Our 6th Girl Geek Dinner was held on the 2nd July. We were fortunate to have Kay Lam-Beattie as our guest speaker, who runs her own legal IT business and answered many legal questions from our geek girls. Kim Weatherall, … Continued
We’re fortunate to be presenting a session at Tech.Ed 09 on the Gold Coast. Here’s our session details: WEB302 – Bing your data to life, the Virtual Earth Silverlight control Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth) provides a slick and powerful … Continued
I was excited to read on my fellow Girl Geek Dinner Brisbane organiser Jenine’s blog that the Tech girls are chic! book, which she was one of many authors as well as compiled and edited, is now available on Think … Continued
I have an application where the user configures what video should display on the screen. When the user changes the video source I want to show a frame from the video so they can see they’ve picked the correct file. … Continued
I needed to assign a foreground colour to an item in code-behind and all i had was the HEX value of the colour. My first instinct was to set the foreground directly from the string e.g. textRichTextBoxEditor.Foreground = "#FF97315A"; but … Continued
We the release of Silverlight3 I thought I would share this skunk works project I have been working on. We have the Photosynth Silverlight control running inside our Silverlight3 application. We pull all the geo-referenced synths and display them on … Continued
I’m pleased to announced my project has launched for the Azure #newcloudapp international competition. Its called Traffic in the Cloud and provides a rich interactive location twist on public webcams throughout the world. So what makes this new and worth … Continued
A friend sent me a link to the You Tube video below. It’s a great example of using 3D virtual environments in learning. The extra cool part is it’s done in a school in Sydney, Australia. It really highlights how … Continued
I always struggle to find the full list of SQL 2008 Spatial methods for Geography when I need them so this is really just a helper post so I can find them again later but maybe it will help you … Continued
I noticed my old code samples around the place are a little outdated so I created this little sample based off the Bing Maps iSDK today. This is a little helper function that calculates 360 points around the location provided … Continued
We were at the Bing Maps roadshow in both Brisbane and Sydney, 10 and 12 June. I’ve finally gotten around to posting a few of the pictures I took from the day in Brisbane. This year the sessions were broken … Continued