Monthly Archives: August 2008

Got up early for a MVP breakfast. Was good to meet a few of the local MVPs and Microsoft staff and of course catch up with Rose and Nick. Then we skipped out in the morning as it was a … Continued

We flew out to New Zealand this morning. First flight on Pacific Blue. Somehow we got stuck at the back of the plane surrounded by families with small children and were seated in front of a family with a child … Continued

After a long wait and no news the very cool Photosynth was released today for you to build your own synth. There is a great (40min) video on channel 10. Here is some interesting links I found so far: Chris … Continued

The HDView team at Microsoft have just released an update to their tools that allows you to export your giga-pixel images as a Silverlight Deep Zoom application directly from Photoshop CS3. The tools can be downloaded from here: http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/345a52c3-fe44-4045-94b4-4b26a93a907c/Details.aspx After … Continued

We decided to be different and go to Tech Ed New Zealand this year.  We’re doing a couple of presentations at Tech.Ed NZ if you want to check them out. WEB217 – The Live Highlights Package – 3/9/2008 – 1:40-2:10pm … Continued

My second set of videos for the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control went up today. This time we look at server side clustering. If your interested in getting a really large amount of data in the control you should check it … Continued

I was alerted on twitter today that a giant screen is being erected in the city, the guess is to feed us sport crazy Australian’s with some Olympic goodness. Anyway I thought, ha I don’t need no big screen, I … Continued

Released on Monday the new ASP.NET Virtual Earth control is very cool. I’ve spent the weekend sharing some of my knowledge of the control. Get the full set of 8 videos from LiveSide: http://tinyurl.com/veasp The sample site is fully downloadable … Continued

This marks our 500th blog post since 6th August 2006! So to mark our 500th blog birthday, here’s a recap and figures for our last 100 blog post days! We’ve seen a lot more interest in Silverlight Streaming and Silverlight … Continued

We’re going to the extreme! We’ve signed up to do 12 interactive presentations in one day about Virtual Earth at this year’s Technology Takes You Anywhere event, held on August 22nd in Brisbane. For those who haven’t heard of the … Continued

Yesterday we were fortunate enough to participate in the Brisbane Virtual Earth day as one of the customer case studies. As you can see below, there was a really good turnout in the Brisbane office. The day included an introduction … Continued