October 2008 - Posts
Hi Everyone, I can’t express how excited and how tired I am. It has been a wonderful journey to bring this type of conference to Canada. I received some great feedback on how we are going to adjust the experience for the next cities and I'm
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Well, it's a little sad, but we just finished up packing up all the equipment, striking the rooms and even had a post TechDays debrief meeting with all the speakers and event staff to capture our learnings and roll them into the next city and future TechDays.
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Welcome to day TWO of the Toronto edition of TechDays 2008 in Canada . As our first two day event, it was a little strange going to the hotel last night, remembering that we had to be back bright and early at the Toronto Convention Centre. I wanted to
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I am taking a couple of minutes of rest to have an diet coke in-between sessions here in Toronto. Man - if I had a pedometer, I'd swear that I had walked a couple of kilometres so far today. I acted as host for our lunch time session and reinforced the
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Wow. This place is packed. People are flowing in and out of sessions and breaks, things are running smoothly - it's been a great start to a wickedly cool conference! Don't forget to keep your Registration tags for the entire event Mine is an all
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Pierre snapped this picture of me in the hotel bar - finishing off a "rolling deck" for the kick-off of TechDays Toronto in as little as 7 hrs from this post. Our team is ready. The speakers are ready. The venue is ready. Are you? Things look
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Well as I look over at my TechDays Countdown gadget I am reading 4 days, 15 hours, 14 minutes and 12 seconds to go before the start of TechDays! About time I got the hardware set up for the virtualization track don’t you think? I’ve been working on getting
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One of the greatest movies of all time, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure , has been remade with a TechDays spin. This will no doubt go down as one of the greatest remakes in film history! Check out part one now and stay tuned for part two coming soon
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Do you work in a small IT shop or are you the only IT resource that your company has? Are you the "go to" guy/gal for anything to do with technology? Do you (or others) consider yourself a "jack of all trades"? Do you work in a small
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You may have seen this… …and it inspired this! Enjoy! And in case you didn’t know, the TechDays early bird price has been extended :)
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Over the past year you might have noticed some changes going on at http://technet.com and the changes keep coming. The other day the new TechNet Canada Community page went live! This is the page to find out what user groups are in your community, when
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I am sure you have all heard of the Asus Eee PC series of netbooks. They seem to be the hot gadget lately and not one to miss out on a gadget trend I picked up an Eee PC 901 the other day. It arrived on Tuesday and I’ve been toying around
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Technorati Tags: techDays_CA Hello Everyone! During this time of global economic instability, It’s important that IT Professionals and Developers remain focused on delivering value, enabling business and increasing the impact it has to across your
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As much as I like to curse the Canadian mobile Telco's about their rates, sometimes out of date devices and rates I do have some nice things to say about Rogers today. I was informed by Rick that they (Rogers/Fido) had released the Windows Mobile
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Time is quickly running out on the Early Bird Pricing for Microsoft Tech•Days Canada 2008 . Make sure to act now before the deadline of Wednesday, October 15th. At this point, you might be thinking, "Why should I attend?" Here are three good
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Well I spent three days this week attending the SecTor pre-con training on Wireless Hacking and SecTor itself and it was worth every minute! The group behind SecTor put on a great event (I should note I was on the advisory committee) with world class
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something worth sharing. Registration is open till October 25th for testing New Virtual Lab based Exam 70-113: TS: Windows® Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring The new pilot exam “70-113: TS: Windows® Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring” tests
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Dear {Enter Your Manager’s Name Here}, I enjoy my job and have always appreciated how well you manage me. As you know, I don’t ask for much. The request for a complete rip and replace of the infrastructure came during a moment of frustration after
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Between grade 8 and 9 Tony Toews took a free two week course on programming given to local high school students at the local community college. He was hooked. He is a self employed database developer and has been designing and creating business solutions
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Bonjours. Juste une petite note pour vous informer de la mise en place du site www.techdays.ca en français. Eh oui. Le site en maintenant disponible en français. Notre plan original devais comprendre les deux langues disponible en même temps, mais la
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Wow! I must say the biggest challenge I thought I was going to have was with finding speakers for the TechDays Virtualization track. Well I still had a challenge with speakers it was selecting from the huge list of great speakers I had ask to participate!
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Wow! 27 days before the start of Tech-Days 08 . And the Infrastructure track is coming along great. Across the country we will have a team of great professionals presenting and passing on the knowledge and the passion they
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Well this should be fun. I’ve often shared my opinion that in order to secure your network you need to know what you are securing it from and how attackers might gain entry. Over the years I’ve tried my best to keep up with things but wireless
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