http://deveast.com For East Coast Canadian Developers Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:57:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FYI: HUGSharePoint will be meeting Tuesday August 31 from 6-8 pm.  It will be at the Dalhousie Computer Science building. Patrick Rogers will be representing Microsoft.  For more information please visit the HUGSharePoint Facebook page. http://www.hugsharepoint.org http://deveast.com/?p=192 Don't miss your chance to be introduced to new languages, frameworks, and practices in your own back yard.  From .NET to Ruby, iPhone to Groovy, the conference is packed with great content. To learn more and register go to http://careertown.ca/devcon/ . http://deveast.com/?p=186 Windows Desktop Deployment Made Easy Light-Touch Installation from start to finish. Join Mitch Garvis for a two hour presentation on deploying Windows 7 and applications, either to new PCs or as a tool to migrate existing Windows XP Machines. Using only free tools from Microsoft, I will show you ... http://deveast.com/?p=180 Thanks again to Joel Hebert for coming out.  He did a great job - even gave us a bonus 3rd topic on the new Design By Contract features in VS2010.   I think I need to give EF another look!  PLINQ also looked very cool. Here are some photos courtesy of ... http://deveast.com/?p=168 As this is a joint event with Microsoft, Dev East will be helping out with onsite logistics.  This includes things like registration, and other small details.  Nothing too difficult.  I need a couple of folks to help me out with some of these things in order to help make the ... http://deveast.com/?p=164 This time out we're bringing in Joel Hebert from Ottawa.  Joel is a Microsoft Community Influencer and a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET.  He's presenting 2 great topics...it's going to be a great night!  Hurry now and reserve your seat because space is limited. To register go to http://deveast.eventbrite.com. Rough schedule for the evening: 6:00 ... http://deveast.com/?p=160 I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of the text logo for the Dev East blog.  So today I'm announcing a contest - design Dev East a logo and win a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.  Put on your design hat and create something awesome! What are ... http://deveast.com/?p=150 I am excited to announce to the members of the Dev East Halifax User Group that Microsoft is coming to town to host EnergizeIT Community Connection: FROM THE CLIENT TO THE CLOUD on March 23rd and you are invited! This exclusive event series is hosted by user groups across Canada. ... http://deveast.com/?p=127 I have just reached out to a few publishers to see if they would be willing to support our user group.  Many of them have established programs for this purpose.  Hoping to hear back soon.  If so, any volunteers in the group out there willing to write a review in ... http://deveast.com/?p=125 While it might seem quiet - there is a lot going on behind the scenes.  There are wheels in motion for 3 events! First - our next UG meeting will be Apr. 6th and a guest speaker from Ottawa will be joining us.  He is a Microsoft MVP and ... http://deveast.com/?p=123