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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:15 PM

Teched South East Asia

Well Teched EMEA was a success after a few close calls. The scores were much the same as last year despite losing a few of our regular 'stars' like Kim Tripp to the Connections event in Las Vegas at the same time. Now I am gearing up for TechEd South
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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:04 PM

WPF and MVC - recognizing Ink with an InkCanvas

I am in the middle of preparing an internal presentation on WPF/Blend and VS and figuring out what developers need to know about the tools. One thing is clear, developers need good business examples showing the benefits of using WPF and blend so they
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:20 AM

A simple Org chart app

A couple of years ago at Teched South Africa I presented a session originally done by the great Jeff Prosise around the provider model in ASP.Net. I remember suggesting that this was not only a neat way to handle membership, roles and whatever in ASP.Net
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:56 AM

Announcing the Gadget Competition (Switzerland)

Hi Folks. There are a series of local competitions starting around Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for the best Windows Vista Gadgets. Each subisdiary will judge the entries and award their own prizes so you are not in a global pool with a poor chance
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Monday, April 16, 2007 12:39 PM

Teched Dev Europe Tracks

The TechEd Europe tracks are forming as follows: Security Business Intelligence Mobile Tools and Languages Web Windows (Frameworks and Base Platform, .Net 3.x) Architecture Dynamics SQL Connected Systems (Biztalk etc) Designer Office Infrastructure for
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Friday, March 16, 2007 4:50 PM

Sharing Calendars on Office Live

So I have finally joined an Aeroplane syndicate. Charlie came breezing into my home office today with all the manuals for the Grunman Tiger. We started talking and it soon became apparent that we would need a way to book the Tiger in advance. This would
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Friday, March 16, 2007 10:20 AM

Teched Developer Europe 2007

Would you believe it planning has already started for this years TechEd Europe. As I am running the technical content strategy this year I would like to ask you folks for your opinions. I would like to devise a category scheme to help you navigate your
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Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:04 PM

Bent pin on an IDE disk drive

It turned out that Santa had brought my son some PC games and as his machine was basically in bits on Christmas Eve I started to put it all back together. Unfortunately I was a little too fortified with Christmas Cheer (Camel Valley Sparkling Wine) and
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Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:40 PM

Christmas PC Shenanigans

Well the weather here in Cornwall over Christmas was pretty horrible - no flying during the holiday. Still I was able to build a new machine for my sister (even more demanding than J9) ,check out Laurie’s new box up at the airfield, and wreck my son’s
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:10 PM

Lauries machine goes VISTA!

I mentioned in my last post that I was rebuilding Laurie’s machine – a good friend and a flight trainer in Perranporth flying club. Laurie frequently does Radio Telephony exams as part of the private pilot’s license. This entails linking two machines
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Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:35 PM

My Wife's machine goes VISTA

I have just inadvertently installed Windows Vista on my wife, J9’s, machine. Now this is the machine that I have solemnly promised not to install any Beta version of anything or otherwise mess around with her ‘stuff’. She uses this box for all her Ebay
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:05 PM

Linux on a stick

After a brief chat with Hans Verbeeck I decided (well Hans suggested) that I mess around with some 'competitive' technology. We chose a small Linux distro (SLAX popcorn). Now the idea is to boot from a memory stick and get the exact same environment on
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:59 AM

Make me a designer!

At TechEd Europe and TechEd South Africa I talked a little about WPF and the Expression Suite of tools. I mentioned that in future we would be working more closely with Designers. I remember my first Windows app back in well 1989. It was an email application
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Saturday, September 30, 2006 9:12 AM

EMEA Vista and IE7 Tour

Hi Folks. Thanks to everyone who has attended the conference tour on IE7.0 and Vista in EMEA. I promised to include all the code and powerpoints from the session and I will post the zip file here as soon as I can. There is a problem with either my bandwidth
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:20 PM

Test Driven Development

I have just returned from Antalya in Turkey for the Most Valued Professional conference for MEA (Middle East and Africa). You folks were great, especially when the power went off and I had to restart my VPC. I used VSTS to show how to do Test Driven Development
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