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Beyond Bullets Webcast
I'm a fan of Cliff Atkinson's book Beyond Bullet Points and in my presentations, I tried to use bullet points to a minimum. What? PowerPoint presentations without bullet points? Intrigued? Cliff is doing a free Webcast for Microsoft on Thursday June 12th.
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Zoom Out ZoomIt, here comes NLarge!
I have been using ZoomIt for a while now. It's a great and free presenter tool that let you zoom on screen areas while demoing stuff but there's a new pretender to the throne: NLarge. What's so different about NLarge? Well, it provides you with the same features as ZoomIt and it's also free but it's using WPF for smooth zoom effects. Cool!
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PDC 2008 registration is now open
Registration for PDC 2008 is now open:
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GUVSM Next Meeting: Tuesday May 27th
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Microsoft Source Analysis for C#
Microsoft released a new cool tool called Microsoft Source Analysis for C#. It's an internal tool that does somewhat FxCop does. While FxCop analyse the IL, Source Analysis analyse the source code itself. It comes with about 200 built in rules that are however not customizable. These rules cover:
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Comments About DevTeach Toronto
DevTeach was held for the first time in Toronto. When a new dev conference like this comes to town, the hard work is making people aware of the quality of the content they'll get from attending a "paid" conference like DevTeach. Jean-René Roy, the conference owner, sent the speakers a few comments he received.
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Switched to Google Reader
I've been using IE/Outlook as my RSS client for a while now but a couple of weeks ago, a switched to Google Reader. Here are my findings so far:
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Using Gmail as a backup mail server
Let's face it, if you're a small shop, building a redundant Exchange infrastructure is way too hard and way too expensive. So what if you have a simple Exchange setup with just a few users? You can prey that you server will never go down and you can plan the reboots after the critical updates installs on Sunday mornings.
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Microsoft's in the digital cameras business
[Via Mark Brown's blog]
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Hanselman Blog Love for nVentive Umbrella
Wow!
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VB on CSI
[From Henrik Lykke Nielsen]
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GUVSM Next Meeting: Wednesday May 21th (French)
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Xobni is pretty cool but...
Xobni (Inbox backward) is a great Outlook add-in that add some cool features that let you find information more easily.
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Enterprise Library 4 is now released
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Digital Cameras Findings
While browsing a little bit for digital cameras stuff this morning while sipping my latte, I found a couple of interesting sites.
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Virtual PC 2007 SP1
Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is now available.
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Visual Studio Talk Show #74 is online (French)
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The Millennials Are Coming!
The Millennials are coming and here's an interesting video from CBS 60 Minutes about them and how the workplace is impacted.
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Imaginet Spring 2008 Webcast Series
Joel Semeniuk, RD for Winnipeg and known as "Joel from Canada", mentioned to me that his company (Imaginet) started a series of free Webcasts.
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Heading to DevTeach Toronto
I'm heading to Toronto for DevTeach where I'll talk about the tooling in VS 2008 pre SP1. Here's my session's description:
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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Licensing White Paper
A new version of the Team System Licensing White Paper has been published.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CE194742-A6E8-4126-AA30-5C4E969AF2A3&displaylang=en -
.NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1
Microsoft released today a Beta version of the .NET Framework 3.5 along a Beta version of the Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008.
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Borland Finally Sold CodeGear
Borland finally found a buyer for its CodeGear dev division. Embarcadero bought it for a mere $23 million!
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Zune Canadian Release Date: June 13th
Finally, Zune will hit the Canadian marketplace on June 13th.
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Speaking at the Patterns and Practices Summit
I'm at the Patterns & Practices Summit in Quebec City and I'll give a talk about data access layer. Sounds boring? What if I mix some LINQ to SQL with some multi layered architecture and a touch of WCF? Sounds more interesting, right?
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NIN - The new album is free!
Yeah, this is a blog about technology but I love music and I love NIN so skip this one if you think it's silly.
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Visual Studio Talk Show #73 is online (French)
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Visual Studio Talk Show #72 is online (French)
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GUVSM Next Meeting: Monday May 5th
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Expression Studio 2 Ships!
Microsoft shipped Expression Studio 2 yesterday:
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-01Expression2PR.mspx