Tomorrow (Friday 14 May) is your last chance to buy early bird tickets at $195 including GST for REMIX Australia 2010. We really hope you can join us to hear more about the future of the web. There’s plenty of content on developing for Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, Azure and and so much more. Visit the...

As you may have seen on Michael’s blog , REMIX10 has been announced. Please find below the invitation and keep and eye on the REMIX Website for more information and the latest news.

Join us for this MSDN Book Club to discuss “ Building on the Windows 7 User Experience to Delight Your Customers ” When? Friday 26th March 2010 @ 12-1pm Sydney time. Click here to add the event to your diary Join the meeting Chosen video to review? click here to watch the TechEd video before...

Our Azure Lead, Greg Willis , was busy last week with the Australian Launch Event on Tuesday 23rd here in Sydney!   Our keynote speaker, David Chappell , delivered an excellent presentation on cloud platforms in general which was very well received by the crowd in both Sydney and Melbourne...

We hope you can join us for our second MSDN Australia Book Club. What’s the Book Club? A regular LiveMeeting community discussion on a chosen presentation or video. This time we’ll be joined by Vijay Rajagopalan to discuss Developing Windows Azure Applications for PHP Ruby and Java using Eclipse "...

When? Tuesday 9th February 2010 at 6.30pm Where? University of Sydney: New Law School Auditorium Who? Developers who are interested in hearing Robbie Bach’s (President, Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division) view on the future of technology and entertainment How do I register? I’m a...

Optimise for and more! Microsoft announced today a new extension for IIS: the SEO Toolkit . Once installed, you can review your website via the IIS Manager to make tweaks fast. The SEO Toolkit includes detailed analysis and search engine friendly suggestions which may help to improve the relevance of...

Most of the Aussie DPE Team are on LinkedIn and I thought I’d create a local MSDN group for Australian Developers to enable some discussion. Click here to join. We’re going to use LinkedIn to ask Developers if there’s interest in participating in the Azure platform community technology preview...

Big news today from ScottGu’s blog is that there will be another public preview release of VS2010 and .NET 4 before shipping the final product. Read on for an excerpt from Scott's blog for why… In October we shipped the public Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. The feedback on the...

The Search is on... we are looking for Australia’s Certification Heroes! We want to hear from you if becoming Microsoft Certified has helped change your career by making you more valuable in your current role or by helping you gain a promotion. Every month we will be showcasing a new Australia Certification...

Sarah in the Partner Team is organising a lap around the map for a series of Innovation Days. The morning sessions is on emerging opportunities for the web, mobile and beyond: To deliver innovative experiences to attract and retain loyal customers. To create products and services that are integral to...

Check out this set of nifty Windows Server 2008 R2 training tidbits for developers:   New R2 Learning Center   Explore this significant Windows Server release via a self-paced training course of videos and hands-on-labs with a focus on performance, web, management, and other server solution...

Microsoft announced today the immediate availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers with general availability following on 21 October. Check out and download Beta 2 Featured overviews and walkthroughs Tell us what you think so...

AIMIA is calling for entries into the 16th Annual AIMIA Awards, which celebrate the very best examples of digital media in Australia and New Zealand.  Known affectionately as “The Amys” by the industry, the awards showcase work undertaken by Australia’s Interactive Media and Digital Content sectors...

  Video: Steve Ballmer announcing BizSpark at the Developer Liberation Day, Thursday 6 November, Sydney, Australia ( click here for the official video) Steve Ballmer announced Microsoft BizSpark during his visit to Australia, following the success of DreamSpark , which allows students to download...

The winners for DevSta 2008 have been decided! Congratulations to Michael Minutillo and Jarred Sargent!   You can view their entry and find out more about the top 5 winning entries on the DevSta website now!

Our CEO, Steve Ballmer, is in town on 6 November. If you would like to join us, please I would like the registration details for the Steve Ballmer Developer Event please">email me for details on how to register. I would like the registration details for the Steve Ballmer Developer Event please.">

  Do you have any developers who need the latest information on creating mobile applications? Attended this conference to receive: Virtual machine software for use in the conference labs Access to all presentations and codes for 30 days after the event Conference gifts - including registration gift...

This must be event season, with the rush to get in before Christmas. Readify have published their latest RDN road show all about .NET; TFS; Silverlight etc.  David Burela is also being interviewed for the keynote, who is the Imagine Cup 2008 Winner. What? RDN Dev Days typically have three of Readify...

The dates for our ISV road show have now been published and we’re coming to a city near you. What? “Get your feet on the ground, head in the clouds” The day will concentrate on important announcements released at October’s Professional Developer's Conference , and will focus on our Software...

We are about to announce our next ISV Innovation Day road show across Australia scheduled for the end of November 2008.  The main theme this year is Software plus Services , which I’m sure won’t surprise many of you.  We’ll be using content from the Professional Developers Conference (PDC)...

Due to popular demand, the PDC2008 Early Bird Discount has been extended. Register by 11:59 PM Pacific Time, Monday, 8th September and save $200 off the Full Conference Registration of $2,395. It's going to be an exciting conference with some content. Watch this space for dates for our ISV Innovation...

Popfly has been nominated for a CNET Webware 100 award . Right now, we’ve been selected as one of the 300 finalists by CNET editors. As you can imagine, we’re pretty pleased just to be nominated, but we’d be more pleased if we actually won and to do that, we need your help: we need you to vote . They...

Details on ReMix Australia have been announced. The details are: 1 day in 2 cities 20 th May in Sydney 22 nd May in Melbourne Opening Keynote followed by 2 streams (technical track is owned by Michael Kordahi and the creative track is owned by ShaneMo so give them your feedback on what you need) Tickets...