Imagine this. You are part of a team of experts and you have to  selecting 84 sessions for a conference. You received 72 proposals for a total of 350 sessions to select from.  That was not a simple task. But after some difficult choices you manage to pull off a very good show. Check you the new sessions for DevTeach Vancouver 2012. If you are in to web development, this is your conference. But what! You have to see the Pre-Conference and Post-Conference.  It’s really a very good conference. Trust me I know what I am talking about.  

Did you know! DevTeach is having a boxing week! That right, if you register this week, for the Vancouver event, you can use this rebate code (DEVTBOXINGDAY) good for $200 off on the early bird prices.  That really a good deal because the early bird price is $799. That price minus $200 you can get 3 days of training for $599! That only $199 per day for this high profile event.  This offer end Saturday.

Did you know, DevTeach is looking for speaker for their event of Vancouver (May 28^th to June 1^st). Check out the Tech Chair Team.  I will be the Tech Chair for three tracks, SQL BI, SQL DBA and SQL Dev. If you are interested, you have up to Dec. 20^th to submit your sessions.  To submit your sessions proposal you need to use DevTeach Excel template because this excel file will be used by a SSIS package that will load the data.  This event will have many flavors. It will cover many different technologies like .NET, Ruby, iOS, Android, PHP and more.  Get all the detail at this link.

http://www.devteach.com/TechChair.aspx

Damir can’t make the “Always On” demo work for is session of tomorrow morning. “Always On” is a New High Availability & Disaster Recovery feature in SQL Server 2012. So I will be filling in and present my talk “XML in SQL Server! Why bother?”.  The ironic thing here is that “Always On is Down” J.  Anyways, this talk is a very fun one.  If you are attending, you will see what we can do with XML in SQL Server.  Hope I will see you there. 

http://www.devteach.com/Schedule.aspx#3 

Here the list of contestant in the speaker Idol. It will be fun the see all the presentation on Nov. 2nd.

Date: Wednesday November 2nd , at 18:30
Location:  Ottawa Conference Center (room 105)
55 Colonel By Drive Ottawa , ON, K1N 9J2 Canada

Presentations:

#1:  WP7 Push Notification
By: Carmai Constant
Description: You’ve built the next WP7 social networking application, stock monitoring application or the next server monitoring application. You now want to notify your WP7 users of an important change or message. In 10 minutes, I will showcase how WP7 Push Notification can help you deliver those crucial updates to your attention deficient users and separate you from the competition.

#2: Extensions to the Enum class, custom Attribute and resource files
By: Sheir Rahman
Description: Basically you would have some enumeration defined and each enum member value would have a custom attribute attached that links it to a resource key in a resx file.
Using the Enum Extension, you can then get the resource string.

#3: Adding SMS and telephone capabilities to your .Net application using Twilio
By: James Hunter
Description: Twilio provides a cloud-based engine for adding SMS and telephone processing to any application. This quick talk will show how to add SMS capabilities so that when an error occurs on your web application, an SMS message is sent to your cellphone. Other uses shown will be how to retrieve information from a text message, do a database query and return an SMS message.
Twilio also provides an api for your application to receive and make phone calls.

#4: Add a SharePoint Document Library to Your .NET Application
By: John Calvert
Description: Need document management in your .NET application? Don't reinvent the wheel! Leverage free SharePoint Foundation to add this capability to your solution. Easy to use SharePoint APIs and oData services make this a breeze. Learn how in just a few minutes.

Attendees can Register at this link:

http://www.devteach.com/wconnect/wc.dll?FournierTransformation~1,26,1,29

The Winners are:

1-  James Hunter
2-  John Calvert
3-  Carmai Constant

You like to go the DevTeach but your boss do not agree you? That ok, in collaboration with the local community, DevTeach is presenting 4 bonus sessions. On November 2^nd, you can attend for free the Ottawa IT Community Speaker Idol. Come and see a friendly contest where local speakers have to do a 10 minutes presentation; the audiences will choose the winners.  On November 3^rd, we’re having three user groups presentations at the same time. The OttawaSQL will be presenting a sessions by Paul Nielson, The ODNC user group will present an Agile Scrum and Kanban presentation by David Starr and the OWSUG is having a IT Camp. All bonus sessions are free for everyone. Get all the details at this link.

DevTeach just announced a 2 For 1 Pre-Conference special. That a good deal because $349 / 2 = $174.50 for a full day of training with a recognized experts in the industry.  And at DevTeach, the Pre-Conference are not your ordinary trainers. You will get to best experts in the field.  You will find 4 Pre-Con presented on Nov. 2^nd. 

Adopting Agile with Microsoft Tooling By Mario Cardinal

Extreme Database Designs and the Queries that loved them by Paul Nielsen

Building an end-to-end application with Silverlight by Laurent Duveau

SharePoint 2010 with Rob Windsor

So take advantage of this 2 for 1 deal and attend the workshop with a co-worker or friend. This is a good deal.

Monday we received 15 new sessions from TechDays Canada.  This make a fantastic conference for the Developers, DBA’s and ITPro’s.  Today I just place online the 2 days (Nov. 3-4) main conference schedule.  Check it out. Let me know what you think J   

Last night I added the sessions from Microsoft TechDays Canada in the list of sessions presented at DevTeach in Ottawa (Nov 3-4).  You can tell this conference will be Amazing.  We already had many good sessions for developer but now with this addition, we have a very good 2 days of conference for DBA and ITPro.  Take a look. The schedule for the conference will be posted this week.