Darryl Burling @ Work : MEDC

Did you see the OFONE announcement?

dburling — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:59:00 GMT

The Ofone was announced at MEDC, and we saw the video for it last week at MEDC in Australia.

Having not seen the announcement at MEDC, I wasn't sure whether it was real or not - at least for the first 10 seconds....

You decide :-)

Nick Randolph asks - whats happening at Tech Ed 2007?

dburling — Wed, 23 May 2007 05:46:22 GMT

Nick sidelined me last week at MEDC in Sydney and asked me what was going on at Tech Ed Australia and New Zealand this year.

Nick has just published our chat as a podcast on the Microsoft Developer Show. Our chat is about four minutes long and you can listen to the audio by clicking here.

10 Seats left for MEDC-Mini

dburling — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:29:00 GMT

I'm in Sydney for MEDC, and thought those of you who are not able to be here, might be able to get in for the Christchurch one.

In case you missed it - on May 17 (yes this Thursday) we will have the newly appointed Windows Embedded Software Architect Mike Hall and Derek Snyder (Product Manager, Windows Mobile) over to a mini MEDC type event in Christchurch.

If you want to come along, there are only 10 seats left, so book today!

Not going to MEDC? A tiny NZ version is coming...

dburling — Fri, 04 May 2007 05:12:09 GMT

Even if you are not going to MEDC in Sydney, you can still get to hear Mike Hall and Derek Snyder in Christchurch on May 17th.

The Mobile and Embedded team in Australia are putting on a special late afternoon event for kiwis.

A little more is on the NZ ISV blog (did you know about that blog?), but for the most part I've copied the details below :-)

Windows Embedded & Windows Mobile Seminar

If you develop solutions for the Embedded or Mobile market place come to the first Microsoft Windows Embedded & Windows Mobile Seminar to be held in Christchurch.

This seminar will show you how to get the most from the latest Windows Embedded & Windows Mobile updates to get maximum advantage for your business:

Latest Platforms & Updates: Windows Mobile 6, Windows Embedded CE 6.0, Windows Embedded XP SP2 Feature Pack 2007. Development updates, futures and roadmap information.

Specialist Focus: Hear directly from “insiders” of Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Product teams.

When: Thursday May 17th 2007, 4pm till 8pm

Where: Christchurch Convention Centre, Meeting Room 3 (Level 1)

Speakers:

Mike Hall (Senior Technical Product Manager Windows Embedded)
Derek Snyder (Product Manager Windows Mobile)

Agenda:

4.00pm – 4.30pm:             Registration
4.30pm – 6.00pm:             Window Embedded
6.00pm - 7.30pm:             Windows Mobile

A light supper & drinks will be provided.

MSDN Flash Editorial - Expression Web and Tech Ed NZ teaser

dburling — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:54:52 GMT

Great news last week for those of you in the web development space, thanks to the great feedback from the developer community we’ve decided to release Expression Web and Expression Blend (when released) as part of the MSDN Premium subscription. Expression Web is a great product if you are wanting to create standards compliant web pages in a nice WYSIWYG editor. I particularly like how easy Expression web makes developing ASP.Net Master Pages.

Now that Expression Web is available for MSDN Subscribers, it makes Expression more accessible. If you dont have a MSDN subscription and want to get either Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals or Visual Studio Team Suite (which includes Database Professional) we have a couple of promotions (10% off VSTS DB Pro and 20% off VSTS) going that you can take advantage of. You can get full details of the Expression announcement here.

You may also recall that I’m managing content for Tech Ed this year. We are already well underway recruiting US speakers, and we have some very cool speakers lined up, so I thought I'd throw out a couple of teasers...

Firstly its great to be able to tell you that we have confirmed that Nikhil Kothari is coming to Tech Ed New Zealand! Nikhil is the key architect of ASP.Net AJAX, but also has some other strings to his bow including the server controls framework of ASP.Net, Web Matrix and Script#. More details on what Nikhil will be talking about at a later date.

Another speaker we are thrilled to have coming is Michael Platt. Michael is an Architecture guru and a fantastic speaker who is working in the Software + Services space at Microsoft in the US. Michael will have a couple of talks, and I'm sure you Web 2.0 architecture geeks will be very interested in what he has to say.

Tech Ed 2007 early bird registration is now open, and represents a saving of around $300 for an individual registration over the full price. Remember - last year we sold out by the end of the early bird period, so get in while you can!

On events - dont forget that MEDC in Australia is on in May - register on the MEDC website.