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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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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
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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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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:12 PM

SQL Server 2008 Readiness Events in Australia (and heaps more technologies too)

Greg   beat me to it . The Australian Partner Readiness site has three great SQL2008 sessions listed SQL 2008 for Developers SQL 2008 BI - JumpStart SQL 2008 : IT PRO Admin : 1 Day JumpStart But that's just the start of it. Check these out: Application
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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
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:50 PM

DotNet-U: Great training you can take and give

We had the pleasure last week of hosting Doug Turnure , the Developer Evangelist from Atlanta, Georgia. Doug and I started at Microsoft around the same time (I think he pre-dates me by about 6 months) and we've corresponded a few times but this was the
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:00 AM

Free eLearning Courses Available Online

I'm on the way to Redmond (about an hour out from San Francisco) and clearing my backlog of "Blog This" from my email. This is a beaut! There are some great eLearning courses available for you to do free of charge including: Collection 5125:
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 6:44 AM

Australian Imagine Cup 2008 web site is now live

This just in from Nick Ellery: Imagine Cup is the world’s premier technology competition for students. Each year, students are provided with a theme – this year, the theme is extremely topical and relevant – “Imagine A World Where
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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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Thursday, October 18, 2007 2:47 PM

Smart People in SUITS

I had the pleasure last Tuesday of attending the Sydney University IT Society ( SUITS ) End of Semester Dinner. Our Student Partner at USyd, Ed , was kind enough to invite me and I was made to feel very welcome by the staff and students. I love hanging
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:02 PM

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

26-Sep Updated table formatting "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" Isaac Newton 1676* As a Developer Evangelist, I'm often talking about the value of "the Platform" and sometimes it takes a little while for
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:23 PM

More Great .NET 3.0 Training in Australia

I just got this note from Faith Rees about some exciting .NET 3.0 training being conducted by our partner, Readify . Contact them directly for more info. Juval Lowy’s Windows Communication Foundation MasterClass– Registrations close 21 September Juval
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Friday, August 24, 2007 6:31 PM

Sydney Business and Technology User Group this Wednesday

Craig Bailey 's just emailed me a reminder about the upcoming meeting of the Sydney Business and Technology User Group, this month featuring Steve Herzberg from NRG Solutions ( session details ) and Deon Taylor from SDM ( session details ). I'm really
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Friday, July 20, 2007 5:55 AM

Learning Online with Virtual Labs - Microsoft Office Virtual Labs

Today, a great series of labs for developing Office solutions, including a bunch of brand-new labs on Visual Studio Tools for Office. Microsoft Office Virtual Labs (from the MSDN Suite of Virtual Labs ). The 2007 Microsoft Office System delivers an entirely
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