Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)"

Well here are a few photos from the day, courtesy of Chris Hewitt's mobile phone, awesome:-) There were just over 80 people for the day, everyone had their own PC with all the labs prefigured and raring to go!! Topics covered included SQL Server 2005...

Well I learnt something new, lots of languages use a ',' rather than a '.' as the decimal separator and until last night I hadn't really thought through all the implications of that. For a bit of fun (in a dev geek sort of why) I wrote and published a...

Convert It 2.6 has now been posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover/articles/category/11231.aspx . " Convert It V2.2 " for your Windows Mobile Smartphone It runs on a Windows Mobile Smartphone with the Compact Framework V1 installed on it which...

There are a stack of them available for download so check them out at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/events/teched2005/handsonlabs.aspx

I reckon this is still a fairly well kept secret, but if you are on the move and want to get on to MSN IM (Instant Messager), for example at airport internet terminals then check out the web (html/AJAX) based client at http://webmessenger.msn.com/default...

From " IT Digest - Ingenious Tejas' Digest Blog " Please post a comment on Tejas' blog if you can make it!! Hello Melbourians, After a enjoyful Geek Dinner last month, it is time to plan for the geek dinner for the month of September or early October...

In case you missed Frank's posting on this then read on and remember this offer runs to Oct 31st 2005 only!! If you are considering moving to the full VSTS then you need to check out the special offer currently running for MSDN Universal. (All Pricing...

Well I've not disappeared but am currently going around the world (the wrong way according to Dr Neil :-)) so my body clock really has no idea where it's at:-) The PDC in LA was just awesome and I cant wait to get back to Oz to tell you all about it...

check out http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/uninstall/preRTMuninstall/default.aspx

David asked us to get the word out and it defo looks interesting... I caught up with Keith Frampton during the RMIT Industry Advisory Committee meeting last night, and he told me that he has now officially released the Master of Enterprise Architecture...

Great first day with a few surprises!! My favourites were:- LINQ - Now this is well cool!! It's the ".NET Language Integrated Query" Project, check out Anders Hejlsberg Channel 9 chat and the MSDN article here (esp the LINQ Whitepaper ) AJAX...

For a useful support article on optimising performance of Virtual PC environments then check out this link .

Just spotted this on the PDC 2005 site ! Bill's PDC keynote is always an awesome session and (hopefully) you'll get a real sense of direction. Bill Gates' PDC 2005 keynote will be broadcast live on the Web. Watch it live on September 13, 2005 at...

Check it out, you know it'll be good for ya!! see http://www.sqldownunder.com/ - esp if you saw the SQL salary profile from Philip Beadle's TechEd Oz 2005 "Hour of Power" talk.

David Gristwood (Crispie Gristie) a mate of mine from the UK did some time recently in Redmond working with the ASP.NET team and he's put together a cool white paper on " Understanding and Extending the Site Navigation System in ASP.NET 2.0 " defo worth...

Ahh, enough Windows Mobile V5.0 Smartphone stuff for the day - this found it's way in to my inbox, probably not too politically correct but a wee bit of fun that is doing the rounds at the moment!! Oh and the Hoff piccie of the day:-) YOUR JOB IS SAFE...

Ahhh, life was so simple before hackers and if you were building Smartphone 2003 apps then you'll appreciated that it wasn't always mandatory to sign your apps and cab files. Well for good reason this has changed with Windows Mobile Smartphone V5.0 including...

This posting relates to " SMS/Text Voting Solution available for download. Utilizes Windows Mobile V5, SQL Mobile 2005 and SMS Message Interceptor " There is a known problem connecting the Windows Mobile V5 Emulator to the August CTP build and you...

Ta da, well I've finally finished Version 1.0 of my SMS Voting solution, t he system supports up to 10 Polls each with their own validated scored criteria. The idea is that people can send a simple SMS/Text with their vote for a Poll from any phone...

In case you missed this - check out http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/downloads/101samples/default.aspx Stacks of samples - well 101 to be precise:-) Covering Base Class Libraries Data Access Web Development Windows Forms Check...

Spotted the page on my travels yesterday and it's a great summary of what is new for Web Services Developers in ASP.NET V2 and .NET Framework V2 covering:- Productivity Automatic data binding to data returned from Web services - proxy generates...

Lol, yeah scared ya didn't I :-) Haha, well now I have your attention!! If you live in Melbourne then how about joining us for a Geek Dinner this Friday (26th August), check out Tejas' posting at http://www.itejas.com/index.php/2005/08/22/melbourne_geek_dinner...

Got a cracking email from Adam Cogan ( SSW's Chief Architect ) with a stack trace from hell clearly thrown by a developer with a sense of humour on the SQL Reporting Team - the exception is titled the " The Error of Terror" , looking at trace, I reckon...

An email caught my eye this evening, it was sent out by Jeff Woolsey, Lead Program Manager for Virtualization about our future directions for Virtualisation. It's public domain info and kinda interesting so I thought I'd do some digging around to understand...

A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that, in Spanish unlike in English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. 'House, for instance, is feminine: la casa. Pencil, however, is masculine: el lapiz.' A student asked, 'What gender...