A few weeks ago, I was involved with a Cloud Startup Challenge at Microsoft Canada Meadowvale Campus. The Cloud Startup Challenge invited Startups from across Canada to submit their Business Plan. Out of the 500 Entries, only 5 companies were selected to participate. My role in the Cloud Startup Challenge was a Cloud Mentor. My responsibility as a Cloud Mentor was to help any of the Startups get their application up and running on Windows Azure. The Participants YourVirtualButler.com I...
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Do you live on the East Coast of Canada? Interested in getting to know more about the Windows Azure Platform? I’ve got a surprise for you! AzureFest is coming to a User Group near you! Moncton May 6th – 6:00pm – 9:00pm Register On May 6th I start the Tour at the Moncton Chapter of Dev East User Group. User Group Lead Sebastein Aube [@sebaube] hosts #AzureFest at the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce in the Board Room on the First Floor. Event Sponsored by MSDN. Fredericton May 7th – 9:...
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This week I presented back to back nights [March 30,31] in Toronto [despite having a cold]. The Original AzureFest Event under went a little bit of a make over, updating the slides with new features of SDK 1.3 as well as providing a little more information about how Windows Azure works under the covers. In the spirit of getting more Canadians [or anyone for that matter] on the Windows Azure Platform, ObjectSharp releasing the content for anyone to download, learn and/or deliver. You can find ...
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:18 by
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If you’re a Software Developer in the Greater Toronto Area, and haven’t yet checked out Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform, Windows Azure, there is no excuse not to join me at AzureFest. Your Future is in the Clouds… This is our Second Installment of AzureFest (Hosted by ObjectSharp and Microsoft Canada) it is an event that is targeted towards getting you past the potential hurtles and trying out Windows Azure for your very first time. We’ll explain how the Pricing Model works for Window...
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Wednesday, 1 December 2010 16:36 by
SyntaxC4
On December 4th [8:45-6:00pm], join @OpenGuelph and @OpenHalton at the Campus in Microsoft Mississauga 1950 Meadowvale Blvd. Mississauga, Ontario] for International Open Data Hackathon Day. Register for the event soon, as our sponsors Port25.ca will be providing transportation to (and from) the Event if you live in Guelph. For more information on the happenings at the OpenGuelph/OpenHalton Hackathon visit the wiki page. Oh, I almost forgot to mention. To keep people motivated, fed and well ex...
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