For two years, and a half, I was a proud member of the Developer Platform Evangelist group (DPE) as a Technical Evangelist. During all that time, I shared with you the Open side of Microsoft. From the beginning till the end, I helped developers being successful on the Microsoft stack, changed their perception of the... Read more
Depuis quelques semaines, nous avons (Microsoft) une salle nommée le BizSpark lounge (en anglais) à la maison Notman. Un minimum d’une fois par semaine, je me rends sur place pour rencontrer des entrepreneurs, discuter technologies et tout simplement être présent pour connecter avec les gens du milieu du Web à Montréal. Malgré le fait que j’ai toujours gardé un... Read more
Part of the first event we did a couple of weeks ago in Toronto with our friends of DevTO, HTML5 Toronto, and JavaScript Toronto, I also did a presentation on how to design a Windows Store application. It was a mix of good practices for the UI, the UX, and the integration you should do... Read more
You are so passionate! It’s Saturday morning, a bit of drool near your mouth, your pillow printed on your face, and you are still sleeping? Never mind, Fred will start the day by giving you the same effect as if you were dancing with leprechaun in a pool filled with coffee! HTML5? CSS3? JavaScript? All... Read more
In March, I was in Toronto for a Windows 8 event that DevTO, HTML5 Toronto, and JavaScript Toronto made in collaboration with us, Make Web Not War. The event was a mix of installfest, hackathon, and some presentations. I started the day with an introduction to Windows 8, and how to build amazing applications with HTML5, CSS3,... Read more
This year again, the Confoo conference will happen in Montreal at the end of February. I will be there, again, with the Make Web Not War team as we found that Confoo is a great place to learn, share, meet, and have fun! For the 2013 edition, we will have something special for the attendees, but... Read more
On the last day of 2012, it has been 2 years that I’m a Microsoftie (internal name for a Microsoft employee). As things are related for now, it has also been two years that I’m being paid to do what I like to do for a living, Evangelism! Time goes quickly as I feel like it was... Read more
It’s been a couple of times that people ask me what it take to be an Evangelist. Always in the mindset of saving some keystrokes, I decided to do a blog post about my vision of it. First let’s clarify something: there are many types of Evangelist roles around the world, and the job I... Read more
Dans une galaxie lointaine, Microsoft faisait la guerre à l’Open Source. Aujourd’hui, nous sommes dans un système solaire où la paix règne et l’entraide est de mise. L’étoile de la mort n’est plus, et l’ouverture, ainsi que l’interopérabilité sont les mots d’ordre de la nouvelle république. Dans cette courte présentation, venez en apprendre un peu... Read more
In three days, I will be in my Evangelist role at Microsoft for one year, and a half. It was, and it’s still an amazing experience: awesome job, great company, astonishing co-workers, mind-blowing ecosystem… Actually, there is some excitement about the Evangelist job in Montreal as the friend Sylvain Carle joined Twitter, and he’s moving to San... Read more