June, 2006

The good people at Dimension Data Learning Services (DDLS for short) have a free seminar coming up.

This seminar provides a high-level overview and an introduction of multiple aspects of .NET, pointers to career development and other resources that give more detail on specific development topics. Join DDLS and Microsoft as we demystify .NET development tools and technologies

When	Wednesday 19th July 2006
Where	Thakral House, Level 10, 301 George St, Sydney View map
Speakers	Mark Walsh & Andrew Coates
Agenda	5:30pm Registration and drinks 6:00pm Mark Walsh - DDLS Developer Consultant Introducing .NET Framework; Key Technologies & Concepts, and the importance of Visual Studio as a Development Tool. 6:45pm Andrew Coates - Microsoft Developer Evangelist Introducing the .Net architecture focusing on ASP.NET technology & Internet Information Services (IIS) server. 7:30pm Wrap up and prize draw

Register for this free seminar today.

We're at the end of financial year and TechTalkBlogs, has been around for 126 days.

I didn't do a healtch check last week. It's time to move from a weekly snapshot to a monthly one. The system is chugging along nicely now - time to let go of the reins just a little.

Here's this final weekly view of TechTalkBlog's System Summary (notice how I rotated the table)

Starting next week, we're going to have a new guest blogger. Darren Neimke did an awesome job over the past few months and is passing the baton to our next guest

Who will it be?? Some folks are beginning to wonder

Let me give some clues. The past 2 editors had some things in common :

• MVP
• Based in Canberra
• Well known Blogger
• Not a Microsoft Employee
• Member of the ausdotnet mailing list
• Member of the blogger list on TechTalkBlogs

The next guest blogger will have some of these common traits

All will be revealed Monday ... hehehehe

Back in May, I posted my LinkedIn stats

It's the end of the month of June - how's "My Network of Trusted Professionals" looking?

My personal LinkedIn URL

Following my post about the 'official' flair for Tech.Ed, a number of folks left me comments/trackbacks with flair they created.

Hey, we can jump on the UGC bandwagon too!

Here's a selection...

Long Zheng
Roger the life prodactor
Geoff Appleby

One of the benefits I find with blogging is that it gives me a way to not just communicate with 'the outside world', but also a way to keep my team members informed.

The reverse of this is quite interesting too - it allows me to see what each of my team members are doing.

So, what's everyone been up to??

Let's look at their lastest blog posts:

Interesting N'est Pas?

I got a call from Cameron Reilly yesterday while he was recording a recent Gday World Podcast.

It was a classic ambush.

He had Mike "Fang" Seyfang as special guest, and they asked me questions about WinFS amd Windows Vista.

Anyways, let me repeat -- I felt well and truly ambushed! Thanks for that Cam!

I headed over to BlogBeat this evening to check on some stats and got the following.....

Blogbeat is temporarily offline. Sorry for the interruption.


 

Too funny! The computers are on the footpath, on the street.

LOL

UPDATE: the photo is gone, but now there is some haiku

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    <h1>Not Found</h1>
    
    <h4>The page you requested was not found. Or if you prefer, 404 Haiku:</h4>
    
    <p class="haiku">
        seek and you shall find<br />
        that's typically good advice<br />
        except for that page
    </p>
    
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