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In the latest MSDN Flash Finula asked a few of us for our top tips on being a great developer. Mine was:

"Love Learning"
We can't always be on the most exciting project with the latest and greatest technology so look for the learning opportunity in every project be it a new technical skill, a new business domain, or an interpersonal skill.

What do I mean by this? If you look for a way to learn something new on every project you’ll increase and improve your skills.

Changing your local folder in Team Explorer is a bit hidden. 

To get to the setting Open Source Control in Team Explorer, and open the Workspace dropdown and Select Workspaces….

The DeepEarth codeplex project continues to grow with more developers, discussions, work items and source code. Huge thanks goes to Shaun who has be building out a concept for the architecture of the control and Jonas who made a cool dashboard control.

I thought I would share a rather cool example of what you can do, a pin on the map that when you click animates to show a deep zoom panorama:

There’s a bunch of Girl Geek Dinner events coming up I should mention.

Girl Geek Dinners – Melbourne On Ice

Sunday June 29 at 2-4pm - Ice Skating at Docklands

Girl Geek Dinners Melbourne – Dinner 1.0

Thursday July 3 at 7-10 pm - Kanzaman Restaurant

Girl Geek Dinners Sydney – Girl Geek Coffee

Saturday July 5 at 2-4pm - The Italian Forum.

Girl Geek Dinners Wellington – August Dinner

Tuesday August 5 at 6-9pm - Chow in Tory Street

We attended Google Developer Day – Sydney 2008 earlier in the week so thought it’d be good to share some observations / thoughts. When you work in one technology area for awhile it’s good to see what others are doing.

Overall I found the day useful and worthwhile. The conference entry was FREE so it only cost us T&E and our time, which always makes justifying your attendance a lot easier.

There’s a lot of parallels between many of the Google products and the Microsoft offerings e.g.

Google Maps –> Virtual Earth

Google Gadgets/Open Social –> live.com and spaces gadgets

You Tube –> Silverlight

Google Web Toolkit –> Script Sharp

With Roger’s Demos Happen {Here} Competition in full swing, I thought a new article to help get your videos in might help a few people.  So I’ve created a new article on how to upload videos to Silverlight Streaming using Expresion Encoder 2 and the Silverlight Streaming plugin.  Check it out here.

Today we launched project “Deep Earth” on codeplex. This open source project will bring together skills from developers all over the world to continue this concept and ultimately create a useable Silverlight control.

Seven people have joined the fun: Shaun Becker, Jonas Follesø, Bronwen Zande, Darko Radiceski, Nicolas Boonaert, Rob Farley and myself John O’Brien. What a great mix of people!

For those of you in or near Brisbane, there’s a Virtual Earth Event coming soon – see below for details. For those in Melbourne, check out Dave’s blog post here

The Microsoft Virtual Earth EMEA team are holding an event on 1^st August 2008 in Brisbane to provide you with all the information you require to integrate VE into your business offering. Never before has it been so easy for companies to track assets, find customers, manage a mobile sales force & engineers or make sure customers find you before they

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The feedback from Part 1 has been great! There is definitely interest in this. Shaun Becker sent through this gem that removes my proxy server completely! Yes we now have Silverlight Deep Zoom talking directly to Virtual Earth! And better still I can give you a live demo (need SL beta2 installed – click image to view):

So what has Shaun done to make this possible?

A bit late to do May in review, but I’ve been out of action for the last week or so.  So I thought I’d do a belated month in review.

• We upgraded our site to DNN 4.8.2 and now can use Live Writer to post blogs
• We delivered a guest lecturer at QUT
• We presented at Remix Australia.