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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 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
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
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
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
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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Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:18 PM

Another HPC Webcast: Reservoir Simulation using Roxar's Tempest on Windows Compute Cluster Server

February 14, 2008, 3:00am Sydney Time Join us for an exciting webcast specific for the Oil and Gas Industry! Predicting the performance of an oil reservoir requires a large amount of computing muscle. This is now available at a reasonable cost using cluster
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:40 PM

Windows Embedded Retail Seminars - Sydney and Melbourne

Don Kerr just sent this through (he, Nelson Lin and and Dave Glover are presenting): Get the competitive edge with Windows Embedded in retail Discover the latest end-to-end solutions for retail at the Windows Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) Seminar.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:18 PM

MapPoint Web Services (and SQL 2k8 Spatial) Presentation for GITA

I'm in Perth as a result of GITA inviting me to speak at their Seminar and Workshops . I presented on MapPoint Web Services and showed a sneak peek of SQL Server 2008 's Spatial capabilities (here's another white paper ). My slides are available here
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:34 PM

MCT Community Summit in Sydney 29-31 Jan 2008

Sharmilla sent this through today. Microsoft proudly presents its first MCT Community Summit 2008 in Sydney, Australia, January 29 – 31st For the very first time, Australia will be hosting its very own MCT Community gathering to gain and share knowledge!
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:49 PM

Craig Bailey asks "Are Free Events Worth The Cost?"

Craig Bailey has a well considered and thought-provoking piece entitled COMMUNITY: Are events worth the cost? , but which he later told me he meant to call COMMUNITY: Are free events worth the cost? I'll leave you to read Craig's answer on his blog, but
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