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 because it’s too easy”. To me, this passes the...

Following Kleefy 's not so unexpected announcement , I've taken over the Technology of TechEd Track for this year's TechEd Australia event. Here's the spiel that I wrote for the track. Come on a journey behind the scenes at Tech•Ed. This track will take you end-to-end in the technology deployed...

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 Platform & Windows Server 2008: 1 Day JumpStart...

A bunch more of the videos from the Virtual Tech•Ed Fishbowl on the Gold Coast have gone up. Check these out. Highlights from Two Top Tech·Ed Australia Sessions In this entertaining video, Nick Hodge, officially titled “Professional Geek” at Microsoft, gets the scoop from Joel Pobar, on sabbatical from...

In my farewell post to the previous Editors of TechTalkBlogs , I dropped five hints about the next incumbents: There are three of them Two of them are not from 'round here, but the third definitely is. Community-minded doesn't even begin to describe these three . I'm sure you can guess one - it'll be...

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