TechDay (Vanc) extended early bird registration

If you want to register the TechDay … but still want to get the early bird price (even after Oct 15)
Use this promo code… AIT00EB84I

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Qcon SF summary

http://www.infoq.com/articles/qconsf-2008-summary 
Unlike the PDC having the full video sessions http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/, it still provides a good summary of those sessions and link to the Qcon sites for downloading the presentations …

Besides, Eric Evans was interviewed during QCon in San Francisco about the state of the art in Domain-Driven Design. Watch interview

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Gate’s last Microsoft Keynote to Developers in TechEd

Full of bells-and-whistles of Velocity, Oslo, Sync Framework and .NET parallel extension. Gates also disclosed that UML will be part of Visual Studio 10, which I asked for years… The reappearance of the general-purpose industry standard UML for modeling in the flagship products in Microsoft’s developer line comes after several years of emphasis on special-purpose Microsoft-brewed DSLs, or [...]

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CSAF 2008 – Day 2 Videos

Day 2`s Session Videos
You can check my notes on the sessions that I’ve attended here
Keynote (Day 2) – Enterprise Architecture at the Government of Canada
The Government of Canada has started to apply EA in innovative ways and they are getting results in ways (and places) you will not expect. Come learn how Canada’s Chief Architect [...]

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CSAF 2008 – Day 2 My Notes

Day 2 in general is interesting… but when I found that Simon Guest won`t come tomorrow, a bit disappointed. For the full list of sessions videos, click here
KeyNote: EA – Everything Aligned
Gary Doucet from Government of Canada shared his insight in EA implementation. He emphasised that the enterprise architecture already exist in the enterprise… just [...]

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CSAF 2008 – Day 1 Videos

Canada Strategic Architecture Forum 2008 Day 1

Morning session is quite interesting, it seems that Microsoft having a big bet for future in MS-Surface and natural interface (IPod Touch?)
Richard (BMO) having a very interest presentation to share his experience as a Chief Architect in BMO, some of them are very practical (or real) tips…
Afternoon sessions [...]

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My first day of Qcon is Kent Beck’s Mapping XP tutorial. The content of the tutorial is a bit weaker than what I expected. It covers an overview of the of XP’s values, principles and practices. Most of the time were discussions on the attendees experience. Afterward, we spent some times on Mind Mapping and [...]

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