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
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