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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

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 … Continued

  Back in April I sat the 2 WPF Beta Exams: 70-518 Pro: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 and 70-511 TS: Microsoft .Net Framework 4, Windows Application Development. The Beta Exams are free to sit, … Continued

Yesterday Bronwen and I introduced 500 Brisbane schoolgirls to the Microsoft Surface and taught them some geography via a simple game using Bing Maps, you can read about the event and their reactions here. In this post I’d like to … Continued

Yesterday was Brisbane’s annual Technology Takes You Anywhere (TTYA) event at Brisbane North Institute of Tafe. The event brought together 500 schools girls aged between 8 and 15 to participate in workshops, lectures and hands on activities. The event is … Continued