadian Windows 7 Event
  16. Reporting From the Canadian Windows 7 Event
  17. Portable Computing in the “Mad Men” Era
  18. One Year at Microsoft
  19. Area Man Gets His Own Channel 9 Show
  20. The Truth About Pac-Man
  21. Visual Studio 2010/.NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 and Final
  22. WinMoDevCamp: Save the Date – November 11th!
  23. WIND Mobile’s Videos: Funny. Canadian Mobile Phone Situation: Not So Funny.
  24. Mario Learns an Important Lesson
  25. It’s About Helping Your Users Become Awesome (or: “Being Better is Better” by Kathy Sierra)
  26. 24 Years of Windows Packaging and Boot Screens
  27. Explore Design ‘09
  28. Who’s Got .NET Framework 3.5?
  29. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
  30. A Flash Developer’s Take on Silverlight
  31. Walter Mossberg’s Review of Windows 7
  32. Scenes from the Windows 7 Hardware Media Event / Appearing Tonight on InnerSPACE
  33. Airport Signage and the Tab Control
  34. Trouble, Incorporated
  35. Slice of Life: Where I am Today
  36. TechDays Canada Roundup
  37. One Year Ago Today…

September 2009

  1. TechDays: Reza Alirezaei on Developing and Consuming Services For SharePoint
  2. TechDays: Bruce Johnson on Building RESTful Applications Using WCF
  3. TechDays: Bruce Johnson on “SOLIDify Your ASP.NET MVC Applications”, Assless Chaps, Twitter and Opportunities
  4. TechDays: Colin Bowern and “Introducing ASP.NET MVC”
  5. TechDays: Anthony Vranic on Optimizing Your Application for the Windows 7 User Experience
  6. Why the “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” Track is the Hippest Track at TechDays
  7. How to Get to FailCamp Toronto 3 from Union Station
  8. Barry Gervin: Expression Blend for Developers @ TechDays Toronto
  9. TechDays Toronto 2009 Begins!
  10. The Manifesto of Fail and FailCamp Toronto 3
  11. The “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” Track at TechDays Canada
  12. TechDays Toronto Schedule and Details / FailCamp Toronto 3
  13. Introducing WebsiteSpark
  14. FailCamp Toronto 3 Happens Next Tuesday!
  15. An Evening with Yossi Vardi: Thursday, September 24th
  16. Scott Hanselman on This Week’s “Ignite Your Career” Webcast: “Selling Yourself – Are You Using All Your Resources?”
  17. One Web Day
  18. 11 Months as a Microsoft Man
  19. Slice of Life: Official Photos from Techdays
  20. A Pair Programming Article…in the New York Times?!
  21. Don’t Forget About FailCamp Toronto 3 – Tuesday, Sept. 29!
  22. Photoshoppery of the Day
  23. This Zune HD Could Be Yours!
  24. Ignite Your Career Webcast: “Internal or External Training?” – Thursday, September 17th
  25. TechDays Vancouver 2009: Day Two at the “Microsoft Platform” Track
  26. Scenes from Demo Ignite Camp
  27. Kanye West Wants You to Go to FailCamp!
  28. TechDays Vancouver: More Scenes from the “Platform” Track
  29. Slice of Life: Striking the “Charlie’s Angels” Pose with Netbooks
  30. TechDays Vancouver: Scenes from the “Platform” Track
  31. FailCamp Toronto 3: September 29th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre
  32. How to Make the Rounds at TechDays
  33. The “Ignite Your Career” Webcasts Start Tomorrow!
  34. Toronto Girl Geek Dinner with Sarah Prevette of Sprouter – September 29th
  35. Social Software Venn Diagram
  36. Demo Ignite Camp in Vancouver: Less Than a Week Away!
  37. The Ultimate Steal: Office Ultimate for $64!
  38. TechDays Vancouver’s and Toronto’s “Developer Foundations” Track!!!
  39. Your First Warning: Vancouver, September 11 – 18
  40. Demo Ignite Camp: Vancouver, September 14th

