Guy BarretteMicrosoft Regional Director, Montreal, CanadaBeyond Bullets Webcast- May 29, 2008 I'm a fan of Cliff Atkinson's book Beyond Bullet Points and in my presentations, I tried to use bullet points to a minimum. What PowerPoint presentations without bullet points Intrigued Cliff is doing a free Webcast for Microsoft on Thursday June 12th. Microsoft Office System Webcast: How to Create a 15-Minute Presentation (with Graphics!) in One Hour (Level 300) If you are in a time crunch and have to get a presentation done, you need an approach that will get..http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/28/im-a-fan-of-cliff-atkinsons-book-a-h... Zoom Out ZoomIt, here comes NLarge!- May 29, 2008 I have been using ZoomIt for a while now. It's a great and free presenter tool that let you zoom on screen areas while demoing stuff but there's a new pretender to the throne: NLarge. What's so different about NLarge Well, it provides you with the same features as ZoomIt and it's also free but it's using WPF for smooth zoom effects. Cool!http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/28/zoom-out-zoomit-here-comes-nlarge.as... PDC 2008 registration is now open- May 28, 2008 Registration for PDC 2008 is now open:http:www.microsoftpdc.comhttp://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/28/pdc-2008-registration-is-now-open.as... GUVSM Next Meeting: Tuesday May 27th- May 26, 2008 More info at www.guvsm.net Team System Version Control: 0-100km Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 6:15 PM Confrencier: Barry Gervin, Regional Director Toronto et MVP Team SystemNote: Cette prsentation sera en anglais Version Control is a natural place to start with Team System. So with that in mind, why not spend an evening with Barry Gervin, MS Regional Director and VSTS MVP as he tells stories of failure and success from his experiences helping companies migrate to Team System. Along the.http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/25/guvsm-next-meeting-tuesday-may-27th.... Microsoft Source Analysis for C- May 25, 2008 Microsoft released a new cool tool called Microsoft Source Analysis for C. It's an internal tool that does somewhat FxCop does. While FxCop analyse the IL, Source Analysis analyse the source code itself. It comes with about 200 built in rules that are however not customizable. These rules cover: Microsoft Layout of elements, statements, expressions, and query clauses Placement of curly brackets, parenthesis, square brackets, etc Spacing around keywords and operator...http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/25/microsoft-source-analysis-for-c.aspx Comments About DevTeach Toronto- May 25, 2008 DevTeach was held for the first time in Toronto. When a new dev conference like this comes to town, the hard work is making people aware of the quality of the content they'll get from attending a "paid" conference like DevTeach. Jean-Ren Roy, the conference owner, sent the speakers a few comments he received. Great conference! I especially enjoyed the up and personal nature of the conference. I was able to talk with the presenters. I spent most of my time at the agile track. Having..http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/25/comments-about-devteach-toronto.aspx Switched to Google Reader- May 25, 2008 I've been using IEOutlook as my RSS client for a while now but a couple of weeks ago, a switched to Google Reader. Here are my findings so far: IEOutlook Using IE 7, you can subscribe to RSS feeds. It's very easy as described here:http:www.ie-vista.comrss.html IE7 introduce the concept of a shared RSS store and Outlook 2007 use that store so you can view the blog entries directly in Outlook. You can also manage the feeds directly in...http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/25/switched-to-google-reader.aspx Using Gmail as a backup mail server- May 25, 2008 Let's face it, if you're a small shop, building a redundant Exchange infrastructure is way too hard and way too expensive. So what if you have a simple Exchange setup with just a few users You can prey that you server will never go down and you can plan the reboots after the critical updates installs on Sunday mornings. But why not leverage Gmail itself Yep, why not use Google's Gmail as the backup email server Sounds wacky It is but it works AND it's...http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/25/using-gmail-as-a-backup-mail-server.... Microsoft's in the digital cameras business- May 25, 2008 Via Mark Brown's blog Do you know that Microsoft is in the digital camera business Sure you might say, they have been selling Web cams like this one for a while now. Yep but I'm talking about a real digital camera with impressive features like 216 megapixels that can take these kind of pictures: Here's the beast: Yep, this puppy is designed for aerial photography and Microsoft bougth the German company who designed it back in March. More info here:...http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/25/microsoft-s-in-the-digital-cameras-b... Hanselman Blog Love for nVentive Umbrella- May 20, 2008 Wow! In his blog post for today, Scott Hanselman is talking about Umbrella, a .NET library of helper stuff created by local Montrealers, Franois and rik from nVentive. http:www.hanselman.comblogTheWeeklySourceCode27SuckLessLibraries.aspx Way to go guys!!!http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/archive/2008/05/20/hanselman-blog-love-for-nventive-umb... |