The Curious Engineer

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2017 6

September 2017

  1. How to cook Azure Mobile Apps (node.js): “50 records” limit and lazy loading

August 2017

  1. How to cook Azure Mobile Apps (node.js): Xamarin and .NET Standard
  2. How to cook Mobile Apps (node.js): table schemas, primary keys and existing tables

May 2017

  1. UWP: Working with Bluetooth devices (part 2: pairing)

April 2017

  1. UWP: Working with Bluetooth devices (part 1)
  2. Developing for Surface Dial

2016 61

June 2016

  1. Detecting emotion with Machine Learning
  2. Bizspark Startup Chats: Ep 1: Support System for Startups in Canada
  3. Be ready for Maker Faire: The final report
  4. Step by Step Machine Learning: A Classification model to help the Humane Society
  5. How to manage AllJoyn devices in C#: LIFX Color 1000 Example
  6. About Extensions in Visual Studio Code
  7. ASP.NET Core and VS Code

May 2016

  1. Getting started with Machine Learning–Wisconsin Breast Cancer Dataset
  2. How to onboard AllJoyn devices in C#: LIFX Color 1000 Example
  3. Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction
  4. On a Cloud: Message Bus 101
  5. Would you have survived the titanic? Try this step by step Machine Learning experiment to find out!
  6. On a Cloud: With Pressboard Media
  7. Visual Studio Code for Mac Developers 1.0

April 2016

  1. Azure Marketplace Resources for Startups
  2. The second life for my Raspberry Pi B+
  3. On a Cloud: DNS & What are Queue’s/Topics
  4. nwHacks

March 2016

  1. Smart bulbs or how to be lazier (part 4): IoT Hub
  2. Introduction to Ethereum
  3. How to deploy and use MySQL from the Azure Marketplace
  4. On a Cloud: Improving User Experiences
  5. R
  6. Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) – Going Back in Time & Back to the Future
  7. How to deploy GitLab in Azure
  8. On a Cloud: Angular & OSS
  9. On a Cloud: Data Storage Techniques
  10. More Git for Visual Studio Code
  11. Future of JavaScript & ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Subclassable Built-ins & New Containers
  12. What is the Azure Marketplace?
  13. Smart bulbs or how to be lazier (part 3): AllJoyn client
  14. On a Cloud: Designing for the Cloud

February 2016

  1. Developing Windows 10 applications with C# (the first 3 modules)
  2. My tryst with Internet of Things (IoT) – Part 2
  3. Microsoft Student Partner Summit
  4. Learning by doing
  5. Cordova Tools for Visual Studio Code
  6. Is our Smart Home secure?
  7. Step by Step how to predict the future with Machine Learning
  8. Coffee and Code – Visual Studio for Java Developers!
  9. On a Cloud: Software Quality
  10. My tryst with IoT (Internet of Things) –Part 1
  11. On Being the Governor of your Azure Dev/Test Environments
  12. The longest introduction to C#
  13. Internet of Things via Microcontrollers: Introduction
  14. Unifying Your Web Dev Skills for Office Add-ins
  15. Automated Testing with Visual Studio
  16. Smart bulbs or how to be lazier (part 2)

January 2016

  1. Azure Cloud Load Testing – Part 2
  2. From Arduino to Energia
  3. Visual Studio Code and local web server
  4. Lets Activate Bizspark Plus!
  5. Writing UI tests for Android apps using Xamarin and Visual Studio 2015
  6. Smart bulbs or how to be lazier (part 1)
  7. Visual Studio Time Saver – Finding Code Samples using Developer Assistant
  8. Using Python with Azure
  9. PICAXE: good way to get the first experience with microcontrollers
  10. On a Cloud: Single Point of Failure & Eventual Consistancy
  11. Submitting your first Pull Request
  12. Hosting Unity WebGL games on Azure
  13. How to select the right micro board?

2015 241

December 2015

  1. De-stress with Debugging and Diagnostics
  2. Tutorial #2. How to publish your first site using BlogEngine.NET
  3. Why build scripts?
  4. Visual Studio Code: Debugger for Chrome extension
  5. Web Scraping in C#
  6. My Favorite .net Open Source Projects – Autofac
  7. Visual Studio Code: PowerShell Extension
  8. Web Development starts here! - 8 tutorials for Elementary and High schools students
  9. Tutorial #6. Other templates and next steps
  10. Tutorial #5. How to back up your data
  11. Tutorial #4. How to publish new pages and posts
  12. Tutorial #3. How to configure the site and add some components from Web
  13. Kanban Limits
  14. Going cross-platform with Apache Cordova for Visual Studio 2015
  15. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Introduction to Extensions
  16. DocumentDB: JSON-in-JSON-out in NOSQL with familiar SQL–True Story: Part 2
  17. On a Cloud: Soft Delete & Data Architecture
  18. Adding C# scripting to your development arsenal - Part 1

November 2015

  1. Accessing Compliance Center using PowerShell in Office 365
  2. Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Arrow and Spread Operator
  3. Working with GitHub from Visual Studio 2015
  4. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Express
  5. Playing with the GitHub API in your ASP.NET MVC application
  6. Repository Nightmares
  7. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Yeoman
  8. Azure Cloud Load Testing Made Easy
  9. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Tools for Apache Cordova
  10. Getting Started with Microsoft OSS
  11. On a Cloud: Config & Consumer Pattern
  12. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: How to deploy your site to Microsoft Azure
  13. DocumentDB: The move towards NOSQL – Part 1
  14. On a Cloud: Deployment & MQC

October 2015

  1. Creating your first game with Touch Develop
  2. On a Cloud: Entropy & Precision Scheduling
  3. Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Classes
  4. How can we find balance between writing the right thing (BDD) and writing things right (TDD)?
  5. Visual Studio Time Saver– Setting and creating themes
  6. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Visual Studio Online and Git
  7. Playing with Azure Connectors
  8. How to use Visual Studio Online to Streamline Your Application Development with Agile Methodology
  9. An Introduction to the new TFS/VSO Build System
  10. On a Cloud: Data & Secrets
  11. A better way to integrate Code and Unity
  12. The Path to No Estimates
  13. Automate SSRS Report Generation using PowerShell
  14. On a Cloud: Projects & Advanced Dequeuing
  15. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Git
  16. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Code snippets
  17. Docker: Containerize your Startup – Your journey from virtualization to Containerization (Part 4)
  18. Discovering SSRS Report Parameters using PowerShell
  19. 5 Tips for Android Developers Transitioning to Windows Phone Using Unity
  20. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: Editor features
  21. Visual Studio Code for Mac developers: How to install
  22. An Owner’s Journey

September 2015

  1. On a Cloud: Data Processing
  2. How to make updates to a WordPress site
  3. Get Thee, Developer, to Windows 10
  4. Azure Mobile Services with Node
  5. Visual Studio Tools for Unity
  6. Unity & Visual Studio Code for Linux
  7. Writing Custom Commands for DNX with ASP.NET 5.0
  8. Arduino shield for Raspberry Pi 2 or How to solve problems with PWM, analog input and not burn down the apartment with a soldering iron
  9. Flying in the Dark? Add Instrumentation
  10. UWP: Profiling and debugging tools in Visual Studio 2015
  11. NavigationCacheMode: A property that can save you a headache!
  12. How to Steal the Microsoft API Prize at Hack the North
  13. Future of JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 (ES2015) Block Scoping
  14. On a Cloud: Queue Batches
  15. UWP: Application services
  16. UWP: Publisher Cache
  17. Evolving ASP.NET Apps - Replacing the Mega Postback with Web Api
  18. Containerize Your Startup: Image Management–Part 3
  19. Visual Studio Time Saver–Working with tabs
  20. Converting .NET 4.6 Projects to the VS 2015 Project System
  21. State triggers and Blend
  22. Where will the Microsoft Student partner program take you?
  23. On a Cloud: CDN & Queue Sharding
  24. Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Online
  25. Getting Your Build Server Ready for VS 2015

August 2015

  1. On a Cloud: Capacity
  2. UWP: New features of Launcher class
  3. UWP: Clipboard
  4. Docker: Containerize your Startup–Part 2
  5. On a Cloud: Queues
  6. Moving to VS 2015 from VS 2013
  7. Why does a business student care about Azure?
  8. UWP: How to implement Drag and Drop functionality
  9. XAML tools in Visual Studio 2015
  10. Upgrading Projects to .NET 4.6
  11. Future of JavaScript – A Look at ECMAScript 6
  12. Tailored views or one more way to create Universal interfaces (part 2)
  13. UWP: Back button is everywhere
  14. Setting up an IIS Site Using PowerShell
  15. Docker: Containerize your startup!
  16. New features of C# 6
  17. Live Visual Tree in Visual Studio
  18. A Complete Guide to the MVC 6 Tag Helpers
  19. Hello Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise
  20. Win2D: How to use graphics without knowledge in DirectX

July 2015

  1. UWP: New Controls (part 5 – Media)
  2. UWP: Extensions and ApiInformation
  3. UWP: New Controls (part 4 – Inking)
  4. UWP: New Controls (part 3 – Maps)
  5. How to Activate Your Free Azure DreamSpark Subscription
  6. UWP: 3D Transformation
  7. Tailored views or one more way to create Universal interfaces
  8. How does a student get a DreamSpark account for free software and Azure?
  9. UWP: New Controls (part 2 – SplitView)
  10. Demystifying Azure Cloud Services: Azure Cloud Services and Azure Virtual Networks – Part 4
  11. Visual Studio Time Saver–Enhanced Scroll bar, everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask!
  12. UWP: New Controls (part 1 – RelativePanel)
  13. UWP: How to handle changes of DependencyProperty

June 2015

  1. BREAKPOINT: Release Management and PaaS Deployments
  2. UWP: New features of Visual State Manager (part 2)
  3. Who is representing Canada at Imagine Cup World Finals?
  4. UWP: New features of Visual State Manager (part 1)
  5. Demystifying Azure Cloud Service: Cloud Services and Virtual Machines – Part 3
  6. Getting fit with MSBand and an alien wins Sheridan College students first place for User Experience!
  7. How to build your own drone (part 2)
  8. Demystifying Azure Cloud Services: Cloud Service or WebApps? – Part 2
  9. Write Once, Publish Anywhere
  10. How to build your own drone (part 1)
  11. Learning Redis - Part 6: Redis Publish-Subscribe
  12. Microsoft Canada at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
  13. Demystifying Azure Cloud Services – Part 1
  14. Visual Studio Code & Unity on your Mac
  15. How to build Universal Windows applications for EZ-B controller without coding at all
  16. BREAKPOINT: A Discussion on DevOps
  17. How to use SoftwareBitmap to display video from EZ-B controller
  18. Azure Power Shell: Azure Virtual Network for the Command Line Junkie – Part 4.2
  19. Getting the most out of your next hackathon
  20. BREAKPOINT: Know Your App Inside and Out with Application Insights
  21. Raspberry PI 2 and analog input