August 2009

  1. DemoCamp. Vancouver. September 14th. Details Soon.
  2. One Possible Upside to the Disney-Marvel Team-Up
  3. Disney Buys Marvel
  4. Dear Lyons: You Got Pwned Even Harder
  5. Your Last Day for TechDays Vancouver or Toronto at $299!
  6. TechDays Toronto and Vancouver: 2 Days Left for the Early Bird Rate
  7. Reminder: 3 Days Left for TechDays Vancouver and Toronto at $299
  8. The TechDays $299 Deal
  9. GigPark Acquired by CanPages
  10. Remember: The Race to Market Challenge is On!
  11. XKCD’s Tech Support Flowchart
  12. Friday Fun: Ben Stiller Explains Twitter to Mickey Rooney
  13. How and Where is _why?
  14. Microsoft’s “Fune”
  15. Finding Domains on a Given IP Address with Bing
  16. The Passionate Programmer
  17. Goin’ Retro!
  18. Software Craftsmanship and “Uncle Bob”
  19. Toronto Coffee and Code: This Afternoon at The Roastery
  20. Windows API Code Pack for .NET Framework Released
  21. TechDays’ Developer Foundations Track
  22. N00b Boyfriend
  23. Old IBM Ad: “150 Extra Engineers!”
  24. SharePoint: An Opportunity in the Econopocalypse
  25. Silicon Alley Insider on the King of the Apple Geeks
  26. Lessons from an Air Pump
  27. Windows 7 Developer Resources
  28. My Question About the Twitter/Facebook DDOSing
  29. Windows 7 RTM: Now Available to TechNet Subscribers!
  30. The Tragedy of the Coffee Shop
  31. Do You Code in Visual Basic?
  32. Exceptions: The Airbags of Code
  33. Know Your Cat Ports
  34. Windows Mobile Case Study: Porting Amplitude to WinMo
  35. Science 2.0: How Computational Science is Changing the Scientific Method
  36. Science 2.0: A Web Native Research Record – Applying the Best of the Web to the Lab Notebook

July 2009

  1. Barbara Liskov, Interviewed
  2. TechDays 2009 Sessions Announced, and Other News
  3. Science 2.0: Choosing Infrastructure and Testing Tools for Scientific Software Projects
  4. Toronto Coffee and Code: Friday, July 31st at the Dark Horse Cafe (215 Spadina)
  5. My Statement on IE6
  6. The “Race to Market Challenge” for Windows Mobile
  7. A Busy Week
  8. The Sub-$1000 Opportunity?
  9. The “CSS Is Awesome” Mug
  10. TechDays, Blogs and the Fundamentals
  11. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2: RTM and FTW!
  12. John Udell DemoCamp / Science 2.0 Double-Header in Toronto Next Week
  13. Coffee and Codes This Week: Guelph and Toronto
  14. Thrive for Developers: Microsoft’s New Site for Developers Looking for Work
  15. Open Source Language Roundtable Webcast: Wednesday, July 22nd
  16. Damian Conway’s Talk, “The Missing Link”: Monday July 27th in Toronto
  17. The “Name My Floater” Contest
  18. DimeCast.Net’s SOLID Screencasts
  19. Boo-Effing-Hoo
  20. FutureRuby Talk: “Artisanal Retro-Futurism and Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism” [Updated]
  21. The SOLID Principles, Explained with Motivational Posters
  22. FutureRuby Talk: “Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology”
  23. Mini-Microsoft and the Sea Change
  24. Netbook 2009 == Laptop 2005 (or, “Netbooks Suck, Part 3)
  25. Developer Dim Sum Lunch at Sky Dragon!
  26. “Silverlight on the Silver Screen”: Two Days Away!
  27. The Annual Reset
  28. The Unofficial FutureRuby Guide to Toronto, Part 2: The FutureRuby Venues
  29. The Unofficial FutureRuby Guide to Toronto , Part 1: What’s That Smell?
  30. Follow @ManningBooks on Twitter and Get Discount Codes
  31. SharePoint Saturday Toronto: July 11th
  32. FailCamp: One Week Away!
  33. Silverlight on the Silver Screen: One Week Away!
  34. 31 Days of Silverlight
  35. The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever
  36. Happy Canada Day!

