February, 2004

Many hardy souls responded to the request, so I present to you now the australian .net developer blogger opml.

One kind soul showed how we can do some amazing things with this OPML, such as creating a web page, and a rss link of the last 30 posts -- thanks for this Alex.

A very kind soul, Aaron Cooper, invited me to join Orkut, after I asked him nicely

What a Guy!

So, I'm finally hanging out with the cool kids. Feels nice. I am now connected to 15364 people through 8 friends.

The site is a nice piece of ASP.NET development (I have to make it somewhat relevant).

If anyone of of my readers wants to join Orkut, just leave me a comment and I'll see what I can do!

I am keen to create a list of Australian .net bloggers and make an OPML file (OPML is "a file format that can be used to exchange subscription lists between programs that read RSS files, such as feed readers and aggregators.")  available for anyone who wants to add this list their own rss readers AND i will get a summary RSS feed created that incorporates all these bloggers – that’s the wonders of rss, the stuff doesn’t need to be hosted in the same place.

So, if you are an Australian who is blogging about .net development, please leave your details in the comments of this post

I suspect I put some weight on over the holidays, but that's not what this post is about.

I'm in Melbourne this evening, getting ready to introduce the newest member of the team to the wonders of Australia and the .net developer community.

So, the Developer Evangelism team here in Australia is now a team of 6 people, with me as the team leader/manager/uber geek. We are split up geographically at the moment :

Southern Region (based in Melbourne) - David Sajfar, Jason McConnell and introducing Dave Glover from MS UK
Northern Region (based in Sydney) - Shuk Chan, Charles Sterling and introducing Andrew Coates

These guys are my elite team working with developers in the community and with local Australian ISVs. Over the next few weeks, I'll share some of the stuff we have done and some of the stuff we will do, but more importantly we will be hilighting what is already being done in the community - such as Victoria.NET, the terrific local .NET User Groups, and the Stanski AUS-DOTNET Mailing list just to name a few. I spoken about some of these already in earlier posts, so poke around my archives such as work, geek, or asp.net.

I know a bunch of you out there and I look forward to meeting you all over the course of the year.

I've got a project underway (similar to this app by connectedbits) and I need an xml webservice that provides real-time weather, as well as a 4or 5 day forcast, for Australian capital cities.

you know how hard it is to find this basic stuff! gosh! and i was the web services evangelist!!

anyone know of a webservice that could be used for this??

Damian had a fantastic suggestion - a blogger get together during the upcoming Security Summits.

This is a great idea. Anyone in each state willing to arrange something??? I will be at the Sydney gig, but not in the other states.

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