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Demo Ignite Camp in Vancouver: Less Than a Week Away!

September 8, 2009
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If you live in Vancouver or are going to be there on Monday night, don’t forget that Demo Ignite Camp, the show-and-tell event for the bright lights of the Vancouver tech scene, is taking place that night at the Vancouver Convention Centre!
For more details, see my earlier post on Demo Ignite Camp or visit its [...]

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How to Get Office 2007 Ultimate for $64 if you’re a Canadian University / College Student

September 8, 2009
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If you’re a student at one of the eligible Canadian universities or colleges, you can get the top-of-the-line edition of Microsoft Office 2007 for CDN$64. For more details, see my article in Global Nerdy.

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Your First Warning: Vancouver, September 11 – 18

September 3, 2009
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I’m going to be in Vancouver from the afternoon of Friday, September 11th until the morning of Friday, September 18th. I’m there first and foremost to manage the “Developing for the Microsoft-Based Platform” track of the TechDays conference, then to meet up with the local tech community, but also to enjoy the city I [...]

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DemoCamp. Vancouver. September 14th. Details Soon.

August 31, 2009
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Actually, you can get some details now – go check out the Upcoming page for this event.

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Your Last Day for TechDays Vancouver or Toronto at $299!

August 31, 2009
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Here’s a post for you readers who either program on the .NET framework, sysadmin Microsoft-based systems or have been thinking about doing either…

Today is your last chance to register for TechDays Canada 2009’s Vancouver (September 14 – 15) and Toronto (September 29 – 30) conferences at the early bird price of CDN$299. Tomorrow, the price [...]

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Disney Buys Marvel

August 31, 2009
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My spider-sense is tingling, and not in a good way: Disney is buying Marvel Entertainment (yup, that Marvel, as in Spider-Man, the X-Men and so on) for $4 billion in stock, acquiring the rights to all their characters. Soon we’ll see the cast of High School Musical as the newest young mutants to join [...]

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TechDays Toronto and Vancouver: 2 Days Left for the Early Bird Rate

August 30, 2009
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The early bird registration price for TechDays Vancouver (September 14th – 15th) and TechDays Toronto (September 29th – 30th) will disappear after Monday, August 31st. If you want to catch TechDays at the ultra-cheap rate, you should register now!
For more about TechDays, see my articles in Canadian Developer Connection and Global Nerdy.

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The TechDays $299 Deal

August 25, 2009
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A quick announcement for Canadian techies who read this blog:

The early bird price period for Microsoft’s TechDays conferences in Vancouver (September 14-15) and Toronto (September 29-30) ends soon! For more details, see Canadian Developer Connection or Global Nerdy.

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Slice of Life: Whuffie-oke with Tara Hunt

August 24, 2009
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Last week, I caught up with an old karaoke buddy: Tara Hunt, honest-to-goodness social media marketer (unlike the gazillions on Twitter who merely claim to be one), popularizer of BarCamp unconferences and coworking spaces and author of The Whuffie Factor. She just completed a move from San Francisco to Montreal by van, a move [...]

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Ben Stiller Explains Twitter to Mickey Rooney

August 21, 2009

Chances are, as a reader of this blog, people ask you to explain Twitter to them. If that’s the case you might find this video in which Ben Stiller explains Twitter to Mickey Rooney amusing:

(This article also appears in my personal technical blog, Global Nerdy.)

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N00b Boyfriend

August 11, 2009
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What happens when a girl from a l33t family brings a n00b boy home to meet her parents?

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

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My Question About the Twitter/Facebook DDOSing

August 7, 2009
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When I read that Twitter and Facebook were attacked for the sake of targeting one guy, my first thought was “Who is this guy, Jason Bourne?”

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Toronto Coffee and Code: Friday, July 31st at the Dark Horse Cafe (215 Spadina)

July 30, 2009

If it’s Friday, it must be time for another Toronto Coffee and Code! This one will take place at the usual location – the Dark Horse Cafe, 215 Spadina – and will run from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m..

Coffee and Code is my Friday afternoon ritual (a phrase that my classmates at Crazy Go Nuts [...]

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One of the Problems of Space Travel

July 29, 2009

I’m at the Science 2.0 conference today, the conference for scientists and what they need to know about how software and the web is changing the way they work. In honour of the conference, here’s a comic about one of the problems of space travel:

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A Busy Week

July 27, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection and Global Nerdy.
It’s gonna be a busy week for me — there’s a lot going on!

Monday: Damian Conway and The Missing Link
On Monday evening, I’ll be catching Damian Conway’s presentation, The Missing Link. There’s nothing quite like a Damian Conway presentation – they’re equal parts computer [...]

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