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MS MVP Summit 2008: Who did you give your Team Canada Jersey To?

The 2008 Microsoft MVP Summit concluded yesterday with a closing keynote from Steve Ballmer, which was great as usual. This was the second year that the Canadian MVP's wore their Team Canada Jersey's. I was a bit surprised that more countries didn't follow Read More...

Canadian Developer Community Radio

Mark Relph (MS Canada) posted his first blogcast as part of “Canadian Developer Community Radio“. It was recorded a few weeks ago at the ASP.NET 2.0 Deep Dive in Toronto. Lots of good discussion with the speakers, their favourite features, Read More...

Bidding on .NET Celebrities

So today our company ObjectSharp placed a bid for 5 of the individuals on the .NET Celebrity Auction. Firstly, it sucks that max bids are not shown for a charitable auction. I would encourage any winners who didn't get to their max bid, to still donate Read More...

.NET Celebrity Auction

Be a sport and click on this link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5552696499 Then make a generous bid. If you'll win, you'll get an hour (or more) of help from a .NET guru/celebrity (or possibly me). But more, you'll also be helping Read More...

Trip to Ottawa and Requirements Traceability

I just got back from Ottawa, where last night I was speaking to the Ottawa .NET community about Visual Studio Tools for Office. (more on that later). I wasn't surprised by the Grep Cup weekend inflated hotel rates, but I was surprised to find a “2.8% Read More...

Visual Studio Team System and XBox/Halo 2

What does project management, test management, defect tracking, build servers, methodology, automated testing, code coverage, and software diagramming have to do with Halo 2? I'm not sure really, but if you want both - then you need to come to the Toronto Read More...

My Long Weekend Vacation, Pocket Excel and the Time Value of Money

I just came back from a lovely weekend at Blue Mountain Village near Collingwood in Ontario. I hadn't been to the area since I was a kid. It's changed a lot. The good: every room has high speed internet for a reasonable cost. a lovely private beach onto Read More...

VS Live Party

We threw a party on Thursday night after VS Live Toronto to help blow off some steam. VS Live in Toronto was a good time. A few people agree. Jay Roxe was one of the speakers and joined us for a night on the town. Datagrid Girl Marcie Robillard too. Turns Read More...