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As i flew into Sydney early and fly out late on my lunch trip, I decided at the last minute to buy a Virgin Blue Single Entry Lounge Pass, which all sounded good in theory…get power, internet and food as … Continued

I’ve lived in Brisbane so long I ran outta lunch spots so I decied to start on Sydney ones..and flew down for the day for lunch.  Well it’s a great line I’ve been using to explain my trip away today … Continued

After watching all the cool new stuff in IE8 and excited about the JavaScript performance improvements I thought I would I would install it today. After checking out that most sites built for IE7/FF2 combo rendered fine I flicked over … Continued

If you’re like us, and couldn’t make it to Mix in Vegas this year, you don’t have to completely miss out.  Check out http://visitmix.com/ and you’ll have access to lots of videos of sessions.  Keep an eye on http://sessions.visitmix.com/ for the sessions, … Continued

Office Live Workspace Beta was made available in Australia the other day.  I’ve been using google docs for awhile and found it a good way to share docs, spreedsheets etc with remote teams/clients and also a way to get to … Continued

Moved our mail over to Live Mail this morning.  So we’re now using Custom Domains (Admin Centre) , Live mail and the Outlook Connector to access our mail. After it’s all setup it’s pretty seemless.  When sending mail through Outlook … Continued

Was playing with Linq to XML today and wanted to do an orderby based on one of the fields in the xml file. It’s a bit different to SQL as the orderby goes between the from and the select. My … Continued

Seems as though the Girl Geek Dinners in Sydney made it into “the news”.  Check it out here: http://itnews.com.au/News/71327,girl-geeks-meet-for-international-womens-day.aspx. If you’re in Sydney on the w’end make sure you check out their “Dinner 01 – Picnic in the park”..details here: … Continued

We received news today that old versions of Virtual Earth will be retired this year. We had already been told that Version 2 was being switched off come March 31st but the news today is that Versions 3,4 and 5 … Continued

I needed to write a sql statement in SQL2000 that took a string containing all the values i wanted to match IN a parameter, but the parameter is an integer. Essentially, I wanted to write SELECT * FROM Foo where … Continued

For those fortunate enough to be going to Mix in Vegas this year, there’s a bunch of Live Services sessions you should check out: Developing with Windows LiveWednesday, March 5 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Delfino 4003Speaker(s): Angus Logan, Miguel … Continued

If you’re after an evaluation developer account so you can use the Virtual Earth and MapPoint APIs, just request a developer account here: https://mappoint-css.live.com/mwssignup/

Installed ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions Preview today to use in a project and had some fun working out where the dlls were now living. Finally found them in C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Also remember, after switching your System.Web.Extensions and … Continued

It’s been a few months since the last update, so here’s the stats for January and February New Articles Who’s Online Integrating MapPoint Web Service with Virtual Earth 6 Client Side Clustering Invoking server side code using AJAX Part 2 … Continued

The first release is out of the community project on codeplex to give native JavaScript Intellisence to Virtual Earth inside Visual Studio 2008. http://www.codeplex.com/VEJS Essentially this is a little bit of documentation code that you reference during development for intellisence … Continued

Boy has this month just flown by!  Just a few of the highlights: My MVP expertise was changed from Live Services to Live Services Platform Microsoft Australia User Group site was released We did more travelling this month visting Sydney … Continued

I always get caught by this..so time to write myself a note.  I’ve installed Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and i go to connect to TFS but the menu options are missing..what did i forget to do? Just need to … Continued

We’ve been working away on the new version of the Microsoft Australia Find a Partner site and it has now been released! So’s what’s new since the last version?  The key features that the end users i.e. YOU see are: Upgraded … Continued

After what sounds like a very sucessful event 0 GirlGeekDinners Sydney are holding their 2nd event – A Picnic in the Park – to celebrate International Women’s Day. For full details on the event, check out the facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=21228582696

Client wanted to move ViewState off the page to reduce page weight.  Hadn’t done this for awhile (read ages) so I found this article and the discussion about where to move it to.  So I went with cache and allow … Continued

Client wanted a text box they could type a date into but also a calendar control if they didn’t want to type.  So I went with a Textbox, a compareValidator to ensure the entered data was of type Date and … Continued

A client wanted a cool, predictive dropdownlist.  So I decided to give the AJAX AutoCompleteExtender a go. It was really easy to use, didn’t have to write a lot of code and works a treat…what else could I ask for? … Continued

Here are some tips for anyone looking to get an Ager Airconditioning unit. Ager will NOT honor the warranty if the owner of the property changes, no matter what the problem with the unit.  There’s no way to transfer it or … Continued

International Women’s Day will see the launch of a new Australian girlie IT book : Tech Girls are Chic. “The book presents 16 gals working in a range of Information Technology (IT) jobs in Australia. It shows the diversity of … Continued

Our presentation at the Gold Coast .Net User group on SQL 2008 Spatial and Virtual Earth has now been postponed till the 20th March.

Last night we did presentation 7 of 9 in our User Group tour.  We presented on Valentine’s Day at the Perth SQL UG.  We were thinking about grabbing some roses or the like for those who came along but in … Continued

Got confirmation through that I’m shifting MVP expertise from Windows Live to Windows Live Platform.  See new profile here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Bronwen.Zande

Last night we did presentation 6 of 9 in Sydney, in our series our User Group presentations. Around 20 people battled the rainy afternoon that we may have brought with us.  So thanks for those guys for turning up and giving … Continued

Are you in the UK and interested in learning how to develop with the Windows Live Platform?  Then there’s a couple of event coming up that you might be interested in… From UK ISV Blog The Partner Readiness have just … Continued

I was reading the GeekGirlBlogs feed this morning and noticed Martha is kicking off Girl Geek Dinners in Ireland on the 27th of February.  So if you’re in Ireland and want to catch up with some other like-minded ladies check … Continued