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re: Tech Days or DevTeach - Which Should I Choose?

windsor — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:47:39 GMT

Mark: I have always been very vocal about my appreciation for the support your team has given to DevTeach. I understand that there has been a commitment to continuing the support that allows the Canadian User Group Leader Summit to take place at DevTeach, I think that’s awesome. There’s a lot of value in those meetings and I believe that the developer community across the country is stronger for it.

I agree with you that Canada is large enough and the developer/IT pro community is strong enough to support both TechDays and DevTeach. But, as you said, there are going to be times when people will be faced with a choice. Most people won’t be able to attend TechDays in late October or early November and also attend DevTeach a few weeks later. My blog post was written to help those people make an informed decision.

Finally, you’re the second person who has indicated that the comment about ‘Code Camps’ was somehow derogatory – it wasn’t intended to be so. The speaker talent at these events is excellent. From a quick search of Code Camp web sites I found that MVPs generally account for 1/4 to 1/2 of the sessions. The last Toronto Code Camp featured 14 MVPs and 2 RDs. I was just trying to indicate that the 3rd party speakers at TechDays will be from the local community. My assumption was that you would select the same type of people who would be involved in user groups and who would participate in events like a Code Camp.

re: Tech Days or DevTeach - Which Should I Choose?

Mark Relph — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:41:35 GMT

Rob - I think you missed a couple of points people reading this should keep in mind.

DevTeach is awesome and Microsoft is not only running TechDays, but is a sponsor of DevTeach

We believe Canada can support both conferences and we worked with the DevTeach folks to ensure this. We think Techdays actually makes DevTeach even better, although I fully agree that some people are forced to make a choice.

If you attend Techdays you get a discount to DevTeach

You get $1000 worth of free software and resources at Techdays.

You make it sound like the speakers at Techdays are in some way inferior to DevTeach ("like your local CodeCamp") which I think is a bit of an overstatement. The Microsoft and 3rd party folks are equally excellent at both conferences.

Most of all, both conferences have a goal of enriching Canada's Technical Professionals.

re: TechEd Developer EMEA 2008

D'Arcy from Winnipeg — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:52:50 GMT

Great stuff Rob, congrats!

re: Tech Days or DevTeach - Which Should I Choose?

windsor — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:07:56 GMT

Good points. One thing I should have mentioned in my orginal post is the people attending Tech Days will get a voucher for $100 off DevTeach. So you can register for DevTeach Vancouver for $799 if you use the voucher, use a user group discount code and register by the early bird deadline.

re: TechEd Developer EMEA 2008

Jason Row — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:23:37 GMT

Congrats, I'm looking forward to following your twittering.

re: Tech Days or DevTeach - Which Should I Choose?

Kelly — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:36:09 GMT

It was a debate for me as well, since TechDays here in Winnipeg is on Dec 4, which is when DevTeach is going on. I opted to go to TechDays locally and save some money in terms of hotel, flight, and cost of the conference, and plan to attend DevTeach when it is in Vancouver in June. (That is a major advantage to DevTeach - it happens every 6 months so if you cannot make it to one you can 6 months later.)

DevTeach is coming to Toronto in just a few more weeks!

Justin Lee's Technology Blog — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:29:45 GMT

I copied this blog post from Chris Dufour's blog . Chris copied it from Rob Windsor's blog . Rob copied

Talking About Many Things on Devcasting

Rob Windsor's Five Cents — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:36:23 GMT

As I mentioned a while back , I had a long conversation with Derek Hatchard that was recorded for Devcasting

DevTeach is coming to Toronto in just a few more weeks!

TripLeZoNe Technology Playground — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:02:20 GMT

I copied this blog post from Chris Dufour's blog . Chris copied it from Rob Windsor's blog .

O# at the Movies | robburke.NET

O# at the Movies | robburke.NET — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:45:12 GMT

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Visual Studio 2008

Dave Lloyd's 2 Cents — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:09:24 GMT

In case you haven't heard ObjectSharp is hosting a free VS2008 What's hot and what's not event at the

re: DevTeach Vancouver 2007 Recap

Dave — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:28:20 GMT

Great hanging out w/ you, Rob! I am hoping I'll make it to your home city for the next DevTeach!

Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation on the Visual Basic Community Site

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:10:47 GMT

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re: Visual Studio 2008 to be Released on November 15th?

Jeff Horne — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:06:31 GMT

I am looking at purchasing a VB program. From what some of the programers I have spoken with I should be looking for a .net format. If the 2008 version will be released soon I will hold off and buy it. Where can I expect to get a good price for the product and what will be the product ID so I can differentiate it from the other versions.

Jeff Horne

waytoothermal@gmail.com

Thank you

Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation on the Visual Basic Community Site

Rob Windsor's Weblog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:23:42 GMT

An article/walktrough I wrote on Using Custom Business Objects with Windows Communication Foundation

re: Visual Studio 2008 "How Do I" Videos

Boamah Felix — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:28:26 GMT

I start using Visual Studio in some years past but Microsoft new set of visual studio exp the 2008 beta 2 is something else and with msdn How do I videos I'm ahead

re: Visual Studio 2008 "How Do I" Videos

windsor — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:05:46 GMT

If you use Google or Live Search you should find articles, blog posts, tutorials, or walkthroughs that cover the same material as the videos.

Just a couple examples from my videos. One (that has yet to be published) was based on this walkthrough:

Walkthrough: Collecting Data Using a Windows Form (msdn2.microsoft.com/.../f1wckde0(VS.80).aspx)

Another was based on this article:

Getting Started with Windows Communication Foundation (msdn2.microsoft.com/.../bb736015.aspx)

In the future I'll try to mention a reference or two to external text resources at the end of my videos.

re: Visual Studio 2008 "How Do I" Videos

Bradley — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:28:40 GMT

I don't know about others, but I am starting to become annoyed with the proliferation of videos on MSDN. I'd love to actually get the content of this and other videos in a transcript, or written form. The videos take too long to watch, are not searchable, and can't be copied into a document to use as a reference. I miss the days the MSDN used to post it's weekly technical articals right on the front page as they were published. It seems everything is being pushed into a video format and I'm losing a lot of the value I used to get from MSDN. There are many things posted that I would like to check out, but I just can't deal with the videos.

re: Okdevberfest Session Materials

Clint MacDonald — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:54:42 GMT

Hi Rob,

Thanks for a coupld of great presentations this weekend and thank-you also for being prompt in getting your materials up and available for download.

Fantastic!

re: DevTeach Vancouver Sessions

Justice~! — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:05:01 GMT

My ideal situation would involve Donald and I doing Drunken Design Patterns, and then *immediately* after that session one of Donald's other sessions goes in!

I would venture to say your stuff sounds stacked; all of your topics sound great and I'd love to attend 'em. Heck, if by some chance we were scheduled against each other I'd just skip my session to see yours! =)