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Sunday, July 12, 2009 7:24 PM

I’m looking for a boss – is it you?

We’re looking for a new Audience Lead at work. You will be managing many of the evangelists (including me) and marketers in DPE. This is a great  job, with great responsibility and frankly we want to ensure we get the right person for the gig. The
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:16 AM

TechEd ANZ Call for Content Closed

As I said in my update , we've had an overwhelming response to our Call for Content for TechEd Australia and New Zealand. Submissions are now closed and the Track Owners are beavering away making final decisions about which of the huge selection of content
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:54 AM

Upgrade your MCP for only $25 US*

I had a great response from the certification vouchers I gave out three months ago . Unfortunately I don’t have any more of those to give away, but Microsoft Learning have announced an offer that’s almost as good. If you’re a MCP and you got your last
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 3:36 PM

Launching a website from a button in Office

There was a question on one of the internal lists today: "Looking for a no-brainer way to demo just adding a simple button to Office that goes to a URL." It’s going to work a little differently in Word & Excel than it does in Outlook. Word/Excel/Etc
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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, April 07, 2009 4:50 PM

Linked .NET User Group – April Events. SQL 2008, VSTS 2010

Brian Madsen pinged me today, at almost the same time as my automatic notification arrived. This month the Linked .Net Users Group has two great Live Meetings as pare of their ongoing program (recordings of previous sessions are archived here ). Session
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Friday, March 13, 2009 4:06 PM

WPF in a box(s)

We’ve got some sensational WPF training kits just in. There’s some great content in these 2-disk sets and we’re looking to get them out widely. Dave Glover ’s organising a bunch of 1-day training sessions presented by the community . I’ll have a stack
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:30 PM

Tim Sneath : Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application

Tim’s blogged about a cool WPF reference application released onto CodePlex by Microsoft and Vertigo. Family.Show 3 is a family tree program that allows you to quickly enter relationships, key dates and other information. Dave tells me it’s not perfect
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:22 PM

VB6 Runtime Supported in Windows 7

Just got this note from Paul Yuknewicz . There’s an update to the VB6 support page on MSDN . In summary: Since the initial release of this support statement, the Windows 7 operating system has been announced.  This document has been updated to clarify
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:18 PM

Looks like we got ourselves a convoy – Vodcast on VS2010 and .NET 4

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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:08 PM

Want Help with that New Years Resolution? Take a Free* Certification Test

Update – Sorry folks. All these vouchers are gone. I’ll post again if I can get any more. First, Happy New Year to all! Community , Certification , News , Static News , Database Editorial , Smart Client Editorial , Web Development Editorial Anyone who's
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Friday, December 05, 2008 2:05 PM

SharePoint Development – is it too easy?

I was chatting to some community folk in the pub last night after presenting (on Architectural patterns on S+S – slides here ) at the Sydney Deep .NET User Group *. I heard an interesting premise: “Good developers don’t want to do SharePoint development
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:11 PM

The King is Dead! – Long Live the King!

Many of you know that Norbert Haehnel long-time director of my team, Developer and Platform Evangelism, here in Australia recently departed to take up a position at Microsoft in Germany. In fact, his last gig here was to MC the Power To Developers event
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Monday, November 17, 2008 8:01 AM

Dave Does Data (or, "Maybe Pigs do Fly")

SQL guru David Lean has joined the blogosphere and, of course, he’s started with some hardcore SQL Spatial information. Check out these great posts: SQL 2008 Spatial Samples, Part 1 of 9 - How to Learn SQL Spatial SQL 2008 Spatial Samples, Part 2 of 9
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Monday, November 17, 2008 7:49 AM

My Spatial Data presentation at Ignite Spatial

As I said in my MSDN Flash editorial , I had a great time presenting at Ignite Spatial last Wednesday – the atmosphere was great and the format was a lot of fun. I’ve popped the deck up on my skydrive and would love some feedback if you were there. Is
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