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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:06 PM

Using Visual Studio 2008 with SharePoint 2007 at Toronto SharePoint UG on December 19

Fellow ObjectSharp ee and all around good guy, Barry Gervin , will be presenting at the next meeting of the Toronto SharePoint User Group . Here's the announcement: Please join your peers on Wednesday, December 19 at 6:00pm for a presentation on ...
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Friday, November 02, 2007 7:31 PM

What is ALT.NET?

ALT.NET has been getting a lot of play on blogosphere these days but a lot of people are still unclear on what it really is. In an interview by Wally McClure on the ASP.NET Podcast , David Laribee gives a great explanation of the origins of the movement...
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Monday, October 29, 2007 5:50 PM

Toronto VB User Group Announces VB FUN-damentals Sessions

I'm pleased to announce that, beginning in November, the Toronto Visual Basic User Group (TVBUG) will be adding a new feature to it's meetings called VB FUN-damentals . Update (Nov 2): Due to a scheduling mix-up, the VB FUN-damentals sessions...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:04 PM

Toronto SharePoint Camp Session Materials

Thanks to all of you who came out this weekend for the Toronto SharePoint Camp . It was a fun and informative day and I know plans are already underway to make next year's event bigger and better. You can download the slides and demos I used in my...
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Monday, October 01, 2007 4:32 AM

SharePoint, SharePoint, SharePoint

SharePoint is a hot topic right now and there's a lot going on in and around Toronto on the subject. I thought I'd take a moment to highlight a few. Toronto SharePoint Camp - October 20 The good folks over at the Toronto SharePoint User Group...
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Friday, August 24, 2007 7:35 AM

Okdevberfest

Break out the stein, dust off the lederhosen, and get ready to geek out German style at Okdevberfest! The guys and gals from the Canada’s Technology Triangle .NET User Group just announced that this code camp style event will be running in Kitchener/Waterloo...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:09 AM

Understanding WCF Contracts and Bindings at East Bay.NET - September 12

For those of you in the San Francisco area, I'll be doing a talk on WCF at the East Bay.NET User Group on September 12. This will be my first time in the Bay area and I'm looking forward to mixing geeky stuff with touristy stuff. http://www.baynetug...
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Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:01 PM

DevTeach 2007 Recap

Another year, another DevTeach. Once again, a great week at a community oriented event. The big announcement this year is that upcoming events will be just six months apart and will be held in Vancouver and Toronto as well as Montreal. As they have done...
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Monday, November 27, 2006 3:17 PM

Rob Windsor's Western User Group Tour 2006

That's right folks, I'm saddling up the team and hittin' the dusty trail with Cookie and Slim... As a member of the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau I'm lucky enough to get to travel across the country doing user group talks. The last two years I've gone east...
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Monday, June 26, 2006 11:28 AM

Jean-Luc David Lays the Smack Down at EDMUG

Who knew that Jean-Luc had the biggest arms in software development?!? http://graysmatter.codivation.com/JeanLucDavidAndJamesKovacsTheMEGAPOWERSCOLLIDEEDMUGInJuly.aspx P.S. I have no comment on the second picture in the post but I can say that it will...
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 2:27 AM

DevTeach Day 1

The first day of seesions started a little late for me as I spent most of the night working. I missed the keynote but made it in time for the first of the breakout sessions. I decided to check out John Bristowe's session on VB 2005 and just before...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:11 PM

DevTeach Day 0

The first day of DevTeach (for me) was consumed by the Canadian User Group Leader Summit. The summit is hosted each year by DevTeach and held before the first day of sessions. This year we had an amazing turnout with almost the entire country represented...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:43 PM

VSLive Toronto and DevTeach Montreal

VSLive returns to Toronto for the third year this spring. The conference will take place at the Toronto Congress Centre from April 24 to 27. VSLive! Toronto will bring together Microsoft insiders and industry experts for four days of real-world insights...
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Sunday, February 05, 2006 7:09 AM

Toronto Code Camp and First Time Speakers

First off, the Toronto Code Camp was a big success. Thanks to Jean-Luc, Chris and all of the volunteers for such a well organized event. Your hard work definitely paid off. One of the great aspects of this event, and of Code Camps in general, is the opportunity...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 9:49 PM

My Toronto Code Camp Talk: Deploying Smart Client Applications with ClickOnce

Hey, I now get to do an additional talk at the Toronto Code Camp. I psyched because it's a topic I've very excited about, Click Once deployment of Smart Client applications. It looks like the schedule is still in flux so check out the website to find...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 5:49 PM

My Toronto Camp Talk: The Visual Basic Language - Whidbey and Beyond

I have the cleanup spot, the last talk of the day in the Futures track starting at 4:00pm. My talk isn't really a futures session since it's mostly (80 -90%) about the new language features in Visual Basic 2005. At the very end I cover the VB team's vision...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 5:31 PM

The Toronto User Group Community Blog

For some time now I've wanted an easy way for cross promotion of the multitude of Microsoft focused user groups in the city (there are at least nine public groups at the moment), basically one place where a developer or IT Pro could go to see everything...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:59 AM

The Toronto Visual Studio 2005 Launch Rocked!

Kudos to the people from Microsoft Canada for putting on a great event. I spent the pre-keynote part of the day talking with people at the user group booth. Myself and other group leaders were representing the 10 groups for developers and IT Pros in and...
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Monday, November 07, 2005 11:28 PM

The Pre-Show Countdown to Launch

MSDN Canada held a little soiree (that's probably mispelled French for night party) in preparation for the Toronto Launch event. People from Micorosoft, event speakers, experts manning the Cabana, and several user group leaders and members got together...
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Sunday, November 06, 2005 4:01 AM

Toronto - The Most Active Developer Community?

I've always contended that Toronto has one of, if not the most active, developer communities in the world. I just put together a business card we’ll be giving out at the user group booth at Launch and I had to squish 10 group names and URLs on there...
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