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Thoughts and musings of the New Zealand Community DE
When I first started at Microsoft I had my own blog on my own site. However, after a few...
Date: 05/14/2008
We often get asked "how can I buy Visual Studio and MSDN?". And since last time we posted...
Date: 05/12/2008
I was going to open this editorial in celebration of the fact that registration for Tech Ed is now...
Date: 05/12/2008
Ummmm, yeah.if you were planning on heading to Tech Ed this year to hear the likes of Scott...
Date: 05/07/2008
This month I'll be out and about a little doing a talk in a few locations on mixing up the web:...
Date: 04/13/2008
Sometimes it feels like we just live from one event to the next. So while we’ve now got the launch...
Date: 04/10/2008
Chris has blogged the details of the newest user group in New Zealand - in Christchurch - focused on...
Date: 04/07/2008
As promised, I've uploaded the slides and code from my Connected Systems talk from the Launch events...
Date: 04/03/2008
Each quarter we award those who work hardest in the technical community with an award we call the...
Date: 04/02/2008
There is a bunch of photos on Port25 taken inside the OSS labs at Microsoft. This is an...
Date: 03/26/2008
Adrian just emailed me to let me know that Australian Peter Ward is presenting in Wellington on...
Date: 03/10/2008
On Wednesday we drew the prize draw for the 2008 summer road trip. Jeremy took the data, imported it...
Date: 03/06/2008
Many of you have asked about availability of the code and slides from the road trip, and the good...
Date: 03/02/2008
Given that March is a big month here at Microsoft New Zealand due to the launch of Windows Server...
Date: 03/02/2008
As you may know Sean has moved on to Redmond which means we have a new manager here in DPE New...
Date: 02/28/2008
I just got an email from Chan regarding the Sharepoint User group in Wellington this week. ...
Date: 02/24/2008
One of the big changes over the last few years at Microsoft has been openness. That is...
Date: 02/21/2008
Last night JB and I flew down to meet Chris in Dunedin. In retrospect, we could have gone down...
Date: 02/18/2008
This morning we woke up in the middle of nowhere, with no mobile coverage, no telephone and lots of...
Date: 02/14/2008
Last night we took the ferry to the South Island at 6:15 (give or take 30 minutes for a...
Date: 02/14/2008
Jeremy and Chris are both really looking forward to Wellington tomorrow - it is our home town, and...
Date: 02/11/2008
We started the week at 7am by driving from Wellington to Napier. It was pouring rain in...
Date: 02/10/2008
The road between Hamilton and New Plymouth was interesting. There is little to no cellular...
Date: 02/08/2008
Wireless (even GPRS) sucked badly in Rotorua, so we were unable to post much. First thing in...
Date: 02/06/2008
We made our way from Auckland to Tauranga today. No dramas with the location this time...
Date: 02/05/2008
Today you should be able to download Windows Server 2008 from your MSDN subscription (you do have...
Date: 02/04/2008
Last night was a bit of an experience. We jumped on the plane in Wellington to come to...
Date: 02/04/2008
Just an update - if you are trying to register for the Auckland leg of the 2008 Summer Road trip, it...
Date: 01/29/2008
I thought I'd put up the details of the specs of the boxes we will be using and giving away at the...
Date: 01/24/2008
Over the last few weeks Chris and Jeremy have been working away behind the scenes to prepare the...
Date: 01/22/2008
Looking for an opportunity to help the next generation get a head start in technology? Each...
Date: 01/21/2008
In the deluge of email from the last week or two from corp around VS2008 (there was lots of excited...
Date: 11/28/2007
Given Palmerston North doesn't have a .Net user group (yet), I didn't get to present in Palmerston...
Date: 11/27/2007
I was looking at my stats today from my blog and found some interesting things. Note that...
Date: 11/26/2007
On Wednesday Mauricio from Geekzone was up in Auckland upgrading the Geekzone server to Windows...
Date: 11/22/2007
Since I've probably done this talk to exhaustion now, I thought I would post my slides for all to...
Date: 11/22/2007
Yup. This morning (PST time) Visual Studio 2008 RTM'd. Its already on MSDN, so go get...
Date: 11/19/2007
I've had a tough time over the last week or so. Last Monday my Hard Drive in my new HP laptop died,...
Date: 11/18/2007
If you are familiar with smart clients, you'll know that they allow you to use the full capabilities...
Date: 11/08/2007
In my last screen cast I showed how easy it is to use WCF in Visual Studio 2008. During my user...
Date: 11/06/2007
This is the second in my series of screen casts of new features in Visual Studio 2008. WCF has been...
Date: 11/04/2007
In my presentation today at bootcamp I alluded to the fact that some of the C#3 features can be used...
Date: 11/02/2007
I had an email today that had a link to some "Whats new in SQL 2008" eLearning resources in it....
Date: 11/02/2007