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Session abstracts are up for TechDays If you're still wondering if you should head to Halifax in November for TechDays, you should check out the sessions that will be presented. Details can be found on the TechDays web site http://www.microsoft.com/canada/techdays/sessions.aspx
TechDays Halifax in November Halifax was chosen as the final city on the TechDays 2009 tour. The Maritimes showed great support and desire to have the event here and now it's time to sign up. Dates are November 2-3. See the http://www.techdays.ca web site for more details.
Thanks to Marco Shaw for the LiveMeeting event on Windows PowerShell A big thank you to Marco for taking the time to put his intro to PowerShell via Microsoft LiveMeeting this week. He certainly knows his stuff and provided some great tips and a few things to watch out for. Marco is willing to put on another session if there is enough of a demand for specific or even general use of PowerShell. Also, if you think that LiveMeeting is a good way to hold the UG meetings with remote speakers drop a note via the form on the Contact Us page.
Save 50 percent on the price of DevTeach / SQLTeach Vancouver (June 8-12,2009)! DevTeach is going westward to Vancouver next year. And for you really early-birds who want to book a spot right now you can use the rebate code DEVT50OFFVAN to save 50 percent off the registration price. The only catch is that there are only 30 registrations open with this code and they have to be completed by February 10th, 2009! So if you want to go, tell your boss you have a great discount for one of the great Developer conferences in Canada and book early.
.NET developers to follow on Twitter Anyone who happens to be using Twitter should check out these two blog postings by Elijah Manor where he lists 40 .NET developers that you should follow. 20 People .NET Developers should Follow on Twitter The Next 20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter I'd include Elijah on that list as well and make sure you check out the rest of his blog as it's full of plenty of good information for Developers.
PowerShell LiveMeeting event is now January 7th Marco Shaw will be presenting an Introduction to PowerShell session in January. While it is an introduction, Macro is willing to go further in depth based on the questions asked during the Q and A period. The session will last about 60-75 minutes long and starts at 8:30 pm. LiveMeeting details are below: Subject: Fredericton .NET User Group session. Start Time: Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 8:30 PM GMT-04:00 End Time: Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 10:30 PM GMT-04:00 Attendee URL: Launch meeting Toll free: +1 (866) 553-8146 Participant code: 5592528585 Video will be over Live Meeting Audio can be either: -You may call in via a regular phone -You can also use your computer microphone to talk (or just listen over your PC speakers so you don't have to call-in)
Thanks to Donald Belcham for his Igloo Coder tour On behalf of the group I wanted to thank Donald for his tour of the Atlantic provinces and giving such a great presentation. For those who wanted a copy of his slides they can be found via his blog posting where he sums up his trip out east.
Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #7 Marco Shaw is running his 7th virtual meeting for his PowerShell user group. Marco is a developer in Moncton is a Microsoft MVP and has been using Microsoft Live Meeting 2007 to reach a truely worldwide audience. For this upcoming event he has invited Nathan Winters (Exchange MVP), and Joel Bennett to speak. It takes place on November 13th at 12pm EST and you can register through his blog at Get-Powershell
Want to try out the next version of Visual Studio? If you want to check out the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework you can now download a VMC that you can run on your local PC (you'll need Virtual PC first). Here's the link: Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)
The Not At PDC virtual conference A virtual conference started up this week from a bunch of developers on Twitter who were not attending the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. There are a number of presentations that are starting up today (Tuesday) and they will be using live meeting to deliver them. If you wanted to catch some well known speakers check out Not At PDC Presentations
TechDays Canada 2008 coming to the Maritimes The TechDays Canada tour is coming to Halifax this December 17th. The complete list of presentations and registration info can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/canada/techdays/default.aspx and space is limited so sign up soon
Launch of new Website The User Group now has a new web site with a new Url. Please update your bookmarks to point to http://www.frederictonug.net
Igloo Coder Tour Donald Belcham will be in town on Oct. 23rd to talk about the Fundamentals of OOP

Session abstracts are up for TechDays
If you're still wondering if you should head to Halifax in November for TechDays, you should check out the sessions that will be presented. Details can be found on the TechDays web site http://www.microsoft.com/canada/techdays/sessions.aspx

TechDays Halifax in November
Halifax was chosen as the final city on the TechDays 2009 tour. The Maritimes showed great support and desire to have the event here and now it's time to sign up. Dates are November 2-3. See the http://www.techdays.ca web site for more details.

