May 2009 - Posts

19 May 2009
Expression For Art’s Sake – 3 1/2 Day Silverlight 3 Camp – Wellington, NZ

There’s no better way to try a new technology than getting people together to learn, share and build on top of it. So, that’s what we’ve been doing with Silverlight and Expression Studio for the last couple of years: Inviting a board array of developers Read More...

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Filed under: Expression, events, silverlight, training, EFAS, blend, silverlight3

 

19 May 2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 Available Now

Today Soma announced that VS 2010 and .Net FX 4 Beta 1 is available to MSDN and Technet subscribers . Everyone else can download the bits on Thursday NZ time. For more details visit the Visual Studio 2010 Product Page . Please visit http://connect.microsoft.com Read More...

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Filed under: VS2010, .NET4

 

18 May 2009
Tech.Ed New Zealand Tickets Selling Fast!

Tickets for Tech.Ed New Zealand went on sale first thing this morning. By lunchtime 56% of the early bird tickets were sold! I don’t know what to say but here we go again ! Tickets will sell out once again and early bird will most probably be gone by Read More...

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Filed under: teched, tenz9

 

16 May 2009
NZsynth – How It Was Done

Previously I wrote and demoed the NZsynth application that was built for the WEB09 keynote. This post is detailing how it was made and introducing version two (Zoom all the way in using mouse wheel then double-click for popup image).   WATCH THE Read More...

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Filed under: WCF, Photosynth, UX, innovation, events, media, silverlight, training, Silverlight2, deepzoom, REST, ria, web09, EFAS

 

12 May 2009
NZsynth and WEB09

It started as a conversation I was having with Brett Roberts regarding options for promoting NZ online at a time when tourism was taking a hit from the current economic climate. From there we discussed the proposed National Cycleway and this lead to a Read More...

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Filed under: Photosynth, events, silverlight, deepzoom, web09

 

12 May 2009
Update on Silverstripe and the WebPI

In March I wrote about SilverStripe and the work that we had done with them to add them to the Microsoft Web Platform Installer . This month PC World has picked up the story and published this one pager (the article isn’t online yet but may turn up on Read More...

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Filed under: IIS7, SilverStripe, Web PI, SQL

 

11 May 2009
Tech.Ed ANZ Call For Content

The Tech•Ed 2009 season kicks off this week in LA, and the show comes to Australia and New Zealand in mid-September. We’ve just opened the Call for Content tool so now’s the time to submit that great idea for a session. Go to the Call for Content tool Read More...

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11 May 2009
ROAD TRIP! MSDN Unplugged Coming to a Town Near You

Join us for the May - June 2009 UNPLUGGED Roadshow as we visit locations around New Zealand presenting technical sessions for Developers and IT Pros. Choose from either the MSDN Stream for Developers or TechNet Stream for IT Pros . At the end, get the Read More...

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Filed under: msdn, events

 

05 May 2009
ACP Media Development Leads To Pure Direction

I have been working with the team at ACP Media for a couple of years and finally at the Expression For Art’s Sake event at Wellington a couple of weeks ago I had a chance to catch up with Dave Harvey , Grant Archibald and Darko Zoroja to discuss their Read More...

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Filed under: ASP.NET, events, silverlight, ACP, EFAS