May 2015

  1. EZ-Robot controller and Universal Windows Platform
  2. #GameDev w/ @ScruffyFurn: Code Management for the Game Developer
  3. Azure Power Shell: Azure Virtual Network for the Command Line Junkie – Part 4.1
  4. Visual Studio Time Saver – Presenting code in PowerPoint
  5. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Load Testing
  6. Do You Know the Next Satya or Sheryl? Tell Them to Become a Microsoft Student Partner
  7. Universal Windows Platform: Speech recognition (part 2)
  8. Windows 10 Hackathon in Vancouver: ideas, challenges and winners
  9. Azure Power Shell: Azure Cloud Services for the Command Line Junkie -Part 3
  10. Python and Data: SQL Database on Azure as a data source for Python applications
  11. Big Changes Are Coming! Are You Ready For This?
  12. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Updating Complex Grids
  13. Windows 10: How to use IoT extension for Raspberry Pi 2 (part 2)
  14. Download Channel 9 Series
  15. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Updating Simple Grids
  16. Windows 10: How to use IoT extension for Raspberry Pi 2 (part 1)
  17. How do you know your loved ones arrive safely? Meet the winners of the Canadian Imagine Cup 2015 Innovation Competition
  18. Raspberry Pi 2 and Windows 10: My first experience
  19. Imagine kids building instead of playing video games! and they can earn prizes doing it!
  20. IoT: I2C and Galileo board

April 2015

  1. Visual Studio Code
  2. Azure Power Shell: Azure Virtual Machines for the command line junkie!
  3. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Application Style and Layout
  4. UAP: Speech Recognition (part 1)
  5. IEEE Windows 10 Hackathons in Vancouver and Calgary
  6. Tons of statistics and metrics for Microsoft Azure websites (not only Asp.Net)
  7. Azure Powershell: Azure Websites for the command line junkies! – Part 1
  8. Tools of the Trade: Getting Setup to Code for Microsoft Band
  9. A Dev and Test Adventure on #Azure
  10. The Spark of Youth at YouthSpark Vancouver
  11. IoT: Do you really should have knowledge in electronics?
  12. Your one-stop shop to manage APIs
  13. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Database Access
  14. Breakpoint Shorts: Why the Cloud?
  15. Ryan Groom on Azure Media Services
  16. PyGame for the Aspiring Game Developer
  17. Azure Mobile Services and APIs – RESTful and Custom
  18. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Styles of Web Forms
  19. Learning Redis - Part 1: Introduction to Key-Value Databases
  20. Visual Studio Time Saver– Fast Select and Edit
  21. IoT: Visual Studio and Arduino boards
  22. The First App with a Patent! An Interview with Annecto
  23. The Kudu Debug Console, Azure Websites best kept secret

March 2015

  1. Imagine Cup: It’s almost game over!
  2. Five Use Cases for Visual Studio 2013 Community
  3. Universal Applications: be ready for Windows 10 (part 3)
  4. BREAKPOINT: The Power of the Manual Tester and How Visual Studio Makes You Even Better
  5. Imagine Cup: It is the Home Stretch!
  6. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Adding Master Pages
  7. Advertising is not a Dirty Word (Part 1)
  8. Empowering Youth with Technology at YouthSpark Live Vancouver
  9. LIVE: The Power of the Manual Tester
  10. Storing Your Secrets in Azure Websites App Settings
  11. Waiting for gulp Tasks To Finish in Visual Studio
  12. Visual Studio Time Saver – Faster HTML Coding
  13. Universal Applications: be ready for Windows 10 (part 2)
  14. Azure Data Services: What is new and exciting? (Part 7)
  15. Try to use Kinect with Unity 5
  16. Python and Data : SQL Server as a data source for Python applications
  17. Universal Applications: be ready for Windows 10 (part 1)
  18. Enlightened MSDN - Understanding the Benefits of MSDN
  19. Comment se préparer au développement d’applications Windows 10
  20. How to prepare for Windows 10 apps development

February 2015

  1. #GameDev w/ @ScruffyFurn: IoT For the Game Developer
  2. IoT: How to run a brushless motor using Netduino
  3. Let us take you from complete beginner to professional web developer
  4. Internet if Things: How to create a simple Web server (part 2)
  5. Quels langages choisir pour mon projet d’applications universelles Windows?
  6. How to choose the right programming languages for my Universal Windows app project?
  7. Azure Data Services: See how to share a file using Azure File Storage (Part 6)
  8. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Cookie Authentication
  9. Using Bower with Visual Studio
  10. Visual Studio Time Saver–How can YOU request features in Visual Studio?
  11. Imagine Cup: Achievement Unlocked! TAGStudios gets Honorable Mention in the Games Category
  12. Internet of Things: How to create a simple Web server (part 1)
  13. Imagine Cup: Team WalkSafe walked to an Honorable Mention in the Innovation Category!
  14. Microsoft Research makes Touch Develop open source
  15. Imagine Cup: How did Haters Hater win an Honorable Mention in the World Citizenship category?
  16. A Lap Around Azure Websites – All the Questions and Links From the Talk
  17. To the Power of 10
  18. How I Decide which Web Front-End Framework to Use
  19. IoT: How to integrate two boards
  20. Azure Data Services: Designing a communication strategy using Storage Queues (Part 5)
  21. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Cross Site Scripting
  22. The story behind the Microsoft Super Bowl 2015 commercials

January 2015

  1. My first experience with 3D printer
  2. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Validating Redirects and Forwards
  3. Azure Data Services: NoSQL Table Storage (Part 4)
  4. Be More, Do More with Developer Movement
  5. Fifty ways to use your Azure
  6. Visual Studio Time Saver–the layout you want when you want it
  7. Let the pixel’s fly! Imagine Cup 2015 games competition is here
  8. Internet of Things: What about C# there?
  9. Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation: Imagine Cup Canada Announced!
  10. How to make a brilliant CV thanks to Imagine Cup
  11. Heal the World - Make it a better place: Imagine Cup Announced!
  12. Everything You Need to Have a Rocking Node IDE on Windows for Free
  13. Imagine Cup–Who will represent Canada at World Finals in Seattle this year?
  14. Have all the tools of a first class startup in 10 min
  15. Azure services and Internet of Things
  16. Azure Data Services: SQL in the Cloud (Part 2)
  17. Evolving ASP.NET Applications–SQL Injection
  18. Visual Studio Time Saver - How can I keep track of unfinished code?
  19. Azure Mobile Services: The story of the real application
  20. Part 1: An Introduction to Azure Data Services
  21. Yoooman! 5 Awesome Yeoman Generators You Should Use Now (Part 3)
  22. Taking your Game Dev skills to the next level
  23. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Security

2014 118

December 2014

  1. Turns Out, Our Children are Pretty Darn Smart
  2. Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 6)
  3. Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 4
  4. Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 3
  5. TIP: Don’t Touch! Well okay go ahead…Touch Support in Visual Studio 2015
  6. Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 5)
  7. Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites–Part 2
  8. Ghost 0.5.x from Source to Azure Web Sites
  9. Yoooman! Generating a Backbone.js Project with Yeoman (Part 2)

November 2014

  1. When One Hour Means So Much More
  2. Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 4)
  3. The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps–Speech Recognition
  4. Yoooman! Getting Started with Yeoman (Part 1)
  5. Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo (part 3)
  6. Bringing Your Core Business Applications to SharePoint
  7. Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Updating jQuery
  8. Azure Fridays - A Powershell script to Download RSS Videos
  9. Driving the Value of the Internet of Things
  10. How can you help the next generation discover the power of code?
  11. TIP: How to get rid of /the/really/long/file/path/that/shows/up/in/searchresults
  12. Building a Visual Studio Extension with Roslyn
  13. Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 2)
  14. Kinect for Windows Shines at Hack Vancouver
  15. Can I Deploy to Azure with an Open Source Language?
  16. Exploring Future Tools: Using .NET Native for Increasing Windows Store App Performance
  17. Hacking the North with Microsoft Azure
  18. IDE Eye Test: Is your Dev IDE better, worse or about the same?
  19. Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 1)
  20. Kinect With Me Part 3 - Creating a Gesture-Controlled App in Just Three Steps
  21. Exploring Future Tools: Roslyn, Next Generation Open-Source C# Compiler
  22. Visual Studio Time Saver: Dude where’s my files?

October 2014

  1. MonoGame for the XNA Developer (#Gamedev w/ @ScruffyFurn)
  2. Its all about being Open!
  3. Kinect With Me Part 2 - Tracking Bodies and Overlaying Shapes on Infrared Data
  4. Getting rolling with Kinect for Windows v2 SDK
  5. BREAKPOINT: Microsoft Azure – A Perfect Server-Side Solution for Mobile Apps
  6. The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps - Text-to-Speech
  7. Part 6: Get started with Python: Build your first Django Application in PTVS
  8. Reach a bigger audience with your Unity game
  9. Kinect With Me Part 1 - Setting Up Your Machine
  10. The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps
  11. Delivering a great pitch to get what you want!
  12. Using Visual Studio 2013 for analyzing memory issues in WPF applications
  13. Creating a Classic 2D RPG Using HTML5
  14. The Do's and Don'ts of Designing Gender-Neutral Games and Apps
  15. Part 5: Get started with Python: Debugging in PTVS
  16. Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Updating Search
  17. BREAKPOINT: Get Your Data On with SQL Server and Visual Studio
  18. TIP: Where Does the Open Brace Go?
  19. A chatroom for all! Part 6 – The Finale and Debugging Remote Node Apps
  20. Free ebook Creating Mobile apps with Xamarin
  21. Programming Arduino in Visual Studio with Visual Micro
  22. Part 4: Get started with Python: Object Oriented Approach
  23. Learn How to Create a Classic 2D RPG Using HTML5
  24. Evolving ASP.NET Apps - Dealing with Dependencies
  25. A chatroom for all! Part 5 - Connecting the Chatroom with WebSockets

September 2014

  1. Celebrating Women in Computing
  2. Microsoft's Dance Cube Proves Kinect for Windows v2 is Not to be Ignored
  3. COMING UP ON MVA: How to Create a Cross-Platform HTML5 RPG
  4. Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Moving to a Web Application
  5. Visual Studio Tools for the Unity Developer (#GameDev w/ @ScruffyFurn)
  6. A chatroom for all! Part 4 – Building a Chatroom UI with Bootstrap
  7. Wanna be a cowboy? or maybe a Professional (Windows Platform) Developer?
  8. Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Evaluating the Code
  9. A chatroom for all! Part 3 - Building a Backend with Node, Mongo and Socket.IO
  10. Whoops! I deleted the data! My DevOps disaster and how you can avoid your own
  11. Part 2: Get Started with Python
  12. TIP: Lazy Code Snippets in Visual Studio
  13. A chatroom for all! Part 2 – Welcome to Express with Node.js and Azure
  14. Part 1: Get Started with Python
  15. A webcast for those afraid of code !
  16. What’s new with Unity
  17. A chatroom for all! Part 1 - Introduction to Node.js
  18. Real-time web functionality using ASP.NET SignalR
  19. What does Back to School mean for coders?

