Guelph Coffee and Code » Google http://www.guelphcoffeeandcode.org A Technology Community in Guelph, Ontario, Canada Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:13:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Getting your feet wet with Open Data http://www.guelphcoffeeandcode.org/2010/05/10/getting-your-feet-wet-with-open-data/ http://www.guelphcoffeeandcode.org/2010/05/10/getting-your-feet-wet-with-open-data/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 20:44:50 +0000 Cory Fowler http://www.guelphcoffeeandcode.org/2010/05/10/getting-your-feet-wet-with-open-data/ This weeks Guelph Coffee and Code event will be focused on starting up the @OpenGuelph Project.  John Rockefeller will be leading the efforts this week as Cory Fowler will be presenting on Windows Azure at the Toronto Visual Basic User Group [TVBUG].

John will be leading a PHP application to bring an open data feed from Vancouver, or Edmonton and overlaying it on a Google or Bing Map.

If you’d like to join in on the PHP Project here are the details:

Venue: The Albion Hotel
Location: 49 Norfolk St. Guelph, Ontario
Date: Thursday May 13, 2010
Time: 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Witness the Power of OpenData

If you’re not too sure what OpenData is watch this TEDTalk, “The Year Open Data went World Wide” by Tim Berners-lee on how Open Data helped the search teams in Haiti after the earthquake.

]]> http://www.guelphcoffeeandcode.org/2010/05/10/getting-your-feet-wet-with-open-data/feed/ 3 CTTDNUG Event: Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility http://www.guelphcoffeeandcode.org/2010/03/25/cttdnug-event-visual-studio-2010-extensibility/ http://www.guelphcoffeeandcode.org/2010/03/25/cttdnug-event-visual-studio-2010-extensibility/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:29:59 +0000 Cory Fowler http://www.guelphcoffeeandcode.org/2010/03/25/cttdnug-event-visual-studio-2010-extensibility/ The Canadian Technology Triangle .NET User Group (CTTDNUG) is based in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.  This group founded by David Totzke, has been providing educational lectures to Microsoft Developers for over 7 years. After nearly a year of inactivity Cory Fowler came on the scene and offered to help revitalize the group. This group runs with a team of 8 volunteers which all lend a hand in their own way, and is held at their generous Location Sponsor Manulife Financial [25 Water St. Kitchener, Ontario].  CTTDNUG meets on the last Wednesday of every month.

This month’s speaker is Marcel Bradea from Infusion Development. Here’s a little bit about Marcel and his presentation.

Bio

Marcel Bradea is an eccentric, young, energetic software consultant who is passionate about technology and its impact on the world. With a UX-driven philosophy to developing technologies, this approach to software is all about sophisticated simplicity. A proponent of TDD/BDD, collaboration, creative atmospheres, grassroots innovation; Marcel enjoys influencing the social factors that produce phenomenon’s within organizations. A former Google employee and aspiring serial entrepreneur, Marcel sees the world of software as ripe with opportunity. His past work includes multi-touch technologies (Microsoft Surface), social networks and distribution systems, and his outlook towards the future promotes the evolution of computer interaction, of software development, and the inter-weaving of software outside the traditional uses of desktop computing.

Abstract

What is new in the world of Visual Studio extensibility? With a completely rebuilt editor at its core, a brand new Extensions Manager to deliver extensions straight through the IDE and the recently released MEF add-in framework to support it all, Visual Studio 2010 unlocks a new direction for the development experience on the .NET platform. We will be exploring the extensibility options available and taking a first-hand dive into building a Visual Studio 2010 editor add-in. Bring your curiosity. Bring your long-awaited wishes and ideas!

Registration

Event Date: Wednesday March 31, 2010.
Event Time: 6pm – 8:30pm
Additional Information + Registration: http://www.cttdnug.org

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