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Amanda Abraham has being doing a great set of posts featuring Geek Girl bloggers from around the world. I’ve added the feed into Geek Girl Blogs or you can check it out directly here. This week it’s about me 🙂 … Continued

For Xmas last year I asked for a worm farm and some worms. I’ve had all the bits about 6 months now and surprisingly the worms are not only NOT dead, they are happily multiplying. So between the dog (who … Continued

Well I’ve had my Dell XPS 1530 for almost 2 months now so I thought it’s a good time to write down what I think of it. Overall, I’m really happy with it. It’s lighter and faster than my old … Continued

Dinner 1 of the Brisbane Girl Geek Dinners is SOLD OUT!!!! Send us a message if you missed out and want to know about future events. Technorati Tags: Girl Geek Dinners,Brisbane

This is a big event going on right now in Sydney, Australia. We put together a little video to show all the places around the world the event has been held in celebration. I hope they enjoy themselves and welcome … Continued

We recently became a Microsoft Certified Partner and today we received two big boxes of goodies via FedEx from Microsoft. These contained our welcome kit, software, a big banner and two nice plaques to hang on our wall. The smaller … Continued

So you’re a Virtual Earth Developer, busy times, why would you want to sit an exam on it? I sat the beta exam last year and although caught out a little by the MapPoint Web services questions got a reasonable … Continued

Today we released an update to www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au to support RSS feeds of everything in the collection. One benefit of allowing access to the rich content in XML is third parties can do amazing things. PicLens offers an amazing experience for … Continued

Part of qualifying for the Data Visualisation Specialisation calls for 2 members of your organisation to pass the Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0: Developing Applications exam.  Ever wondered how many people have passed that exam? Well now you can… John stumbled … Continued

Girl Geek Dinners kicks off in Brisbane in August. All the details can be found here: http://girlgeekdinnersbrisbane.blogspot.com/2008/07/girl-geek-dinners-brisbane-dinner-1.html Technorati Tags: Girl Geek Dinners,Brisbane

Today we received confirmation that we had achieved Microsoft Certified Partner with Information Worker Solutions Competency (Data Visualisation Specialist) for our work with Virtual Earth. We thought we’d see who else is in the same area and had a look … Continued

I found this bug today in the default code outputted from the Deep Zoom Composer code. It doesn’t take into account the aspect ratio when panning so you need to divided the width by this ratio or else or vertical … Continued

I recently put my car up for sale on a few of the leading used car sites here in Australia. In preparation for the sale I had the car detailed and took some nice high resolution pictures of it. You … Continued

I wanted to bind a gridview to a datasource connected to a view and kept ending up displaying MinDate for the date fields that were Null in my database. I couldn’t find a way to fix this as part of … Continued

Well the end of financial year (EOFY) has ticked over. It seems to have gone really quickly. So what have we been up to this month? I had a few weeks off after an unexpected trip to hospital and got … Continued

In the latest MSDN Flash Finula asked a few of us for our top tips on being a great developer. Mine was: “Love Learning”We can't always be on the most exciting project with the latest and greatest technology so look … Continued

Changing your local folder in Team Explorer is a bit hidden.  To get to the setting Open Source Control in Team Explorer, and open the Workspace dropdown and Select Workspaces…. Choose the workspace you want to change and Select Edit … Continued

The DeepEarth codeplex project continues to grow with more developers, discussions, work items and source code. Huge thanks goes to Shaun who has be building out a concept for the architecture of the control and Jonas who made a cool … Continued

There’s a bunch of Girl Geek Dinner events coming up I should mention.   Girl Geek Dinners – Melbourne On Ice Sunday June 29 at 2-4pm – Ice Skating at Docklands Girl Geek Dinners Melbourne – Dinner 1.0 Thursday July … Continued

We attended Google Developer Day – Sydney 2008 earlier in the week so thought it’d be good to share some observations / thoughts. When you work in one technology area for awhile it’s good to see what others are doing. … Continued

With Roger’s Demos Happen {Here} Competition in full swing, I thought a new article to help get your videos in might help a few people.  So I’ve created a new article on how to upload videos to Silverlight Streaming using … Continued

Today we launched project “Deep Earth” on codeplex. This open source project will bring together skills from developers all over the world to continue this concept and ultimately create a useable Silverlight control. Seven people have joined the fun: Shaun … Continued

  For those of you in or near Brisbane, there’s a Virtual Earth Event coming soon – see below for details. For those in Melbourne, check out Dave’s blog post here The Microsoft Virtual Earth EMEA team are holding an … Continued

The feedback from Part 1 has been great! There is definitely interest in this. Shaun Becker sent through this gem that removes my proxy server completely! Yes we now have Silverlight Deep Zoom talking directly to Virtual Earth! And better … Continued

A bit late to do May in review, but I’ve been out of action for the last week or so.  So I thought I’d do a belated month in review. We upgraded our site to DNN 4.8.2 and now can … Continued

I’ve been a bit quiet in the last week and a half after an unplanned trip to hospital meant I wasn’t allowed to do much. Last Thursday Lego Indiana Jones came out so I’ve been playing that to relieve some … Continued

Silverlight and Virtual Earth are made for each other, but how best do we go about creating a Virtual Earth control in Silverlight? First up lets look at utilising the existing Deep Zoom control to serve up the base image … Continued

I’m pretty excited by the possibilities of Photosynth. It is some truly amazing technology. Anyway spotted this newer video and thought I would share. NASA Meets Photosynth The first time this technology was shown was at Ted and that is … Continued

Alex Knight has published a nice tutorial on creating a hotspot effect. It is worth a little look if only to have some fun and get a look at animations and events in blend2.5. Follow the linked image to see … Continued

Jonas has already mentioned it but if you are looking for way to automate a batch process for creating assets for DeepZoom then Giorgio has the answer: http://blogs.msdn.com/giorgio/archive/2008/05/05/deep-zoom-batch-export-programmaticly-using-c.aspx My little tip is how to get this to work in Vista … Continued