August 2014

  1. Can a selfie detect anaemia?
  2. In Pursuit of the Connected World
  3. Forget Login Screens! How to Add Single Sign On for Universal Windows Store Apps
  4. Visual Studio and the Role of the Architect
  5. Acer Aspire R7 power helps team Canada create music in real time at World Imagine Cup Finals.
  6. Working with Class Diagrams? Let Visual Studio 2013 do the work
  7. Using the cloud to create a cloud! IdeaCloud visualizes social media in real-time with distributed workloads in Azure

July 2014

  1. Don't Launch Your Universal Windows Store App Before Reading This
  2. 5 Must Read Resources for Building Universal Windows Store Apps

June 2014

  1. Shiny New Toys (in Visual Studio)
  2. On the Next Breakpoint: Shiny Toys, Spring 2014
  3. 30 Days of Bootstrap with the MVC Framework–Week 2
  4. Using Portable Class Libraries
  5. Windows First: A New Strategy for Mobile Development and Beyond
  6. SharePoint: Your Fastest, Out-of-the-Box Application Development Environment
  7. Code, Manage, Test, and Deploy Directly From the Cloud
  8. Save Time, Money, and Your Sanity: Coded UI Testing for the Windows Phone–Test Methods

May 2014

  1. Something for Everyone in Visual Studio 2013
  2. CSS Validation with Visual Studio Web Essentials
  3. Save Time, Money, and Your Sanity: Coded UI Testing for the Windows Phone–Adding Assertions
  4. From Requirements to Deployment: The Modern SW Developer using TFS
  5. Save Time, Money, and Your Sanity: Coded UI Testing for the Windows Phone - Part 2
  6. In App Purchases Really Work for Developers and Users
  7. DevOps: The Abbreviation That Will Change How You View ALM
  8. What should I be looking for during Code Reviews?
  9. Jump Start ALM in Your Organization
  10. Save Time, Money, and Your Sanity: Coded UI Testing for the Windows Phone - Part 1

April 2014

  1. Build Some Ears on Your App and then Listen!
  2. Refactoring your CSS with LESS in Visual Studio Web Essentials
  3. The Full Story of Featured and Spotlighted Apps on Windows Phone
  4. Escape from Windows XP, Now a Game
  5. Improve your JavaScript with Web Essentials and JSHint
  6. The Thinking Around Cross-Platform Development and Xamarin
  7. Building Cross-Platform Code in Visual Studio with Xamarin
  8. Day 2 of //build/ in a Nutshell

March 2014

  1. Top Security Improvements Found in Windows 8.1
  2. Rockin’ Windows Azure with Visual Studio
  3. Ready, Set, //Build
  4. Rethinking Visual Studio as a Web Editor
  5. Supporting Cross-Platform Development with Visual Studio 2013
  6. What is Windows Azure?
  7. When Something New Is Released, Is It Really Completely New?

February 2014

  1. Empowering the next generation of developers with DreamSpark

2013 60

December 2013

  1. C# async and await: A Deeper Dive
  2. C# async and await: Why Do We Need Them?
  3. DevOps in 60 seconds
  4. Browser Link–Tracking Unused CSS
  5. Be a productive coder with Productivity Power Tools 2013
  6. Browser Link–A Web Developer’s New Best Friend

November 2013

  1. Windows Azure Websites vs Cloud Services
  2. Get Your Game On (with Unity, Windows 8, and Windows Phone)
  3. Mentor a team of Canadian students to Imagine Cup World Finals
  4. Python and Git are Not Just for the Non-Visual Studio Developers
  5. HTML5: The Parts You Care About (Part 3)
  6. Publishing Your App – It’s Not The Last Thing You’ll Do
  7. 5 great ways to learn about Visual Studio 2013

October 2013

  1. You Definitely Want to Beta Your App
  2. HTML5: The Parts You Care About (Part 2)
  3. Security Risks and Recommendations for Mobile Apps
  4. Data Everywhere, All the Time
  5. Making Money From Your Windows Phone Apps
  6. Know Your 8.1 (Windows 8.1 that is)
  7. HTML5: The Parts You Care About (Part 1)
  8. Easy Background Processing with WebAPI and Windows Azure
  9. Time Saving Tips to Get Your Windows Phone App Started
  10. 10 Tips to Master the Mysterious Developer Interview
  11. Dev and Test in the Cloud: Explained
  12. Using Windows 8 WinRT APIs in .NET Desktop Applications
  13. Setting Up Your Windows Phone Development Environment in 30 Minutes (or less)

September 2013

  1. The Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 – Seriously Productive, Yet Fun Tablets
  2. Web Essentials for Visual Studio: Open Data Made Simple
  3. Developers, There Are UI Updates for You in Windows 8.1
  4. You Have What It Takes To Be A Mobile App Developer… You Really Do!
  5. Reboot Complete

August 2013

  1. Create a Dev & Test Environment in Minutes!

July 2013

  1. Curing Your Developer Movement Summertime Blues

May 2013

  1. Certification Jump Starts
  2. April Showers Lead to May Flowers…and an Updated Windows Store App

April 2013

  1. Visual Studio ‒ It Just Keeps Getting Better
  2. Building Secure Windows Phone 8 Apps – APIs and Techniques
  3. Building Secure Windows Phone 8 Apps – The Platform
  4. Canada Does Windows Azure: Icicle
  5. Git’ing It On with Team Foundation Service
  6. App Building Made Easier–Step 3
  7. Security Code Review Techniques–SQL Injection Edition

March 2013

  1. Behind-the-DevCamp-Scenes
  2. Fortune and Glory, Kid. Fortune and Glory. (or Just Fun)
  3. Taking It to the Next Level
  4. Building Secure Windows Store Apps
  5. App Building Made Easier: Step 2 - Choose Your Own Adventure
  6. App Building Made Easier: Step 1
  7. Technology Post Roundup–8th Edition

February 2013

  1. Five Fast Facts About ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2
  2. A Simple and Practical Approach to Security
  3. Two for the Effort of One
  4. A Helping Hand Through the Building An App Maze
  5. Turn Your Future into a Hobby

January 2013

  1. Testing Browser Compatibility Made Easy
  2. Developer Movement Windows Phone App Challenge
  3. Build Yourself a Windows 8 App Dev Lab
  4. VM Depot from Microsoft Open Technologies
  5. Starting From Absolute Beginnings, Not Such a Bad Thing
  6. 2012 In Review, 2013 At a Glance

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December 2012

  1. Technology Post Roundup–6th Edition
  2. Windows Azure for the Holidays
  3. Building Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 Apps
  4. Windows Phone 8 for the Holidays
  5. Wait. How Many Languages Do You Speak?!?!
  6. Introducing Windows Store App Labs for App Builders
  7. LIVE from DevTeach Montreal - Beyond VMs: From Saving Money to Adding Value
  8. Building Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013 using Web Technologies
  9. What’s Up: Developer–December Edition

November 2012

  1. Building Beautiful, Interactive, and Fast Web Sites
  2. On the Next D³: LIVE & Interactive – Sharing “Awesome”
  3. Wavefront & Microsoft Present: What’s new with Windows Phone - WaveGuide Code Camp
  4. Great Apps Are Inspired by Pure Imagination
  5. What’s Up: Developer–November Edition
  6. On the Next D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE: Pure Imagination

October 2012

  1. Windows Phone 8: Open for Business
  2. The BUILD Conference: Watch LIVE now!
  3. The Developer Movement & Windows Azure
  4. The Developer Movement is back!
  5. C-E-L-E-B-R-A-T-E Good Times, C’mon!
  6. Get In on the Excitement: Windows 8 in NYC
  7. Welcome to Windows 8!
  8. Get In on the Action: Give Your App Some Oomph
  9. Get In on the Action: Start Your App
  10. Get In on the Action: Learn Windows 8 with Hands-on Labs
  11. Thursday: Canadians Working with Windows 8
  12. TOMORROW: .NET Rocks! Rocks Canadian Developers
  13. Demystifying the Cloud on a Whiteboard
  14. <What’s Up: Developers> October Edition
  15. The Windows Store is open for business. Is your app ready?

September 2012

  1. Startups, BizSpark & Windows Azure – Better Together!
  2. The Cloud and The Whiteboard
  3. .NET Rocks! Drops In on Canadian Developers
  4. Technology Post Roundup–4th Edition
  5. Go The Extra “Cloud”- Windows Azure Virtual, LIVE, and Interactive
  6. Visual Studio 2012 Takes “Ease” Up a Notch
  7. <What’s Up: Developers> September Edition
  8. Innovation Across Multiple Screens and How Your App Idea Fits In
  9. The More We Get Together, The More Valuable We’ll Be
  10. Technology Post Roundup–3rd Edition

August 2012

  1. Remember the Atari 2600? Brace yourself because it’s marrying HTML5!
  2. Visual Studio 2012 – Ready to Launch!
  3. Do you know your PaaS from your IaaS?
  4. It’s not the device, nor the UI. It’s the experience that differentiates.
  5. Consistent App Experiences: A Primer
  6. Technology Post Roundup - 2nd Edition

July 2012

  1. On the Next D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE: App Experiences
  2. Canada Does Windows Azure: Frozen Mountain
  3. The #surlybeaver is back. With a vengeance.
  4. <What’s Up: Developers> July Edition
  5. Mary Jo Foley’s Industry View on the Developer Opportunity
  6. Canada Does Windows Azure: RESAAS
  7. Tour Around the New Team Explorer with Dave Lloyd

June 2012

  1. On the Next D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE: Excitement All Around
  2. Windows Azure Websites, Virtual Machines, and More
  3. TechDays TV Live Today: CLD280 - Lessons Learned From Building a Digital Asset Management System in the Cloud
  4. Windows Azure DevCamp - Live in Toronto and Streamed Online
  5. Canada Does Windows Azure: Find It EZ
  6. Introducing the New Windows Azure
  7. <What’s Up: Developers> June Edition
  8. Canada Does Windows Azure: Connect2Fans

May 2012

  1. Think You Know Windows Azure? Think Again.
  2. Save the Date: June 20
  3. Geek out at DevTeach Vancouver!

April 2012

  1. TUESDAY on TechDays TV: WIN380 - Push Notifications and Live Tiles in Windows Phone
  2. “You Complete Me” Says SharePoint to Windows Azure
  3. Your Personal Brand as a Developer: Implementing (Part 2 of 2)
  4. Cloud: A Skill and Career Building Opportunity
  5. The Curious Process of Web Standards
  6. Your Personal Brand as a Developer: Defining (Part 1 of 2)
  7. The Cloud Is Strong In This One
  8. Innovation Drives “What’s Next”
  9. TOMORROW on TechDays TV - What They Didn’t Tell You About WP Development (Lessons Learned through Coding and Too Much Soda)
  10. Building YOU: Personal Branding for Developers
  11. <Whats Up:Developers> April Edition
  12. Trust Me. Why? Because I’m Trustworthy.
  13. LIVE TODAY: Developing Your Personal Brand
  14. Don’t have a Fitt, size does actually matter (for mobile controls, that is)!

