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After lots of flying and waiting in airports I made it to Seattle.  Almost came without a jacket and my ipod but John was really nice and went home and back to grab it for me. Qantas has got lounges in the … Continued

I’ll be in Seattle next week as part of the review panel for the Virtual Earth exam.  I took 71-544 Virtual Earth 6.0 Developing a few weeks ago.  Last week we received an email asking if we’d be interested in … Continued

Spent the last 2 days in an office where i’m not allowed to blog, use facebook, twitter, msn or check my various email accounts.  I’ve definatly been suffering withdrawal and feeling completely cut-off from the world. Trying to decide if … Continued

I am very proud of the growing community around Virtual Earth. In only six weeks since it was released the community site that I run, http://www.viawindowslive.com/ has had ten articles submitted using the latest version 6 of the API. The articles … Continued

Derek Chan has published a great introduction to communicating with Virtual Earth from server side code. The article is a good read to understand the basics of ajax before proceeding onto more complex examples or using asp.net ajax extensions. Read … Continued

Here’s an update on ViaWindowsLive for November.  Top Content www.viawindowslive.com/VirtualEarth.aspx http://www.viawindowslive.com/ www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/Messenger/MessengerIMControlPresence.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/GettingStartedwithVersion6.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Blog.aspx Top Articles Messenger IM Control & Presence Getting Started with Version 6 Clustering Pins in Virtual Earth 6 Whats new in Virtual Earth 6 Adding … Continued

We went to the first Brisbane Barcamp yesterday.  We rocked up pretty late..about 2:30 as we were both flat out working in the morning, and then had to battle the queues to cast our vote. It was a good afternoon, … Continued

Derek Chan is back from holidays and shares with us the new routing methods in Virtual Earth 6. Another great read: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/WhatsnewinVersion6Routing.aspx That makes nine articles on Virtual Earth 6 from the community and counting…

The first Brisbane BarCamp is on tomorrow.  We’ll be heading over for awhile to check out the action..think I could do with a drink by then 😉 Details can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5584407845  Let us know if you’re going and … Continued

Every so often you come across a little tool that is super useful. This is one of them. http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ If you ever need to scale a logo and don’t have it in a vector format this tool is simple amazing. … Continued

I just finished my first SQL 2008 Spatial Article for Virtual Earth. http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/SQL2008Spatialafirstimpression.aspx It is very introductory taking you though creating a table, importing some basic data and a VE application based on a well structured ASP.NET AJAX Web service model. … Continued

Have been using Visual Studio 2008 for awhile now so I thought I’d share some great features. 1. Split View – gives us the ability to see both Design/XAML or Design/HTML view on the same screen with real time update … Continued

Today we did a short presentation (20 mins or so) at the eScience Revolution Briefing  at QUT Gardens Point Campus.  It was very different to demo Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial to what I assume to be not necessarily a … Continued

I updated my latest Virtual Earth clustered pins article today removing the logic I had built and tested for previous versions: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/ClusteringPinsinVirtualEarth6.aspx In short the new bulk addshape() method is simply fantasic. I see no visible flicker in removing and … Continued

We’re doing short presentation (20 mins or so) at the eScience Revolution Briefing on Tues 20 November (tomorrow) at QUT Gardens Point Campus at 9:50am. We’ll be showing off some Virtual Earth features, sites aswell as some SQL Spatial. Afterwards, we’ll pop … Continued

Amanda Jackson wants the word out on NZ Geek Girl Dinners..the details are here: On Thursday 22nd November in Parnell, Girl Geek Dinners are holding their inaugural event and it would be great to make this first event a huge … Continued

We have a cool new feature added to the articles at ViaWindowsLive. Its called “presence” and ties into IMME allowing viewers to see you online status and talk to you directly on the website using Messenger. Yes we now have … Continued

We’ve turned 300.  Since the 6th August 2006 we’ve now done 300 blog posts.   So to mark our 300th blog birthday, here’s a recap and figures on us in our last 100 blog post days. Most people view our site … Continued

Marco Anastasi just finished a great article on making a mashup with Virtual Earth. His article mashes weather data from geonames and is a good example of what can be done with Virtual Earth and location specific data. Well worth … Continued

John sat his exam a few weeks ago..and i was a chicken and booked in for the last available day of the Beta round. This was the first ever Beta exam I’ve ever sat so it was quite different.  Usually … Continued

Head over to Angus’s blog to see some goss on the new Quick App for Live Services that’s about to be released. This Quick App is the demo we built for the Steve Ballmer keynote at the Worldwide Partner Conference … Continued

I blogged about a bit of a roadtrip of SQL User Groups for a presentation of SQL Spatial.  We’ve now added Hobart and Melbourne to the list.  The blurb for our talk is: SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth In this … Continued

The registration for MIX 08 in Vegas is open. Check it out here: We’re thinking of going..$1095 reg + flights + accom + food for 2..see how the budget is looking. Anyone else going?

There’s some new interviews up on Virtual Tech.Ed.  There’s a whole section devoted to Women in Technology.  Go check them out here: http://www.virtualteched.com/WIT/default.aspx

After playing with the Web IM Control and Presence API yesterday, I thought to myself..hey..it’d be cool for ppl to ask me questions about my articles.  So i’ve put my presence next to my name on my articles on our … Continued

For those interested in the new IM Control and Presence API there is a new article on ViaWindowsLive Messenger IM Control & Presence API Introduction – This article gives a brief introduction to the Windows Live Messenger IM Control & … Continued

Many of you may have already seen Angus’s blog and the introduction of a web IM/Presence control on the left side.  For those who haven’t…check it out 🙂 So for anyone who uses Messenger and has thought to themself..”gee, it’d be … Continued

I wanted to use ObservableCollection for databinding in WPF cause it handles all the nofications of list changes and generally is just cool. The problem i had was I had my objects in a different project..a dll and I couldn’t access … Continued

At 3am my time Microsoft held a partner briefing and went through the basics of Virtual Earth, mentioned the new features of V6 and demoed some sites. My highlights were: Talk of https version of VE very soon Walkthrough of … Continued

Darren Neimke has just submitted a new artilce to ViaWindowsLive. Adding Verbs to the Virtual Earth InfoBox – Virtual Earth supplies us with an API for working with locations offering features ranging from zooming through to locational push pins that … Continued