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A couple of weeks back (sorry still catching up) I had the great fortune of being invited to visit a MS Research event called TechFest . MS Research hosts this event annually for fellow MS Employees and opens up their doors so they can see what they've
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 1:12 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, Orcas, Vista, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, WCF, Home, Newsletter, VSTS
I'm going to be heading out in a couple of weeks to DevTeach in Montreal. In addition to my regular session talk on Datasets, I'll also be participating in an architecture panel discussion as part of Groupe d’usagers Visual Studio Montréal, Software Architecture
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 5:19 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, SQL, VS2003, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF, VSTS
Next week I'm travelling to Ottawa (Tuesday) and then Vancouver (Thursday) to do some boot camp training on Visual Studio Team System. This 1 day hands on, gives folks a chance to play with the new modelling and testing features. I'll also be demoing
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Saturday, March 05, 2005 1:17 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
On March 17th in Toronto, I'll be teaching our first delivery of this new course. It's a one day hands on, instructor led - whirlwind bootcamp style course that gives you a lap around Visual Studio Team System - specifically with a Solution Architect's
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:09 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter
DevTeach is a really nice conference. I went to it for the first time last year and it's a very intimate and interactive conference. While smaller than your TechEd's and PDC's, it manages to attract a very good set of speakers....Kevin McNeish, Brian
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Monday, February 28, 2005 11:07 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
VS Live is coming to Toronto again - April 13-16th. This year, the event will be right downtown on the lake at the Harbour Westin Castle hotel. Use Priority Code “BARRY” for a 10% discount when you register. You'll also save an additional $250 if you
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:10 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Testing, Home, Newsletter
We have a very exciting internship project coming up this summer for a university student, perhaps co-op - but not mandatory. This high-profile project is to develop a software system to monitor the various systems in a “green” home that is
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:52 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: PDC, VS2005, ADO.NET, SQL, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Events, Testing, TechEd, Home, Newsletter, MSF
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
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Monday, November 08, 2004 10:58 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: VS2003, Tips, Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, Services, Events, Testing, Home, Newsletter, MSF
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
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Friday, September 17, 2004 1:54 AM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: ADO.NET, VS2003, C#, VB.NET, Tips, WinForms, WebForms, Services, Security, Testing, Home, Newsletter
There is a new critical security vulnerability that affects a wide range of software that can't be easily patched through Windows Update. The vulnerability lies inside of GDI+ and can allow a maliciously formed JPEG image file to create a buffer overrun
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