Last year over 80 attendees rolled up their sleeves at Tech Ed and got hard to work playing with Lego at the Lego Serious Play Women Build Event. We challenged each attendee to suggest ideas on ways to contribute to their local community to help encourage and support women working in IT. Catherine has been…
As part of the launch of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has provided a number of seeding cards to selected MVPs around the world to drive the adoption of the tools and platform. We were lucky enough to receive 3 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription cards to distribute to the community. For his effort…
This year we’re back presenting at Tech Ed Australia on the Gold Coast. It should be massive this year as the event is already sold out! If you want to see our session our abstract is below. If you want to catch up and say hi drop us a line or find us on your…
Today my Solid State Drive arrived so I rebuilt my main development laptop, the difference is amazing. The drive I’ve chosen after some research was Crucial’s newest 240GB SandForce drive, rated at 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write. My real world results were significantly less but a serious improvement over my previous 500GB 7200rpm drive. So…
Today Bing Maps updated their base Road style tiles, the results are amazing. New: Old: The new map symbology is significantly cleaner, easier to read and more appropriate for us to rendering data over the top. We often ran into issues where the vibrate orange roads were to dominant and if, for example, we wanted…
