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 … Continued
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…. Choose the workspace you want to change and Select Edit … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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. … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
I’ve been a bit quiet in the last week and a half after an unplanned trip to hospital meant I wasn’t allowed to do much. Last Thursday Lego Indiana Jones came out so I’ve been playing that to relieve some … Continued
Silverlight and Virtual Earth are made for each other, but how best do we go about creating a Virtual Earth control in Silverlight? First up lets look at utilising the existing Deep Zoom control to serve up the base image … Continued
I’m pretty excited by the possibilities of Photosynth. It is some truly amazing technology. Anyway spotted this newer video and thought I would share. NASA Meets Photosynth The first time this technology was shown was at Ted and that is … Continued
Alex Knight has published a nice tutorial on creating a hotspot effect. It is worth a little look if only to have some fun and get a look at animations and events in blend2.5. Follow the linked image to see … Continued
Jonas has already mentioned it but if you are looking for way to automate a batch process for creating assets for DeepZoom then Giorgio has the answer: http://blogs.msdn.com/giorgio/archive/2008/05/05/deep-zoom-batch-export-programmaticly-using-c.aspx My little tip is how to get this to work in Vista … Continued