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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

For those that don’t know I moderate the Virtual Earth forums at MSDN: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=537&SiteID=1 The forum is buzzing with questions and awesome answers from the likes of Ricky, Derek, Brian, Jeff, Roberto, Mike and many others. If you really want … Continued

We’ve been working on a new Microsoft Usergroup site for the last few months, and it’s just been released! You can check it out here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-au/cc185136.aspx It allows users for find any of the Microsoft User Groups in Australia visually … Continued

One of our clients that John has been working with for awhile has release their new site http://clikitysplit.com. ClikitySplit.com is the world wide web’s first visual, rich multimedia, dynamic, marketing and search engine.  Using ClikitySplit, consumers worldwide can quickly, visually, … Continued

Next week we’re travelling to Sydney and Perth to deliver our presentation on SQL 2008 Spatial with Virtual Earth. If you’re around in Sydney on the 13th we’re going out to dinner and drinks with some of the ladies from … Continued

Had a few chats with Catherine about catching up for dinner when we’re in Sydney next week, which then grew into lets invite some other girls too, which then turned into…let’s see if we can get the bloggers on geekgirlblogs … Continued

We’ve had a busy and eventful start to 2008..and boy has it just flown by! It kicked off really well when I was awarded a Microsoft MVP award. Already i’ve met quite a few other MVPs, had an introduction lunch … Continued

Some exciting news just in! The first Girl Geek Dinner Sydney is to be held on 21st February.  Sign up for the event on facebook or check out the website. The first event is at Lindt Chocolate Cafe, Cockle Bay and … Continued

Yesterday we presented at both the newly formed SQL UG and the .Net Usergroup in Hobart.  Both had small crowds (in comparison to the 100 attendees we had in Melbourne) but both had people with lots of good questions. It … Continued

So you heard about Live Services and not sure what they are or want to hear a bit more about about the different services? There’s a series of webcasts available that i first saw here. Session 1 – Windows Live … Continued

Today I started a list of the Geek Girl Groups (mainly dinner groups) that I know about out there.  I’ve added the list to the Geek Girl blog home page HERE.  So if you have a group and it’s not on … Continued

Well we’ve booked our flights and hotel for this year’s MVP summit in Seattle.  We’re heading up to Montreal first where John is doing a 1/2 day workshop on using Virtual Earth to provide Geographical access to Cultural Herritage at the Museums and … Continued

We’ve had a late addition to our user group tour…Gold Coast .Net.  We’ll be visiting these guys on the 21st February, venue TBA.  Will add some links and details as they come to hand. Updated schedule can be found HERE … Continued

Next Tuesday, 29th we’re off to Hobart to present 2 sessions on SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth.  We’re lucky to be the 2nd presentation at the newly formed Hobart SQL Server Usergroup during the day followed by the Hobart .Net … Continued

In part 2 of this series, Derek Chan shows how to integrate the Mappoint Web Service platform on a Virtual Earth map. http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/InvokingserversidecodeusingAJAXPart2.aspx If you recall part 1 introduced the concepts of using a httphandler to communicate between server side … Continued

The guys at EverydayInnovations sent me some samples of their products, the PicoPad and the Booksling, just before Xmas. Now that I’ve been able to use them for a few weeks it’s time to see what i thought. PicoPad What is … Continued

Went and checked out Cloverfield last night. While it didn’t blow me away as it seems to have done with everyone else..it was a bit different which is always good. While I don’t want to spoil the movie for you..I’d … Continued

I spoke with Rony Ledany the Managing Director of Terra Pixel about their new product ImagePatch this week. As you may know the Virtual Earth API allows for custom tile layers to be added over the top of the stock … Continued

This week we arrive in Melbourne to present our 3rd in a series of 8 talks on SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth.  So far there’s just under 100 people registered so should be a great turn out.  If you’re interested … Continued