Windows Phone Developer Deep Dive Workshop This workshop is presentation style and will dive deep in to creating amazing user experiences with Expression Blend for Windows Phone, tips and tricks for managing application lifecycle, engaging end users with smart Live Tiles, optimising app performance and...

BizSpark Network Partner iPitch.com.au is running a “How to Startup” Workshop on Tuesday 19 th , April in Sydney. For the full day, tickets are $195. There are only 20 tickets to the workshop – a small group, so they can provide personal attention to each attendee. More information and tickets here ...

Windows phone 7 Acceleration - Briefing Invitation   Abstract Join us to attend one of three Windows Phone acceleration events. Nick Randolph from Built To Roam once again will be sharing his wealth of knowledge of the Phone 7 platform.   This time around we’re hitting Sydney, Melbourne and...

It's camping season! function WebCamps () { Day1.Learn(); Day2.Build(); } Interested in learning how new innovations in Microsoft's Web Platform and developer tools like ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 can make you a more productive web developer? If you're currently working with PHP, Ruby, ASP...

You asked, we listened! In the coming weeks there are a series of events for our partners & customers in Adelaide & Perth. Perth and Adelaide SQL 2008 R2 events – New Era of Data Management and Business Intelligence SQL Server 2008 R2 released to RTM on April 21st and will officially launch on...

Across the weekend, we selected 10 companies (from the submissions we received) to participate in the first Australian BizSpark Camp. We decided to focus this first event around Azure technologies, so asked the teams to submit how they thought they might use Azure for their solution. The event kicked...

With several successful Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Weeks under our belt ( Azure Atlanta , Win7 Boston , Win7 Reston , CRM Reston , CRM Boston , Win 7 Irvine , Mobility Mountain View ,), we are pleased to announce Microsoft BizSpark Camp for Windows Azure in Sydney! We hope you’re tapping into the...

The SQL Server team are doing a great job of making sure developers get access to all the resources they need to take advantage of the great tool being released in the upcoming SQL 2008 R2 release. The Developers Training Kit is now available for download - Get it here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid...

This series is focused on helping .Net developers get up and running to be able to build CRM customisations quickly! Lets get set up! There are many developers who have been working with .Net for the last few years, that are now finding that their companies are either implementing CRM, or deciding to...

If you missed the presentation Carol Bowman & I did at the Australian Partner Conference on the Gold Coast last week, it incorporated a listing of the key resources & tools that Microsoft provides to help ISV’s along their way to ultimately achieving a best of breed solution that can be awarded...

I received the official notification about this event in in inbox today & thought I would share it as I think its a fantastic event you do not want to miss! Not only because of the great content, but its a chance to meet some of the AWESOME Dynamics CRM team, like Bryan Nielson , Director of Worldwide...

I am often asked by partners about the upcoming training sessions and how they find out about what’s available. I know that this information is often buried deep within the Partner website so the Partner team have been working to expand the communications channels to help partners more easily discover...

Apart from the Virtual training event i mentioned yesterday, we also have some great Instructor lead training sessions coming up in both Sydney & Singapore. Once again the charismatic Chris Auld will be travelling around to deliver these training sessions for us. Having already had a sneak peak at...

We know that differentiating your line-of-business applications from those of your competitors has never been more important. If you’ve considered using Dynamics CRM as a line-of-business platform, Silverlight or WPF to build compelling experiences, Office or SharePoint to build on the familiar skills...

I have been fortunate enough to be involved in organising a series of FREE seminars in the Asia Pacific Region that will help you understand how we can help you build Line-of-Business applications.  We’ll be covering building compelling experiences (using WPF and Silverlight ), building on familiar...

If your New Years Resolution is to upgrade your skills in Dynamics or even to start learning more about the Dynamics suite – then the good news is that there are a stack of training sessions lined up to help! Course Title Date Location More Info Microsoft Dynamics GP 10 Certification Bootcamp (includes...

I remember back when I was first trying to learn Dynamics CRM, it was really hard to find good resources, examples and training material. Our company wasn’t yet a Microsoft Partner, or a member of Partner Source where a lot of the best CRM content was locked away – and most of what I could find ended...

A few weeks ago David Lean asked me if I ever read technical  books. Without a seconds consideration I said – “No way – I look online for everything I need, when I need it!”, to which he quickly replied – “I guess you wont be wanting this then!” and went to put the Programming Microsoft Dynamics...

Tonight I was chatting with David Musgrave – Microsoft’s resident GP expert who quite rightly was on his soapbox about the lack of training afforded to ERP developers! As he says in his post : So, invest in your people and the skills they need.  The investment will be returned many times over and...