Dave Glover "Down Under (Oz)"

Peter sent this through and too funny not to share if you are looking for a brief distraction!! See http://impdr.com/ , scroll down to "Windows 386", reckon it's worth watching the whole video, but yes, at 7 minutes it does hot up... J Lol, the...

I had a couple of requests for the source code for SMS Voter 2.0 and since it's all freeware and hopefully a good learning project then maybe you'll be interested in what I did. The code is in good condition and should be reasonably straight forward to...

As promised here are the most useful resources I found on the web to get you started with SharePoint Workflow. I've listed off in order of what I found to be most useful J Developer Introduction to Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and...

Happy New Year and if you took some time out then hope it was a good one!! Well the SMS Voter app that I put together a year back still generates a lot of interest so I found some time over the holiday break to write V2 of the SMS Voting application...

Well SP1 for Team Foundation Server is out and so thought time to upgrade " Possibly the World's Smallest Team Foundation Server " to the latest and greatest!! Alas I struck a gotcha along the way – but all good now and this is a system I really care...

For whatever reason InfoPath 2007 and Office Forms Server 2007 didn't hit my radar till recently and given the show of hands last night then there's a reasonable chance you've missed it as well. I reckon it has to be one of the coolest bits of Office...

Ah, well I've finally finished and posted the next version of my Smartphone Universal Conversion app which now includes a Forms Engine to enable Data Tracking. It's posted it up at Smartphone.Net and Airfagev.Com - both sites have full descriptions. ...

Last night I struck an interesting problem deploying a Windows Mobile application from Vista using a MSI Installer and see the issue is fairly well documented. You get a nondescript installer error code: 2869. There are various work arounds – see http...

If like me, you might have ignored the "compatibility" warning message when installing SQL 2005 Express SP1 on pre RTM builds of Vista. It would still install and for messing around/testing it didn't seem to make too much difference. Well with the...

This is quite possibly doing the rounds on the Internet at the moment - but wow, suddenly Italian motorways don’t seem so terrifying ;) See attachment, it's been scanned for viruses... Cheers, Dave

Alrighty, well I had a couple of opportunities to present on Windows Sidebar Gadgets of recent and as promised I've attached to this posting the working demo and a hands on lab to get you up and running with your own funky Windows Vista Gadget. There...

Ok, I'm a gadget/phone nut and I spotted this Smartflip Smartphone awhile back and had one of those impulse purchase moments about 6 weeks ago and unlike me, this phone is near flawless J It's definitely survived the honeymoon period and no buyer's remorse...

Ta da, well I think I've finally finished the next version on my Convert It app targeting the Windows Mobile Smartphone and the Compact Framework V1. I've developed most of this version using Windows Vista X64 RC1 running on a system identical to this...

We’re running a Hands on Experience day with Victoria.NET and MOSSIG (Microsoft Office SIG) on Dec 2 nd and you can register here on the www.victoriadotnet.com.au website, places limited!! This will be a great chance to get your hands dirty with the...

Great to see so many people at the Dimension Data Learning Services .NET/ASP.NET session last night. I know for a lot of you this was all new stuff so fingers crossed it all made sense!! You can find the demo code, demo notes, code snippets etc...

At the risk of blogging the bloggers but in case you missed Scott's announcement about ATLAS last week then check out Scott's posting here http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/11/_2200_Atlas_2200_-1.0-Naming-and-Roadmap.aspx dg

Way to go Nick!! See http://msdev.thepodcastnetwork.com/ Microsoft Developer Show #06 - User Groups R Us! September 19th, 2006 After a few glitches here and there, the first show is all recorded and where possible the bumps have been removed...

Hmmm, just starting delving into SharePoint 2007 and the first bit of feedback I got from one of my customers was that following the CSS classes (with somewhat obscure names) in SharePoint can be a challenge!! SharePoint Designer and Expression Web...

Hi there, well if you made it to Student TechEd Day or various User Groups then you'll have seen my session on Expression Web Designer and hopefully like you'll be pretty excited by the possibilities. There is fantastic support for markup standards;...

This is a very handy tip that I spotted on Nick's blog just before TechEd. You too may have missed this and it's very handy especially when you are on the move or can't always connect to your Team Foundation Server. " add a DWORD value called AutoLoadServer...

Lol, well I couldn’t resist it, I scored a Via EPIA CN13000 Embedded Motherboard at the Oz MEDC , the boards are mini ITX form factor and run on the smell of an oily rag. The motherboard draws 16 to 17 watts, a 2.5in drive draw 3 to 4 watts so all...

Great to see you at the ADNUG/MSDN WCF Part II session last week. I’ve posted the demos I fired up that target the June CTP release of Windows Communication Foundation here . I chose the June bits mainly because we released June Orcas addons for...

Looking good, check out http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekol/archive/2006/07/25/676977.aspx for the link to the latest VPC Additions!! PS, if you want to set up Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Vista then check out http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006...

Stewart sent me through a link to a pretty cool site at http://www.csszengarden.com/ , it's a great place to see the magic of CSS in action, see how the pros do it and hey maybe contribute something yourself. Thanks StewartB

At last month's meeting I covered Windows Communication Foundation for ASMX Web Services Developers. This month we take a step further in to WCF and explorer facilities for reliable, queued and transacted messaging. Stuff that is kinda essential to...