Ozzie Rules Blogging

I realize i have not been doing much fishing blogging lately for which i apologize! But i do have a very good excuse, all my free time has been spent actually fishing! Since December i have been going out every day possible and one day in early December...

Yesterday i had my weekly One on One with Frank and i mentioned wanting to go to the PDC Oct 2-5 -he indicated that would be great idea! -Yeah! I realize this is very early days but if you are Australian and plan on going to the PDC drop me a line...

I know the PDC is a ways out but a couple people have already indicated they are going to the PDC with me! So far we have Joel Pobar Mitch Denny Adam Cogan Drop me a line if you are going and from Australia!

Yesterday I fell victim to a trial edition of Team Foundation Server rudely up and expiring . Unfortunately there wasn’t a repair option under “Add remove programs” to turn it into workgroup mode. And I didn’t have easy access to the internet to grab...

Late last year i was using my Dell laptop for a Team Foundation Server and having issues with it not going into hibernation...In my case it turned out to be the ATI video driver i was using. Uninstalling this driver fixed my problem but there other folks...

Queensland VSTS User Group www.qvstsug.org Anthony Borton [anthonyb@abtraining.com.au] Brisbane Infrastructure Group: www.aususergroups.org/big - Andrew Dugdell BizTalk user Group: www.briztalk.org/ - Queensland MSDN User Group: www.qmsdnug.org...

Melbourne 22 February 2007 Register Now! Sydney 27 February 2007 Register Now! Brisbane 1 March 2007 Register Now! 8.45 - 10.15 Keynote IT Business Decision Maker 10.15 - 10.30 Morning Tea 10.30 - 11.15 New Opportunities with the Windows Vista development...

Last week we had our weekly conference call and one of the agenda items were "Keynote" speaker. During the call we each agreed to put forth our own suggestions (below). If you have a person you would like to see as our keynote drop me a line and i will...

Well almost. It was Janurary 12 1967 in San Bernadino California Charles William Sterling II was born! So i guess I am not offically 40 until Friday but i have taken a tradition from the Arrigo Family and am celebrating a birthday week! So far this week...

More than one customer has asked me about “Development environment Virtualization”. Basically this scenario consists in the ability of a developer to log on a “Terminal Server” or run a Virtualized environment and have access to everything he/her needs...

Well Kleefy tagged me with the meme challenge and i promised him i would deliver. So here goes nothing. 1. I suffer from stagefright so badly i once fainted during a presentation. 2. I once attended a formal microsoft evening event wearing a shawl passing...

A local non profit organization wanted to create a website primarily for forums and discussions....I indicated i would be more than happy to volunteer some of my time if they needed a hand. They were ecstatic and indicated if i could add a small section...

I have been having challenges creating Windows Communication Foundation (WFC) Clients on my Windows Vista computer using Svcutil.exe and just found the cause: It was due to the identity tag the SVCUTIL utility is adding to the clients app.config. Removing...

As you may have seen David Lemphers will be changing his role and will be focusing on Microsoft Dynamics . As a result we needed somebody to cover Western Australia -and I instantly volunteered! In talking to Dave he had a plan where he was coming out...

Big congratulations to Tracey Fellows ! Tracey is currently the director of BMO, a treat to work with and I am sure will do a great job! Tracey will be replacing Steve Vamos and starting her new role Feb.

In my earlier post i mentioned the possibility of going up to Townsville Feb 22 to have a Windows Vista Office 2007 launch with ACS Townseville. ACS have just confirmed the date! So if you want to attend, please send email to the ACS Townsville Chapter...

Ben Maden just created a "Web Designer User Group" and is having our Scott Barnes be the first presenter! If Web Design work is your cup of tea then this meeting is NOT to be missed! To RSVP please see their site: http://webdesign.meetup.com/429/?gj=sj5...

A while back i did a webcast called: Worlds Easiest Windows Communication Foundation Service . This webcast is part II and continues on by creating a client in Windows Presentation Foundation to call this Service using the utiltiy: svcutil.exe You can...

In response to my post "Spending more time in Perth" I was asked: "These are good. It’d be nice to have a session on dev in Sharepoint if possible – maybe April?)" Thanks for that Alan, As for a Sharepoint presentation/tour great idea the reason I didn...

I have set up a conference call for the Camp Vista event in Perth. If i have missed any of the user groups/members that want to be invited please drop me a line and i will add you!

I just read Michael Still's blog post " That's one way of doing it... " and i have to agree with him it is kinda creepy (and sad) that the US is using a secret "hand shake" arrangement for submitting Teched papers. Luckily in Australia we have not done...

Following my Townsville ACS invitation the Brisbane ACS Developer SIG has invited me to present at the Brisbane ACS meeting. Similar to the Townsville meeting I will be covering What is new for the developer in Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office...

Yesterday i had a neighbor asked: "Should I upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.0." I replied -"Absolutely! I am not certain how i surfed the net before tabbed browsing!" This got me thinking about my own internet habits with tabs and i realized most of the...

The Windows Vista marketing team asked me to help create a Tasmania Windows Vista Launch event. Fortunately for the Tasmanians the first thing i did was mention this to Dave Glover who begged me to let him run this event. Dave is just starting to put...

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