March 2012

  1. Coming Up in April on TechDays TV
  2. Tell Me The Truth
  3. Career Time Out! Time to Build YOU
  4. If You Like Hands-On…
  5. This Week on TechDays TV: What’s New in Visual Studio 11 Beta
  6. Canada Does Windows Azure: OptMeIn
  7. Joel Semeniuk and David Wesst Tour Visual Studio 11 Beta
  8. Thinking of getting Visual Studio? Now’s the time…
  9. Most frequently requested Visual Studio resources
  10. Many Geeks, Many Experts, and a Gu
  11. The Hunger Games, HTML5 & Behind The Scenes
  12. Technology Post Roundup - 1st Edition
  13. Thomas Lewis on Windows 8 Goodness
  14. Putting Your Cloud Security Worries to Bed
  15. In Search Of… Finding Open Source code for Windows Phone on CodePlex
  16. Developers just wanna have fun! Kinect for Windows
  17. Canada Does Windows Azure: Agility
  18. An Invitation to a Fight Club
  19. On the Next D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE – Shiny and New

February 2012

  1. Get brained up on Windows Phone and build your app
  2. Joël Hébert and Steve Syfuhs on Securing .NET Applications
  3. Want to learn more about Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 Beta?
  4. How do I use HTML5 in Visual Studio 2010?
  5. Your FREE Trial is Actually FREE, Now…
  6. Awesome tools you can use to build your next HTML5 website or application
  7. Canada Does Windows Azure: Agile Business Cloud
  8. Joël Hébert on Building an ASP.NET Security Skeleton
  9. Because There’s Always More To Learn…
  10. What the heck is Responsive Web Design?
  11. Hello Inspector, We Have Been Awaiting You
  12. “Open” for business: using OData in Windows Phone apps
  13. How to get up to speed with a new technology
  14. Chat with Gladstone Grant on the Developer Opportunity
  15. Security requires a prison not a fortress
  16. The Which, the When, and the How of Windows Azure Services: Social Apps and Games
  17. Canada Does Windows Azure: Epilogger
  18. A Vision Needs a Roadmap

January 2012

  1. Ok. Let’s Start from the Beginning.
  2. D³ Special Edition: Current IT Market Conditions and Hiring Trends in 2012
  3. Do you hate SharePoint? Part 3 of 4
  4. On the Next D³: LIVE & INTERACTiVE – Securing .NET Applications
  5. Javascript and CSS Minifying/Bundling with the Microsoft.Web.Optimization Nuget package
  6. Canada Does Windows Azure: Druida
  7. D³ Special Edition: Directions of IT - The Developer Opportunity
  8. My love affair with Visual Studio: Error Correction
  9. Do you hate SharePoint? Part 2 of 4
  10. The Which, the When, and the How of Windows Azure Services: Devices
  11. Web Design Predictions in 2012
  12. The Challenge is On - Start with 30 minutes a day for a Week
  13. Want some tips on Release Management?
  14. Do you hate SharePoint? Part 1 of 4
  15. “Start Something” Healthy: Goodness for Your Physical and Mental Health
  16. Ask a Trainer: Free resources to help you learn SharePoint
  17. Keeping up with the Web Standards
  18. 2012: The year of the Windows Phone app and how we’ll help get you there

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December 2011

  1. On the Next Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTiVE
  2. 2012 Will Sure Get You Starting Something New
  3. Happy Holidays!
  4. The Developer Movement has started.
  5. Enabling Fast App Resume in Legacy Windows Phone 7 apps by upgrading to 7.5
  6. A Whole Week of Windows Azure Training Opportunities
  7. Facebook is fun with friends, but LinkedIn can help you get a job!
  8. New SQL Azure lab available (How to move data to SQL Azure)
  9. TOMORROW on the Next Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTiVE
  10. Like a Boss! Understanding the Difference between Panorama and Pivot in Windows Phone
  11. The Beaver is Surly! The Canadian HTML5 Logo
  12. Get to know the author of the TechDays Windows Phone Application: Louis-Philippe Pinsonneault

November 2011

  1. We’ll be right back after this break…
  2. Is your browser secure?
  3. TechDays 2011–Keynote for Montreal
  4. D³ – Developers, Developers, Developers: LIVE & INTERACTiVE
  5. Techdays Montreal 2011–Something New, Hands On Labs!
  6. New HTML5 user group in Montreal
  7. 31 Days of Mango: #31AwesomeWPDevTutorials
  8. Are you fighting or helping your QA team?
  9. Ask a Trainer: About Sharepoint MySites
  10. Just another session at TechDays or is it?
  11. Scott Hanselman, TechDays Vancouver, and You
  12. Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg Features TechDays Sessions
  13. More HTML5 at TechDays
  14. Did you know? TechDays Attendees get a free copy of Telerik Rad Controls for Windows Phone!
  15. Everything You Need for TechDays Vancouver
  16. The Story of the TechDays Vancouver Keynote
  17. Continuing your Journey of learning after TechDays 2011
  18. SQL Server Roadmap to Denali Webcast Series
  19. TechDays 2011 SQL Server and Data Platform Track Resources
  20. Awesome resources for Developers Tools, Languages and Framework track at TechDays
  21. Want Your Presentation to Rock? Hook Your Audience Early!
  22. Building on your Architecture from TechDays
  23. A “Cloud-y” Recap of Computing and Online Services at TechDays

October 2011

  1. Free Phone Reminder: Get Your Apps in to the Mango App Challenge!
  2. TechDays Labs in Toronto from the HockeyGeekGirl perspective
  3. Download the Canadian Techdays 2011 Windows Phone 7 App
  4. Everything You Need for TechDays Vancouver
  5. Reason # 42 to Attend TechDays 2011: Hands-On Labs
  6. F12 The best kept web debugging secret
  7. Hey you. Yeah, you. Wanna Windows Phone?
  8. Conference or Course? Where Should I Spend my Training Budget?
  9. What’s Next in Software Delivery?
  10. Update! Update! Get Your v1.5 Update!
  11. How to Pin a Website And Why to Pin a Website
  12. Reason #11 To Attend TechDays–The Data Platform Content Area
  13. One More Reason to Attend TechDays – The Developer Practices and Architecture Track
  14. TechDays 2011: From Zero to Cloud in Two Days
  15. TechDays 2011: Developer Tools, Languages, Frameworks & awesomeness
  16. Don’t Miss Out on Great Keynotes and Sessions at TechDays 2011

September 2011

  1. Dude, Where’s My Mango Update?
  2. Multi-Platform Apps with HTML5 and IE9
  3. Let Us Help You – Resources to Maximize Your Time and Efforts
  4. Evaluating Your Apps For the Cloud
  5. Vote for Your Favourite Session to be Included in TechDays 2011
  6. Like HTML5? Like Phone Apps? Then you’ll LOVE Mango because…
  7. Thank You Thank You Sam I Am! I do so like this ALM!
  8. How to Move Data from One Table to Another
  9. Get Started With Windows Azure at .NET Saturday
  10. How to Study for a Certification Exam

August 2011

  1. Register Now for TechDays 2011!!
  2. Mobile Devs: Why Windows Phone Matters to You
  3. Application Strategy and Training as Pre-requisites to Cloud Development
  4. Premiere Training on Mango – And it’s free!
  5. Coffee & Code Toronto
  6. How to Prepare for a Certification Exam
  7. TechDays 2011 Session Submissions Now Open!
  8. Visual Studio Hands On Labs for FREE!
  9. YOU could be an MCT sooner than you think!
  10. Does Certification Seem Overwhelming?
  11. IE 9 on Windows Phone, Now That’s What I’m Talking About!!!
  12. How do you update a Pinned Site in IE9? Part 2
  13. What’s In the Cloud: Canada Does Windows Azure - Code of War
  14. Mango RTMs! Now what?
  15. What a (Windows Azure) Day! Tools and Training Kit Updates
  16. Learn Windows Azure Through Code

July 2011

  1. The Microsoft Cloud Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
  2. Social Gaming Powered By Windows Azure
  3. What’s In the Cloud: Canada Does Windows Azure - PhotoPivot
  4. Happy Canada Day 2011

June 2011

  1. What’s In the Cloud: Canada Does Windows Azure - Scanvee
  2. Make Awesome Web: 200 Awesome Resources and Counting
  3. Long Weekend Plans? One Word – Mango
  4. What’s In the Cloud: Canada Does Windows Azure - Booom!!
  5. What’s In the Cloud: Canada Does Windows Azure - Connect2Fans
  6. What’s In the Cloud: Canada Does Windows Azure – Election Night
  7. What’s In the Cloud: Canada Does Windows Azure – Lead
  8. Code Your Art Out Finale – The Apps and the Winner
  9. Where do you get your “In Person” fix?
  10. Designing for Success (through User Experience)
  11. Colin Melia on SilverLight 5
  12. Kinect For Windows SDK BETA Now Available
  13. JUST IN: Special Channel 9 Live Kinect Event!
  14. Improving the SharePoint User Experience with Custom Web Part Editors
  15. Silverlight 5 Takes DataTemplate to the Next Level with Implicit Data Templates
  16. Announcing the Code Your Art Out Finalists!
  17. HTML5 Summer DevFest in Vancouver on June 21st!
  18. How do you update a Pinned Site in IE9? (The One Constant in Code is Change!)

