Canadian Developer Connection
The latest developer news and events in Canada!
Colin Melia on SilverLight 5
There was much talk about Silverlight 5 during this year’s DevTeach in Montreal. Last week,...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 06/20/2011
Kinect For Windows SDK BETA Now Available
It’s official! You can now start developing Windows applications that make use of Kinect! The live...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 06/16/2011
JUST IN: Special Channel 9 Live Kinect Event!
If you were one of the 167 developers that were in Regina, SK these last couple of days for Prairie...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 06/15/2011
Improving the SharePoint User Experience with Custom Web Part Editors
Today’s blog comes courtesy of Christopher Harrison (@GeekTrainer), a Microsoft Certified Trainer...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 06/14/2011
Silverlight 5 Takes DataTemplate to the Next Level with Implicit Data Templates
I recently attended DevTeach in Montreal, where I saw lots of great sessions and speakers! One of...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 06/13/2011
Announcing the Code Your Art Out Finalists!
Back in March, Frédéric (@fharper) introduced Code Your Art Out, a “wicked” coding competition, as...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 06/10/2011
HTML5 Summer DevFest in Vancouver on June 21st!
Registration is now open! https://html5summerdevfest.eventbrite.com/ (Tickets are limited) Come...
Author: John Bristowe - Telerik Date: 06/07/2011
How do you update a Pinned Site in IE9? (The One Constant in Code is Change!)
I love pinned sites in IE9, they really are cool, and they are good business. At the last IE9 code...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 06/03/2011
Console.Log : Say Goodbye to JavaScript Alerts for Debugging!
Admit it, you’ve done it. You have a bug somewhere in your web page and you add an alert to popup a...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 05/26/2011
JUST CONFIRMED - AzureFest Kitchener
It’s been in the making for some time now, but it’s finally confirmed! With the help of...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 05/22/2011
More Great TechEd News: Enum Support in Next Version of Entity Framework!!!
Just enjoyed a great session at TechEd “Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 and Beyond: Building...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 05/18/2011
TechEd Keynote: Sneak Peek at Visual Studio vNext
Pick up my badge, grab a quick breakfast, now off to the keynote! Huh, apparently you should arrive...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 05/16/2011
Woo Hoo! Off To TechEd: Summer Camp For Geeks!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, I’m not dancing down the aisles, but I do have to stop...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 05/15/2011
Windows Phone 7 Hackfest in Ajax This Saturday!
Guest post by Atley Hunter (@atleyhunter) Hackfest? If you’re in the Toronto area and you’ve been...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 05/10/2011
MIX11: Bringing the Developer Awesomeness
Spring is here and what a better way to kick off this season of renewal by getting up-to-speed on...
Author: John Bristowe - Telerik Date: 05/05/2011
Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator
“CSS3 gradients are hard. Let's go shopping!” Today, I blogged about my experiences with CSS3...
Author: John Bristowe - Telerik Date: 05/04/2011
CSS3 Gradients in IE10 PP1
Recently, I’ve been playing around with IE10 PP1, which you can grab from the IE Test Drive site. So...
Author: John Bristowe - Telerik Date: 05/04/2011
MIX11 and Windows Phone Re-Cap
Note: The following blog post was written by Windows Phone 7 expert, Mark Arteaga. During MIX11 the...
Author: John Bristowe - Telerik Date: 05/04/2011
Is Certification Worth It?
Yes it is! The usual argument I hear against certification is “When I apply for a job, they don’t...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 05/04/2011
Windows Azure Developer Deep Dive
Are you currently evaluating Windows Azure as a means of deploying your solutions at scale? Perhaps...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 05/03/2011
Gamers Can Teach Us All a Few Things
Whether you are developing a website, a windows application, a windows phone application, or a game,...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 05/02/2011
How to Make Your Code Demos Rock!
Do you present at user groups, or conferences? Maybe you have to walk through your code at team...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 04/28/2011
French Canadian developers, we have a blog for you
There are probably a lot of French people reading this blog who understands English, but I want to...
Author: Frédéric Harper Date: 04/27/2011
AzureFest Makes A Surprise Visit to Calgary This Weekend
AzureFest is making a surprise visit to Calgary this weekend! If you haven’t yet heard of AzureFest,...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/26/2011
A Career in IT Requires more than Code, Prove you have the Skills for Free!
The traditional view of the developer or system administrator is that of a nerd. A complete geek...
Author: Susan Ibach Date: 04/24/2011
TorCHI Event: Best Practices in Interface Design and Applying Them to Microsoft Surface
If you’re curious about NUIs – that’s Natural User Intefaces – and if you’re going to be in the area...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/18/2011
Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now!
The news is all over online – perhaps you saw the PC World article or the official Microsoft...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/18/2011
MobileTeach 2011: May 30th–June 3rd in Montreal
Billing itself as the biggest mobile development conference in Canada, MobileTeach will take place...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/17/2011
AzureFest Meets the East Coast
East Coast, after many hours of logistics discussions and preparations, AzureFest is coming your...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/17/2011
Brandon Foy’s Indie Windows Phone 7 Ads
I’m told that if Brandon Foy’s funky indie ad (as in it wasn’t commissioned by Microsoft; he just...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/17/2011
Internet Explorer 9 / Windows Phone 7 Boot Camps in Ottawa and Edmonton
More IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps? Where and When? We’ve had some great Internet Explorer 9 / Windows Phone...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/17/2011
Brandon Watson: The Windows Phone Champs’ Big Kahuna
As a Windows Phone "Champ" -- one of a select group of developer evangelists whose job is...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/16/2011
Miguel Carrasco on MIX11, Imaginet and Imaginet Interactive
One of the Canadians at MIX11 was Imaginet’s Miguel Carrasco, whom you may have seen either speaking...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/16/2011
Mobile Dev’s Shallow Pools, Deep Opportunities, and Tomorrow’s Hackfests
A Shallow Pool The subtitle of the Wall Street Journal article Mobile App Talent Pool is Shallow...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/15/2011
Azure at the Movies: Get In the Cloud
When was the last time you had a chance to go to the movie theatre during the day? More importantly,...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/15/2011
Departure
“We enter as friends, we leave as friends,” said Mark Relph, then the VP of Microsoft Canada’s...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/15/2011
Scott Hanselman Takes “Jellybean”, the Kinect-Controlled Lounge Chair, for a Spin
One of the highlights of the Day Two keynote at the MIX conference was the Kinect presentation,...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/13/2011
John Bristowe Brings on the Awesomesauce
Pictured above is our very own Senior Developer Evangelist John Bristowe, making final preparations...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/13/2011
September 13th–16th: Save the Date!
Don’t forget to mark September 13th through 16th, 2011 in your calendar: it’s when the next major...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/13/2011
A Quick Wrap-Up of Today’s Windows Phone Announcements at MIX
Now That Was a Keynote! First, allow me to offer a graphic representation of today’s keynote at the...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/13/2011
MIX Day 2 Keynote Live Stream!
As with Day 1, today’s MIX11 keynote – which largely focused on what’s coming up in Windows Phone...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/13/2011
ImageThink’s Renditions of MIX11’s Day 1 Keynotes
If you’ve been to the South by Southwest conference and caught one of the bigger presenters, chances...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/12/2011
The World’s Biggest Pac-Man
Here’s a game that you can play in your browser that shows off what’s possible with HTML5 and what...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/12/2011