Canadian Developer Connection
The latest developer news and events in Canada!
Get Your Hands on Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 1!
At last year’s MIX conference, we got our first taste of what would become the current version of...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/12/2011
SVG Girl
SVG Girl is a great demo of SVG in action. It looks like a video of anime, but it isn’t – it’s all...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/12/2011
MIX Day 1 Keynote Live Stream!
The MIX keynote room, earlier this morning. Don’t forget – you don’t have to be in Vegas to catch...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/12/2011
Windows Phone 7 Hackfests in Vancouver and Toronto This Saturday!
Hackfest? If you’re in the Vancouver or Toronto areas and you’ve been meaning to write apps for...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/11/2011
Dzinepress’ Ultimate Collection of HTML5 Tutorials and Useful Links
One of the topics that will be covered quite heavily at the MIX Conference (it’s taking place this...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/10/2011
We’ll Be at MIX11 All Week!
What happens in Vegas…ends up on this blog. Well, most of what happens, anyway. MIX ‘11, Microsoft’s...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/10/2011
AzureFest Madness Continues
I just came back from Vancouver where I had the pleasure of doing an AzureFest for members of the...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 04/08/2011
Results from “The Great Canadian Appathon”
Today, at Yonge Dundas Square in the heart of Toronto, the three finalists for the Great Canadian...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/07/2011
Catch the MIX11 Sessions, Even if You’re Not in Vegas
Microsoft's MIX conference, a gathering for web, mobile and UI-focused developers and designers,...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/06/2011
Silverlight, HTML5, The Web, The Phone and All That
Standards-Based Web, Plug-ins and Silverlight Creative Commons photo by i_yudai. Click the photo to...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/05/2011
O’Reilly’s Ebook Deal of the Day (Tuesday, April 5th)
For today only (Tuesday, April 5th, 2011), O’Reilly’s making all their “Head First” books in ebook...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/05/2011
New Game Development Tutorial at App Hub!
All enterprise and no games makes Jack (or Jill) a dull developer, and lucky for you, we’ve got a...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 04/04/2011
Get bragging right for being the best ISV in Canada
One of the most common request I get, working with ISVs is “How can I gain more visibility in the...
Author: Christian Beauclair Date: 04/01/2011
The Windows Phone 7 Numbers, in Pictures
The Windows Phone Team’s Brandon Watson gave out the number behind Windows Phone 7, and I thought...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/31/2011
Worth Reading: “Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development” by Wrox
I just picked up the ebook version of the latest book on Windows Phone game development: Wrox’...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/30/2011
Manning Deal of the Day: “SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action” for $25 (Monday, March 28th)
Today only – that’s Monday, March 28th – Manning is making the print edition of SharePoint 2010...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/28/2011
Talking with Justin Peck About QONQR, “The Geosocial Game of World Domination”
ame While at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, I ran into Justin Peck, who’s working on...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/25/2011
Connecting Windows Azure to Windows Phone Just Got A Whole Lot Easier
As of today, connecting Windows Azure to your application running on Windows Phone 7 just got a...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 03/24/2011
Internet Explorer 9 / Windows Phone 7 Boot Camps This Weekend
Don’t forget, we’ve got IE9/WP7 boot camps taking place this weekend in Mississauga and Vancouver!...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/24/2011
AzureFest is Back!
On Saturday, December 11, 2010, Canadian MVPs Cory Fowler (@SyntaxC4) and Barry Gervin (@bgervin)...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 03/22/2011
Kate Gregory on Channel 9!
Kate Gregory (@gregcons) is a developer’s developer. (And, she’s Canadian too!) She’s smart, funny...
Author: John Bristowe - Telerik Date: 03/17/2011
Ze Frank’s “Star.Me” on Internet Explorer 9 at SxSW
I never thought I’d see Ze Frank do a promo for IE9, but there he was at South by Southwest...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/16/2011
IE9 Gets Over 2.3 Million Downloads in First 24 Hours
In the first 24 hours since the Monday night release of Internet Explorer 9, it’s been downloaded...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/16/2011
IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps: Updated Schedule
Here’s an updated schedule for the IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps taking place across Canada in the next few...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/16/2011
Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp This Friday!
If you’re in the downtown Toronto area this Friday afternoon and want to learn about Windows Phone...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/15/2011
Microsoft and the Relief Efforts in Japan
Some quick notes on what Microsoft is doing for Japan in light of the recent earthquake and tsunami:...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/15/2011
The Globe and Mail’s Craig Saila on IE9
While at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, I caught up with the Globe and Mail’s Craig...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/15/2011
Internet Explorer 9: Get It Now!
Two things happened yesterday: Pi Day 2011 -- March 14th, or 3.14.2011 – took place. I celebrated by...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/15/2011
South by Southwest: Austin JavaScript Party Today!
Free Texas beer! Free tacos! And I, along with the fine folks at the Microsoft IE9 team will be out...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/13/2011
The Code-a-Thon at Ryerson Digital Media Zone
I spent a good chunk of last Friday and Saturday at Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ),...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/11/2011
The Austin JavaScript SxSW Party (Sunday, March 13th)
Microsoft is the Platinum sponsor of Austin JavaScript’s SxSW party taking place this Sunday. Among...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/09/2011
South by Southwest Travel Diary, Entry 1
The South by Southwest (SxSW) conference may have started off as a music festival – and it still is;...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/09/2011
The Great Canadian Appathon is This Weekend!
Are you a Canadian post-secondary student? Do you think you (or better still, you and a team of your...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/09/2011
Updates for Visual Studio 2010
If Visual Studio 2010 is your primary tool and you have an MSDN subscription, today was a great day!...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 03/08/2011
AlignIT 2011: Real World Strategies for Development Managers and Decision Makers
The Situation Every company pursues strategies to differentiate from competitors. Effective software...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 03/07/2011
Confoo: the Web conference where many technologies meet themselves.
Do you know the conference named Confoo? This Web conference that was born last year, are back this...
Author: Frédéric Harper Date: 03/07/2011
IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps [Updated]
Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Phone 7 are two Microsoft technologies that have taken a lot of...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/06/2011
Cloud Cover #38: Starring Canada’s Own, Cory Fowler!
Cloud Cover is one of my favourite shows on Channel 9. It features super-awesome Steve Marx and Wade...
Author: John Bristowe - Telerik Date: 03/05/2011
The Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7
What is the Mobile Web? A recent blog entry of Rob Tiffany’s points out what the mobile web is, and...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/02/2011
The New Windows Phone Ad: “What If?”
There’s a new Windows Phone 7 ad titled What If? running in the US for AT&T. It features the...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/02/2011
Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 9 - Taking Down the Application
If you’ve started reading from this post, you’ll need to go through the previous parts of this...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 03/01/2011
At the 2011 MVP Global Summit
Microsoft MVPs and the Summit “Look at this crowd,” I said, pointing to the people boarding Air...
Author: Joey deVilla Date: 03/01/2011
Dev Unplugged: HTML5 Contest for Web Developers
For a past few days, there’s been a mysterious hashtag that’s been floating around on...
Author: John Bristowe - Telerik Date: 03/01/2011
Migrating and Deploying a Simple Cloud App: Part 8 - Promoting from Staging to Production
If you’ve started reading from this post, you’ll need to go through the previous parts of this...
Author: Jonathan Rozenblit Date: 03/01/2011