May 2011

  1. Console.Log : Say Goodbye to JavaScript Alerts for Debugging!
  2. JUST CONFIRMED - AzureFest Kitchener
  3. More Great TechEd News: Enum Support in Next Version of Entity Framework!!!
  4. TechEd Keynote: Sneak Peek at Visual Studio vNext
  5. Woo Hoo! Off To TechEd: Summer Camp For Geeks!
  6. Windows Phone 7 Hackfest in Ajax This Saturday!
  7. MIX11: Bringing the Developer Awesomeness
  8. Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
  9. CSS3 Gradients in IE10 PP1
  10. MIX11 and Windows Phone Re-Cap
  11. Is Certification Worth It?
  12. Windows Azure Developer Deep Dive
  13. Gamers Can Teach Us All a Few Things

April 2011

  1. How to Make Your Code Demos Rock!
  2. French Canadian developers, we have a blog for you
  3. AzureFest Makes A Surprise Visit to Calgary This Weekend
  4. A Career in IT Requires more than Code, Prove you have the Skills for Free!
  5. TorCHI Event: Best Practices in Interface Design and Applying Them to Microsoft Surface
  6. Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now!
  7. MobileTeach 2011: May 30th–June 3rd in Montreal
  8. AzureFest Meets the East Coast
  9. Brandon Foy’s Indie Windows Phone 7 Ads
  10. Internet Explorer 9 / Windows Phone 7 Boot Camps in Ottawa and Edmonton
  11. Brandon Watson: The Windows Phone Champs’ Big Kahuna
  12. Miguel Carrasco on MIX11, Imaginet and Imaginet Interactive
  13. Mobile Dev’s Shallow Pools, Deep Opportunities, and Tomorrow’s Hackfests
  14. Azure at the Movies: Get In the Cloud
  15. Departure
  16. Scott Hanselman Takes “Jellybean”, the Kinect-Controlled Lounge Chair, for a Spin
  17. John Bristowe Brings on the Awesomesauce
  18. September 13th–16th: Save the Date!
  19. A Quick Wrap-Up of Today’s Windows Phone Announcements at MIX
  20. MIX Day 2 Keynote Live Stream!
  21. ImageThink’s Renditions of MIX11’s Day 1 Keynotes
  22. The World’s Biggest Pac-Man
  23. Get Your Hands on Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1!
  24. SVG Girl
  25. MIX Day 1 Keynote Live Stream!
  26. Windows Phone 7 Hackfests in Vancouver and Toronto This Saturday!
  27. Dzinepress’ Ultimate Collection of HTML5 Tutorials and Useful Links
  28. We’ll Be at MIX11 All Week!
  29. AzureFest Madness Continues
  30. Results from “The Great Canadian Appathon”
  31. Catch the MIX11 Sessions, Even if You’re Not in Vegas
  32. Silverlight, HTML5, The Web, The Phone and All That
  33. O’Reilly’s Ebook Deal of the Day (Tuesday, April 5th)
  34. New Game Development Tutorial at App Hub!
  35. Get bragging right for being the best ISV in Canada

March 2011

  1. The Windows Phone 7 Numbers, in Pictures
  2. Worth Reading: “Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development” by Wrox
  3. Manning Deal of the Day: “SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action” for $25 (Monday, March 28th)
  4. Talking with Justin Peck About QONQR, “The Geosocial Game of World Domination”
  5. Connecting Windows Azure to Windows Phone Just Got A Whole Lot Easier
  6. Internet Explorer 9 / Windows Phone 7 Boot Camps This Weekend
  7. AzureFest is Back!
  8. Kate Gregory on Channel 9!
  9. Ze Frank’s “Star.Me” on Internet Explorer 9 at SxSW
  10. IE9 Gets Over 2.3 Million Downloads in First 24 Hours
  11. IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps: Updated Schedule
  12. Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp This Friday!
  13. Microsoft and the Relief Efforts in Japan
  14. The Globe and Mail’s Craig Saila on IE9
  15. Internet Explorer 9: Get It Now!
  16. South by Southwest: Austin JavaScript Party Today!
  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. Updates for Visual Studio 2010
  22. AlignIT 2011: Real World Strategies for Development Managers and Decision Makers
  23. Confoo: the Web conference where many technologies meet themselves.
  24. IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps [Updated]
  25. Cloud Cover #38: Starring Canada’s Own, Cory Fowler!
  26. The Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7
  27. The New Windows Phone Ad: “What If?”
  28. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 9 - Taking Down the Application
  29. At the 2011 MVP Global Summit
  30. Dev Unplugged: HTML5 Contest for Web Developers
  31. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 8 - Promoting from Staging to Production

February 2011

  1. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 7 - Creating the Hosted Service
  2. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 6 - Preparing the Deployment Package
  3. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 5 - Testing Locally
  4. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 4 - Creating the Cloud Solution
  5. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 3 - Executing the Scripts on the SQL Azure Database
  6. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 2 - Scripting the On-Premise Database For SQL Azure
  7. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 1 - Setting Up a SQL Azure Server and Database
  8. Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App
  9. How Secure is My Password?
  10. Crypto Craziness: Meeting FIPS Requirements with Managed Code
  11. Golden Eggs of Windows Azure “Cloud” Best Practices
  12. Skills Development at TechDays Online
  13. Ramp Up on Windows Azure with MSDN Benefits
  14. Hello! HTML5 and CSS3–Manning’s Deal of the Day (Feb. 21)
  15. Happy Family Day!
  16. Books on Building Games for Windows Phone (and Xbox, and Windows) [Great Canadian Apportunity]
  17. More Books on Windows Phone 7 [Great Canadian Apportunity]
  18. Free Books on Windows Phone 7 Development [Great Canadian Apportunity]
  19. Windows Phone 7 Announcements in Barcelona and What They Mean for Developers [Great Canadian Apportunity]
  20. Up In The (Windows Azure) Cloud
  21. On Writing Apps [Great Canadian Apportunity]
  22. Get “Continuous Integration in .NET” For Only $15 (Feb. 13 Only)
  23. Review: The Cisco Linksys AE1000 USB Wifi Dongle and Getting Past the “Claus Curse”
  24. New Articles on The Great Canadian Apportunity’s Blog
  25. Make Azure Dev Easy - Azure Design Patterns
  26. Scenes from Seattle, Part 1
  27. WATTT: Know If You’ve Got Your Cloud On
  28. Mark Arteaga on Canadian Developers, Windows Phone 7 and the IRS
  29. Take the Plunge into Windows Azure with WAPTK - January Edition
  30. Introducing the Great Canadian Apportunity

January 2011

  1. Windows Azure Experience Lab for ISV Developers on February 7th
  2. It’s Time to Schedule Your February Learning Events
  3. HTML5 and CSS3 for Web Designers
  4. Vote for Canadian Presenters at MIX11 / Save $500 with Early Registration!
  5. GPS Emulator for Windows Phone 7
  6. Getting to know Windows Azure AppFabric
  7. Forrester Research’s “10 Mobile Trends for 2011” and What They Mean to You, the Mobile Developer
  8. Board Game Jam: This Weekend in Toronto
  9. Shmoocon 2011’s Live Streams
  10. Is Security and Privacy in the Cloud Just a Little Cloudy?
  11. New Zealand Kids and Their Windows Phone 7 App
  12. Smashing HTML 5
  13. East of Toronto .NET User Group Web Camp: Saturday, February 19th
  14. Toronto Coffee and Code Today (Jan 26) at Cloud!
  15. Get “SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action” for $25 (Wednesday, January 26th)
  16. Half Off Microsoft Press’ Top 25 Ebooks from O’Reilly (Wednesday, January 26th)
  17. Recommended: “Introducing HTML5”
  18. Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide from Microsoft Patterns and Practices
  19. Get “ASP.NET 4.0 in Practice” Ebook for $15 (Tuesday, January 25th Only)
  20. MIX11: Las Vegas, April 12–14 / Vote for Canadian Sessions at MIX!
  21. Coffee and Code at Cloud: Wednesday, January 26th
  22. January 22 Only: Save 50% off “Natural User Interfaces in .NET”
  23. Unboxing the Samsung Focus from Expansys
  24. Hello, World!
  25. Native Extensions for Microsoft Silverlight (NESL)
  26. HTML5, IE9 and Interoperability
  27. TWC9: WebMatrix, MVC, Orchard, NuGet Gallery
  28. Q&A with Matt Kiazyk on “Own This World” for Windows Phone 7
  29. A full day of training on TFS – In Ottawa and For Free
  30. Visual Basic Code Examples
  31. HTML5 & CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today
  32. Enter the WebMatrix @ CodeMash: Thursday, January 13th
  33. Save 15% Off ObjectSharp’s Upcoming Silverlight Training in Toronto!
  34. Lifehacker’s List of the Best Windows Phone 7 Apps
  35. Your business model, only better – with the Windows Azure Platform
  36. Canada is Building a More Beautiful Web
  37. Windows Phone 7’s Upcoming Updates
  38. Video Series: “Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners”
  39. Fredericton .NET User Group Meeting on CISSP and Application Security: Thursday, January 27th
  40. Web Camp in Montreal–Saturday, February 5th
  41. And So It Begins (or Frederic’s Officially on Board)

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December 2010

  1. Register TODAY for the “Introducing Visual Studio Webinar Series”
  2. Windows Phones in Canada
  3. Happy Holidays from Canadian Developer Connection!
  4. Pirates Love Daisies: Uses HTML5, Plays on IE9, Hosted on Azure
  5. Comic Sans Criminal
  6. New Book: Windows Phone 7 Game Development
  7. Lost in the Cloud? Trouble Figuring Azure Out? We Can Help.
  8. “The new C++ for the new Windows / Part 1 / Objects and Handles” by Kenny Kerr
  9. Apress’ “Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development” [Updated]
  10. Calgary Coffee and Code: Thursday, December 16
  11. The Humble Indie Bundle #2: Get Great Games and Give to Great Causes!
  12. AzureFest Redux!
  13. Yaroslav Pentsarskyy: Taking Your Existing SharePoint 2010 Solution to the Cloud (Calgary)
  14. In Calgary This Week
  15. AzureFest
  16. Q&A with Kenny Kerr on C++, Window Clippings and Micro-ISVs
  17. Forewarning - A little Holiday Treat on TechNet
  18. Don’t Forget AzureFest This Saturday!
  19. Scenes from the TechDays Winnipeg Aftermath
  20. “The new C++ for the new Windows / Part 0 / Putting bugs into buckets” by Kenny Kerr
  21. Scenes from TechDays Winnipeg, Part 2
  22. Winnipeg Coffee and Code: Thursday, December 9th
  23. Scenes from TechDays Winnipeg, Part 1
  24. I’m not going anywhere - My new role
  25. Donate to the Food Bank at TechDays Winnipeg, Get a Free T-Shirt!
  26. TechDays Winnipeg / Coffee and Code Winnipeg This Week!
  27. Friday Morning Ritual
  28. “The new C++ for the new Windows” by Kenny Kerr
  29. Silverlight Firestarter Events in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto

