I have been working on a WPF project lately and finding I have both Blend and Visual Studio open a lot of the time. There’s things each tool does better than the other and then there’s things I need to … Continued
My latest Article is up on sql-server-performance. It comes from watching one of the cool videos on TED where the presenter remodelled the World’s landmass based on the number of minutes US news spent on stories from that country – … Continued
We went and visited the guys at QUT last week as they had some cool stuff to show us and we love seeing cool things. One of the projects they have been working on is called SilverGene which is: “SilverGene … Continued
This month we're going to mix it up a bit and have a “Coffee and Chic Flick” night. We'll meet at the Cafe next to the Southbank Cinemas for a coffee and chat and follow it up with a movie. … Continued
One of my favourite tools to help me with WPF at the moment is Snoop (http://blois.us/Snoop/). It's really handy to do some visual debugging of WPF at runtime. It allows you to explore the visual tree of you application, and … Continued
3 months ago I kicked off a little experiment on twitter, http://twitter.com/virtualearth. As a Windows Live MVP I decided to tweet everything interesting I come across with Virtual Earth and also actively engage others tweeting about Virtual Earth. This weekend … Continued
Extending on our current addiction of Guitar Hero we took up the awesome deal on an Xbox Arcade and equipped ourselves with RockBand and Guitar Hero: World Tour. The New Xbox dashboard just got released so we made up some … Continued
Armed with 4 people and a combo of Rockband and Guitar Hero World Tour instruments we got our Soul Solutions Band together – Smiffy on Vocals, John on Bass, me on Lead and Kim on drums. I’m finding Rockband … Continued
Welcome to the first part in series that takes you through the core functionality of the Microsoft’s Virtual Earth JavaScript control. Through example code I hope to either introduce you to the Virtual Earth control or show you how to … Continued
Checkout Catherine’s latest Geek Girl Blogs set of podcasts on the Women Build event she attended at PDC. She managed to interview a bunch of famous Microsoft staff at the event, including Frank Arrigo and Lindsay Rutter. Sounds like she … Continued
I’ve inherited Bronwen’s old 350d upgrading her to the 450d with its massive 3” screen. Since I pretty much just take panoramas I decided to get a 24mm prime lense. This seems to be the lense of choice for full … Continued
Wow! I can’t believe I haven’t done one of these since the end of July! Looks like I have a few months to catch up on. John presented at Virtual Earth Day in Brisbane on the 1st August We shared … Continued
I’ve been working on some WPF lately and one of the early things the designer wanted to do was use Adobe Illustrator files e.g. EPS format in Expression Blend. After looking in all the obvious places like File->Import and attempting … Continued
There’s been a few things happening for Girl Geek Dinners an Geek Girl Blogs lately. Brisbane Girl Geek Dinner – Dinner 2 was a hit – read more here. Catherine has been busy with her latest Geek Girl Blog podcast … Continued