Today was the last day of the summit. The last session was the locknote with Steve Ballmer. The guy is truly amazing..so much energy! The MVPs got to ask questions/give feedback. Steve was there writing notes and answering each question. I … Continued
One of the “big things” about going to Microsoft Campus is the chance to visit the company store. Here you have access to very cheap software/hardware aswell as an array of microsoft branded swag. We popped in about 5pm on … Continued
First day of sessions. Was really good to put some faces to names after many msn conversations and emails. After the Product Group party, Angus was nice enough to take us to play with a Surface. About 6 of us … Continued
Well we made it onto the flight to Toronto, and 6 hrs later we’re in Seattle. The best news is our bags have beaten us (probably made the plane they kicked us off of) and we can grab them and … Continued
This example comes from Steve Lombardi’s blog post last year and has been updated to the latest version of Virtual Earth at the time of writing. The code and collection was presented at the Museums and the Web conference in … Continued
After the nightmare of yesterday..this is how we’re fairing…we got up really early and headed over to Air Canada to try and get out of Chicago. We were prepared to split up if it meant at least one of us … Continued
So after a long day of running around in circles we’re completely stranded in Chicago, with no way to get to Seattle for the Summit tomorrow. So now you’ve got the headline you can choose whether or not to hear … Continued
Today I battled the cold and did a photo walking tour. Essentially, you wander around with a photographer and take photos. It was interesting, mainly because I took photos that I would never have thought to take before. It was … Continued
From 9 photos using Windows Live Photo Gallery I made this Panorama from our walk on Tuesday. http://deepzoom.soulclients.com/montreal/ At 19,300×2200 pixels deep zoom is the best way to navigate the 20MB image.
Had the day to myself on thrusday as John was at the conference. Had every intention to do something…then the room got ridiculously cold, so I decided I was too much of a wuss to bear the cold by myself … Continued
Today was the start of the Museums and Web Conference. So we wandered down to the Hilton to host a half day workshop on Virtual Earth. I think we could easily have made it a full day workshop as we … Continued
Today we set off to walk up Mount Royal which the locals seem to call a bump. It gives a great view of the city so we took some panorama shots and some zoomed in versions and will put up … Continued
Today we did the tourist thing and checked out a few places. Our first adventure was to catch the Metro to Olympic Stadium. So we paid our money and went up the inclining tower to check out the awesome view … Continued
Bit of a delayed post..but we haven’t had internet connection… We got up nice and early to set off on our long journey to Montreal. The plane to LA had about 40 seats free but we didn’t get a spare … Continued
How far will I go for a good meal? Next week I’m at the Montreal Girl Geek Dinner..that’s how far! It’s my first Girl Geek Dinner and i have to leave the country to get to one 🙂 While we’re in … Continued
Had one of those “moments” this morning where I opened up myVS2008 tfs project only to get the following message: The solution you have opened is under source control but not currently configured for integrated source control in Visual Studio. … Continued
We’re heading off to Montreal this weekend, to attend the Museums and Web Conference. John has been going for a few years now, usually presenting on content managment, but this year he’s presenting a paper: Using the Microsoft Virtual Earth … Continued
It has gone in a blur but it was exactly one year ago I was awarded an MVP for my community service to Windows Live Developers. Always fun to be awarded on April Fools Day. The name has changed, I’m … Continued
Ever tried to apply a background image to a table row (TR) and it looks all pretty in FireFox but gets applied to each cell in IE? I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to apply a background image to … Continued
Ever use a repeater or a grid view an can’t remember how to append some other string to the databound value and finding it hard to search for? I always forget the syntax for this one..don’t know why, it’s just one of … Continued
I can’t believe 1/4 of the year has gone by already! It’s been a fun and exciting month for us…so what have we been up to: We finished our Aussie Usergroup tour, with sessions 8 and 9 at the Gold … Continued
9 presentations, 8 cities and 9 giant tennis balls later, we’ve concluded our series of SQL Spatial and Virtual Earth talks. There were a few questions that kept occuring around the funding for our “tour”. We paid for all the flights, … Continued
It will be my first MVP summit next month. The summit is at Microsoft Campus in Redmond Seattle. The event sounds pretty cool with presentations and social activities. So to contribute I teamed up with the event organisers to create … Continued
We went to the Heroes Happen launch event today in Bribane. We thought we’d be funny and go dressed up as “super heroes” Batman and Batgirl. We got lots of weird looks and people wanted to have their photo taken with … Continued
We have both been invited to the Heroes Happens event in Brisbane this Wednesday. As MVPs we will be answering questions on Visual Studio and SQL 2008 around the place. But why not make it a *super* event we said… … Continued
Ever wanted some Geeky Girls to speak at your event and didn’t know where to find them? I found a post here: http://coffee.geek.nz/2008/03/23/registered_com.html about geekspeakr.com. To quote: What is geekspeakr.com We help you find technical women to speak at your events. … Continued
Have had “fun” with the SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayerl today..haven’t found the solution..just all the symptoms. So i’ve got a SilverlightStreamingMediaPlayer, I’ve set it to point to an application on Silverlight Streaming, with autoplay OFF so it doesn’t start playing as soon as … Continued
After touring the country, this week we are visiting the Brisbane SQL User Group to give our presentation on SQL 2008 Spatial and Virtual Earth. This is our 9th and final performance of this talk around Australia. Make sure you pay attention … Continued
The Expression team have posted about how to manipulate collections within the Silverlight 2 multiscaleimage control. So what a great time to revisit my little sample code and make some improvements. Let make sure we have mouse, mouse wheel, keyboard, … Continued
We presented our SQL Spatial and Virtual Earth talk at the Gold Coast .Net SIG last night. On the drive down to Bond Uni we were thinking if we got 6 people in the audience on the Thursday night before … Continued