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ICTC announces ICT jobs outpace all others combined in 2014 led by business system analysts, multimedia designers, graphic illustrators

Quoting: Job growth in ICTs exceeded the overall Canadian labour market considerably in 2014 with...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/23/2014

Office Sway: reimagine how your ideas come to life

From the Office Blogs: Say hello to Sway! Sway is an entirely different way to express yourself and...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/17/2014

Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Video, Facts, Top 10 best practices, Team blog

Check out this video for a cool look inside a Microsoft Datacenter. As the engine that powers...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/15/2014

Microsoft Ignite Mailing List

Sign up here to receive news and updates about the Microsoft Ignite Conference taking place May 4-8,...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/15/2014

Code.org #HourOfCode – A Huge Success!

Satya Nadella and the Hour of Code – Your passion makes a different As a part of Code.org’s Hour of...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/15/2014

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Active Directory, Windows 8.1 Deployment, Office 365 ProPlus Deployment, Bing Optimization, Windows App to Market, XAML UI with Blend, Hybrid Cloud with Azure

IT Pro Courses 1. Understanding Active Directory 2. Windows 8.1 Deployment JumpStart 3. Office 365...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/15/2014

What does the future hold for Microsoft?

From their annual report shareholder letter signed by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicates:...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/07/2014

Introducing .NET Core

From a post by Immo Landwerth [MSFT]: “At connect(), we announced that .NET Core will be entirely...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/07/2014

Register for December 18 ACM-SIGCAS Webcast: "Getting Cyber Safety Through to Employees (and anyone else)"

Register TODAY for the next free ACM Learning Webinar, "Getting Cyber Safety Through to...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/02/2014

Wide adoption of TLA+? Terry Coatta update on my chat with Leslie Lamport, ACM Turing Award winner in 2014 (for 2015 now 1 million USD prize for Nobel Prize of Computing)

I had a conversation with esteemed developer Terry Coatta on TLA+, which Leslie Lamport, ACM Turing...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 12/02/2014

Reminder: Register for December 3 Webcast: "Data Access and Entity Framework"

https://blogs.technet.com/b/cdnitmanagers/archive/2014/11/04/register-for-december-3-webcast-quot-dat...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/30/2014

MVP Blog: Open Sourcing and ASP.NET with "The Scotts"

Scott Hunter and Scott Hanselman from the Web Platform and Tools division on what's new in open...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/30/2014

Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer, Azure IaaS for IT Pros Online Event - December 1-4, 2014

Join Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer, Azure, as he kicks off a week of Azure...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/19/2014

ACM Career News—IT Jobs, Big Data, Hiring Developers, IT Skills Gap, IT Contractor, Talent Shortage, Full Stack Developer, Tech Job in 3 months, Computing STEM choice, Educational Technology

Here are ACM Career News for this week. You can find the articles here   IT Jobs Jumped in...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/18/2014

Global Appreneur Scholars Awards seeking nominations from students now—win trip to CES Las Vegas, recognition, scholarship

Appreneur Scholars awards are seeking nominations from students—the listed deadline has been...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/17/2014

People of ACM: Roberto Scopigno

Roberto Scopigno is a Research Director at ISTI (Instituto di Scienza e Tecnologie...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/06/2014

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is now ready to reveal its unique e-learning support system to address skills shortages in the most demanding fields and save significant training costs for companies and educational institutions across Canada

NRC’s Learning and performance support system (LPSS) research program is entering the pre-testing...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/05/2014

Register for December 3 Webcast: "Data Access and Entity Framework"

Both Terry and Erik are experts in Software Development and with strong and long history with...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/04/2014

ACM Career News November 4 2014

For more go to: ACM CareerNews as an objective career news digest for busy IT professionals....

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 11/04/2014

ACM Career News

For more, go to:...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 10/23/2014

MVP top tips: PowerShell and SQL Stored Procedure

From Lync MVP Desmond Lee which is the 45thin the series. First paragraphs: Quoted from the link to...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 10/23/2014

MVP top tips: Visualizing SharePoint farm with PowerShell, Package management for PowerShell Modules with PowerShellGet

These useful lessons are shared from Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals: This post on Visualizing...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 10/14/2014

MVP top article: Acceptance Testing Made Easy with F# and Canopy

The following post was written by Visual Studio ALM MVP Amir Barylko

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 10/07/2014

MVP top tip: Using Group Policy Objects as an Alternate Lync Policy Method

This article from Lync MVP Paul Bloem, provides useful information.

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/29/2014

MVP Top Tips—PoC background virtual machines, Real Estate transactions OneDrive OneNote, PowerShell, Windows Server Software defined storage, PCL explained

  1. PoC: Tatoo the background of your virtual machines by Emin Atac – PowerShell MVP 2. Completing...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/23/2014

ACM Top Career News

With so much information, it’s very good to have curated news of the best topics of interest to...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/23/2014

SecTor 2014 - Full Speaker Lineup Announced

The Second Round of Speakers have been selected and we are thrilled to once again bring the...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/18/2014

MVP top tips -- Acceptance testing with F# and Canopy

The following article is by Visual Studio ALM MVP Amir Barylko...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/08/2014

MVP top tips: Columns in Remote Access Management, SCOM 2012 Health Script, PowerShell V5, Associations in SharePoint and Office 365, Sharing Images Phone 8.1 apps

  1. Enabling New Columns in Remote Access Management Console      By Enterprise...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/06/2014

Retooling IT staff for the new business technology reality - managers and CIOs need to get it right

David O’Leary shared this article with me today from his past roles as chair national council of IT...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/06/2014

September 30 Webcast with 2013 ACM Fellow Dennis Shasha: "The Changing Nature of Invention in Computer Science"

Register TODAY for the next free ACM Webcast, "The Changing Nature of Invention in Computer...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/04/2014

MVP Top Tips: SharePoint on Azure

The article is by  SharePoint MVP Tom Resing...

Author: Stephen.Ibaraki Microsoft MVP Date: 09/01/2014

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