June 2009

  1. Guelph Coffee and Code Tonight!
  2. Ottawa IT Community Awards Night Tonight
  3. LearnHub: Powered by Rails, Searches with Bing
  4. One Million Pageviews!
  5. Iran is Taking Marc Stiegler’s Final Exam
  6. Scenes from May’s Metro Toronto .NET User Group
  7. Toronto Coffee and Code This Friday!
  8. Living in the “Hooray!” Zone
  9. Silverlight on the Silver Screen: Thursday, July 9th in Toronto
  10. Yes, I Think Outlook Needs to be Fixed
  11. Netbooks, R.I.P.
  12. Happy Birthday, Alan “Big Gay Al” Turing!
  13. Like I Said, Netbooks Suck
  14. LinkedIn Profiles: More Honest Than Resumes
  15. Edmonton Code Camp 2009: September 26th!
  16. Guelph Coffee and Code: Tuesday, June 23rd
  17. DemoCamp Toronto 21: Tuesday, July 28th
  18. TechDays 2009
  19. Toronto Agile User Group Meeting: Thursday, June 25th
  20. 16 Megabytes, Yo!
  21. Guelph Coffee and Code Tonight!
  22. Ottawa Coffee and Code at Bridgehead This Thursday!
  23. The New York Post on Bing vs. Google? Really?
  24. The Best “Chapter One” I’ve Ever Read
  25. The “employment.nil?” Ruby Job Fair
  26. There’s Still Time to Register for “Make Web Not War”
  27. Guelph Coffee and Code Tonight!
  28. “Make Web Not War” in Toronto This Wednesday!
  29. “employment.nil”
  30. The “Make Web Not War” Accordion Video
  31. A Busy Day
  32. “Make Web Not War” in Vancouver and Toronto
  33. Microsoft Canada Wants to Pick Your Brain!

May 2009

  1. “employment.nil” – The Toronto Ruby Job Fair
  2. Toronto Coffee and Code Today! (with Slight Time Change)
  3. Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck
  4. Mental Models, Mantras and My Mission
  5. Evangelist, Immigrant and Shaman
  6. “Canada’s Next Top Model View Controller” Presentation at Metro Toronto .NET User Group Next Thursday
  7. Muscle March: Weirdest Videogame of 2009
  8. Toronto Coffee and Code: Returning May 29th
  9. Videos from the 2009 RSA Conference
  10. The Story Behind “Keyboard Cat”
  11. PHP on Windows: The Undiscovered Country
  12. Got Time Tuesday After Work?
  13. “Better Living Through Blogging”: The Slide Deck
  14. Okay, I’m Convinced: A Believable Non-Porn Use for “Porn Mode”
  15. My “Microsoft: Stop Making Fun of Us” Slide
  16. A Special PHP/Windows-Themed Coffee and Code: This THURSDAY at the Dark Horse
  17. Toronto F# Study Group: Thursday at the Dark Horse
  18. Installing PHP on Windows Using the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta
  19. Installing MySQL Server 5.1 on Windows
  20. Joel Spolsky: Learning from StackOverflow.com
  21. Career-Limiting Move
  22. The Empire’s Coming to WordCamp Toronto 2009!
  23. Upwardly Mobile, Part 3: Exploring Windows Mobile 6’s Built-In UI Controls

