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We’ve turned 300.  Since the 6th August 2006 we’ve now done 300 blog posts.   So to mark our 300th blog birthday, here’s a recap and figures on us in our last 100 blog post days. Most people view our site … Continued

Marco Anastasi just finished a great article on making a mashup with Virtual Earth. His article mashes weather data from geonames and is a good example of what can be done with Virtual Earth and location specific data. Well worth … Continued

John sat his exam a few weeks ago..and i was a chicken and booked in for the last available day of the Beta round. This was the first ever Beta exam I’ve ever sat so it was quite different.  Usually … Continued

Head over to Angus’s blog to see some goss on the new Quick App for Live Services that’s about to be released. This Quick App is the demo we built for the Steve Ballmer keynote at the Worldwide Partner Conference … Continued

I blogged about a bit of a roadtrip of SQL User Groups for a presentation of SQL Spatial.  We’ve now added Hobart and Melbourne to the list.  The blurb for our talk is: SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth In this … Continued

The registration for MIX 08 in Vegas is open. Check it out here: We’re thinking of going..$1095 reg + flights + accom + food for 2..see how the budget is looking. Anyone else going?

There’s some new interviews up on Virtual Tech.Ed.  There’s a whole section devoted to Women in Technology.  Go check them out here: http://www.virtualteched.com/WIT/default.aspx

After playing with the Web IM Control and Presence API yesterday, I thought to myself..hey..it’d be cool for ppl to ask me questions about my articles.  So i’ve put my presence next to my name on my articles on our … Continued

For those interested in the new IM Control and Presence API there is a new article on ViaWindowsLive Messenger IM Control & Presence API Introduction – This article gives a brief introduction to the Windows Live Messenger IM Control & … Continued

Many of you may have already seen Angus’s blog and the introduction of a web IM/Presence control on the left side.  For those who haven’t…check it out 🙂 So for anyone who uses Messenger and has thought to themself..”gee, it’d be … Continued

I wanted to use ObservableCollection for databinding in WPF cause it handles all the nofications of list changes and generally is just cool. The problem i had was I had my objects in a different project..a dll and I couldn’t access … Continued

At 3am my time Microsoft held a partner briefing and went through the basics of Virtual Earth, mentioned the new features of V6 and demoed some sites. My highlights were: Talk of https version of VE very soon Walkthrough of … Continued

Darren Neimke has just submitted a new artilce to ViaWindowsLive. Adding Verbs to the Virtual Earth InfoBox – Virtual Earth supplies us with an API for working with locations offering features ranging from zooming through to locational push pins that … Continued

Today I entered Microsoft’s new competition to win a Zune. The competition is to use the new movie feature of Virtual Earth 3D and upload to soapbox or youtube, here is my entry: I call it “Welcome to Planet Earth … Continued

I was this great watching a video on Lynn Langit’s blog where she and Asli Bilgin talk about Evangelism and how they got into the industry. Check it out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/socaldevgal/archive/2007/11/02/my-15-minutes-well-24-actually-on-channel-9.aspx

I was after a good overview book on WPF so after hunting around on the internet I bought a copy of Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed. Overall I thought the book was pretty good if you’d played with WPF and wanted … Continued

I blogged about a bit of a roadtrip of SQL User Groups for a presentation of SQL Spatial.  We’ve now added Brisbane to the list.  So the revised schedule is: 9 January – Canberra 10 January – Adelaide 12 February … Continued

We got the latest DNN newsletter tonight and noticed that ViaWindowsLive is the latest showcase site. I think that’s pretty cool.  Next goal..get GeekGirlBlogs on there aswell

As some of you may have already seen on Brian’s blog, I’ve been oranising a roadtrip of some of the SQL User Groups for us to do a presentation on SQL Spatial. So far I’ve lined up the following dates/locations: … Continued

I have posted up the unsupported code to allow support for printing a Virtual Earth Map in IE6, IE7 and Firefox: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/PrintinginVirtualEarth.aspx There are two versions of the code, a compiled ready to use version and a full source code version. … Continued

Gfw has posted his well documented code and written up some instructions that explains how to get Yahoo Traffic information on your Virtual Earth map. Well worth a read and a play over at VWL: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/YahooTrafficonVirtualEarth.aspx  

Isaac just posted he is presenting an hour session on SQL 2008 spatial today (1st Nov) at 9am PDT. You can register here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032353122&Culture=en-US From the event blurb: Event Overview Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers new spatial data types that … Continued

I’d read about 3 blogs today about the new Expression Encoder plugin for Silverlight Streaming.  It all looked pretty cool as the old manual manipulation of files, zipping and uploading wasn’t overly user friendly.  So I had a play and … Continued

I sat down and completed the Beta exam for Virtual Earth this week. Clearly I’m not allowed to elaborate on the questions but I’d like to share my thoughts and experience. The exam was scheduled for 4 hours, 3hours for … Continued

After launching GeekGirlBlogs the other day I soon came across a problem with any syndicated feed.  It would attach www.geekgirlblogs.comhttp to the front of all the links. I had lots of things it could have been.. DNN 4.6 Use of FriendlyURLs … Continued

It’s been awhile since i did an update on ViaWindowsLive.  Thought I do some stats…Virtual Earth is still very popular, but we are getting interest in silverlight streaming, custom domains, liveid and spaces. Top Content http://www.viawindowslive.com/ www.viawindowslive.com/VirtualEarth.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Messenger.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/SilverlightStreaming.aspx www.viawindowslive.com/Blog.aspx … Continued

I want my cake and be able to eat it too..can anybody help me? My scenario..I’ve got a WPF application that i want to install and pass a parameter to put into the installing user’s configuration file and i want … Continued

Keith on the MSDN forums just posted about a quick fix to support collections in V6. This is great news for people who needed to support their basic collections but I wondered if this now means we get 3D models as … Continued

This weekend I upgraded the code in the clustering example to Version 6 of Virtual Earth. This means we now utilise the bulk add shapes method and the bounds for a birdseye scene. Additionally I added some throttling logic for … Continued

After much anticipation, GeekGirlBlogs site went live today.  Many thanks to Scott Barnes, Anna Liu, Catherine Eibner and John O’Brien for their assitance and support. Geek Girl Blogs aims to create a central repository that brings these women’s blogs together in one … Continued