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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/ .

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 how you too can become a deployment guru, saving yourself and your clients time, money, and headaches!

To register head over to http://deveast.eventbrite.com.

Rough schedule for the evening:

• 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm :  Social mixer with pizza and pop
• 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm :  Presentation
• 8:30 pm to 8:45 pm :  Prize giveaways and wrap up

More About Mitch:

Mitch is an IT Trainer with a passion for community. Having founded and led two major Canadian user groups for IT Professionals he understands both the value and rewards of helping his peers. After several years as a consultant and in-house IT Pro for companies in Canada, he now works with various companies creating and delivering training for Microsoft to its partners and clients around the world.

As a Microsoft Certified Trainer he has worked throughout the US and Canada, as well as internationally, and has been recognized for his community work with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award over time across several different product focus designations. He is a member of Microsoft’s Springboard Technical Experts Panel (STEP) and offers presentations to groups around the world on Windows and other topics of interest.

Mitch is an avid writer, and blogs at http://www.garvis.ca. Mitch has one wife, two children, three dogs, and four free minutes to himself per week.  He parks his car in Oakville, Ontario.

Here are some photos courtesy of Gifford Watkins that were taken by one of his guys….

Please contact me via email or through the About page on this blog.  If you don’t hear back from me right away, I am travelling until Mar 20th and will get back to you on my return.

Your help is appreciated and its important that we show Microsoft the great group we have here.  Thanks!

To register go to http://deveast.eventbrite.com.

Rough schedule for the evening:

• 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm :  Social mixer with pizza and pop
• 6:30 pm to 6:45 pm :  What’s new in Entity Framework 4.0?
• 6:45 pm to 7:00 pm :  break
• 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm :  A Busy Developers Guide to ASP.NET 4.0 and VS 2010
• 8:00 pm to 8:15 pm :  Prize giveaways and wrap up

More About Joel:

As the Director / Solutions Architect at Opulent ASP Development Inc., Joel works as a consultant specializing in ASP.NET Enterprise Architecture / Development. He is passionate about web farms / web gardens and distributed caching. His interests are Domain Driven Design – DDD, Distributed Domain Driven Design -DDDD, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Analysis Patterns and of course wine as he is studying to become a sommelier.

What are the rules?

1. All submitted entries must be your own original artwork and free of any licensing issues or limitations.
2. If you win, you give up all rights of ownership and the logo and all source files (e.g. Illustrator, PhotoShop, whatever) become the property of Dev East.  You no longer own it.  We do.
3. The best 5 entries will be featured on the Dev East blog and a public voting will help decide the winner.
4. All entries must be received by April 1st, 2010.
5. All decisions are final.
6. Submit entries with a written explanation of your design vision and contact info to:  shawn dot duggan at gmail dot com with the Subject: “Dev East Design Contest”.

Good luck!

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. We’re opening our doors to other passionate technical professionals yet I want to give you the first opportunity to register for the event.

EnergizeIT Dev East Halifax
Community Connection: From the Client to the Cloud
TO REGISTER: Click here.
REGISTRATION START TIME: 5-6PM,
EVENT START/END TIME: 6PM-9PM
LOCATION: Halifax Board of Trade, Room 200C2, 1800 Argyle Street, Halifax, NS

SESSION OVERVIEW: Windows Azure. Office System 2010. Visual Studio 2010. Windows Phone 7. The Microsoft-based platform presents a bevy of opportunities for all of us. Whether you are a Developer or an IT Pro, knowing how these will impact you is critical, especially in the new economic reality.

This evening Community EnergizeIT event will help you understand Microsoft’s Cloud Services vision. You will find out about the possibilities that these technologies help realize and the value that they can bring to your organization and yourself.

Microsoft advisors will explore the Microsoft-based platform through a scenario that will demonstrate different points of view – from developer to IT Pro, from consumer to the information worker. From the client to the cloud, this fun-filled demo-intensive exploration will excite you about the possibilities of the Microsoft-based platform. You’ll see how to build next generation applications with technology like Silverlight, .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. You will find out how to consume those applications on a variety of devices, like mobile devices running Windows Phone, netbooks and PCs running Windows 7, as well as the web. You will learn about how the Microsoft-based platform allows you to connect with your colleagues no matter where you are –office, coffee shops, or your own living room. You’ll also see how you and your colleagues can be even more productive with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.

EnergizeIT Community Connection: From the Client to the Cloud is your opportunity to learn how to harness the power and flexibility of the Microsoft-based platform from the client to the cloud.

To learn more about the EnergizeIT program visit www.microsoft.ca/EnergizeIT.
I look forward to seeing you at this event.
Sincerely,
Shawn Duggan
Dev East Halifax
http://deveast.com

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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 will present on 2 great topics.  When everything is finalized I’ll post more details on the Dev East blog.

Next, there is a potential special event in the late Feb or early March timeframe.  I can’t talk about it, but if anyone would like to help present some material on a very cool topic, please let me know.

Lastly, there is a major event coming.  That’s all I can say for now.

Stay tuned.