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SD West Keynotes Announced - January 31, 2008

The keynotes for SD West have been announced. Can you guess which title got the biggest reaction from me Agility at Scale: Applying Agile Software Development Techniques on Real-World Projects Beautiful Code Is Agile Really Working for You Object-Oriented Programming and Generic Programming and What Else Parallel or Perish!! - Are you Ready The abstract for the last one starts, "A software revolution is underway, triggered by.
http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/SDWestKeynotesAnnounced.aspx

Another Way to Get the Shield on a Button (or Anywhere Else) - January 30, 2008

Daniel Moth alerts us that a new icon has been added to System.Drawing.SystemIcons in SP1 of the .NET Framework 2.0. It's the shield - the one you put on a button by sending a BCM_SETSHIELD message with true as a parameter. Now there's another way to put the shield on things and alert people that what they are about to do will trigger a UAC prompt. Cool! Kate
http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/AnotherWayToGetTheShieldOnAButtonOrAnywhereElse.aspx

Speaking at DevTeach Toronto in May - January 29, 2008

Yes! Finally one of my favourite conferences comes to one of my ... er ... nearest cities! DevTeach, star of Montreal and recently Vancouver, is coming to Toronto and bringing many of my friends and colleagues with it. Im speaking there too... the sessions are at http:www.devteach.comSession.asp. My talk needs its abstract tweaked but the title is good: What's New in Visual C++ 2008. Register before February 1st for the early bird deal. As always, Jean Rene is offering...
http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/SpeakingAtDevTeachTorontoInMay.aspx

Speaking at SD West in March - January 28, 2008

This year for the first time I am speaking at SD West. This is a conference I have watched from afar and often wanted to attend. Im delivering a half day tutorial on Vista Programming, and a new breakout session called Practical Visual Studio Team Systems. In between I will be at Sutter and Stroustrup on C++ and a host of other feed-my-brain sessions that you might also want to attend. Check the full session list and register quickly... the early bird deadline is..
http://www.gregcons.com/KateBlog/SpeakingAtSDWestInMarch.aspx