November 2010

  1. And Now, a Message from Frédéric Harper
  2. Visual Basic on Windows Phone: From CTP to RTW to OMFG
  3. Have You Been to MSDN Lately?
  4. AzureFest: Saturday, December 11 in Mississauga
  5. Welcome, Frédéric!
  6. Montreal Coffee and Code: Thursday, November 25th
  7. “Building Awesome Apps for Windows 7” Simulcast Tonight!
  8. Yorkville Media Centre’s Windows Web Dev Sessions
  9. We’re at the DIG Conference Thursday and Friday
  10. Windows Phone Developer Briefings in Ottawa, Calgary, Mississauga, Montreal and Toronto
  11. The Windows 7/Windows Live “Palindrome Poem” Ad
  12. I’ll Be at Gamercamp Today
  13. Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 4
  14. Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 3
  15. The Road Home
  16. Want a Free Pass to Gamercamp?
  17. Ottawa Coffee and Code Today (Thursday, November 11) at Bridgehead in the Market
  18. Scenes from TechDays Ottawa, Part 1
  19. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Application Quality Cookbook
  20. Speaker Idol Ottawa: Tuesday, November 9th
  21. Go DevMental Ottawa–Tuesday Night!
  22. CloudCamp Ottawa: Tonight at the Hampton Inn Conference Centre
  23. Building Awesome Apps for Windows 7 Simulcast with Kate Gregory
  24. Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code at Just Us! Café, Halifax
  25. Toronto Area SharePoint Saturday: Saturday November 13th at Microsoft Canada HQ
  26. HTML and Silverlight are Friends with Benefits
  27. TechDays Halifax: November 2nd and 3rd
  28. Two New Books for Windows Phone 7 Developers

October 2010

  1. TechDays gives Back–Halifax is Feed Nova Scotia
  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. We’re Looking for Canadian Windows Phone 7 Apps
  7. 31 Days of Windows Phone 7
  8. Local Flavours Track for TechDays Toronto
  9. Silverlight Firestarter: Thursday, December 2, 2010
  10. Drupal Camp Toronto 2010
  11. Imaginet’s “Unlock the Power of Visual Studio 2010” Events in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary
  12. Join the “Ignite Your Coding” Mobile Development LinkedIn Group!
  13. “Who Poked the Sleeping Dragon?” and Other Microsoft Metaphors
  14. Peter Henry on Submitting a Windows Phone App to Marketplace
  15. “Smiles” for Windows Phone 7
  16. Meet Some of Your Fellow Canadian Windows Phone Developers
  17. Got a Windows Phone 7 App? Let Joey Know!
  18. Ottawa and Toronto Coffee and Codes on Thursday October 14
  19. Try Out Your Apps on a Real Windows Phone at Coffee and Codes and Deployment Clinics
  20. I Probably Owe You an Email…
  21. Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code Edmonton Tomorrow
  22. Scenes from TechDays Edmonton, Part 4
  23. Scenes from TechDays Edmonton, Part 3
  24. Scenes from TechDays Edmonton, Part 1
  25. Est-ce que deux évangélistes sont meilleurs qu’un seul?
  26. TechDays Edmonton–We’re ready, are you?
  27. Developers in Canada You Should Follow on Twitter
  28. We’re in Edmonton This Week!
  29. Mark Relph on Windows Development for .NET Rocks!
  30. Half Off Manning’s .NET MEAP Ebooks – October 1st Only!
  31. MS10-070 - Now available via Windows Update.

September 2010

  1. A Scene from Today’s Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code
  2. Your Feedback Matters
  3. Montreal/Toronto/Edmonton Event Reminders
  4. “BieberSmash” at Tonight’s Canada's Technology Triangle .NET User Group Meeting
  5. Talking XNA with Shawn Hargreaves and Charles Cox
  6. “Speaker Idol”: Montreal, October 25th
  7. Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy–September 28th - Out Of Band
  8. Out Of Band Security Update for ASP.NET
  9. Udi Dahan in Calgary
  10. Toronto’s Hot Tech Scene
  11. Windows Phone 7 Hands-On Lab in Ottawa: Saturday, October 2nd
  12. Microsoft’s Developer Guidance Maps
  13. “Azure in Action” eBook for $15
  14. TWC9: VB for WP7, ASP.NET Vulnerability, WCF Services, String Formatting Cheat Sheet and More!
  15. Windows API Code Pack v1.1
  16. DemoCamp Toronto 27: Wednesday, October 6th
  17. So That’s What We Do
  18. Visual Basic for Windows Phone!
  19. Don’t Just Get Ready…Get Microsoft Platform Ready!
  20. Windows Azure Boot Camp in Calgary on October 2nd!
  21. Join the “Ignite Your Coding” LinkedIn Group!
  22. Half Off Manning’s SharePoint Books Today (Sept. 22)
  23. Fredericton .NET User Group Meeting Tonight (Sept. 22)
  24. This Saturday: SharePoint Saturday in Vancouver
  25. This Saturday: “Introduction to B.I.” in Montreal (Samedi .NET)
  26. This Week’s Coffee and Codes
  27. Vancouver Startup Weekend, October 8-10!
  28. Jeff “Cooking for Geeks” Potter’s Book Tour
  29. Windows Phone 7 Advanced Training Today!
  30. David’s New Journey
  31. ScottGu’s Workaround for the ASP.NET Security Vulnerability
  32. Tonight at HacklabTO: Cooking for Geeks!
  33. FITC Mobile 2010
  34. Quick Updates
  35. Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 2
  36. Scenes from TechDays Vancouver, Part 1
  37. Q&A with Ranyl Bantog on XNA and Windows Phone 7
  38. Intel/Microsoft Parallel Programming One-Day Course: September 20th in Montreal
  39. Leaving on a Jet Plane… TechDays Vancouver (T-4 days)
  40. Cross-Canada Windows Phone 7 “Coffee and Codes” Start Next Week!
  41. Early Bird Prices for TechDays Toronto Disappear Soon!
  42. Get “Silverlight 4 in Action” for Half Price!
  43. Windows Phone 7 Coffee & Code TODAY in Edmonton!
  44. Windows Phone 7 Blogger Night in Toronto
  45. SharePoint Saturday Vancouver 2010: Saturday, September 25th
  46. Fredericton .NET User Group / OData on September 22nd
  47. Le 25 Septembre: Samedi .NET– Introduction au B.I.
  48. Test Your App on a Real Windows Phone in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal
  49. Windows Phone 7 Goes RTM
  50. Windows Phone 7 Coffee & Code in Calgary!

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. Windows Phone 7 Montreal Bootcamp on Monday!
  7. Andrew Stellman’s C# “Inner Circle” Discussion, Game Challenge and C# Video Q&A
  8. Learn Windows Phone 7 with the “Jump Start” Course
  9. TechDays 2010 & TechNet Subscriptions - Helping You to Continue Your Learning
  10. Get Your Game on with Windows Phone 7
  11. TWC9: Lots of Windows Phone 7 Stuff, SQL Cop, WCF for Large Data
  12. THIS is How You Do It: The USGA Golf Score App for Windows Phone 7
  13. “C# in Depth” and “Azure in Action” for the Price of One Book–Today Only (August 15th)!
  14. David Crow Answers 5 Questions and Visits Vancouver
  15. Discuss C# with the “Head First C#” Author, Save Big Bucks on “Head First C#” Too!
  16. Today Only: 50% off Manning’s Silverlight Books
  17. Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code: Downtown Toronto, Thursday, August 12th
  18. Perspectives on Clojure and F#
  19. New Internet Explorer 9 Videos
  20. Windows Phone 7 App: Deluxe Moon
  21. Windows Phone 7 App: Ave Comics
  22. Internet Explorer 9, Platform Preview 4
  23. Half Off Manning’s SharePoint Books!
  24. Expiry Dates, Yogurt and TechDays Vancouver Earlybird
  25. Windows Phone News: Life of the Party, Petzold’s Book Updated, Glow Air Hockey
  26. Local Flavours Track at Microsoft TechDays Canada 2010
  27. Microsoft Ribbon for WPF RTW!
  28. Windows Phone 7 Game: BulletAsylum
  29. Last Day to Register for TechDays Vancouver at the Early Bird Price!

July 2010

  1. Register for TechDays Vancouver Before the Early Bird Price Expires
  2. What’s Happening with Windows Phone 7 [Updated]
  3. Vacation’s Over
  4. Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0
  5. TechDays 2010 Session Abstracts and Local Flavours Submission Guidelines Now Available
  6. On Vacation
  7. Free Online Training for Windows Phone 7 Development
  8. Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp
  9. Now in Beta: Windows Phone Developer Tools!
  10. Techmeme: One-Stop Tech News and Your Ticket to Nerd Rock Stardom
  11. TWC9: WebMatrix, Razor, Debug MSBuild Files and Beer-Fetching Robots
  12. A “Whiteboard Jam” on Monads and Coordinate Systems
  13. The jQuery Online Conference: Monday, July 12th - Everywhere!
  14. Thinking of Moving to the Cloud? Get Free Compute Time with Windows Azure
  15. Introducing WebMatrix
  16. Yuri Gurevich: “Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, Part 1 of n”
  17. A Must-Read for Mobile Developers: The Mobile Developer Economics 2010 Report
  18. Ten Things You Need to Know About Design
  19. 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. .NET Rocks’ Live Weekend
  4. Windows Phone 7 Bootcamp: Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto
  5. Your TechDays 2010 Frequently Asked Questions
  6. Turning Up Where Least Expected
  7. SoundBites from MakeWebNotWar
  8. Windows Summit 2010 Software Track Launched
  9. It’s One of the Perks of the Job
  10. Windows Phone Workshops
  11. HTML5 and RIAs: Friends with Benefits!
  12. GovCamp’s Coming to Toronto: Thursday, June 17th
  13. Kick-It: Buy Windows Server, Donate to a Good Cause
  14. A11yCamp: June 8 at the University of Guelph
  15. Announcing Expression Studio 4!
  16. Scott “UnMarketing” Stratten: “First Name and Email are Enough” and Other Thoughts on Online Interaction
  17. Maritime DevCon: June 18th in Moncton
  18. New SharePoint 2010 Books from Wrox
  19. Games, News, Maps, Social and Music are the Most Downloaded Mobile App Types: Nielsen

