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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,
Posted by acoat | 10 Comments
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:05 AM

SQL Server 2008 Certification Live Meeting (APAC Friendly Time)

I was in a meeting today with Tania Netterfield and she shared some certification plans with me that I'm itching to announce ... but I have to wait. In the mean time, Trika's announced that they've rescheduled the SQL Server 2008 Certification live meeting.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:22 PM

Another Aussie Success Story - Elcom's gone all 2008 on us

Another place heroes happen ... Craig 's finally announced the results of his labour over the past little while. Elcom , one of Australia's leading Content Management providers, have switched entirely across to the new wave of products Windows Server
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:02 AM

Lots of Pre-Configured Virtual Machines for You to Use

Continuing the trend of making it easy to get your hands on a pre-configured environment to help evaluate and learn the new stuff, there are a number of great (and I mean this in several senses of the word) downloads available for you to grab and fire
Posted by acoat | 4 Comments
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
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Friday, November 16, 2007 11:09 AM

MSDN Webcast: Building Spatial Applications with SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

The word's getting out there (a little too slowly for my liking, but anyway ...): SQL Server 2008 will have spatial data support built-in. The first CTP to have this feature enabled should be CTP5 (due out any day now). In the mean time, Isaac Kunen and
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:16 PM

What, more fishbowl movies?

The last batch of Virtual TechEd Fishbowl movies from TechEd Australia have been posted. Check 'em out! (You'll need to page down at least once because VTE's been to South Africa, Japan, and now Barcelona in the mean time) A Veteran WIT Tells her Story
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:00 AM

Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Virtual Labs

Today, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Virtual Labs (from the MSDN Suite of Virtual Labs ) What's new in Visual Studio Team System Virtual Lab Express is the fastest and easiest way to test drive Microsoft products and the Virtual Lab environment.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:00 AM

Learning Online with Virtual Labs - SQL Server 2005 Upgrade

Today, SQL Server 2005 Upgrade (from the suite of Virtual Labs ) Step into a New SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Virtual Lab for Free It's simple-no complex setup or installation is required to try out Microsoft SQL Server 2005. In these labs, you will increase
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Monday, June 18, 2007 4:03 PM

Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Business Intelligence

There are some great resources available online. I've mentioned these before in passing, but it's worth doing a full series to highlight the this sensational set of virtual labs . Today, Business Intelligence . Step into a New Business Intelligence Virtual
Posted by acoat | 5 Comments
Friday, May 25, 2007 8:18 PM

Slide decks from the Hong Kong Roadmap and Futures Event

I've just spent a couple of days in Hong Kong culminating in 3 presentations to VFP and VB6 developers about strategies for moving their applications forward to take advantage of the platform. The three decks are attached. I posted some of the sample
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:56 PM

OzFox 2007 Kicks off in Sydney

I'm sitting in the keynote of OzFox , Australia's FoxPro Conference. Craig 's kicking things off and is about to introduce Rick Schummer and Doug Hennig . The keynote's called "The Future of VFP", and here are my raw notes from the session. The future
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Monday, February 12, 2007 10:01 AM

New SQL Server CE Portal

Nick Randolph just pinged me to tell me about a new portal he's set up for people using SQL Server CE . His post about it is here . Subscribed .
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:22 PM

What would make you come to Tech•Ed?

Tech•Ed 2006 is coming to Sydney at the end of August and I've been tasked with making it a must-attend event for developers. Apart from world-class technical sessions, what would make you fork out the $1600 (or fight the battle with management for
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:53 PM

Managing SQL Server Express

I showed off integrating SQL Express with VFP at OzFox Lite last weekend, and as part of the presentation (515 KB) , everyone got a copy of SQL Express (as well as all of the other Express products ). I did mention it at the time, but a couple of people
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