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Friday, May 16, 2008 7:44 PM

Community is where you make it

As my blog tag says, it's all about community. Just before I went dark to go on the Wave Launch tour, I got a note from Daniel Vaughan to say he was doing a presentation to a User Group inside the firewall at his work (btw, Daniel's blogged about the
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:48 PM

Microsoft launches RoboChamps, a worldwide simulated robotics competition platform built on .NET

It's seems like competitions are the flavour of the month. A couple of weeks ago we launched a world-wide competition for people building simulated robots. This is "... a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:32 PM

Starting the conversation at Tech.Ed

The three themes of Tech.Ed this year are Learn , Explore and Connect . For me, at least, much of the value of attending a technical conference is to get to meet and interact with like-minded geeks and subject matter experts. I was having a chat with
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:20 AM

Registrations open for Tech.Ed Australia

It's alive! The registration site for Tech.Ed Australia is live. Don't miss out on the great Early Bird special offer. There's a couple of great features of this Silverlight-enabled page. There are testimonials from Tech.Ed alumni and two consolidated
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 6:51 PM

Visual Studio 2008 certifications demystified

Still catching up on my blogging, so this one's a little old. The irrepressible Trika blogged about the VS2008 series of certifications and included a bunch of different paths through the tracks based on your current certification status. There's also
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Friday, May 02, 2008 10:13 AM

MS Press Online Store now open in Australia with discounts for UG members until the end of May

I got this note from Tania Netterfield, our partner manager for CPLS and the local MS Press representative. Hello all, I’m delighted to advise you that our press distributor Woodslane in conjunction with MS has developed an Microsoft Online Press
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Friday, May 02, 2008 9:23 AM

US Tech.Ed Session Catalogues Live

As I said , I'm off to Tech.Ed Developers in Orlando at the beginning of next month (and our event manager, Fran Barlow, is off to Tech.Ed IT Professionals the following week). I also noted that the track owners for Tech.Ed New Zealand and Australia are
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:56 PM

Help us find this year's most Innovative Teachers

Eight teachers who use technology in innovative ways to support learning will win a trip to KL next year to compete in the APAC awards. The winner will also receive a laptop computer for themselves and four HP laptops and a printer for their school. The
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:56 PM

Record your Demos Happen { Here } demo with Community Clips

Jensen Harris (of " The Story Of The Ribbon " fame) announced it, Allan Da Costa Pinto has pointed to it already (as, of course, has Frank - does he never sleep?). There's a great new public site for the (previously internal only) Microsoft
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:43 AM

Speaking at the Perth SharePoint User Group - 20 May

I'll be presenting at the Perth SharePoint User Group on May 20 on Delivering Systems that the Users Don't Hate Why Office and SharePoint will change the way you work A fundamental change to the user experience  of Office and SharePoint has occurred.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 7:05 PM

Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Released

During my Windows Development session at the Heroes Happen { 2008 } launch shows around the country, I said that there was feature pack coming "soon" that would enhance VC++ 2008. Well, "soon" has arrived. I got a note in my inbox
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Monday, April 28, 2008 10:40 AM

Demos Happen { Here } - Win a trip to TechEd in Sydney and/or LA

Note: this competition is open to Australian Residents aged 18 years or over on or before 1 September 2008 One of the cool things we're doing as part of the launch of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 is running the first Microsoft
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 8:53 AM

Off to TechEd Developers in Orlando

As part of our quest to source the best speakers and content possible for TechEd in New Zealand and Australia at the beginning of September this year, I'm off to the TechEd Developers conference in Orlando Florida at the beginning of June (and yes, before
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:12 AM

Out of the darkness - Tech.ED New Zealand and Australia Track Owners

I went dark exactly two months ago and I'm finally coming up for some blogging air. Look out for lots of posts over the next little while as I clear my "Blog This" backlog. Yesterday at one of Greg Low's CodeCampOz pre-conf sessions I rattled
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:15 PM

Want to stay connected to the Aussie DPE Team?

I was chatting with Darren the other day and he said that he's been feeling increasingly disconnected from the DPE team here in Australia since Frank left, and also now that Chuck 's gone. Putting aside the fact that they're impossible shoes to fill,
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