DevTeach is looking for speakers for its event in Toronto. November 17, 2009 22:08 DevTeach is very happy to announce the dates (March 8-12, 2010) of our next event. This event will be a special and limited edition. It’s a special edition because we are doing it in the Microsoft Canada Headquarters conference center in Mississauga with special speakers and it’s a limited edition because we are limiting the registration to 240. But that’s not all! We have lowered our prices and we are keeping our early bird discounts. Combine this with the possibility to register to a pre-conference or a post-conference you really get the best training with the finest speakers for a really good price.
Right now we are looking for speakers and if you have been speaking, we encourage you to submit your sessions. The deadline to submit is December 4th. Check out the tech chair team and the track we are covering at this link.
IPhone Boot Camp for .NET developpers Montreal Nov. 23-24 September 20, 2009 22:06
This boot camp-style class leverages your knowledge of .NET to get you up to speed quickly developing applications for the iPhone. In just 2 days you will learn all the basics you need to create your first iPhone application. Your enterprise can turn this 2 day workshop into a huge opportunity to be competitive in this fast-moving, lucrative market. Kevin McNeish, a .NET MVP and certified Apple iPhone Developer, helps you drastically cut the learning curve for iPhone application development so you can get into this market as quickly as possible! We recommending registering early because there is limited space and this class has been very popular among .NET developers!
September 8, 2009 14:23
On Saturday, October 24th 2009, the .NET community of Montreal is organizing a full day of training on Silverlight. This training will be very good because it will be done by five leading speakers in the industry. Laurent Duveau and Dominic Sévigny from RunAtServer are leading this initiative with Louis-Philippe Pinsonneault and Pascal Groulx. Guy Barrette (Montreal RD) is also joining this fantastic line-up for this full day of training. You will learn how to build business applications with the Expression and RIA Services suite. This is a unique opportunity for the French speaking developers form Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa. To attend this you must be a member of the .NET Community of Montreal. If you are not a member you will need to pay 25$ to become member. But do not wait to register, space is limited to 222 seats and 50% are already filled.
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August 22, 2009 14:04
After doing this popular BI Booth Camp in Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa we are now doing it in Toronto (Oct. 15,16) at the Regency HYATT. Business Intelligence is one of the top most IT priorities and is increasingly pervasive within organizations large and small. Business Intelligence touches many aspects of our daily lives, from enhancing our online and retail shopping experience to the healthcare we receive. BI also impacts the quality of decisions that business leaders make. This 2 days (Oct. 15-16,2009) boot camp has been designed to give you a head start in Business Intelligence practice. You will acquire fundamental knowledge of Business Intelligence and dimensional modeling along with understanding on how to use the various Microsoft technologies to implement a BI solution. By SQL Server MVP Rushabh Mehta.
June 28, 2009 11:21 The IT community of Ottawa organizes an award night every year to recognize the ones that make a differences in their community. This year DevTeach received the partner of the year award. It’s really nice to receive this recognition and it shows how much our support makes a difference. We didn’t do more in Ottawa then in Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver but the guy’s in Ottawa went out of their way to recognize what DevTeach does for the community. At DevTeach we call this support ‘’nourishment’’ to the communities to help them grow. The Montreal community is the one that we’ve been supporting since 2003 and it’s the biggest and most active IT community in the country. We hope that in the future we can continue to support all the Canadian IT communities. Thanks to the Ottawa IT community for this award.
ALT.NET and DevTeach Back to Back… May 24, 2009 16:28
We are very happy to be sponsoring the popular ALT.NET conference in Vancouver. This free event will be happening in the same location as DevTeach just the weekend after. This means that you can attend the DevTeach conference (June 8-12) and stay for the weekend to attend two more days of this Open Spaces event. Discussing topics in past events have ranged from Agile practices, domain-driven design, MVC, and how to introduce continuous learning into your organization. This represents a unique opportunity to save on travel expenses and maximize your training. Registrations will open on May 20th and DevTeach attendees will have a special registration code that will ensure 50 seats at the event. If you would like to know why DevTeach and are back to back. Read .
.NET Rocks Hosts the VS 2010 Beta 1 InstallFest at DevTeach! May 24, 2009 16:24
Join Carl and Richard as they participate with the attendees at DevTeach installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Members of the Visual Studio team will be talking to Carl and Richard through the process of installation and exploring the new features of Visual Studio 2010. Bring your laptops and your questions and participate in the InstallFest – you’ll be part of a .NET Rocks and dnrTV episode!
May 21, 2009 10:28
Vancouver IT community is hosting Monday june 8th in Vancouver a DevTeach kick off party. This is the official social event for DevTeach Vancouver. The event is not just for the attendees of DevTeach Vancouver it’s a free event for everyone. It’s a unique chance for the attendees, speakers and locals to meet and talk with a free beer and play pool.
