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 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

Etienne Tremblay (ALM MVP) and Vincent Grondin (C# MVP) presented 7 hours on TFS 2010 in Ottawa.  I was the guys that organized this event for DevTeach and Microsoft. The presentation includes the new Microsoft Test Management and Lap Management.  The comments from the attendees are excellent. 100 attendees.  It was really cool presentation. The best part of the story is the fact that we will have the ability to see it on the web has a video series. This video is the making of video.

Check it out on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkHi9yQh1I8

This meeting is a Christmas special at Lieutenant's Pump Dec. 16^th

For our Christmas special we will held our event in the Lieutenant’s Pump and we are doing a join groups event. Three groups mean three presentations. 

·         What is New in SQL Server Report Services in 15 min. by Jean-René Roy

·         Design By Contract with Code Contracts in Visual Studio 2010. By Joel Hébert

·         Protect your data with offsite backup by using Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2011 by Islam Gomaa

 Date: Dec. 16^th 2010

Location: Lieutenant’s Pump 361 Elgin St. at the corner of Waverly

Time: 6pm

Join us for this Christmas special and learn something while drinking a beer. .

Do you like to share your IT knowledge with others?  Do you know a tip, trick or a feature that can save time for others and you would like to share it?

Well, Ottawa Speaker Idol is your solution.

The Ottawa IT community is organizing a contest where you can win a MSDN Ultimate subscription (value of $15,499). On November 9^th, on the location of TechDays Ottawa, you will be invited to present your tip, trick or a feature for 10 minutes. After all presentations are completed, the attendees will vote for the winners. Prizes will be distributed to the best presenters. Bellow, you can find the list of prizes, along with all the contest rules.

Date: Tuesday November 9^th, at 18:30

Location:  Hampton Inn Ottawa Room 118A

200 Coventry Road

Ottawa ON K1K 4S3

Rules:

·         You must not be a regular speaker in the IT Community. This contest is to encourage new speakers.

·         No need to be register to TechDays to participate in the contest.

·         You must submit the description of your presentation (no more than 200 words) by October 30^th to jrroy@DevTeach.com

·         We will accept 10 presenters

·         If more than 10 submissions, a committee will select 10 presentations

·         The list of presentations will be announced on November 4^th

·         A laptop will be available for your presentation or you can use your own laptop

·         You will need to bring your PowerPoint and code on a USB key. All presentations will be posted on our web site after the contest.

Attending and vote for the winners can register with this link: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=151641

Winners Prizes:

First place:         MSDN subscription Ultimate (value of $15,499) from DevTeach Inc.

Second place:    XBOX 360 4GB Kinect Bundle (Value of $299) from LIKE 10 Inc.

Third place:         Keyboard and mouse (Value of $120) from Microsoft

You can now download the RTM version of the WP7 Developer Tools.  It very important that you use this final version because any XAP files submitted to the marketplace built with the Beta version will be rejected. You need to compile and test your app with this new RTM version. When you do submit your application, you can expect it to take about five days to pass or fail certification, though you can check the status of your app submission at any time at the developer portal. The new tools include the new Bing Maps control. So if you plan on using maps in your app, you must download the new tool. Also MS released the Mobile Advertising SDK which will let you add ads to your application. This is something you may like to consider if you produce a free application.  Six new additional controls are now also available and you can get more information on Silverlight Codeplex site. 

A new Silverlight user group has been created in Vancouver named VanSLUG. In Order to help bring awareness to this new User Group, DevTeach is giving a free registration (Value of $999.00) to its popular Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp ( August 30-31) to the User Group for a draw.  So you have a chance to win this registration by simply joining VanSLUG at this link: http://vanslug.net. You register to the group by clicking on the login link on the top right-hand-side of the home page and creating an account. VanSLUG will announce the winner on August 16^th.

This is a very good opportunity for .Net developers to get ahead of this wave,  and trust me, it will be a BIG wave. Just think of all the IPhone apps you can recreate for this new platform in a fraction of time it takes on the IPhone platform. Here is the Windows Phone 7 rebate code: WP7BOOTCAM - good for $100 off the 2-day boot camp. This rebate code has no time limit.

Colin Melia from DreamDigial is creating and presenting the material. When you leave this boot camp, you will have the knowledge and sample to build a Windows Phone 7 application. BTW, DevTeach is the first organization to provide a boot camp on Windows Phone 7 in Canada. Do not miss this chance.