May 2010

  1. A Few Tips & Tricks on Attending Microsoft TechEd 2010
  2. My Photos from Make Web Not War 2010
  3. At Make Web Not War
  4. Microsoft Live Labs Pivot and Stack Overflow Data via API
  5. Dan Pink on What Motivates Us
  6. We’ll Be in Montreal This Week
  7. Prairie Dev Con 2010: Regina, June 2 - 3
  8. Hand Eye Society Indie Game Social: Toronto, May 27th
  9. Bring a Friend to Make Web Not War, Get Great Swag!
  10. VP8 Support in Internet Explorer 9
  11. GovCamp: Ottawa, May 31 – June 1, 2010
  12. The “Social Media Revolution 2” Video
  13. The Geek Alphabet
  14. Toronto Developer Lunch, Friday May 14th
  15. Kathy Sierra: “Make a Better FM”
  16. GovCamp: Ottawa, May 31 – June 1, 2010
  17. Ruby Stuff: IronRuby 1.0, IronRuby Reading and a Ruby Job Fair
  18. “Developer Junior” on Webnation
  19. IE9 Platform Preview 2
  20. If You Speak Python, Science Also Needs Your Brain!
  21. Developer Junior: Making Your Own Movies with Live Movie Maker / Appearing on “Webnation”
  22. If You Speak Database, Science Needs Your Brain!
  23. Final Wrapup Video EnergizeIT–TeamEast
  24. 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. Thinking Out Loud About Windows Phone 7, Copy and Paste and Other Design Decisions
  5. Coffee and Code – Quebec City – on now!
  6. This Week on Ignite Your Coding: Jeff Atwood!
  7. On The Road – EnergizeIT – Quebec Edition – Part 5
  8. On The Road – EnergizeIT – Quebec Edition – Part 4
  9. Kudos for Kodu
  10. On The Road – EnergizeIT Quebec edition Part 2
  11. On The Road – EnergizeIT Quebec edition Part 1
  12. EnergizeIT This Week
  13. Developer Junior: Creating Your Own Games with Kodu
  14. This Week on Ignite Your Coding: Scott Hanselman!
  15. Visiting Victoria
  16. Microsoft Desktop Player
  17. EnergizeIT Goes to Kelowna
  18. Interview on ASP.NET MVC and Open Source at Microsoft
  19. This Week on “Ignite Your Coding”: Richard Campbell
  20. The “Ignite Your Venture” Webcast Series

March 2010

  1. Scenes from the Project I was Working on Yesterday
  2. Be a Windows Phone 7/Imagine Cup Rock Star!
  3. The FTW! Coding Competition
  4. David Laribee Today on Ignite Your Coding
  5. Ignite Your Coding, Episode 3: Jeremy Miller
  6. Ignite Your Coding, Episode 2: Glenn Block
  7. David Laribee on Thursday’s “Ignite Your Coding”
  8. MIX10 Thoughts: Design, Windows Phone and Bill Buxton
  9. Get Ready for the DevTeach Community Tour on SharePoint 2010!
  10. Azure, as Explained by Christian Beauclair
  11. Windows Phone 7 Session Videos and Slides, Organized and Explained
  12. MIX10 Day 2 Keynote
  13. Ignite Your Coding, Episode 1: Andy Hunt
  14. How to Make a Conference Pay Off
  15. Hack and Defend
  16. MIX10 Day 1 Keynote
  17. Take Internet Explorer 9 for a Test Drive!
  18. Jeremy Miller on Thursday’s “Ignite Your Coding”
  19. EnergizeIT 2010: Coming Very Soon!
  20. Hello from MIX10!
  21. Reporting from MIX10 Tomorrow!
  22. Back to Daylight Saving Time!
  23. Ignite Your Coding: This Afternoon with Glenn Block!
  24. Mario Cardinal at ConFoo
  25. Counting Down to Seven: XNA Game Studio 4.0!!!!
  26. Counting Down to Seven: Charlie Kindel Demos His Windows Phone 7 Handset to CNET’s Ina Fried
  27. Thursday’s “Ignite Your Coding” Webcast: “Composable Applications FTW” with Glenn Block
  28. TWC9: 100th Episode, Featuring VS2010 RC Tips, WPF and Bonus Footage
  29. Counting Down to Seven: The Windows Phone Sessions at MIX10
  30. Counting Down to Seven: “Platformer” Running on Windows Phone 7
  31. Kevin Pang on How .NET Data Access Fanboys See Each Other’s Strategies
  32. Yes, There WILL be an “Ignite Your Coding” RSS Feed
  33. Cloud Cover, Episode 3: Worker Role Endpoints
  34. Counting Down to Seven: Exploring XNA
  35. Ignite Your Coding Begins Today - 2 p.m. Eastern with Andy “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning” Hunt!
  36. End of support for Windows 2000, XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM
  37. Counting Down to Seven: The Most Active Mobile Social Networkers Are…
  38. Ignite Your Coding: This Thursday at 2pm Eastern!
  39. Counting Down to Seven: Millennials and Mobile
  40. 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. Check Out the AlignIT Webcast Series!
  3. Counting Down to Seven: 7 Rules for Your Mobile Strategy
  4. Counting Down to Seven: Charlie Kindel and the Windows Phone 7 Team’s Focus
  5. Counting Down to Seven: The 7th Mass Medium and its 7 Unique Qualities
  6. Cloud Cover, Episode 1
  7. Ignite Your Coding Starts March 4th with Andy “Pragmatic Programmer” Hunt!
  8. Windows Phone 7: Challenge Accepted!
  9. Counting Down to Seven: Lou Reed, Mobile App Designer
  10. Albert Shum on Windows Phone 7
  11. .NET Framework 4 and VS/TFS 2010 Resources
  12. Are You Going to MIX10?
  13. It’s a “Portal” Day Today
  14. The Life and Times of Internet Explorer 6
  15. The “Ignite Your Coding” Podcast Series
  16. Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate
  17. Hello, Kodu!
  18. RunAs Radio – Rodney Talks about Office 2010

January 2010

  1. Out Of Band Critical Security Release
  2. Montreal Bound
  3. My Presentation at CUSEC 2009: “Squeezeboxes, Start-Ups and Selling Out: A Tech Evangelist’s Story”
  4. Netbook Experiment Report #1
  5. jQuery 1.4 Released / 14 Days of jQuery
  6. Are you Canada’s next Top Tech Evangelist?
  7. Colin Melia’s Pitch for His MIX10 Presentations
  8. MIX10 Web/UX Conference: March 15 – 17 in Las Vegas
  9. Mathew Ingram Joins GigaOM
  10. Visual Studio 2010 Event in Kitchener-Waterloo: Thursday, January 21st
  11. Microsoft and the W3C SVG Working Group: A Step in the Right Direction
  12. Cloudy (with a Chance of Mobile)
  13. Building Apps People Need (and are willing to pay for)

2009 269

December 2009

  1. Apress’ “Windows Azure Platform”…and Discounts!
  2. Holiday Wishes from All of Us!
  3. The Vendor/Client Relationship
  4. The “Fanboys” Meme Continues (Microsoft Languages as Seen by Their Fanboys)
  5. D’Arcy Lussier on Luchador Hijinks and Dot-Netrosexuals
  6. Next Stop: Winnipeg!
  7. Setting Up TechDays Ottawa
  8. Demo Night in Canada: Wednesday Night!
  9. This Week: Ottawa!
  10. Career Demo Camp Montreal
  11. TechDays Montreal, Day 1
  12. Setting Up for TechDays Montreal
  13. “Get Excited and Make Things”
  14. Demo Night in Canada: Wednesday December 9 in Ottawa
  15. Road Trip Video #2: Damir Picks Me Up

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. Fiddler: A Must-Have Tool for Web Developers
  6. DemoCamp in Ottawa: Wednesday, December 9th
  7. TechDays Montreal: Next Week!
  8. Silverlight Salmagundi
  9. PDC 09 – Day 3 Recap
  10. PDC 09 – Day 2 recap
  11. Career Demo Camp Montreal: Wednesday, December 2nd
  12. Scenes from TechDays Calgary
  13. PDC 09 – Day 1 Recap
  14. Joel Semeniuk on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
  15. Windows Azure Training Videos
  16. Next Week: TechDays Calgary
  17. New Book: Ultra-Fast ASP.NET
  18. WinMoDevCamp Toronto’s Agenda
  19. The Facebook/.NET SDK
  20. Taking JavaScript Performance to the Extreme with Thomas Fuchs
  21. WinMoDevCamp Toronto This Wednesday!
  22. Halifax Coffee and Code This Afternoon – Just Us Cafe on Barrington
  23. Visual Studio 2010 - Project/File Type Sorting
  24. 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. Canadian MVPs Contribute to Free Developer eBook
  4. WinMoDevCamp Toronto: Wednesday November 11th at Microsoft’s Mississauga Office
  5. Azure/Silverlight Hallowe’en App
  6. Jumping the shark – and the cloud
  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. Tonight on “The Hour”: Steve Ballmer and Snoop Dogg
  14. Scenes from the Canadian Windows 7 Event
  15. Reporting From the Canadian Windows 7 Event
  16. Area Man Gets His Own Channel 9 Show
  17. WinMoDevCamp: Save the Date – November 11th!
  18. 24 Years of Windows Packaging and Boot Screens
  19. This sounds familiar
  20. Who’s Got .NET Framework 3.5?
  21. So, You Want To Be A Microsoft MVP?
  22. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
  23. A Flash Developer’s Take on Silverlight
  24. OttawaSQL.net’s “Disaster Recovery for DBAs” Night: October 15 at Microsoft Ottawa
  25. Walter Mossberg’s Review of Windows 7
  26. Scenes from the Windows 7 Hardware Media Event / Appearing Tonight on InnerSPACE
  27. Ottawa IT Community Meetup Tonight!
  28. Airport Signage and the Tab Control
  29. Trouble, Incorporated
  30. Slice of Life: Where I am Today
  31. TechDays Canada Roundup

