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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

The Brisbane Girl Geek Dinners started in August 2008. In that time we’ve had some fun dinners and some great guest speakers. Over the last few dinners we’ve noticed there a lot of people registering for the dinners but a … Continued

Today was a massive day of travel. Brisbane to Singapore to Frankfurt to Warsaw. Previously when I’ve flown this far I’ve had at least an overnight stopover. This time it was just a few hrs at each airport. I must … Continued

I have been very fortunate this year to be to be involved with Imagine Cup as one of many round judges for Game Design and have been selected as one of the finalist judges for Software Design. After we built … Continued

  After our talk at Remix in Melbourne yesterday, I thought I’d post about how to create the Imagine Cup Game Design Round 2 competitor Mash-Up.  Before I created the application I created my own database and table with all … Continued

We’re fortunate enough to be presenting at this year’s Remix in Melbourne. This year it’s a 2 day event with lots of great speakers so should be an awesome event.  The abstract for our talk this year is: Mash in … Continued

The MultiScaleImage control in Silverlight 4 can now optionally be hardware accelerated. This means those massive images or, in my case, maps of the world can be smoothly rendered by using your compatible video card to do the heavy lifting. … Continued

  I was fortunate enough to be invited by Catherine to be part of the first Australian DigiGirlz event, held at the Microsoft Office in Sydney, on 24th March. DigiGirlz events have been held in multiple locations worldwide and a … Continued

This month we’re fortunate enough to have Tammy Halter as our guest speaker. Tammy Halter is the founder and sole Director of two technology companies, Absolute Data Group, and Broadcaster Media. Tammy has over 15 years experience in the information … Continued

At MIX10 yesterday Microsoft announced the developer story for Windows Phone 7, Silverlight and XNA. I couldn’t help but take an hour last night to see if I could could get Bing Maps Silverlight running. Unfortunately that didn’t get far, … Continued

For our first Girl Geek Dinner of 2010 we’re going to have a casual networking night. We’ll be heading to Vapiano restaurant in Albert Lane just off the Queen Street Mall.  You can have a look at the food on … Continued

Earlier this month at Australia’s first Silverlight Code Camp I showed a simple invert pixel effect applied to the base road map layer of Bing Maps. At the time I challenged the audience to look at pixel shaders to further … Continued