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Today I entered Microsoft’s new competition to win a Zune. The competition is to use the new movie feature of Virtual Earth 3D and upload to soapbox or youtube, here is my entry: I call it “Welcome to Planet Earth … Continued

I was this great watching a video on Lynn Langit’s blog where she and Asli Bilgin talk about Evangelism and how they got into the industry. Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/socaldevgal/archive/2007/11/02/my-15-minutes-well-24-actually-on-channel-9.aspx

I was after a good overview book on WPF so after hunting around on the internet I bought a copy of Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed. Overall I thought the book was pretty good if you’d played with WPF and wanted … Continued

I blogged about a bit of a roadtrip of SQL User Groups for a presentation of SQL Spatial.  We’ve now added Brisbane to the list.  So the revised schedule is: 9 January – Canberra 10 January – Adelaide 12 February … Continued

We got the latest DNN newsletter tonight and noticed that ViaWindowsLive is the latest showcase site. I think that’s pretty cool.  Next goal..get GeekGirlBlogs on there aswell

As some of you may have already seen on Brian’s blog, I’ve been oranising a roadtrip of some of the SQL User Groups for us to do a presentation on SQL Spatial. So far I’ve lined up the following dates/locations: … Continued

I have posted up the unsupported code to allow support for printing a Virtual Earth Map in IE6, IE7 and Firefox: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/PrintinginVirtualEarth.aspx There are two versions of the code, a compiled ready to use version and a full source code version. … Continued

Gfw has posted his well documented code and written up some instructions that explains how to get Yahoo Traffic information on your Virtual Earth map. Well worth a read and a play over at VWL: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/YahooTrafficonVirtualEarth.aspx  

Isaac just posted he is presenting an hour session on SQL 2008 spatial today (1st Nov) at 9am PDT. You can register here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032353122&Culture=en-US From the event blurb: Event Overview Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers new spatial data types that … Continued

I’d read about 3 blogs today about the new Expression Encoder plugin for Silverlight Streaming.  It all looked pretty cool as the old manual manipulation of files, zipping and uploading wasn’t overly user friendly.  So I had a play and … Continued

I sat down and completed the Beta exam for Virtual Earth this week. Clearly I’m not allowed to elaborate on the questions but I’d like to share my thoughts and experience. The exam was scheduled for 4 hours, 3hours for … Continued

After launching GeekGirlBlogs the other day I soon came across a problem with any syndicated feed.  It would attach www.geekgirlblogs.comhttp to the front of all the links. I had lots of things it could have been.. DNN 4.6 Use of FriendlyURLs … Continued

It’s been awhile since i did an update on ViaWindowsLive.  Thought I do some stats…Virtual Earth is still very popular, but we are getting interest in silverlight streaming, custom domains, liveid and spaces. Top Content http://www.viawindowslive.com/ www.viawindowslive.com/VirtualEarth.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Messenger.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/SilverlightStreaming.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Blog.aspx … Continued

I want my cake and be able to eat it too..can anybody help me? My scenario..I’ve got a WPF application that i want to install and pass a parameter to put into the installing user’s configuration file and i want … Continued

Keith on the MSDN forums just posted about a quick fix to support collections in V6. This is great news for people who needed to support their basic collections but I wondered if this now means we get 3D models as … Continued

This weekend I upgraded the code in the clustering example to Version 6 of Virtual Earth. This means we now utilise the bulk add shapes method and the bounds for a birdseye scene. Additionally I added some throttling logic for … Continued

After much anticipation, GeekGirlBlogs site went live today.  Many thanks to Scott Barnes, Anna Liu, Catherine Eibner and John O’Brien for their assitance and support. Geek Girl Blogs aims to create a central repository that brings these women’s blogs together in one … Continued

Having just built a new computer I have to share this tip for anyone doing cross browser testing and finding firefox really slow to load your pages and assests. http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2007/06/17/fixing-firefox-slowness-with-localhost-on-vista.aspx “It turns out that the slowness is caused by an … Continued

You ever get sick of having mulitple liveids and different passwods and trying to remember which one is which (is is it just me) ? A great new feature has been released that means you can link your liveids, login … Continued

A few weeks back our printer decided it didn’t want to feed paper anymore.  It was an All-In-One type inkjet which was handy for scanning and photocopying but took quite awhile if you wanted to print anything over a couple … Continued

For anyone interested in articles on Live Alerts, I’ve posted a new artcle: Writing Your First Alert Messages This article discusses the basics of the using the Alerts SDK and provides some simple helper methods help you write your first alert … Continued

I’ve been busy with the release of Virtual Earth 6 this week exploring the new features and making some videos and articles. A must read for any VE developer is the what’s new Article I just finished: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/WhatsnewinVersion6.aspx I’m very … Continued

I opened up a solution today to be presented with a nice System.Runtime.Interop.COMException in Visual Studio 2008.  After that my web project wouldn’t open. After creating a new project from scratch and recreating I found a couple of ways to … Continued

We’ve helped a few people set up their home desktop systems.  We were getting them to buy 2 identical HDDs and striping them for added speed. So since then 3 of us have had one of the array fail…my dad, … Continued

Saturday we decided to have a fun day out and do a ropes course at Adventure Parc. Down near Tambourine National Park, it was an interesting drive..as we were expecting signs..oh well we found it eventually. One we arrived and … Continued

Today we expand our team and welcome Phillip Suh. Based in Brisbane, Phillip has been in the IT industry for 7 years working for a range of companies such as Qcom, Praxa and most recently Technology One. As his meego … Continued

For anyone interested in articles on Live Search, Daniel Wissa has contributed a new article on ViaWindowsLive. Adding Live Search Functionality To Your Website This article explains the different ways you can use to integrate Windows Live Search functionality to … Continued

Been experimenting with WPF again.  Wanted to bind a listview to properties of an object.  I wanted to list the meals and types of meals that i’d selected for today.  So I had a List of Meals. So first I … Continued

I bought John a WRX Drift experience for XMas last year and he finally got round to using it yesterday. I don’t take a lot of sports photos so it’s always interesting taking photos of a moving target.  The problems … Continued

A couple of weeks ago the session videos for Remix Australia were released.  If you missed any of the sessions they can be found: http://blogs.msdn.com/postmixau/ John helped in Neil’s sesson on Windows Live Mashups by showing what you can do … Continued