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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

Wow! I can’t believe I haven’t done one of these since the end of July! Looks like I have a few months to catch up on. John presented at Virtual Earth Day in Brisbane on the 1st August We shared … Continued

I’ve been working on some WPF lately and one of the early things the designer wanted to do was use Adobe Illustrator files e.g. EPS format in Expression Blend.  After looking in all the obvious places like File->Import and attempting … Continued

There’s been a few things happening for Girl Geek Dinners an Geek Girl Blogs lately. Brisbane Girl Geek Dinner – Dinner 2 was a hit – read more here. Catherine has been busy with her latest Geek Girl Blog podcast … Continued

The HDView team released a gem of a sample app this week from ICE that amongst other things provide a solution for showing 360 degree panoramas. The solution uses three MSI controls to provide a seamless panning experience. Now what … Continued

There’s less than a week till our 2nd Girl Geek Dinner Brisbane and this month we’re fortunate to have Susannah Raub speaking at our dinner. Google have been kind enough to send her up to Brisbane and has offered to … Continued

So you’re interested in Silverlight and Virtual Earth, you’ve downloaded the DeepEarth code but are now completely lost? Well check out two 20min videos to walk you through the code and get you started. Part1 and Part2. The videos essentially … Continued

The Virtual Earth JavaScript control is not small weighing in at 217KB when compressed in Version 6.2. When you require the rich experience of Virtual Earth this size is not an issue, the control is aimed at broadband users and … Continued

The Virtual Earth JavaScript control has supported tile overlays for some time. A tile layer is set of 256px square images matching the Mercator projection of Virtual Earth. Tile layers are usually layered on top of Virtual Earth, the control … Continued

We use Admin Centre for a few sites, one of the main ones is Geek Girl Blogs. I’ve done up an article to show the different membership and branding options it provides here. Technorati Tags: Admin Centre,Windows Live,Geek Girl Blogs

VEWS was just released and after a few attempts myself to get it working I thought I would share a short video on the sign up process and adding the references to Visual Studio 2008.   Video after the break: … Continued

On the 22nd August John and I participated in Technology Take You Anywhere 2008, an event to help encourage school girls into Technology careers.  We were placed in the Multimedia space up against the dance mats, game bikes etc. We … Continued

Today we have so many choices for how we are going to share photos on the web, not only a variety of web sites but also many different display technologies. I took the opportunity to try a few of the … Continued

28th of August we had our first Brisbane Girl Geek Dinner. We had some great feedback and will start planning the next event very soon so watch this space.   Photos are courtesy of Tim: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alborath/sets/72157606993717214/ Technorati Tags: Girl Geek … Continued

A few people have asked me how Teched NZ compares to Teched Aus. The two conferences share most of the big name session speakers. I thought I’d share my observations on the things that were most noticable to me: “The … Continued

Today was the final day of TechEd NZ. We did our session on our favourite bits of Windows Live. Unfortunatly for me, the internet crashed and burned which 1. makes it hard to show things and 2. Doesn’t give a … Continued

Day 2 of TechEd NZ was pretty busy. For some reason at events we seem to present on the last session or near the end of the day so usually nobody knows who we are. Because I spoke at the … Continued

Today was a big day..Opening day – Keynote, lots of Scott Hanselman talks, Ask the Experts, and of course the Girl Geek Dinner. The NZ keynote started with current and opposition parties talking about their broadband plan which were both … Continued

Got up early for a MVP breakfast. Was good to meet a few of the local MVPs and Microsoft staff and of course catch up with Rose and Nick. Then we skipped out in the morning as it was a … Continued

We flew out to New Zealand this morning. First flight on Pacific Blue. Somehow we got stuck at the back of the plane surrounded by families with small children and were seated in front of a family with a child … Continued

After a long wait and no news the very cool Photosynth was released today for you to build your own synth. There is a great (40min) video on channel 10. Here is some interesting links I found so far: Chris … Continued

The HDView team at Microsoft have just released an update to their tools that allows you to export your giga-pixel images as a Silverlight Deep Zoom application directly from Photoshop CS3. The tools can be downloaded from here: http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/Details/345a52c3-fe44-4045-94b4-4b26a93a907c/Details.aspx After … Continued

We decided to be different and go to Tech Ed New Zealand this year.  We’re doing a couple of presentations at Tech.Ed NZ if you want to check them out. WEB217 – The Live Highlights Package – 3/9/2008 – 1:40-2:10pm … Continued

My second set of videos for the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control went up today. This time we look at server side clustering. If your interested in getting a really large amount of data in the control you should check it … Continued

I was alerted on twitter today that a giant screen is being erected in the city, the guess is to feed us sport crazy Australian’s with some Olympic goodness. Anyway I thought, ha I don’t need no big screen, I … Continued

Released on Monday the new ASP.NET Virtual Earth control is very cool. I’ve spent the weekend sharing some of my knowledge of the control. Get the full set of 8 videos from LiveSide: http://tinyurl.com/veasp The sample site is fully downloadable … Continued

This marks our 500th blog post since 6th August 2006! So to mark our 500th blog birthday, here’s a recap and figures for our last 100 blog post days! We’ve seen a lot more interest in Silverlight Streaming and Silverlight … Continued

We’re going to the extreme! We’ve signed up to do 12 interactive presentations in one day about Virtual Earth at this year’s Technology Takes You Anywhere event, held on August 22nd in Brisbane. For those who haven’t heard of the … Continued

Yesterday we were fortunate enough to participate in the Brisbane Virtual Earth day as one of the customer case studies. As you can see below, there was a really good turnout in the Brisbane office. The day included an introduction … Continued

If you want to export some data into excel in ASP.Net without having Excel on your server a good way to do it is it use a GridView and ADO.Net to do this. There are a few little tricks/snags you … Continued