Frank put out the hints yesterday about the latest group of guest editors for Tech Talk Blogs. Today he announced that 3 ladies will be the latest guest editors and I’m one of them. Our topic is Tech.Ed Should be … Continued
I’ve just finished the ordeal of dealing with a non-paying client. So what can you do about it? Really there’s not a lot. Call, email, send letters asking for payment or explaination. This only seems to do any good if … Continued
Here’s some pics from Neil’s Mashup Windows Live Services session at Remix. John crashed the session to present the 10 minute map with some Melbourne content.
Found a picture of our tshirts on Delicate Genius Flickr pics:
Well we made it home. We’re back from the first Remix Australia. It was good to catch up with some people and to meet people we talk to or subscribe to their blogs for real. We flew in on Sat … Continued
We’ll be offline a few days as we fly down to Melbourne to goto remix. We had some t-shirts made so keep an eye out for us. John will be participating in WebJam on Monday night. See you all there…
Was trying out the live contact api and was getting a “can’t share information” error on the last confirmation page of the authentication process: Not the friendliest error. My problem was i was running from local host. I added an … Continued
Thanks to Chuck, John’s webcast on building a vista gadget is now on 9 MSDN site.
Like the rest of Brisbane (maybe even Queensland) we were issued with our 4 minute shower timer in an effort to get all households to use a maximum of 140L of water per person a day. This is all well … Continued
We published today the third installment in the clustering articles for Virtual Earth. This time we focus on the client side, updating our javascript to support the latest Version 5 of Virtual Earth. Clustering Virtual Earth on Version 5 We … Continued
It’s just been confirmed today that we’re presenting at Tech Ed at the Gold Coast. Here’s our brief of what we are intending to do: Mastering Virtual Earth John O’Brien MVP Bronwen Zande Want to add interactive maps to … Continued
After i got my 500 lego blocks i was wondering what to build. As they are squishy and not as perfect as real lego building solid walls was pretty much out. After consultation and help from an engineer, we’ve built … Continued
Checkout the Microsoft interview with John on his Traffic Camera Gadget. Read the interview here.
I made a video that shows how I put together the QLD traffic gadget and how you can learn from it and build your own. Video: Building a Traffic Gadget for Vista Sidebar Let me know what you think.
1 year ago today I left the safety and security of full time, working for someone else employment, and joined John working for Soul Solutions. I have really enjoyed it so far. Even though you essentially work for someone else … Continued
So when your little sister wants a lappy…what do you tell her to buy? A mini-me pc of course. I have the 9400 dell…now my sisterRenee has the 6400..a mini version of mine.
Ok…everyone’s doing the LOLCat…I don’t have a cat…so I did a LOLMonkey instead.
Today I received my 500 lego stress toys. Lots of people asked how big the box was going to be and how were they going to be packed. Boxes – well they are a lot smaller than you first expect … Continued
I was seeing how easy it would be to create a Live Messenger Activity and turned out to be pretty simple to do your own test if you know how to find the menu. 1. Take the xml file example … Continued
You would not believe my surprise when after spending the whole of Sunday building my first gadget for the QLD vista competition someone had beat me to it! Well, mine maybe the 2nd but it has some great features and … Continued
Today I thought I’d have a play with the Windows Live Alerts service. Thought the easiest way was to try the RSS no deployment solution. It’s pretty damn simple to use… 1. Register you feed here 2. Post some html onto … Continued