April 2009

  1. Old Apple Ad: “What Kind of Man Owns His Own Computer?”
  2. If Everything was Made by Microsoft
  3. Quebec City Coffee and Code Tomorrow!
  4. Bryan Lunduke’s “Linux Sucks” Presentation
  5. Hanselman Podcast on IronPython / A Great Book Deal
  6. More Assless Chaps Photos
  7. Toronto Developer Lunch Today
  8. Ottawa Code Camp: Saturday, May 2nd
  9. Assless Chaps and Data Bondage
  10. Windows 7’s Groovy Desktop Backgrounds
  11. The Silverlight Tour: Travelling Across Canada This Summer!
  12. Old-School Twitter
  13. Toronto Coffee and Code – Friday, April 24th
  14. O’Reilly Webcast: What’s New in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory – Friday, April 24th
  15. Upcoming Toronto Area Developer Events
  16. Why the Office Oddball is Good for Business
  17. Sneak Peek at the Next “Upwardly Mobile”
  18. “It’s Alive!”: Sheridan College’s 2009 Interactive Multimedia Open House
  19. “What the Heck is Electronic Mail?”
  20. Tech Books I’m Reading Right Now
  21. My Half-a-versary
  22. Halifax Coffee and Code / Windows 7 Mini-Installfest Today
  23. The “FTW!” Ultimate PHP App Throwdown
  24. Woot!’s $140 XBox 360
  25. Halifax Coffee and Code/Windows 7 Mini-Installfest: Monday, April 20th
  26. Coffee and Code Today at the Dark Horse!
  27. Coffee and iPhone This Afternoon at Dark Horse Spadina
  28. Upwardly Mobile, Part 2: Your First Windows Mobile 6 Application
  29. Last Night at EnergizeIT Toronto
  30. Computer Science Consulting Projects at University of Toronto
  31. Using the Twitter API with PHP and PEAR
  32. Toronto Coffee and Code: This Friday at the New Dark Horse Cafe!
  33. “XZIBIT” Explains Virtualization
  34. Upwardly Mobile, Part 1: A Brief Tour of Mobile App Development
  35. My Interview at MeshU
  36. The 2009 Lang.NET Symposium / 2009 DSL DevCon
  37. Colin Bowern at the Metro Toronto .NET User Group: Authentication Alternatives for ASP.NET
  38. My Afternoon at MeshU
  39. Toronto Code Camp: Saturday, April 25th
  40. Toronto Coffee and Code – Today at the Roastery
  41. “betbot” Makes the Dick Tweet of the Mesh Conference
  42. Microsoft Canada and OCAD Announce a Surface Team-Up (or: OCAD Gets a Big-Ass Table)
  43. Windows 7 Feels the Love
  44. Apple I Art Photos for Sale
  45. First, Lauren. Now, Giampaolo.
  46. Coffee and Code Events This Week
  47. Ignite Your Career: Women in IT Panel Discussion
  48. Toronto Area Windows 7 Installfest
  49. “If You’re Not Indie, F**K YOU!”
  50. Microsoft’s Open Source License (MS-PL): Short, Sweet and Simple
  51. Tired: DateTime. Wired: DateTimeOffset!
  52. Ottawa Coffee and Code on Tuesday!
  53. Toronto Coffee and Code Returns Next Thursday!
  54. Coffee and iPhone
  55. “Lunacy” at the FIRST Robotics Competition
  56. I’ve Been Insanely Busy…

March 2009

  1. Mac Fans Freak Out Over Microsoft’s “Lauren” Ad
  2. FIRST Robotics Competition
  3. At Last, a Truly Impressive “I’m a PC” Ad
  4. Sorry, No Toronto Coffee and Code This Friday
  5. The Temptation to Loaf
  6. An Ad for Dharma Initiative Computers
  7. Road Warrior Office of the Day: London, Ontario
  8. It’s Ada Lovelace Day!
  9. Ignite Your Career #4: “How to Become a Great Leader”
  10. New Nerd Merit Badge: Homonyms
  11. Help LinuxCaffe Sort Through Their Tech Stuff!
  12. The Battlestar Galactica “Frakmap”
  13. Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 Betas Now Available!
  14. Toronto Coffee and Code: Friday March 20th at Linuxcaffe
  15. Why He Became Darth Vader
  16. All Sorts of Goings-On This Week
  17. Mesh Conference (April 7 – 8) and MeshU (April 6)
  18. Named Parameters in Method Calls: Python Si, Ruby No
  19. Ignite Your Career #3: “How to Establish and Maintain a Healthy Work/Life Balance”
  20. Montreal Coffee and Code: Monday March 16th at Cafe Depot
  21. Coffee and Code Today in Calgary and Toronto
  22. EnergizeIT
  23. Default and Named Parameters in C# 4.0 / Sith Lord in Training
  24. Toronto Coffee and Code This Friday!
  25. The “Paris Hilton vs. Paris, France” Search Results Meter
  26. FutureRuby and Failcamp: Register Now!
  27. Windows Mobile Gets Widgets!
  28. Ignite Your Career Webcast Today at Noon
  29. Eclipse4SL: A Silverlight Plugin for Eclipse
  30. Windows Mobile Incubation Week: April 13 – 17 in Mountain View
  31. Ignite Your Career #2: Discovering Your Trusted Resources
  32. Coffee and Code Today in Toronto and Irvine, California!
  33. Microsoft’s “2019” Video
  34. Toronto Coffee and Code #3: This Friday at The Roastery @ 401 Richmond
  35. Coffee, Code and…California?!
  36. Old Man Stewart and Young Man Williams Talk About Twitter on TV
  37. Ignite Your Career Starts Today!
  38. Mapping the Journey
  39. “Ensign Crusher, Report to My Ready Room. Oh Yes, and Wear the Sweater.”
  40. “Pocket-Sized”

