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Here’s one I always have to look up. You’ve cleared out all the data in your tables and you want to set the autoid back to the beginning…or you want to start it at a particular number. DBCC CHECKIDENT is … Continued

While helping out on a project, I ran a few unit tests.  When it ran, my collegue remarked, “There’s the letter coming out of the printer now”. I was a bit surprised and asked if there was a config setting … Continued

Came across “Agent M” today on this blog.  “Agent M” is a Windows Live Agent to help it’s banking customers with enquiries, faqs etc.  If you want to have a play with it just add m.m2u@maybank.com.my to you Live Messenger friends … Continued

Our unit will be vacant soon..so we went in search of a realestate agent that does LET ONLY.  Let me tell you it was SO hard to find.  All seem to only do with property management.  After calling about a … Continued

After working at home, for ourselves, on fixed priced work for over 12 months I’m finding it difficult to work in an office again.  It’s not just feeling cut off from the world…it the change in mentality. In an environment … Continued

So in this day and age is it considered polite or an insult for a guy to give up his seat on a bus to a gal? Now that I have temporarily rejoined the crowd of cummuters it’s interesting to … Continued

Bored this Christmas and looking for something cool to play with? How about playing with some very new code that combines Silverlight and Windows Live Services. If you haven’t played with it you should: http://tafiti.mslivelabs.com/ And the big announcment today … Continued

Dell has some great Christmas deals out and while looking at their catalogue I noticed they have some wireless xbox 360 controllers for windows. I had always wanted to pick one of these up and now wireless – even better! … Continued

What do you do when you’re a C# developer plunged into a world of VB.Net?  The project I’m working on requires me to use VB.Net.  Which isn’t too bad most of the time but the syntax can be quite different.  … Continued

So I did a dash out to BestBuy when i was in Seattle and picked me up a HDDVD player.  Get it home only to discover that the US players don’t have the switch to change from 110 to 240 … Continued

Know it’s like a week later but thought it was still worth writing about the trip home… Got kicked out of the hotel at 2pm so wander the streets for awhile..well as long as i could stand the cold which … Continued

Today was my big adventure out to Microsoft campus..started off not so well when my cabbie had no idea where to go and drove around in circles.  Lucky a nice catering lady showed us the way…otherwise i may still be driving in … Continued

Well after yesterday’s long journey I fell asleep about 7pm only to wake up about midnight wide awake..stayed that way till about 4am when I crashed and re-work at 10am!  Dammit..missed the free brekkie and early start to the morning. … Continued

After lots of flying and waiting in airports I made it to Seattle.  Almost came without a jacket and my ipod but John was really nice and went home and back to grab it for me. Qantas has got lounges in the … Continued

I’ll be in Seattle next week as part of the review panel for the Virtual Earth exam.  I took 71-544 Virtual Earth 6.0 Developing a few weeks ago.  Last week we received an email asking if we’d be interested in … Continued

Spent the last 2 days in an office where i’m not allowed to blog, use facebook, twitter, msn or check my various email accounts.  I’ve definatly been suffering withdrawal and feeling completely cut-off from the world. Trying to decide if … Continued

I am very proud of the growing community around Virtual Earth. In only six weeks since it was released the community site that I run, http://www.viawindowslive.com/ has had ten articles submitted using the latest version 6 of the API. The articles … Continued

Derek Chan has published a great introduction to communicating with Virtual Earth from server side code. The article is a good read to understand the basics of ajax before proceeding onto more complex examples or using asp.net ajax extensions. Read … Continued

Here’s an update on ViaWindowsLive for November.  Top Content www.viawindowslive.com/VirtualEarth.aspx http://www.viawindowslive.com/ www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/Messenger/MessengerIMControlPresence.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/GettingStartedwithVersion6.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Blog.aspx Top Articles Messenger IM Control & Presence Getting Started with Version 6 Clustering Pins in Virtual Earth 6 Whats new in Virtual Earth 6 Adding … Continued

We went to the first Brisbane Barcamp yesterday.  We rocked up pretty late..about 2:30 as we were both flat out working in the morning, and then had to battle the queues to cast our vote. It was a good afternoon, … Continued

Derek Chan is back from holidays and shares with us the new routing methods in Virtual Earth 6. Another great read: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/WhatsnewinVersion6Routing.aspx That makes nine articles on Virtual Earth 6 from the community and counting…

The first Brisbane BarCamp is on tomorrow.  We’ll be heading over for awhile to check out the action..think I could do with a drink by then 😉 Details can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5584407845  Let us know if you’re going and … Continued

Every so often you come across a little tool that is super useful. This is one of them. http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/ If you ever need to scale a logo and don’t have it in a vector format this tool is simple amazing. … Continued

I just finished my first SQL 2008 Spatial Article for Virtual Earth. http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/SQL2008Spatialafirstimpression.aspx It is very introductory taking you though creating a table, importing some basic data and a VE application based on a well structured ASP.NET AJAX Web service model. … Continued

Have been using Visual Studio 2008 for awhile now so I thought I’d share some great features. 1. Split View – gives us the ability to see both Design/XAML or Design/HTML view on the same screen with real time update … Continued

Today we did a short presentation (20 mins or so) at the eScience Revolution Briefing  at QUT Gardens Point Campus.  It was very different to demo Virtual Earth and SQL Spatial to what I assume to be not necessarily a … Continued

I updated my latest Virtual Earth clustered pins article today removing the logic I had built and tested for previous versions: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/ClusteringPinsinVirtualEarth6.aspx In short the new bulk addshape() method is simply fantasic. I see no visible flicker in removing and … Continued

We’re doing short presentation (20 mins or so) at the eScience Revolution Briefing on Tues 20 November (tomorrow) at QUT Gardens Point Campus at 9:50am. We’ll be showing off some Virtual Earth features, sites aswell as some SQL Spatial. Afterwards, we’ll pop … Continued

Amanda Jackson wants the word out on NZ Geek Girl Dinners..the details are here: On Thursday 22nd November in Parnell, Girl Geek Dinners are holding their inaugural event and it would be great to make this first event a huge … Continued

We have a cool new feature added to the articles at ViaWindowsLive. Its called “presence” and ties into IMME allowing viewers to see you online status and talk to you directly on the website using Messenger. Yes we now have … Continued