We’ve had a busy and eventful start to 2008..and boy has it just flown by! It kicked off really well when I was awarded a Microsoft MVP award. Already i’ve met quite a few other MVPs, had an introduction lunch … Continued
Some exciting news just in! The first Girl Geek Dinner Sydney is to be held on 21st February. Sign up for the event on facebook or check out the website. The first event is at Lindt Chocolate Cafe, Cockle Bay and … Continued
Yesterday we presented at both the newly formed SQL UG and the .Net Usergroup in Hobart. Both had small crowds (in comparison to the 100 attendees we had in Melbourne) but both had people with lots of good questions. It … Continued
So you heard about Live Services and not sure what they are or want to hear a bit more about about the different services? There’s a series of webcasts available that i first saw here. Session 1 – Windows Live … Continued
Today I started a list of the Geek Girl Groups (mainly dinner groups) that I know about out there. I’ve added the list to the Geek Girl blog home page HERE. So if you have a group and it’s not on … Continued
Well we’ve booked our flights and hotel for this year’s MVP summit in Seattle. We’re heading up to Montreal first where John is doing a 1/2 day workshop on using Virtual Earth to provide Geographical access to Cultural Herritage at the Museums and … Continued
We’ve had a late addition to our user group tour…Gold Coast .Net. We’ll be visiting these guys on the 21st February, venue TBA. Will add some links and details as they come to hand. Updated schedule can be found HERE … Continued
Next Tuesday, 29th we’re off to Hobart to present 2 sessions on SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth. We’re lucky to be the 2nd presentation at the newly formed Hobart SQL Server Usergroup during the day followed by the Hobart .Net … Continued
In part 2 of this series, Derek Chan shows how to integrate the Mappoint Web Service platform on a Virtual Earth map. http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/InvokingserversidecodeusingAJAXPart2.aspx If you recall part 1 introduced the concepts of using a httphandler to communicate between server side … Continued
The guys at EverydayInnovations sent me some samples of their products, the PicoPad and the Booksling, just before Xmas. Now that I’ve been able to use them for a few weeks it’s time to see what i thought. PicoPad What is … Continued
Went and checked out Cloverfield last night. While it didn’t blow me away as it seems to have done with everyone else..it was a bit different which is always good. While I don’t want to spoil the movie for you..I’d … Continued
I spoke with Rony Ledany the Managing Director of Terra Pixel about their new product ImagePatch this week. As you may know the Virtual Earth API allows for custom tile layers to be added over the top of the stock … Continued
This week we arrive in Melbourne to present our 3rd in a series of 8 talks on SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth. So far there’s just under 100 people registered so should be a great turn out. If you’re interested … Continued
Now that we have Wireless Broadband, and in our hotel room doing some work, reading emails etc. we’re not very patient at waiting our turn at the internet (well at least i’m not) so we set up Internet Connection Sharing … Continued
After having a few internet issues on the road the road and not wanting to pay $30 a day in the hotel to use internet over the last few days we hit the shops in search of wireless broadband. In … Continued
So we’ve done the first 2 legs of our SQL UG tour. Wednesday night we went to Canberra. Thanks so much to Peter Ward for saving us with his mobile broadband. Smallish crowd but some interesting questions and some really … Continued
Time has flown by and we start the first leg of the SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth User Group tour this week. So for those in Canberra and Adelaide, watch out…we’re coming to town! Looking forward to meeting a few … Continued
John and I sat the Virtual Earth Beta Exam 071-544 – TS: Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0, Developing last year. As it’s a beta exam you don’t find out if you passed for about 2 months. This morning we checked the … Continued
Today I was asked to do what seemed like a fairly simple task: Take an Excel 2003 file, add a couple of columns of data and save to a new Excel file programattically. I haven’t done any coding Excel for … Continued
The ROM for Windows Mobile 6 for the Imate JasJam has finally been released. So I’m taking the plunge and installing it on my phone.
2008 started well, with a nice email this morning informing me I’ve been made a Live Services MVP. What a great honor to be part of a pretty exclusive group. Have a look at my MVP profile here.