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Are Canadians, um, different?
I'm planning FTP's first show in Canada (Toronto, first week
of May) and am sitting here wondering if developers “up” there
have different interests than those in the US. Offhand, I'm
thinking there are more multi-language issues (which is fine,
because resource localization in .NET is so darned cool) but
is there anything else? Devices? Industrial usage (like RFID
tracking tags for mooses)?
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I know you know these folks, but maybe don't know they
are in Toronto. You should ping Kate Gregory (RD,
Toronto & INETA speaker), Eli & Marcie
Robillard, Dave Totzke, Joel Semeniuk (not Toronoto,but
another Canadian RD) and Craig Flanagan (MS) for a real
insiders scoop
Great info! I'm doing the MSDN security event in Toronto
on Feb 25th with SteveB and plan on knowing those
privacy laws very well.
It's actually really nice chatting with people that
really appreciate all the nice ways you can localize
your apps in .NET, and globalization with dates, etc..
is great!
Thanks for the blog entry!
Don't forget - "z" is zed and not zee.
Not so technical, but equally important things for
planning a conference up here...
-we have a really good sense of humour and appreciate
being entertained while educated.
-development teams are generally smaller up here. Not
that we don't have all the same issues as 150 person
teams do - but we make do with less.
-hockey is very important to us and VSLive falls smack
dab in the middle of the playoff.s There are likely
going to be at least 2 cdn teams still in the playoffs
during VSLive and if one of them is Toronto - then
evening bof sessions aren't going to be as highly
attended during HNIC.