Registered Community Speaker with INETA

I am now a registered community speaker with INETA. If you are organizing a technology conference or a user group leader, you can make a request for me to come over and deliver a talk by clicking on the link below:

TechFest 2012 on Saturday Apr 28, 2012 with Scott Guthrie

Date & Time: Saturday April 28, 2012 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM 

Location: BCIT Burnaby Campus, 3700 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby, BC, V5G 3H2
Food: Snacks, Coffee, and Lunch
Wireless Internet Access: FREE
Closest skytrain stations: Brentwood Mall or Metrotown

Topic: TechFest 2012 on Saturday Apr 28, 2012 with Scott Guthrie

In case you have not heard yet, registrations have started for the mother of all Vancouver technology festivals. We call it TechFest 2012 and it is happening on Saturday April 28, 2012. Our keynote speaker is none other than Scott Guthrie himself. Check out Scott's wikipedia page. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Scott Guthrie in person.

There will be six tracks:

- Azure (Sponsored by Microsoft)
- CMS (Sponsored by DotNetNuke)
- OS
- Mobile (Sponsored by Microsoft)
- Development
- Database

You can view the detailed sessions at http://www.vancouvertechfest.com/Sessions.aspx.

Registration:

Early bird special $50 valid until March 31, 2012. Register now.

After March 31, 2012: $75

.netBC celebrates 5'th birthday and 1500'th member

The .netBC user group celebrated it's 5'th birthday on March 3, 2008. Soon after the group had it's 1500'th member when Hai Wang joined on April 5, 2008.


The Vice President of .netBC, Brian Pidcock, baked a pie for Hai Wang and presented it to him at our regular meeting on Tuesday May 6, 2008. Here is a picture of both Hai Wai and Brian Pidcock taken by a mobile phone:

Unfortunately, our speaker Dana Epp did not show up at that meeting held at BCIT in Burnaby, BC. When I contacted him the next day he said that he forgot about it. In the five years of the existance of our user group we never experienced a no-show by a speaker. I would like to apologize to those who attended for this unfortunate situation. John Bristowe of Microsoft Canada is sending me consolation gifts for those who came to this no-show meeting. These gifts will be delivered during our July 9, 2008 XNA event.

Presentation to the .netBC user group in Vancouver

I was very happy with the attendance at the .netBC event held on September 12, 2007. There were more than 70 people, which normally happens when there is a well known speaker. That kind of attendance for me was rather unexpected.

I established this user group on March 3, 2003. I made the first presentation on "XML Processing in .NET". This is the first time I presented again to my group since its inception. We started with 100 members and we have now grown to almost 1400.

The title of the presentation was: SharePoint 2007 Advanced Development. Click here to download the presentation.

I plan to give the same presentation to DevTeach Vancouver 2007 on Wednesday November 28, 2007.