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 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

I came across this awesome online tool from ito! that lets you visualise the changes made to OpenStreetMap for a specific area. You do need to register and then you can select your area of interest and see the changes … Continued

Wow! What a year 2008 has been. We had a meeting to reflect on the year and it’s not till you start to write it down that you realise how much happened in 12 Months. We did quite a bit … Continued

My Dell XPSM1330 has a 160GB 7200rpm Hard Drive, its > 80% full and the performance is completely gone. I have spent a fair few hours researching a replacement Hard Drive and found the results to be so unintuitive that … Continued

If your interested in developing with the next generation visualisations of Silverlight on top of the Virtual Earth Web Service (VEWS) you can now download the Version 1 release of DeepEarth. http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth/ Visit our online sample site or watch the … Continued

I was having trouble working out why in WPF when setting a ListBox SelectedIndex in code wasn’t showing my item up as selected. Turns out I had code set on Selector.IsSelectionActive. When we’d set up the look and feel of … Continued

While in Melbourne for Artists in Residence I had time to play with their Surface computer. The killer feature for me isn’t multi-touch but rather multi-user. And what better environment then a coffee table for that? Now to find a … Continued

On the 13th June this year we officially kicked off the DeepEarth project at Codeplex. Since then, with some great contributions from team members, the project has evolved into a very compelling control and has already had great interest around … Continued

Last week we participated in Australia’s first Artist in Residence training at Microsoft Melbourne. Over a busy 5 days designer and developer pairs undertook a mixture of hands on labs with formal training skilling us up to build our own … Continued

I have been working on a WPF project lately and finding I have both Blend and Visual Studio open a lot of the time.  There’s things each tool does better than the other and then there’s things I need to … Continued

My latest Article is up on sql-server-performance. It comes from watching one of the cool videos on TED where the presenter remodelled the World’s landmass based on the number of minutes US news spent on stories from that country – … Continued

We went and visited the guys at QUT last week as they had some cool stuff to show us and we love seeing cool things. One of the projects they have been working on is called SilverGene which is: “SilverGene … Continued

This month we're going to mix it up a bit and have a “Coffee and Chic Flick” night.  We'll meet at the Cafe next to the Southbank Cinemas for a coffee and chat and follow it up with a movie. … Continued

One of my favourite tools to help me with WPF at the moment is Snoop (http://blois.us/Snoop/). It's really handy to do some visual debugging of WPF at runtime. It allows you to explore the visual tree of you application, and … Continued

3 months ago I kicked off a little experiment on twitter, http://twitter.com/virtualearth. As a Windows Live MVP I decided to tweet everything interesting I come across with Virtual Earth and also actively engage others tweeting about Virtual Earth. This weekend … Continued

Extending on our current addiction of Guitar Hero we took up the awesome deal on an Xbox Arcade and equipped ourselves with RockBand and Guitar Hero: World Tour. The New Xbox dashboard just got released so we made up some … Continued

Armed with 4 people and a combo of Rockband and Guitar Hero World Tour instruments we got our Soul Solutions Band together – Smiffy on Vocals, John on Bass, me on Lead and Kim on drums.   I’m finding Rockband … Continued

Welcome to the first part in series that takes you through the core functionality of the Microsoft’s Virtual Earth JavaScript control. Through example code I hope to either introduce you to the Virtual Earth control or show you how to … Continued

Checkout Catherine’s latest Geek Girl Blogs set of podcasts on the Women Build event she attended at PDC. She managed to interview a bunch of famous Microsoft staff at the event, including Frank Arrigo and Lindsay Rutter. Sounds like she … Continued

I’ve inherited Bronwen’s old 350d upgrading her to the 450d with its massive 3” screen. Since I pretty much just take panoramas I decided to get a 24mm prime lense. This seems to be the lense of choice for full … Continued