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I have had a couple people request Jeff Beehler come back for TechEd just to redeliver his "Lessons learned shipping TFS" presentation. Unfortunately this isn't going to happen, but I did have the audio feed from his presentation in Brisbane and married...

Our very VB MVP and Teched speaker has written a very cool offline teched Session picker and news reader all built on the one click deployment ! I would recomend checking it out! http://www.totalenviro.com/TechEd2006/index.htm If you are running...

In David's MSDN Flash he mentioned Coates and myself would be re-enacting a traditional Turkish wrestling contest(see below). Now i have nothing against the Turkish - heck i eat Turkish bread everyday but anybody who knows Coates (aka the Cabana boy...

For the folks that cannot attend TechEd we have some great news for you! I am working with Ron Jacobs, Greg Low, Paul Glavich, Windows Media Encoder and a JVC handycam to deliver over 20 of the sessions and interviews for your "viewing" pleasure. These...

Had some folks playing with my Windows Sidebar Bar and they indicated Comnet was running very very slowly... Turns out: " Vista's TCP autotuning is having an issue negotiating with some routers and load balancers." To work around this at a command...

I am running Vista build 5520 (and loving it finally) but had a problem installing Expression Interactive Designer. The error you would get was: "You Need to have the July 06 CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 run-time components installed before...

For TechEd we just needed a couple links to web pages and thought –what a great use for the Windows Sidebar! ...

Shea Strickland and Anthony Borton will be presenting their code camp presentation: "A day in the life of a VSTS Developer" It will be held at the Griffith Gold Coast Multimedia Building, from 6.00pm to 8.00pm on Wednesday 30th August. The room...

Eric Deily Program Manager for IIS 7.0 is coming out for TechEd Australia and has graciously agreed to come up to Brisbane for walk through of IIS 7.0. IIS 7.0 is taking the next big step in terms of extensibility, unification with ASP.NET, improved diagnostics...

In my ask the expert posts i mentioned my good friend Jesper was going to be here for Teched...that is unfortunately not going to be the case. So if you were waiting until TechEd to say goodbye this security icon you might want to drop him a note at...

I went out today with one of my regular fishing buddies Iain Burnell to try out my new toy a Cannon Unitroll downrigger . We started out day fishing with our tried and true method of drifting livebait, squid and pilchards down a burley trail and were...

In my post Teched Session: Visual Studio: Leveraging Your Visual Basic 6 Investments with VB 2005 I mentioned not doing the session on the Interop Toolkit as it wasn't available. Well I got a copy from Paul Yuknewicz and I have definitely revised my plans...

I went back to Seattle for a technical conference called Tech Ready which coincided with the opening of Salmon fishing and of course I could not let this opportunity pass me by. Turns out a good buddy, Jesper Johansson had bought a salmon fishing boat...

Following on with the tremendous success of the free WPF hands On lab we are following up with another on Cardspace (formerly known as InfoCard) For more details please see: http://www.ddls.com.au/marketing/microsoft/HOLs/cardspace/

At Teched 2006 I am delivering a session called: "Visual Studio: Leveraging Your Visual Basic 6 Investments with VB 2005" This session focuses on solutions for migrating large forms-based line-of-business applications from VB6 to VB .NET and...