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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

Now that we have Wireless Broadband, and in our hotel room doing some work, reading emails etc. we’re not very patient at waiting our turn at the internet (well at least i’m not) so we set up Internet Connection Sharing … Continued

After having a few internet issues on the road the road and not wanting to pay $30 a day in the hotel to use internet over the last few days we hit the shops in search of wireless broadband. In … Continued

So we’ve done the first 2 legs of our SQL UG tour. Wednesday night we went to Canberra.  Thanks so much to Peter Ward for saving us with his mobile broadband.  Smallish crowd but some interesting questions and some really … Continued

Time has flown by and we start the first leg of the SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth User Group tour this week. So for those in Canberra and Adelaide, watch out…we’re coming to town! Looking forward to meeting a few … Continued

John and I sat the Virtual Earth Beta Exam 071-544 – TS: Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0, Developing last year.  As it’s a beta exam you don’t find out if you passed for about 2 months.  This morning we checked the … Continued

Today I was asked to do what seemed like a fairly simple task: Take an Excel 2003 file, add a couple of columns of data and save to a new Excel file programattically. I haven’t done any coding Excel for … Continued

The ROM for Windows Mobile 6 for the Imate JasJam has finally been released.  So I’m taking the plunge and installing it on my phone.

2008 started well, with a nice email this morning informing me I’ve been made a Live Services MVP. What a great honor to be part of a pretty exclusive group. Have a look at my MVP profile here.

Back in December, John did a podcast with Craig Murphy about Windows Live, Virtual Earth and the community in Australia. Check it out on Craig’s site here:  http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/041-John-OBrien.mp3

I blogged about a bit of a roadtrip of SQL User Groups for a presentation of SQL Spatial.  We’ve now added a second Hobart session to the list – Hobart .Net Usergroup.  The blurb for our talk is: SQL Spatial … Continued

Being the last day of the year, always a good time to review what we’ve done this year.  It’s been a big year and it has gone way too quickly.  Here’s a quick review of our year: January – Saw … Continued

Being the last day of 2007 and all, I thought I’d do a recap on the ViaWindowsLive community site.  Since we launched the Beta site on September 7, we’ve had 27 articles sumbitted by you..keep them coming. Article Contributions John … Continued

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