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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:21 AM

TechEd Attendance Competition Winner

As part of the lead-up to this year’s TechEd in Sydney, I offered a prize to the person who could come the closest to guessing the final attendance number (without going over). I had a larger number of entries than I expected and the guesses ranged from
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:54 AM

Find like-minded folk at Tech.Ed

One of the three key themes at Tech.Ed in Sydney this year is Connect (the other two are Learn and Explore ). Connecting with like-minded people is a huge benefit at an event like this and you could set yourself up a complex contact management system,
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:01 AM

He’s Arrived! Andrew Parsons has Entered the Building

Long time community guy, aut hor , gamer and geek Andrew Parsons has finally come onboard as our Academic Developer Evangelist, a role that’s been sorely missed since Tyson ’s departure a few years back. What’s more, not only has he arrived, he’s already
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Monday, August 11, 2008 1:06 PM

Demos Happen { Here } – State finals starting in Sydney tonight.

This evening (Monday 11 Aug) is the first of the Demos Happen { Here } state finals. We’ll be kicking off at 6pm at Microsoft HQ in North Ryde. Subsequently we’ll be holding finals in the MS offices in Canberra - Aug 12 6pm Melbourne – Aug 13 6:30pm Brisbane
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:21 PM

TechEd Fever – Guess the number of paying attendees at TechEd Australia and Win!

Now for a bit of TechEd fun. Maybe I’ve been on too many aeroplanes recently (in fact, I know I’ve been on too many aeroplanes recently), but after chatting with Ben, I’ve come up with a little competition (open to folks living in Australia only). Guess
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Friday, August 01, 2008 3:21 AM

VSTO/OBA Thought Leadership and Clarity from Craig Bailey

Craig’s been doing some great work around OBA and VSTO on his blog lately. As well as his recent presentation at SBTUG , he’s posted CLARITY: Office Business Applications (OBA) VSTO: VS2008 SP1 enhancements OBA: Office Business Applications resources
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:54 AM

VSTO v3 Deployment Session

I had a great time over the last couple of days hanging out with Christen Boyd and some of the other folk from the VSTO team here in Seattle. This culminated yesterday with a webcast of the session I’ll be doing here next week and then again at TechEd
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:44 PM

New Australian Windows Mobile Blog

Don Kerr and Rick Anderson are blogging now at http://blogs.msdn.com/wmoz . It’s going to be a great source for news and tips about the Windows Mobile platform if the first couple of posts are anything to go by. Of course, the lads have already blogged
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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
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:31 PM

TechEd Technology Sneak Peek – tonight only

This evening at the Sydney .NET User Group , in addition to the great session that Nick Randolph will be doing as well as the Demo Comp demos , we’ll be testing some of the cool RFID technology that will be in use at TechEd . Come along and be part of
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:38 PM

TechEd Day 2 – The Conversation Continues

See also Day 1 and Day 0 Another fun day at TechEd in the US started with a great session from Amanda Silver on VB and LINQ.I then spent a couple of hours in the massive Hands On Labs area, where there were 600 colour-coded machines set up. While I was
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:11 AM

Deploying VSTO v3 Applications - Session at our internal conference

I just got confirmation that the session I proposed for our internal technical conference, TechReady has been accepted. Deploying VSTO v3 Applications Building compelling, contextual applications on the Microsoft Office platform has become much simpler
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:03 AM

TechEd Day 1 - Developers, Developers, D-d-d-d-d-developers

This is as close as I got to BalmerBot at the TechEd keynote on Day 1. I enjoyed, but wasn't blown away by the content. I'm not sure whether this is indicative of the way we generally have access to most information before a conference or event or whether
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:51 AM

Tech.Ed US Day 0 - The Journey Begins

After 28-odd hours (and some of them were very odd) of travel, I arrived in Orlando ready to start the TechEd experience. After a brief sleep, I declined the complimentary buffet breakfast (served on the very best Styrofoam) at the hotel and jumped on
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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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