After Tech Ed, a number of technical women decided that they wanted to get together a little more regularly, and so they decided to build a community around girly geeks - the term used in the UK for similar events there. I've had a bit of mail sitting in my inbox for a few weeks from Amanda that says...

The Women in Technology evening at Tech Ed has generated quite a bit of discussion and even momentum . Apart from the evening being the highest scoring session at Tech Ed, it has also inspired a number of women to start a girl geek dinner group in New Zealand. If you are interested in keeping in touch...

Tech Ed is done. It was a great event and before you forget I want to remind you of something you may have heard about at Tech Ed and if you didn’t its critical that you understand it. One of the lunchtime sessions we had was around the changes to Daylight saving. This year we are changing when daylight...

The Women in Technology dinner went off really well. The team did a fantastic job and everyone was engaged as soon as they walked in the evening - and the chatter began. The panelists did a fantastic job. Here's who they wer e and how they related to those in the room: Eileen Brown : Exchange Server...

As previously mentioned we are having a Women in Technology evening on Monday August 13 at Sky City in Auckland. This event is being organized in conjunction with Tech Ed so if you have a ticket for Tech Ed - this is a free event. If you don't have a ticket but would love the opportunity to network with...

The last editorial I wrote about Visual Studio 2008's multi-targeting support , however as the Launch coming in February is about Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 I thought I might shed some light on what is coming in Windows Server for developers too. Specifically I want to focus on Web Developers...

While I'm up to my neck in Tech Ed at the moment, I thought I'd drop you a couple of little tidbits... Firstly we are over 30% sold in terms of total tickets sold, but we've already sold 60% of our early bird tickets (remember how it works this year? ) - and we haven't even started advertising yet...