I’ve lived in Brisbane so long I ran outta lunch spots so I decied to start on Sydney ones..and flew down for the day for lunch. Well it’s a great line I’ve been using to explain my trip away today … Continued
After watching all the cool new stuff in IE8 and excited about the JavaScript performance improvements I thought I would I would install it today. After checking out that most sites built for IE7/FF2 combo rendered fine I flicked over … Continued
If you’re like us, and couldn’t make it to Mix in Vegas this year, you don’t have to completely miss out. Check out http://visitmix.com/ and you’ll have access to lots of videos of sessions. Keep an eye on http://sessions.visitmix.com/ for the sessions, … Continued
Office Live Workspace Beta was made available in Australia the other day. I’ve been using google docs for awhile and found it a good way to share docs, spreedsheets etc with remote teams/clients and also a way to get to … Continued
Moved our mail over to Live Mail this morning. So we’re now using Custom Domains (Admin Centre) , Live mail and the Outlook Connector to access our mail. After it’s all setup it’s pretty seemless. When sending mail through Outlook … Continued
Was playing with Linq to XML today and wanted to do an orderby based on one of the fields in the xml file. It’s a bit different to SQL as the orderby goes between the from and the select. My … Continued
Seems as though the Girl Geek Dinners in Sydney made it into “the news”. Check it out here: http://itnews.com.au/News/71327,girl-geeks-meet-for-international-womens-day.aspx. If you’re in Sydney on the w’end make sure you check out their “Dinner 01 – Picnic in the park”..details here: … Continued
We received news today that old versions of Virtual Earth will be retired this year. We had already been told that Version 2 was being switched off come March 31st but the news today is that Versions 3,4 and 5 … Continued
I needed to write a sql statement in SQL2000 that took a string containing all the values i wanted to match IN a parameter, but the parameter is an integer. Essentially, I wanted to write SELECT * FROM Foo where … Continued
For those fortunate enough to be going to Mix in Vegas this year, there’s a bunch of Live Services sessions you should check out: Developing with Windows LiveWednesday, March 5 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Delfino 4003Speaker(s): Angus Logan, Miguel … Continued
If you’re after an evaluation developer account so you can use the Virtual Earth and MapPoint APIs, just request a developer account here: https://mappoint-css.live.com/mwssignup/
Installed ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions Preview today to use in a project and had some fun working out where the dlls were now living. Finally found them in C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Also remember, after switching your System.Web.Extensions and … Continued
It’s been a few months since the last update, so here’s the stats for January and February New Articles Who’s Online Integrating MapPoint Web Service with Virtual Earth 6 Client Side Clustering Invoking server side code using AJAX Part 2 … Continued
The first release is out of the community project on codeplex to give native JavaScript Intellisence to Virtual Earth inside Visual Studio 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS Essentially this is a little bit of documentation code that you reference during development for intellisence … Continued