Thankyou for contacting me, unfortunately I won’t be able to respond until Monday the 3rd of April as I will be going ‘nanas at the 2006 Formula 1 Foster’s Australian Grand Prix where I will get to see both Formula One practice laps...

Pretty exciting stuff around the corner with Lego getting ready to release the next version of their Mindstorms product, appropriately named Mindstorms NXT . Quick features include: USB and BT support 3 servo motors (the current model only had...

Yes, that’s 4 dublya’s, and Tim ’s only starting from what I can tell! http://timwragg.blogspot.com/2006/03/office-and-world-wide-web-war.html Tim’s post got me thinking, all to often the web grabs the latest darling technology...

I installed Zoo Tycoon 2 on the weekend, in an attempt to unwind. Let me tell you, when you’re Zebra’s are pregnant, and your Jaguar’s need more room, and people are complaining because the line to the toilet is too long, relaxation...

I was at a presentation last week for a customer who was considering using VS Pro 2005 with the full complement of N[tools] (and Cruise Control) over Visual Studio Team System for their next evolution of SDLC management. It’s a prickly subject...

Davo is going to be holding the fort at the CITC in Melbourne next Tuesday, delivering what is surely going to be the Atlas presentation to end them all. http://msevents-as.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=120467971&Culture=en-AU ...

Got an email this morning from Virtual Server Virtuoso Dugie , pointing me to this post by RoudyBob about “Software Companies Don’t Get User Communities” . It’s a good read, and got me thinking about the root of the statement...

Davo shot me this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover/archive/2006/03/11/549400.aspx Pete Myers is running a series of 2–day instructor-led hands-on workshops (could I fit anymore hyphen-ated constructs in!!!?) and although it’s a...

Holy shmoly! Check out this contest! http://www.madeinexpresscontest.com/ So the rules for the busy coder goes: 1. Think of a killer application idea and submit it NO LATER THAN 11:59pm April 30th, 2006 Pacific Time (for Hauzees that’s...

Found this on Grant’s blog. If you’re setting up BizTalk in Virtualwood (or on the metal), you may not have/want/need access to the Internet, so getting all your pre-reqs installed may be problematic. http://granth.squarespace.com/blog...

Just downloaded the March CTP Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit off GotDotNet , and all I can saw is “Bloody Oath!” . It is unreal! In fact, I just came from presenting at the Wesfarmers IT Conference in Perth last week, and one of...

For all those based in Perth , Australia , I will be running two sets of training next week at Dimension Data Learning Services @ 19 Pier Street in Perth . Now, I know it’s very very VERY late notice, but the past few weeks have been too crazy for coolaid...