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Hello 2.0

Posted: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:32 PM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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This past week we saw the final bits of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 get shipped up to MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Next week we'll see the official launch of these same products to the rest of the world, ushered in with a rolling thunder of launch Read More...

Building Outlook Add-ins with .NET Managed Code

Posted: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:26 PM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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Why would you want to do that you ask? Well for developers, probably the main reason would be to rewrite or wrap up some ugly lotus notes application (or all of lotus notes for that matter) and expose it in outlook. But seriously, there is a good chance Read More...

.NET Celebrity Auction

Posted: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:52 PM by Barry Gervin | 0 Comments
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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

Posted: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:40 PM by Barry Gervin | 5 Comments
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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...

CTTDNUG UG Tomorrow Night: Building Pocket PC Applications with the Compact Framework and SQL CE

Posted: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:41 AM by Barry Gervin | 0 Comments
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As part of the continuing MSDN User Group Tour, I'll be speaking at the Canadian Technology Triangle .NET User Group in Waterloo on Thursday October 7th (tomorrow night). There is a new location for the meeting at Agfa (formerly Mitra) in Waterloo. All Read More...

Oshawa .NET: Building Mobile Applications

Posted: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:10 AM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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I'm doing a talk at the East of GTA .NET users group tonight in Oshawa. This is the same MSDN User Group tour event sweeping across Canada. I'll be talking about some of the limitations of the Compact Framework and SqlCE. Should be fun - hope to see you Read More...

Building Mobile Applications, Metro Toronto .NET Users Group

Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:56 PM by Barry Gervin | 0 Comments
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Tomorrow night I'm presenting at the downtown Toronto .NET users group - topic Pocket PC development with the CE framework. I'll have a new HP 4700 device with a VGA resolution screen for folks to take a look at - courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Read More...

DevCan 2004

Posted: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:42 PM by Barry Gervin | 2 Comments
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I'm co-chairing two tracks of DevCan coming up in Setp/Oct in Vancover/Toronto (exact dates to follow) - see www.devcan.com for more. I'm doing the architect track and web track. If you have ideas for content you'd like to see, or have a topic you'd like Read More...

Next Generation Developer Training

Posted: Monday, June 28, 2004 6:57 AM by Barry Gervin | 1 Comments
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Vendor-based classroom training is traditionally little more than reference material content, but has the advantage of taking you outside of your typical day (usually for a week) and forces you to sit and spend some quality time with some new technology on a grand scale. A lot of the material can be acquired through googling on the job. The problem with googling for small bits of information is that you miss the bigger picture and a full architectural understanding of how best to accomplish some Read More...