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Friday, April 17, 2009 4:10 PM

Want to go to JAOO in Sydney or Brisbane next month?

The JAOO conference in Sydney May (5)7-8 and Brisbane May (9)11-14 looks great. The speaker list reads like a who’s-who with Greg Willis, Nick Hodge, Joel Pobar and a whole lot more . We’ve managed to find a comp ticket to each of these events to give
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:40 PM

Ramp yourself up with Ramp Up

I know, getting training budget is hard at the moment, but you really want to make yourself as employable as possible. Help is at hand (in fact, it’s only a mouse click away). There are, of course, a whole bunch of Virtual Labs you can do (for developers
Posted by acoat | 4 Comments
Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:34 AM

You want content? How about an Azure Services Training Kit? Azure Videos on Channel 9?

Hot on the heels of other great training kits , we’ve released the Azure Services Training Kit . From the internal announcement email: Today we are making available the first preview release of the Azure Services Training Kit.  The Azure Services
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:10 AM

How do you become a "Successful Developer"?

Fin asked a few of us inside and outside Microsoft for tips in becoming a successful developer. I’m not sure that she expected the deluge (or verbosity) of responses – I think she only had about 300 words to fill in total – she asked 15 people so it turns
Posted by acoat | 6 Comments
Sunday, May 25, 2008 6:43 PM

More TechEd Conversations

One of the tools we're using at TechEd Australia this year to facilitate the Connect pillar is called (aptly enough) TechEd Connect. Here's the US version of the card I can insert on my blog and use to find like-minded geeks to hang out with while I'm
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:40 PM

Get twice as certified and help win your User Group $3000 worth of prizes

As some of you know, I'm a big fan of the certification system . Well, there are only 11 days left of MS Learning's great offer to give you a free exam voucher for each MCP/MCTS credential you get before 31 May. You'll need to prove you passed by sharing
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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
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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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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