The event will be held at the Soho location and you need to RSVP to attend. Get all the details at this link:
May 11, 2009 10:35 We are very happy to be sponsoring the popular ALT.NET conference in Vancouver. This free event will be happening in the same location as DevTeach just the weekend after. This means that you can attend the DevTeach conference (June 8-12) and stay for the weekend to attend two more days of this Open Spaces event. Discussing topics in past events have ranged from Agile practices, domain-driven design, MVC, and how to introduce continuous learning into your organization. This represents a unique opportunity to save on travel expenses and maximize your training. Registrations will open on May 20th and DevTeach attendees will have a special registration code that will ensure 50 seats at the event. If you would like to know why DevTeach and are back to back. Read .
Keynote: Visual Studio 2010 — Your Development Happy Place April 28, 2009 08:56
Join Tim Huckaby at DevTeach and SQLTeach Keynote on June 9th. For more than 20 years developers have relied on Microsoft for the most powerful and productive tools. Visual Studio 2008 has already been widely adopted by many developers as their platform of choice. Now, Visual Studio 2010 is on the horizon and presents even greater opportunities for the creation of applications that target new platforms such as Windows 7 and innovative technologies like the Cloud and Parallel computing. This keynote will take a look at some of the best software built in the Visual Studio 2008 product family as well as preview some of the great innovations coming in Visual Studio 2010.
April 15, 2009 16:26 Many of you know me under the name Jean-René Roy but did you know you can also call me JR? The funny thing is that many of my French friends call me JR and most English friends call me Jean-René. (I think it’s because they desperately want to practice their French but I end up being called a pair of jeans!). So for now on just call me JR and to make this official I called my Blog ‘’JR’s Blog’’. This Blog will be about what’s happening in the IT industry and also what are the activities I’m doing. Since I’m very involved in the planning of DevTeach, SQLTeach, OttawaSQL.NET, ODNC, Montreal .NET community, most Canadian Code camps and the Ottawa BI Study Group this blog will also keep you posted on everything; you will be the first to know when and where will be the next big event in our industry. This is why you what to add this Blog in your RSS reader. But I will also post Webcast and other training sessions details I’m doing in different user groups across Canada. Hope you will post comments. See you online ;)
April 13, 2009 08:03 EnergizeIT 2009 is a national series of events to support you in learning what's possible. At EnergizeIT, you will see how Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 will provide a richer platform for your Developers and IT Professionals, and how new virtualization options can help you solve key application compatibility issues. Share innovative solutions, and connect with peers and local experts to learn how technology can help you navigate the path for your organization and gain direction to take advantage of the Microsoft platform from the cloud to client.
This boot camp-style class leverages your knowledge of .NET to get you up to speed quickly developing applications for the iPhone. In just 2 days you will learn all the basics you need to create your first iPhone application. Your enterprise can turn this 2 day workshop into a huge opportunity to be competitive in this fast-moving, lucrative market. Kevin McNeish, a .NET MVP and certified Apple iPhone Developer, helps you drastically cut the learning curve for iPhone application development so you can get into this market as quickly as possible! We recommending registering early because there is limited space and this class has been very popular among .NET developers!
On Saturday, October 24th 2009, the .NET community of Montreal is organizing a full day of training on Silverlight. This training will be very good because it will be done by five leading speakers in the industry. Laurent Duveau and Dominic Sévigny from RunAtServer are leading this initiative with Louis-Philippe Pinsonneault and Pascal Groulx. Guy Barrette (Montreal RD) is also joining this fantastic line-up for this full day of training. You will learn how to build business applications with the Expression and RIA Services suite. This is a unique opportunity for the French speaking developers form Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa. To attend this you must be a member of the .NET Community of Montreal. If you are not a member you will need to pay 25$ to become member. But do not wait to register, space is limited to 222 seats and 50% are already filled.
After doing this popular BI Booth Camp in Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa we are now doing it in Toronto (Oct. 15,16) at the Regency HYATT. Business Intelligence is one of the top most IT priorities and is increasingly pervasive within organizations large and small. Business Intelligence touches many aspects of our daily lives, from enhancing our online and retail shopping experience to the healthcare we receive. BI also impacts the quality of decisions that business leaders make. This 2 days (Oct. 15-16,2009) boot camp has been designed to give you a head start in Business Intelligence practice. You will acquire fundamental knowledge of Business Intelligence and dimensional modeling along with understanding on how to use the various Microsoft technologies to implement a BI solution. By SQL Server MVP Rushabh Mehta.
We are very happy to be sponsoring the popular 
Join Carl and Richard as they participate with the attendees at DevTeach installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Members of the Visual Studio team will be talking to Carl and Richard through the process of installation and exploring the new features of Visual Studio 2010. Bring your laptops and your questions and participate in the InstallFest – you’ll be part of a .NET Rocks and dnrTV episode!
Join Tim Huckaby at DevTeach and SQLTeach Keynote on June 9th. For more than 20 years developers have relied on Microsoft for the most powerful and productive tools. Visual Studio 2008 has already been widely adopted by many developers as their platform of choice. Now, Visual Studio 2010 is on the horizon and presents even greater opportunities for the creation of applications that target new platforms such as Windows 7 and innovative technologies like the Cloud and Parallel computing. This keynote will take a look at some of the best software built in the Visual Studio 2008 product family as well as preview some of the great innovations coming in Visual Studio 2010.
