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We arrive in Aswan in the morning and grab our hotels before wandering through the markets and surrounding streets for a few hours.  The markets are quite long with lots of vendors trying to get you into their “hassle free” … Continued

This morning we head off to the Pyramids and it’s quite fascinating how close they are to all the buildings in town.  They still tower over many of the buildings  and are an awe inspiring site from the road. We’re … Continued

We got up early at the Windsor Palace Hotel to find they had hotwater..YAY. We have breakfast on the roof level of the hotel which has a spectacular view of the water and city. We then grabbed a cab out … Continued

I got up early for our trip to Alexandria only to find there was no hot water at the Victoria Hotel…not a good start to the day. Then we wandered down the road to the train station hoping to get … Continued

After a good sleep-in and a leisurely morning we headed to the airport for the next leg of our journey – Egypt.  This consisted of 2 flights: DC->Frankfurt and Frankfurt->Cairo on Lufthansa. The first was quite painful as there was … Continued

Today we ventured out to the Air and Space Museum near the Dulles International Airport. They have an amazing selection of planes, helicopters and even space craft like the Endeavour. They also had a Concorde from Air France. Such a … Continued

Now that the summit is over we’ve moved onto Washington DC. Today we wandered up the mall taking pictures of all the monuments. Unfortunately none of the water features are turned on and no tripods are allowed. So we got … Continued

Day 1 of the summit was very relaxed, we were able to sleep in and adjust a little better to the time zone. The first session of the day was Steve Marx (@smarx) and Azure, fantastic to see all he … Continued

24 hours of travel and here we are in Seattle. It is never fun to travel 15,000 KM but this trip was actually quite good. We flew Air New Zealand, a 777-200 from Brisbane to Auckland which was very rooming … Continued

Last night a bunch of new and returning faces turned up to the Lock ‘n’ Load Bistro at West End to watch Jessica Coates present at our 4th Brisbane Girl Geek Dinner.  Jessica suggested the venue for this month’s event … Continued

I noticed on Tim Warr’s Blog that there’s a Virtual Earth Developer Event happening in Reading on the 19th March. We were fortunate to have one of these events in Brisbane last year and it was certainly a worthwhile event.  … Continued

In less then a week thousands of Microsoft Most Valued Professionals will descend upon Seattle, Washington for the 2009 MVP Summit. It is a week of in depth interactions with the product groups at Microsoft and a highlight of our … Continued

We mentioned this to those at our Azure presentation this week, but I think it’s worthy of a blog post.  When I first started playing with Azure in preparation for our talk, I made the classic Hello Cloud project, deployed … Continued

This week we’ve been fortunate to have been invited to present at the Politics & Technology Forum: Campaigning Online Event on Thursday 26th February in Canberra. Event details: Join government, business leaders and political bloggers at the second annual Microsoft … Continued

There’s a couple of Virtual Earth Webcasts coming up how a quality mapping system can help boost profitability delivered by Technical Evangelist, Chris Pendleton:   Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) or February 19, 2009 … Continued

  Last night we presented a session called – Windows Azure – A developer’s introduction to coding in the cloud at the Queensland MSDN User Group in Brisbane.  We had a great turnout of around 60 people. It’s always good … Continued

This one catches out every developer when they start coding in JavaScript. The issue is that you can’t change the DOM in IE before it has fully loaded. Usually everything is fine locally and in Firefox but when you deploy … Continued

So you have built yourself an Azure worker process to crunch through your work, but how do you keep an eye on things? Facing that question I investigated and then built the world’s first Vista / Win7 Gadget to monitor … Continued

Girl Geek Dinners Brisbane Dinner 4 is set! This month we’re fortunate  to have Jessica Coates as our guest speaker. Being a Copyright Geek Jessica will talk about being a geek who doesn’t know anything about programming, and the importance … Continued

 We’ve been playing around with Azure and thought I’d put all the links I found useful in one spot. The aim is to keep this up to date and add new links we come across.  Let us know any posts, … Continued

  If you’ve been thinking about taking an exam then now is the time.  For a limited time ( end of May 2009), if you’re in Australia you can goto www.learnandcertify.com and using the key AU62DDD3 you can complete a … Continued

On the eve of our V1.1 release of DeepEarth I thought it would be interesting to show off some stats. First up the main page at codeplex is where we direct everyone to come and check it out, download the … Continued

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be presenting on Windows Azure at the QLD MSDN User Group in February.  It’s been awhile since we last presented to the local .Net Usergroup so we’re looking forward to catching up with the … Continued

A new website http://geowebguru.com has launched from fellow MVP Richard Marsden. To celebrate I’ve created this article on 20 ways to use the Virtual Earth Platform as a developer. I cover Silverlight, Surface, 3D, Mobiles, SharePoint and lots more. I … Continued

Just before Xmas I bought Pro LINQ. I’ve been doing quite a bit of LINQ lately and just wanted to be able to sit down and read in one hit “the whole story” to make sure I wasn’t doing things … Continued

Beginning of this year we said goodbye to the cardboard 10 trip tickets on buses and hello to the new “Go Card”. I put off using the new Smart Card for a number of reasons but have been using it … Continued

I’ve been having a good play with Windows7 since the beta was released and made a little video of the various new features and screens, but it was so boring I won’t put you through it. However so not to … Continued

The New Year started well when I received the following email: Dear Bronwen Zande, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their … Continued

One of the things we wanted to achieve over the Xmas break was to revamp our website. Our basic site we’d put together rather quickly over 2 years ago and was looking very tired. We made a conscious effort to … Continued

AndreaMosaic is an amazing tool for creating images from lots of other images, DeepZoom composer is a tool for publishing large images on the web from Microsoft and Seadragon AJAX is one way to view these massive images with no … Continued