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There are just a little over 2 weeks left to register for the Toronto session of Nothin But .Net. If you have not heard what past attendees have had to say, take a look at a small sample of some of the comments from the the last course in Austin,TX: I absolutely loved everything about this course. It will undoubtedly be one of the most memorable experiences of my life… well worth the money.   As advertised, this course was a very intense experience that stretched my programming knowledge and gave me may new techniques to apply to my current development. In addition, it offered a new approach, Behavioral Driven Design, to software development that I believe has the potential to increase productivity dramatically. Not to take anything...

What can I say. I could not have asked for a more fabulous group of people to have as a class. The week was full of coding madness, resharper jedi magic, VimFu, and most importantly - amazing conversation between a group of people who are passionate about self improvement!! It was awesome to have the help of Mo as a great as my TA for the week. He saved me countless numbers of hours by taking care of a bunch of administrative tasks as well as ensuring that the flow was not interrupted whenever machine issues would come up. Finally, it was excellent to have Scott Bellware come in and give a session on Behavior Driven Development. All of the students were introduced to behavior driven development over the course of the week, as that was how I...

I just recently switched over my course registration to another location. This will not affect any existing registrants. The new training site is located here: http://jpboodhoo.turnstilesystems.com/Programs.aspx/dotnet This site will stay up to date with all of the upcoming courses that can be registered for. Develop With Passion!! Read More...

This is just a message to those people who are interested in attending next months Nothin But .Net session in Austin, TX. There are only 6 spots left. Tell your friends, tell your co-workers. This session promises to be an absolute blast. The attendance roster is varied and will provide for lots of interesting conversation and pair programming opportunities. You can register for the course here: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=150826 Develop With Passion!! Read More...

With only a handful of seats left for the class in Austin, it is time to start registration for another iteration of Nothin But .Net to be held in Toronto. You can register for the course here . Like the course in Austin, this course will also be held in the conference room of a hotel, so travelers will be able to stay in the hotel the course is being hosted in. This statement is also knows as : prepare for long days!!! Overview Nothin But .Net is a five day (intense) boot camp style course that will focus on applying .Net development best practices in the context of developing a working N-Tiered application. Registrants will learn about how to practically apply.Net as they apply it to the task of building a complete application from the UI...

http://www.torontocodecamp.net/ "The Third Annual Toronto Code Camp, a free .NET community sponsored event, will be held on March 1 st , 2007! Last years event was a huge success with over 350 attendees, 25 sessions, 24 speakers and 20+ volunteers. This year we will continue to build on the success of the prior Code Camps and increase the number of attendees and make the event an even greater critical and logistical success." Nadeem Mitha from Infusion will be there to talk SharePoint (a last-minute addition, his session may not appear until the event) as will SharePoint pros Reza Alirezaei (MOSS MVP), Bill Brockbank, CodeCamp organizer Chris Dufour, and a slew of other great speakers. I'll be dropping in to see friends old and...

Unfortunately due to low numbers the WPF class is going to be cancelled. I apologize to anyone who was planning on registering. Thanks. Read More...

Another awesome course is entering the lineup for the March timeframe also. Unlike Wendy’s kick butt WPF course which is occuring in New York in the month of March, this course will be a Canuck affair, to be held in the winter wonderland of Edmonton!! Donald Belcham (aka. Igloo Coder) will be the instructor for the course, and he has a crazy week lined up for the people interested in stepping up for the challenge. You can register for the course here . Sign up quick, as seating is limited. Here is a description of the course: Overview Nothin’ But C# v3.5 is a 5 day boot camp styled course that provides in depth training in the new language features in version 3.5 of the .Net Framework. Attendees will work with the new features in...

After lots of requests, Nothin But .Net is finally coming to Austin,Texas!! I am sure that seats are going to sell out fast, so hurry and register here if you want a spot in what will surely be an amazing week of crazy coding!! Overview Nothin’ But .Net is a five day boot camp that will focus on pragmatically applying .Net within the context of developing a working N-Tiered application. Registrants will learn about advanced features of .Net (2.0/3.0/3.5) as they are applied to the task of building a complete application from the UI layer all the way down to the mapping layer. WARNING!!!! If you are expecting to come to this course to learn about how to have VS.Net automatically generate an “application” for you, then this course...

As promised, 2008 is the year that new courses get brought into the mix. I am happy to announce that Wendy Friedlander has jumped on as a trainer with the Nothin But * line of courses and is going to be offering a new course strictly targeting developers wanting to learn how to pragmatically utilize WPF. You can register for the course here . Here is an overview: Nothin But WPF is a five day boot camp style course that will focus on applying WPF development best practices in the context of developing a working application. Registrants will learn about how to practically apply WPF as they apply it to the task of building a complete application with focus on a WPF user interface and design patterns. WARNING!!!! If you are expecting to come to...