FYI: HUGSharePoint will be meeting Tuesday August 31 from 6-8 pm. It will be at the Dalhousie Computer Science building. Patrick Rogers will be representing Microsoft. For more information please visit the HUGSharePoint Facebook page.
Don’t miss your chance to be introduced to new languages, frameworks, and practices in your own back yard. From .NET to Ruby, iPhone to Groovy, the conference is packed with great content.
To learn more and register go to http://careertown.ca/devcon/ .
Windows Desktop Deployment Made Easy
Light-Touch Installation from start to finish. Join Mitch Garvis for a two hour presentation on deploying Windows 7 and applications, either to new PCs or as a tool to migrate existing Windows XP Machines. Using only free tools from Microsoft, I will show you how you too can become a deployment guru, saving yourself and your clients time, money, and headaches!
To register head over to http://deveast.eventbrite.com.
Rough schedule for the evening:
More About Mitch:
Mitch is an IT Trainer with a passion for community. Having founded and led two major Canadian user groups for IT Professionals he understands both the value and rewards of helping his peers. After several years as a consultant and in-house IT Pro for companies in Canada, he now works with various companies creating and delivering training for Microsoft to its partners and clients around the world.
As a Microsoft Certified Trainer he has worked throughout the US and Canada, as well as internationally, and has been recognized for his community work with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award over time across several different product focus designations. He is a member of Microsoft’s Springboard Technical Experts Panel (STEP) and offers presentations to groups around the world on Windows and other topics of interest.
Mitch is an avid writer, and blogs at http://www.garvis.ca. Mitch has one wife, two children, three dogs, and four free minutes to himself per week. He parks his car in Oakville, Ontario.
Thanks again to Joel Hebert for coming out. He did a great job – even gave us a bonus 3rd topic on the new Design By Contract features in VS2010. I think I need to give EF another look! PLINQ also looked very cool.
Here are some photos courtesy of Gifford Watkins that were taken by one of his guys….
As this is a joint event with Microsoft, Dev East will be helping out with onsite logistics. This includes things like registration, and other small details. Nothing too difficult. I need a couple of folks to help me out with some of these things in order to help make the event a success.
Please contact me via email or through the About page on this blog. If you don’t hear back from me right away, I am travelling until Mar 20th and will get back to you on my return.
Your help is appreciated and its important that we show Microsoft the great group we have here. Thanks!
This time out we’re bringing in Joel Hebert from Ottawa. Joel is a Microsoft Community Influencer and a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET. He’s presenting 2 great topics…it’s going to be a great night! Hurry now and reserve your seat because space is limited.
To register go to http://deveast.eventbrite.com.
Rough schedule for the evening:
More About Joel:
As the Director / Solutions Architect at Opulent ASP Development Inc., Joel works as a consultant specializing in ASP.NET Enterprise Architecture / Development. He is passionate about web farms / web gardens and distributed caching. His interests are Domain Driven Design – DDD, Distributed Domain Driven Design -DDDD, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Analysis Patterns and of course wine as he is studying to become a sommelier.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not a big fan of the text logo for the Dev East blog. So today I’m announcing a contest – design Dev East a logo and win a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. Put on your design hat and create something awesome!
What are the rules?
Good luck!
I am excited to announce to the members of the Dev East Halifax User Group that Microsoft is coming to town to host EnergizeIT Community Connection: FROM THE CLIENT TO THE CLOUD on March 23rd and you are invited! This exclusive event series is hosted by user groups across Canada. We’re opening our doors to other passionate technical professionals yet I want to give you the first opportunity to register for the event.
EnergizeIT Dev East Halifax
Community Connection: From the Client to the Cloud
TO REGISTER: Click here.
REGISTRATION START TIME: 5-6PM,
EVENT START/END TIME: 6PM-9PM
LOCATION: Halifax Board of Trade, Room 200C2, 1800 Argyle Street, Halifax, NS
SESSION OVERVIEW: Windows Azure. Office System 2010. Visual Studio 2010. Windows Phone 7. The Microsoft-based platform presents a bevy of opportunities for all of us. Whether you are a Developer or an IT Pro, knowing how these will impact you is critical, especially in the new economic reality.
This evening Community EnergizeIT event will help you understand Microsoft’s Cloud Services vision. You will find out about the possibilities that these technologies help realize and the value that they can bring to your organization and yourself.
Microsoft advisors will explore the Microsoft-based platform through a scenario that will demonstrate different points of view – from developer to IT Pro, from consumer to the information worker. From the client to the cloud, this fun-filled demo-intensive exploration will excite you about the possibilities of the Microsoft-based platform. You’ll see how to build next generation applications with technology like Silverlight, .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. You will find out how to consume those applications on a variety of devices, like mobile devices running Windows Phone, netbooks and PCs running Windows 7, as well as the web. You will learn about how the Microsoft-based platform allows you to connect with your colleagues no matter where you are –office, coffee shops, or your own living room. You’ll also see how you and your colleagues can be even more productive with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.
EnergizeIT Community Connection: From the Client to the Cloud is your opportunity to learn how to harness the power and flexibility of the Microsoft-based platform from the client to the cloud.
To learn more about the EnergizeIT program visit www.microsoft.ca/EnergizeIT.
I look forward to seeing you at this event.
Sincerely,
Shawn Duggan
Dev East Halifax
http://deveast.com
I have just reached out to a few publishers to see if they would be willing to support our user group. Many of them have established programs for this purpose. Hoping to hear back soon. If so, any volunteers in the group out there willing to write a review in exchange for the book?
If you are one of the publishers checking us out – please lend us a hand! We will publish reviews and place your logos on the site!
While it might seem quiet – there is a lot going on behind the scenes. There are wheels in motion for 3 events!
First – our next UG meeting will be Apr. 6th and a guest speaker from Ottawa will be joining us. He is a Microsoft MVP and will present on 2 great topics. When everything is finalized I’ll post more details on the Dev East blog.
Next, there is a potential special event in the late Feb or early March timeframe. I can’t talk about it, but if anyone would like to help present some material on a very cool topic, please let me know.
Lastly, there is a major event coming. That’s all I can say for now.
Stay tuned.
