Monthly Archives: May 2008

I’m helping John with a few things today. I tried to compile one of the project’s he’s been working on and was presented with a cryptic error message: Error in debug compilation for WebApp project “Unable to write to output … Continued

I went and visited my old friend Dave yesterday and got to play with his 4 lane scalectric track he has been setting up in the garage. Pretty awesome to see this brand lasting the test of time. Dave has … Continued

Been meaning to post some of the girl geek events around the place..but have been slack / travelling a bit.  So I’ll just show them all in one post instead 🙂   Girl Geek Dinners – Auckland, NZ are having … Continued

We’ve been a bit lax in our blogging the last week…mainly because we were travelling around for Remix Australia.  For those who missed out you missed an awesome event! So I’ll use this post to give my highlights of the … Continued

We've had some really nice emails from the students at QUT after we did a guest lecture earlier in the week. Some of the follow-up questions and comments were around getting a job while studying and how to get a … Continued

I know I haven't posted something code related on Virtual Earth in ages, rest assured I've just been very busy. The 4 green boxes are the screen bounds passed to the server for data in many of my older virtual … Continued

 Remix is coming to Australia – double strength.  There are 2 separate events in Australia this year. 20th May in Sydney, and 22nd in Melbourne. We're presenting a couple of demos at both events in the Windows Live session with … Continued

I posted my first dev article on liveside.net on the weekend, it all about making a panorama, using deep zoom, virtual earth and silverlight streaming. Today I checked the reports on usage: 5,644 hits on the sample application in a … Continued

  We were invited to present a guest lecture (2hrs) at QUT today on Web Applications in the Real World.  Our brief – show some cool demos and tell some stories about working in the real world.  We had some … Continued

I always find it frustrating in SQL2005 (I know things are different in 2008) that Enterprise Manager doesn't provide an option to export data in your tables out as SQL Scripts. I can send to CSV, DTS, Text etc. but … Continued

I found the need to be able to call my .Net WebService using HTTP Get. Usually all you have to do to get this to work is use the following format: [webservice asmxlocation]/[functionname]?[parameters] When i did this i was getting … Continued

Using my new panosaurus tripod head and new Monfrotto tripod I headed down to Kangaroo Point in Brisbane and took a few snaps, this is my favourite courtesy of Silverlight Streaming (9,824×3,922px = 38.5 MegaPixel): See more Brisbane Panoramas here

I ordered this last week, it allows you to centre your camera on your tripod to take more accurate panoramas. A bargain at about AU$100 delivered. Planning an early morning trip to capture something special but this gives you the … Continued

Still addicted to the new Birdseye images for Australia in the latest imagery additions from Microsoft I thought it would be cool to make a PhotoMosaic from the Virtual Earth assets. (Click to see full resolution using Silverlight Deep Zoom.) … Continued

All of a sudden my project stopped autogenerating the designer.cs files for all my page and controls in my Visual Studio 2008 project.  Apart from being really annoying it’s just WRONG!   No matter what i did it wouldn’t fix … Continued

Today we took the time to update to the latest version of DotNetNuke, 4.8.2. We also installed a module from dignuke to allow us to post directly with Live Writer to not only the blog but all the html content … Continued

Is Andrew Coates upto something with DG’s identity? Very creepy…

This drove me nuts for a few hours.  Using appendChild in javacript to dynamically create a html table (yes..tables are so yesterday).  The code looks good, but nothing shows up when i view it in Internet Explorer. Turns out you … Continued