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: Colin Bowern and “Introducing ASP.NET MVC”
  4. TechDays: Anthony Vranic on Optimizing Your Application for the Windows 7 User Experience
  5. Why the “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” Track is the Hippest Track at TechDays
  6. Barry Gervin: Expression Blend for Developers @ TechDays Toronto
  7. The “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” Track at TechDays Canada
  8. Silverlight to rock Montréal for a full day!
  9. Introducing WebsiteSpark
  10. Scott Hanselman on This Week’s “Ignite Your Career” Webcast: “Selling Yourself – Are You Using All Your Resources?”
  11. A Pair Programming Article…in the New York Times?!
  12. This Zune HD Could Be Yours!
  13. Ignite Your Career Webcast: “Internal or External Training?” – Thursday, September 17th
  14. TechDays Vancouver 2009: Day Two at the “Microsoft Platform” Track
  15. Scenes from Demo Ignite Camp
  16. TechDays Vancouver: Scenes from "Developer Fundamentals and Best Practices" Track
  17. TechDays Vancouver: More Scenes from the “Platform” Track
  18. Slice of Life: Striking the “Charlie’s Angels” Pose with Netbooks
  19. TechDays Vancouver: Scenes from the “Platform” Track
  20. TechDays Vancouver Schedule and Details
  21. Ignite Your Career Starts Tomorrow!
  22. Toronto Girl Geek Dinner with Sarah Prevette of Sprouter - September 29th
  23. Demo Ignite Camp in Vancouver: Less Than a Week Away!
  24. Special occasion “Send-Off”
  25. TechDays Vancouver's and Toronto's "Developer Foundations" Track!!!
  26. Demo Ignite Camp: Vancouver, September 14th

August 2009

  1. Your Last Day for TechDays Vancouver or Toronto at $299!
  2. Reminder: 3 Days Left for TechDays Vancouver and Toronto at $299
  3. The TechDays $299 Deal
  4. Remember: The Race to Market Challenge is On!
  5. Friday Fun: Ben Stiller Explains Twitter to Mickey Rooney
  6. Finding Domains on a Given IP Address with Bing
  7. Get Windows 7
  8. Hanselminutes, Website Optimization, and Stack Overflow - Oh My!
  9. Software Craftsmanship and “Uncle Bob”
  10. Are You Ready For Windows 7? User Group Tour (Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg)
  11. Windows API Code Pack for .NET Framework Released
  12. TechDays’ Developer Foundations Track
  13. TechDays Update – Windows Lounge and Developer Foundations
  14. Developer Resources for Getting Started with Windows 7 RTM
  15. Windows 7 RTM: Now Available to TechNet Subscribers!
  16. The Tragedy of the Coffee Shop
  17. Do You Code in Visual Basic?
  18. Happy Multi-Named Holiday!
  19. Windows Mobile Case Study: Porting Amplitude to WinMo
  20. Science 2.0: How Computational Science is Changing the Scientific Method

July 2009

  1. Barbara Liskov, Interviewed
  2. TechDays 2009 Sessions Announced, and Other News
  3. The “Race to Market Challenge” for Windows Mobile
  4. A Busy Week
  5. The Sub-$1000 Opportunity?
  6. TechDays, Blogs and the Fundamentals
  7. Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Have Been Released to Manufacturing!
  8. John Udell DemoCamp / Science 2.0 Double-Header in Toronto Next Week
  9. Coffee and Codes This Week: Guelph and Toronto
  10. Ideas from Open Source Programmer Gatherings
  11. DimeCast.Net’s SOLID Screencasts
  12. The SOLID Principles, Explained with Motivational Posters
  13. It’s a big day for RIA!
  14. [Tip] Accessing Toolbars Within Tool Windows in Visual Studio
  15. [Tip] Resizing Tool Windows with the Keyboard in Visual Studio
  16. “Silverlight on the Silver Screen”: Two Days Away!
  17. The Annual Reset
  18. [Tip] Tool Window Dragging with the Keyboard in Visual Studio
  19. [Tip] Spliting and Creating New Windows in Visual Studio
  20. Follow @ManningBooks on Twitter and Get Discount Codes
  21. SharePoint Saturday Toronto: July 11th
  22. Silverlight on the Silver Screen: One Week Away!
  23. 31 Days of Silverlight
  24. The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever
  25. Happy Canada Day!

June 2009

  1. [Tip] Visible White Space in Visual Studio
  2. Ottawa IT Community Awards Night Tonight
  3. [Tip] Box/Column Selection in the Visual Studio Editor
  4. LearnHub: Powered by Rails, Searches with Bing
  5. [Tip] Incremental Search in Visual Studio
  6. The Windows 7 Early Bird Discount
  7. Toronto Coffee and Code This Friday!
  8. Silverlight on the Silver Screen: Thursday, July 9th in Toronto
  9. LinkedIn vs. Resumes, Netbooks and Discount Codes for Manning Books on Twitter
  10. Edmonton Code Camp 2009: September 26th!
  11. Guelph Coffee and Code: Tuesday, June 23rd
  12. Software Process Shootout: Agile vs Traditional
  13. Changes.
  14. A Sneak Peek at VSTS 2010 Beta 1
  15. Ottawa Coffee and Code at Bridgehead This Thursday!
  16. The Best “Chapter One” I’ve Ever Read
  17. Guelph Coffee and Code Tonight!
  18. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Resources
  19. Visual Studio Debugging Resources
  20. Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Resources
  21. The “Make Web Not War” Accordion Video
  22. The Art of SEO and IIS
  23. First of the Bing commercials
  24. Vancouver / Toronto Event: Make Web, Not War Episode 2009
  25. TechDays Expands to Another city in 2009!!

May 2009

  1. Toronto Coffee and Code Today! (with Slight Time Change)
  2. A Few Wacky Ideas
  3. Happy Victoria Day!
  4. Toronto Coffee and Code: Returning May 29th
  5. Videos from the 2009 RSA Conference
  6. EnergizeIT 2009 is a Wrap!
  7. Thoughts on Slide Decks
  8. Announcing the Ignite IT Awards Winners!
  9. A Special PHP/Windows-Themed Coffee and Code: This THURSDAY at the Dark Horse
  10. Toronto F# Study Group: Thursday at the Dark Horse
  11. Installing PHP on Windows Using the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta
  12. Joel Spolsky: Learning from StackOverflow.com
  13. Exploring Windows Mobile 6’s Built-In UI Controls

April 2009

  1. Quebec City Coffee and Code Tomorrow!
  2. Toronto Developer Lunch Today
  3. Ottawa Code Camp: Saturday, May 2nd
  4. The Silverlight Tour: Travelling Across Canada This Summer!
  5. Great Azure “How do I” videos
  6. Toronto Coffee and Code – Friday, April 24th
  7. O’Reilly Webcast: What’s New in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory – Friday, April 24th
  8. Upcoming Toronto Area Developer Events
  9. “It’s Alive!”: Sheridan College’s 2009 Interactive Multimedia Open House
  10. Tech Books I’m Reading Right Now
  11. Halifax Coffee and Code / Windows 7 Mini-Installfest Today
  12. Is Your Application Ready for Windows 7?
  13. The “FTW!” Ultimate PHP App Throwdown
  14. A Quick Intro to Windows Mobile 6 Development
  15. Last Night at EnergizeIT Toronto
  16. Windows Mobile Incubation Week: April 13 - 17
  17. Toronto Code Camp: Saturday, April 25th
  18. More Laptop Hunters……
  19. New Design for MSDN Newsletter
  20. Toronto Coffee and Code – Today at the Roastery
  21. Microsoft Canada & OCAD – Igniting the next generation of software design & user experience
  22. WIT Webcast Summary and Answers to Your Questions
  23. Windows 7 Feels the Love
  24. Coffee and Code Events This Week
  25. Lol….The Language of the Web
  26. Microsoft’s Open Source License (MS-PL): Short, Sweet and Simple
  27. 1st Coffee and Code in Ottawa
  28. Internet Safety Information For Families
  29. Spring is in the air
  30. IT Skills In Canada – Part 4 (Final)
  31. EnergizeIT Academic Event and User Group Connection (Calgary)

March 2009

  1. IT Skills Shortage – Myths and Realities – Part 3
  2. Independents Day at Waterloo University
  3. IT Skills & Talent In Canada – Myths and Realities – Part 2
  4. TechDays Defy All Challenges: 24 Hours of Developer Goodness
  5. IT Skills & Talent In Canada – Myths and Realities - Part 1
  6. FIRST Robotics Competition
  7. EnergizeIT Kitchener and London
  8. Energize IT Montreal – What an adventure
  9. Upgrading your solution from VB6 to VB.NET
  10. Guest Post: MIX09 Inspirations: Back to the Drawing Board
  11. Ignite Your Career #4: “How to Become a Great Leader”
  12. Guest Post: MIX09 Day 2: “Return on Experience”
  13. IE8 and Stories From Home
  14. Guest Post: MIX09 Day 1: The “Software” in “Software + Services”
  15. Silverlight 3 and Expression Blend 3 Betas Now Available!
  16. Guest Post: MIX09 Welcome Swag (includes Sketching UX book!)
  17. A Brief History of MIX: Feet on Ground, Eyes on Cloud
  18. Ignite Your Career #3: “How to Establish and Maintain a Healthy Work/Life Balance”
  19. First Montréal Coffee and Code event
  20. EnergizeIT
  21. Can you feel the electricity in the air?
  22. Join the Microsoft Partner Program, Get Expression Web
  23. Understanding the Microsoft Web Platform
  24. Windows Mobile Gets Widgets!
  25. Ignite Your Career Webcast Today at Noon
  26. Investing in Your Skills – A Handy List of Training Courses
  27. Ignite Your Career #2: Discovering Your Trusted Resources
  28. Microsoft’s “2019” Video
  29. Toronto Coffee and Code #3: This Friday at The Roastery @ 401 Richmond
  30. Ignite Your Career Starts Today!
  31. Mapping the Journey

February 2009

  1. Ignite Your Career Women in IT Webcast
  2. New Line-Up of .NET Training Courses
  3. The 21st Century Software Development Organization
  4. “Ignite Your Career”: Help is on the Way
  5. “Coffee and Code” Today in Toronto
  6. “Coffee and Code” Tomorrow!
  7. Quince: Explore UX Patterns in Silverlight
  8. New Rampup look and track
  9. The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets by Tim Sneath
  10. We’ll be in Seattle This Week!

January 2009

  1. Global Game Jam (January 30th – February 1st)
  2. The Interview Question You Should Always Ask
  3. The Developer's Guide to the Windows 7 Galaxy
  4. Developer Lunch at Sky Dragon in Toronto Today!
  5. Microsoft TechDays Canada is a Wrap
  6. Pub Night Tonight at Benelux in Montreal
  7. Ignite IT Awards
  8. Meetup Tonight at The End Cafe
  9. TechDays 2008: One More Leg!
  10. CUSEC: The Canadian University Software Engineering Conference
  11. Want to Catch Up in Vancouver or Montreal Next Week?
  12. Some Thoughts on Interface Design
  13. First Win7 blog post from Win 7
  14. Audio Resources for the On-The-Go Developer
  15. The Device/Desktop Opportunity
  16. Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: My Favourite Geek Book of 2008
  17. Blog.WriteLine("Hello World!");
  18. Super great rebate on DevTeach Vancouver

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