Today is horse induction day – 3 sessions with the horses. First up we did horse management which entailed grooming the horses. We were lucky to get the mares and their foals to brush. The mum’s were quite friendly and … Continued
Today we had three sessions with the elephants. First up we watched the four African elephants perform a routine including some soccer skills. This was followed by a one hour long ride on the back elephants, John and I shared, … Continued
Our first real day at Antelope Park! We started the morning with information sessions on the park, the program and then a drive around the breeding program to meet the lions. I’ve never been this close to a lion before. … Continued
Today was a long day of travel. It started with getting up at 6am to get to our plane in Johannesburg for Harare. We were a little concerned at the route the GPS was taking us, through a bunch of … Continued
Today we had a full day free in Johannesburg. In my true holiday style, I have a head cold, so I spent the day in bed trying to shake it. John ventured out with Dave from DPE Microsoft for the … Continued
We had a free morning in Johannesburg today so went on an adventure out to Monte Casino Bird Park. We arrived at the public parking to realise they don’t take credit card and we hadn’t been to an ATM yet … Continued
We have successfully made it to Johannesburg after only two slight hiccups on our planes, making the total journey a mere 24 hours door to door. Tomorrow we are presenting a session on visualising natural disasters using .net if you … Continued
So we’re taking a bit of a break on a holiday to Africa, so you’ll have to excuse the forthcoming holiday pics until we return to our regularly scheduled program of work-related blog posts. For those that are interested in … Continued
We had a few requests from people for our resources and slides from our talk on natural disasters at the QLD MSDN User group. We’ve uploaded our slides to HERE for those interested. Here’s a list of the resources we … Continued
We’re off on a bit of a holiday soon and pass through Johannesburg for a few days. Andrew Coates kindly put us in touch with some of the DPE staff at Microsoft in Johannesburg and they’ve arranged for us to … Continued
This month we’re practising some of our new presentation skills learnt at EvangelOz and presenting at the Queensland MSDN User Group to show off a bunch of tools and techniques you can use in times of natural disaster. The official … Continued
I saw a question posed on twitter last week asking how to pass a SQL 2008 Geography as the bounding box to the many search engines on the web that now allow a spatial query. Flickr would be an example … Continued
Due to popular demand from our Girl Geek Dinner attendees, this month, Microsoft have kindly lent us their office so we’re having another night of games! This event we’ll be showing of the Kinect for Xbox. From the official Kinect … Continued
Late last year I sat the beta exam for Silverlight 4. These exams are a little different as there’s no courses, practise exams or material of any kind other than the list of skills measured and the internet. They are … Continued
I finally got around to setting us up an account on the Windows Phone 7 marketplace and thought I’d share some of the experience as it might help others and i’ll update this post if i’ve done something incorrectly. I … Continued
Each year we sit down and look at all the work-related activities we were involved in throughout the year and reflect on a few things like: the effort involved, the monetary return, the level of grief/pain, the level of enjoyment … Continued
linux.conf.au is on in Brisbane this year, from 24-29 January: http://lca2011.linux.org.au/ It has become traditional to hold a Girl Geek Dinner during the week of LCA to allow the visiting girl geeks to meet up with the local crowd, even … Continued
The great feedback i received at EvangelOz last week really struck a chord with me. As a speaker at conferences one of the things that I hate is the feedback forms. Not because I don’t welcome feedback, because I can’t … Continued
For the final of our three amazing, yet long and intense days at EvangelOz we each gave a 10 minute presentation showing off what we’d learned. There was so much to think about – just look at what we did … Continued
As many of you probably know the open source, super smooth, DeepEarth Map control supports the very cool NearMap imagery content for Australia. You know, the first imagery provider in the world to fly every capital city in Australia every … Continued
Day one of the three day Evangelism Academy (#EvangleOz) was full of tips, tricks and great ideas from the guys at NRG Solutions. Bronwen and I were selected to participate in this 12 month program, the brain child of Microsoft … Continued
Who is invited? If you are a geek and a girl or know of one who is willing to escort you then you are welcome and encouraged to come along. There is a technical focus with the intention of having … Continued
I was trying to add some validation logic into one of my forms. I added a function to my domain data service that I wanted to call from my Silverlight application using an [Invoke] attribute. It all looked good but … Continued
While doing some development using RIA services, Silverlight 4 and SQL I started to get this error after modifying one of my pages: A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 … Continued
I was trying to create a RIA Services Class Library in VS2010 today and it kept failing to create both of the required projects with “A project with that name is already opened in the solution” as the error. After … Continued
Currently priced at only $2,500 per organisation MapData Sciences has just released the most current online road data map for Australia and New Zealand ready for you to use. Supplied as a hosted tile set the product is amazing value, … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued