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My Half-a-versary

April 20, 2009

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.

That’s half-a-versary as in the celebration of something that took place half a year ago. It’s been half a year since I joined this organization:

…and I have to tell you, it’s been quite good.
The two things I value most about my job as Developer Evangelist for The [...]

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The Main Reason I’m Re-Learning How to Develop on Microsoft Tech…

March 26, 2009

…is that I’m hoping to master this:

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Where I’m Working Today

March 25, 2009

Here (click the photo for the full story):

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Ignite Your Career #4: “How to Become a Great Leader”

March 23, 2009

This is a post that would normally go into just Global Nerdy, but I thought it would also be of interest to non-techies, which is why I’m posting it here. Enjoy!

This Week’s Webcast
How to Become a Great Leader is the topic of this week’s Ignite Your Career, Microsoft Canada’s and CIPS’ webcast series aimed at [...]

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Ignite Your Career #3: “How to Establish and Maintain a Healthy Work/Life Balance”

March 15, 2009

I wrote this article for the blogs Canadian Developer Connection and Global Nerdy, but I thought that it might be interesting to people outside the tech industry. It’s about a particular webcast in an ongoing series by Microsoft called Ignite Your Career. If you’re interested in catching the webcast, it takes place this Tuesday at [...]

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The First “Coffee and Code” Day

February 21, 2009

My first Coffee and Code day – a day when I work at a wifi-equipped cafe rather than my home office or the Microsoft offices in order to be very accessible – was a success. For more, check out my article on the Coffee and Code blog.

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“Coffee and Code” Today in Toronto

February 20, 2009

Coffee and Code is an idea I’ve been meaning to try out for some time. Every so often – perhaps once a week – I plan to work somewhere other than my home office or Microsoft’s offices but instead spend the day working in one of Toronto’s wifi-equipped cafe.
The idea is to make myself available [...]

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“Coffee and Code” Tomorrow!

February 19, 2009

This article was originally published in Canadian Developer Connection.

I’m announcing the start of Coffee and Code, a regular event where I’ll spend the day working at a wifi-equipped cafe somewhere in Toronto. It’s not just an excuse to get out of the home office, but a way of making myself available to you, to [...]

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Where Should I Hold My “Coffee and Code” Days?

February 10, 2009

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.
From 1998 to 2000, I was self-employed. Lacking the funds to rent office space, I ended up working outside the boundaries of cubicle-land or even anything that looked like an office. I worked out of my kitchen, my business partner Adam’s living room and often by the bar [...]

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We’ll be in Seattle This Week!

February 1, 2009

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
Starting tonight (Pacific Coast Time), John Bristowe, I, and a few other folks from Microsoft Canada’s De veloper & Platform Evangelism team, will be in Seattle all next week to attend Microsoft’s 8th TechReady conference. TechReady is a Microsoft internal conference where ‘Softies from all over the [...]

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My Inaugural Swearing-In Ceremony

January 23, 2009

This article was originally posted in Global Nerdy.
On Tuesday, the day that Barack Obama got sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, my 3-month probationary period at Microsoft also ended and I became a full-fledged Microsoft Developer Evangelist. I figured that if Obama could have a swearing-in ceremony to mark his official [...]

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2008: Annus Assrocketis (The Year of Assrockets)

January 2, 2009

At the end of 1992, when the marriages of her children, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Princess Anne all dissolved and Windsor Castle caught fire, Queen Elizabeth II alluded to the title of John Dryden’s poem Annus Mirabilis (“Year of Miracles”) and referred to the year as an annus horribilis (“horrible year”).
As H.R.H. [...]

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