Guy Barrette
Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada
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Catching up on Mix09 at 1.5x
I’m catching up on Mix09 watching the videos available online for free.
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Open Cloud Manifesto
I’ve watched the threads around the Open Cloud Manifesto from the sides. When It first read the manifesto, my first reaction was to think that it what somewhat strange for a document like that to demand that the Cloud be open and at the same time, doesn’t provide a definition to open. What should be open? Oh, open meaning that customers should be able to take their cloud app from one vendor to the other and expect it to run? Can you do that today with Web apps? Let’s say…can you take your J2EE app running on WebShere and connected to an Oracle database and switch to a PHP hoster running MySQL?
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Microsoft to release VB6 as Open Source
After many years of complaints from the VB6 developers around the world, Microsoft has finally agreed to re release VB6, not as a full product, but as a full featured, not crippled free Open Source product with source code on CodePlex.
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Mix09 is over…attend Mix09 for free!
If you couldn’t attend Mix09 like me, don’t despair because almost all the sessions are available online for free. Nice!
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Sasha & Forte: Hit me baby, one more time…
When Sasha Krsmanovic and Stephen Forte took the stage at the MVP Summit party, I couldn’t capture their glorious performance because the battery in my camera went dead moments before. However, D’Arcy Lussier recorded it.
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Live Writer “Hello World” Plug-in
I started using Windows Live Writer a couple of months ago and I think that it is a fantastic tool. One benefit is its easy extensibility via easy to write plug-ins in .NET.
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Code Camp Montreal 2009 Call for speakers and sponsors
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Visual Studio Talk Show #94 is now online (French)
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3 for 2 special at DevTeach Vancouver
JR just announced a deal for DevTeach Vancouver 2009: Register 2 people, get a 3rd free. More info at www.devteach.com
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Coffee and Code – March 16th in Montreal
The good folks from MSDN Canada will be in town this week for the EnergizeIT tour. You can meet part of the team and discuss code over a latte on Monday, March 16th from 1PM to 4PM at the Café Dépôt located on 550 Sherbrooke W. Free Internet access on site.