Archive for the Category: Education

How to Become a Better Developer?

April 27, 2015 Roger Lacroix

I just read a really good article by Cay Horstmann called ‘How to Become a Better Java Developer’ at InformIT: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2343471 All novice developers, regardless of the programming language they are learning, should read the article (I strongly suggest it). It has a lot of really good pointers for novice developers. Cay Horstmann has written […]

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IBM Hursley to Send 2 Speakers to MQTC v2.0.1.5

April 17, 2015 Roger Lacroix

I have great news. I just received an email from Matthew Whitehead of IBM that said “we will be sending 2 technical speakers from Hursley”. I do not yet know who these speakers are nor the topics that they will be presenting on. I’ll keep you posted. For more information about MQTC, please go to: […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Gold Sponsor: OpenLogix

April 16, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce that OpenLogix is a Gold Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC). For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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‘Restore the Link’ Wins at Western Engineering First-Year Design Showcase

April 16, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Some of you may remember my son, Tyler Lacroix, as a speaker at MQTC v2.0.1.3 for the ‘MQ Telemetry Transport Programming’ session. He is now in first year engineering at the University of Western. Tyler’s group (Dana Zagar, Eric Robinson, Kaylin Haill and Tyler) entered the Engineering First-Year Design Showcase along with nearly 500 students […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Gold Sponsor: TxMQ

April 1, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce that TxMQ is a Gold Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC). For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Platinum Sponsor: Nastel Technologies

March 17, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce that Nastel Technologies is a Platinum Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC). For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Essay on ‘How Time Travelling Theoretically Works’

March 13, 2015 Roger Lacroix

And now for something completely different. 🙂 As some of you know, my wife and I have 5 kids. The reason we moved to London, Ontario is so that our kids could go to University of Western Ontario (aka Western) and live at home. Richard (son #1) is in 2nd year Engineering and Tyler (son […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Silver Sponsor: IoPT Consulting

February 17, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce that IoPT Consulting is a Silver Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC). IoT is the corporate persona of T.Rob Wyatt. Though known as “The MQ Security Guy,” T.Rob also provides deep expertise in MQ Architecture, clustering, high availability, performance tuning, outage resolution and all other administrative aspects of MQ, […]

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MQTC v2.0.1.5 Platinum Sponsor: Avada Software

February 4, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce that Avada Software is a Platinum Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.5 (MQTC). For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2

February 2, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be supported on Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and it will be FREE. Yes, that is correct. Windows 10 will be free for Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support http://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/Windows-Developer-Program-for-IoT I’m thinking that the new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is going to be a hot commodity, so […]

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