March 2006 - Posts

Shameless Gloating: My Out of Office note for Friday the 31st of March!
29 March 06 05:14 PM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Thankyou for contacting me, unfortunately I won’t be able to respond until Monday the 3rd of April as I will be going ‘nanas at the 2006 Formula 1 Foster’s Australian Grand Prix where I will get to see both Formula One practice laps, Read More...

Mindstorms NXT!
29 March 06 09:29 AM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Pretty exciting stuff around the corner with Lego getting ready to release the next version of their Mindstorms product, appropriately named Mindstorms NXT . Quick features include: USB and BT support 3 servo motors (the current model only had two) 4 Read More...

Tim's WWW War!
28 March 06 09:47 AM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Yes, that’s 4 dublya’s, and Tim ’s only starting from what I can tell! http://timwragg.blogspot.com/2006/03/office-and-world-wide-web-war.html Tim’s post got me thinking, all to often the web grabs the latest darling technology Read More...

ZooTycoon 2! Fun play or hard work!
20 March 06 06:24 PM | davidlem | 5 Comments   

I installed Zoo Tycoon 2 on the weekend, in an attempt to unwind. Let me tell you, when you’re Zebra’s are pregnant, and your Jaguar’s need more room, and people are complaining because the line to the toilet is too long, relaxation Read More...

VS Team Suite or VS Pro + N[etc.]?
20 March 06 06:12 PM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

I was at a presentation last week for a customer who was considering using VS Pro 2005 with the full complement of N[tools] (and Cruise Control) over Visual Studio Team System for their next evolution of SDLC management. It’s a prickly subject for Read More...

Dave Glover and Atlas! Who will win!?
17 March 06 01:48 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Davo is going to be holding the fort at the CITC in Melbourne next Tuesday, delivering what is surely going to be the Atlas presentation to end them all. http://msevents-as.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=120467971&Culture=en-AU Register. Read More...

Product Companies and User Communities!
17 March 06 10:48 AM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Got an email this morning from Virtual Server Virtuoso Dugie , pointing me to this post by RoudyBob about “Software Companies Don’t Get User Communities” . It’s a good read, and got me thinking about the root of the statement “Software Read More...

SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Workshops!
16 March 06 07:56 AM | davidlem | 0 Comments   

Davo shot me this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/dglover/archive/2006/03/11/549400.aspx Pete Myers is running a series of 2–day instructor-led hands-on workshops (could I fit anymore hyphen-ated constructs in!!!?) and although it’s a bit late Read More...

Visual Express Contest! Win 10 gorillas!
16 March 06 07:48 AM | davidlem | 2 Comments   

Holy shmoly! Check out this contest! http://www.madeinexpresscontest.com/ So the rules for the busy coder goes: 1. Think of a killer application idea and submit it NO LATER THAN 11:59pm April 30th, 2006 Pacific Time (for Hauzees that’s anywhere Read More...

BizTalk Server 2006 Setup Cabs!
05 March 06 05:41 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Found this on Grant’s blog. If you’re setting up BizTalk in Virtualwood (or on the metal), you may not have/want/need access to the Internet, so getting all your pre-reqs installed may be problematic. http://granth.squarespace.com/blog/biztalk-2006-pre-requisite-cab-files.html Read More...

BATter up! Smart Clients play ball!
05 March 06 01:21 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

Just downloaded the March CTP Smart Client Baseline Architecture Toolkit off GotDotNet , and all I can saw is “Bloody Oath!” . It is unreal! In fact, I just came from presenting at the Wesfarmers IT Conference in Perth last week, and one of Read More...

Perth Visual Web Developer 2005 Express and SQL Server 2005 Express training!
03 March 06 04:57 PM | davidlem | 1 Comments   

For all those based in Perth , Australia , I will be running two sets of training next week at Dimension Data Learning Services @ 19 Pier Street in Perth . Now, I know it’s very very VERY late notice, but the past few weeks have been too crazy for coolaid, Read More...