February 2009

  1. Always Keep Salt in the Server Room
  2. Vault Boy Goes to D.C., and It Doesn’t Look So Bad
  3. Health (and Sex!) Tips for Programmers
  4. Tuesday’s “Ignite Your Career”: Industry Insights and Trends
  5. “Everything is Amazing Right Now, and Nobody’s Happy”
  6. Toronto Coffee and Code #2 at Le Gourmand
  7. Today: Coffee and Code, and Other Geeky get-Togethers
  8. Jump Start’s Easy Guide to Credit Card Processing
  9. EnergizeIT 2009: Coming Soon!
  10. Future Man Tried to Warn Us
  11. Coffee and Code: This Tuesday Afternoon at Le Gourmand
  12. Toronto Developer Lunch: Tuesday at Sky Dragon
  13. FutureRuby: July 9th – 12th, 2009
  14. The Cafe as Workplace
  15. A Shout-Out from Tim O’Reilly
  16. Coffee and Code #1
  17. “Ignite Your Career”: Help is on the Way
  18. Hitler’s Nightly Build Fails
  19. “Coffee and Code” Today in Toronto
  20. “Coffee and Code” Tomorrow!
  21. “The Lost and Damned” for Grand Theft Auto IV Now Available for Download
  22. New Nerd Merit Badge: Inbox Zero
  23. More Thoughts on Windows Whatever-it-is-That-Runs-on-Phones
  24. My Current Desktop Background
  25. Happy Valentine’s Day, Skywalker Style!
  26. The Almost-Perfect Video for Celebrating Unix Time 1234567890
  27. EnergizeIT: Coming Soon!
  28. 5 Things You Should Know About Teens and Tech
  29. This is How the Current State of Windows Mobile Makes Me Feel
  30. Where Should I Hold My “Coffee and Code” Days?
  31. One of the Reasons I Love Working in High Tech
  32. In Transit
  33. Me, the Gnu and Microsoft’s Founders
  34. HackLabTO’s Lisp Machine Keyboard
  35. Flying the Freak Flag High at TechReady 8
  36. What Passes for Legroom on United Airlines
  37. We’ll be in Seattle This Week!

January 2009

  1. The “Star Trek” Plotline Flowchart
  2. Global Game Jam (January 30th – February 1st)
  3. Leah’s Tattoo
  4. “Owns Home Computer”: A News Report from 1981
  5. The Interview Question You Should Always Ask
  6. Videocrab’s Awesome Gaming Console Setup
  7. Credibility Gap
  8. Developer Lunch at Sky Dragon in Toronto Today!
  9. Gnu’s Night Out
  10. Kung Hey Fat Choy! (Happy Chinese New Year!)
  11. The Gnu IS a Real Creature
  12. Talking About Blogging at Tonight’s Nature Network Pub Night in Toronto
  13. Winning the Gnu
  14. My Favourite Slides from Francis Hwang’s Presentation at CUSEC
  15. My Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremony
  16. Pub Night Tonight at Benelux in Montreal
  17. Fogcouver!
  18. Meetup Tonight at The End Cafe
  19. Vangroovy Scenery
  20. In Transit
  21. Super-Productive Monitor Setup
  22. TechDays 2008: One More Leg!
  23. “R2Decaf” T-Shirt
  24. danah boyd’s Dissertation and My “Cheat Sheet” for it
  25. “Why They Quit Google”, the Quick Version
  26. Wooden Laptop Case
  27. Nerd Merit Badges
  28. CUSEC: The Canadian University Software Engineering Conference
  29. Want to Catch Up in Vancouver or Montreal Next Week?
  30. Cheap Camera, Interesting Shot
  31. Some Thoughts on Interface Design
  32. xkcd on the Windows 7 Beta
  33. The Device/Desktop Opportunity
  34. Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: My Favourite Geek Book of 2008
  35. Now Appearing on Canadian Developer Connection
  36. Maybe It’s Time to Update Your Twitter Password
  37. The Air Force’s Blogging Chart, Version 2
  38. Why I Hate Having Multiple Chats
  39. 2008: Annus Assrocketis (The Year of Assrockets)
  40. Your Last Chance to Get JPG Magazine
  41. Global Nerdy’s 2008 Stats

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