Thanks to Marco Shaw for the LiveMeeting event on Windows PowerShell
A big thank you to Marco for taking the time to put his intro to PowerShell via Microsoft LiveMeeting this week. He certainly knows his stuff and provided some great tips and a few things to watch out for. Marco is willing to put on another session if there is enough of a demand for specific or even general use of PowerShell. Also, if you think that LiveMeeting is a good way to hold the UG meetings with remote speakers drop a note via the form on the Contact Us page.

Save 50 percent on the price of DevTeach / SQLTeach Vancouver (June 8-12,2009)!
DevTeach is going westward to Vancouver next year. And for you really early-birds who want to book a spot right now you can use the rebate code DEVT50OFFVAN to save 50 percent off the registration price. The only catch is that there are only 30 registrations open with this code and they have to be completed by February 10th, 2009! So if you want to go, tell your boss you have a great discount for one of the great Developer conferences in Canada and book early.

.NET developers to follow on Twitter
Anyone who happens to be using Twitter should check out these two blog postings by Elijah Manor where he lists 40 .NET developers that you should follow.

I'd include Elijah on that list as well and make sure you check out the rest of his blog as it's full of plenty of good information for Developers.

PowerShell LiveMeeting event is now January 7th
Marco Shaw will be presenting an Introduction to PowerShell session in January. While it is an introduction, Macro is willing to go further in depth based on the questions asked during the Q and A period. The session will last about 60-75 minutes long and starts at 8:30 pm.

LiveMeeting details are below:

Subject: Fredericton .NET User Group session.
Start Time: Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 8:30 PM GMT-04:00
End Time: Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 10:30 PM GMT-04:00
Attendee URL: Launch meeting
Toll free: +1 (866) 553-8146
Participant code: 5592528585

Video will be over Live Meeting
Audio can be either:
-You may call in via a regular phone
-You can also use your computer microphone to talk (or just listen over your PC speakers so you don't have to call-in)

Thanks to Donald Belcham for his Igloo Coder tour
On behalf of the group I wanted to thank Donald for his tour of the Atlantic provinces and giving such a great presentation.

For those who wanted a copy of his slides they can be found via his blog posting where he sums up his trip out east.

Windows PowerShell Virtual User Group Meeting #7
Marco Shaw is running his 7th virtual meeting for his PowerShell user group. Marco is a developer in Moncton is a Microsoft MVP and has been using Microsoft Live Meeting 2007 to reach a truely worldwide audience. For this upcoming event he has invited Nathan Winters (Exchange MVP), and Joel Bennett to speak.

It takes place on November 13th at 12pm EST and you can register through his blog at Get-Powershell

Want to try out the next version of Visual Studio?
If you want to check out the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework you can now download a VMC that you can run on your local PC (you'll need Virtual PC first). Here's the link:
Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

The Not At PDC virtual conference
A virtual conference started up this week from a bunch of developers on Twitter who were not attending the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
There are a number of presentations that are starting up today (Tuesday) and they will be using live meeting to deliver them. If you wanted to catch some well known speakers check out Not At PDC Presentations

TechDays Canada 2008 coming to the Maritimes
The TechDays Canada tour is coming to Halifax this December 17th. The complete list of presentations and registration info can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/canada/techdays/default.aspx and space is limited so sign up soon

Launch of new Website
The User Group now has a new web site with a new Url. Please update your bookmarks to point to http://www.frederictonug.net

Igloo Coder Tour
Donald Belcham will be in town on Oct. 23rd to talk about the Fundamentals of OOP