Last night we presented a session called – Windows Azure – A developer’s introduction to coding in the cloud at the Queensland MSDN User Group in Brisbane. We had a great turnout of around 60 people. It’s always good … Continued
There’s a couple of Virtual Earth Webcasts coming up how a quality mapping system can help boost profitability delivered by Technical Evangelist, Chris Pendleton: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) or February 19, 2009 … Continued
This one catches out every developer when they start coding in JavaScript. The issue is that you can’t change the DOM in IE before it has fully loaded. Usually everything is fine locally and in Firefox but when you deploy … Continued
Girl Geek Dinners Brisbane Dinner 4 is set! This month we’re fortunate to have Jessica Coates as our guest speaker. Being a Copyright Geek Jessica will talk about being a geek who doesn’t know anything about programming, and the importance … Continued
So you have built yourself an Azure worker process to crunch through your work, but how do you keep an eye on things? Facing that question I investigated and then built the world’s first Vista / Win7 Gadget to monitor … Continued
If you’ve been thinking about taking an exam then now is the time. For a limited time ( end of May 2009), if you’re in Australia you can goto www.learnandcertify.com and using the key AU62DDD3 you can complete a … Continued
We’ve been playing around with Azure and thought I’d put all the links I found useful in one spot. The aim is to keep this up to date and add new links we come across. Let us know any posts, … Continued
On the eve of our V1.1 release of DeepEarth I thought it would be interesting to show off some stats. First up the main page at codeplex is where we direct everyone to come and check it out, download the … Continued
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be presenting on Windows Azure at the QLD MSDN User Group in February. It’s been awhile since we last presented to the local .Net Usergroup so we’re looking forward to catching up with the … Continued
A new website http://geowebguru.com has launched from fellow MVP Richard Marsden. To celebrate I’ve created this article on 20 ways to use the Virtual Earth Platform as a developer. I cover Silverlight, Surface, 3D, Mobiles, SharePoint and lots more. I … Continued
I’ve been having a good play with Windows7 since the beta was released and made a little video of the various new features and screens, but it was so boring I won’t put you through it. However so not to … Continued
Beginning of this year we said goodbye to the cardboard 10 trip tickets on buses and hello to the new “Go Card”. I put off using the new Smart Card for a number of reasons but have been using it … Continued
Just before Xmas I bought Pro LINQ. I’ve been doing quite a bit of LINQ lately and just wanted to be able to sit down and read in one hit “the whole story” to make sure I wasn’t doing things … Continued
The New Year started well when I received the following email: Dear Bronwen Zande, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their … Continued
I came across this awesome online tool from ito! that lets you visualise the changes made to OpenStreetMap for a specific area. You do need to register and then you can select your area of interest and see the changes … Continued
AndreaMosaic is an amazing tool for creating images from lots of other images, DeepZoom composer is a tool for publishing large images on the web from Microsoft and Seadragon AJAX is one way to view these massive images with no … Continued
One of the things we wanted to achieve over the Xmas break was to revamp our website. Our basic site we’d put together rather quickly over 2 years ago and was looking very tired. We made a conscious effort to … Continued
My Dell XPSM1330 has a 160GB 7200rpm Hard Drive, its > 80% full and the performance is completely gone. I have spent a fair few hours researching a replacement Hard Drive and found the results to be so unintuitive that … Continued
Wow! What a year 2008 has been. We had a meeting to reflect on the year and it’s not till you start to write it down that you realise how much happened in 12 Months. We did quite a bit … Continued
If your interested in developing with the next generation visualisations of Silverlight on top of the Virtual Earth Web Service (VEWS) you can now download the Version 1 release of DeepEarth. http://www.codeplex.com/deepearth/ Visit our online sample site or watch the … Continued
I was having trouble working out why in WPF when setting a ListBox SelectedIndex in code wasn’t showing my item up as selected. Turns out I had code set on Selector.IsSelectionActive. When we’d set up the look and feel of … Continued
On the 13th June this year we officially kicked off the DeepEarth project at Codeplex. Since then, with some great contributions from team members, the project has evolved into a very compelling control and has already had great interest around … Continued
While in Melbourne for Artists in Residence I had time to play with their Surface computer. The killer feature for me isn’t multi-touch but rather multi-user. And what better environment then a coffee table for that? Now to find a … Continued
Last week we participated in Australia’s first Artist in Residence training at Microsoft Melbourne. Over a busy 5 days designer and developer pairs undertook a mixture of hands on labs with formal training skilling us up to build our own … Continued
I have been working on a WPF project lately and finding I have both Blend and Visual Studio open a lot of the time. There’s things each tool does better than the other and then there’s things I need to … Continued
We went and visited the guys at QUT last week as they had some cool stuff to show us and we love seeing cool things. One of the projects they have been working on is called SilverGene which is: “SilverGene … Continued
My latest Article is up on sql-server-performance. It comes from watching one of the cool videos on TED where the presenter remodelled the World’s landmass based on the number of minutes US news spent on stories from that country – … Continued
One of my favourite tools to help me with WPF at the moment is Snoop (http://blois.us/Snoop/). It's really handy to do some visual debugging of WPF at runtime. It allows you to explore the visual tree of you application, and … Continued
This month we're going to mix it up a bit and have a “Coffee and Chic Flick” night. We'll meet at the Cafe next to the Southbank Cinemas for a coffee and chat and follow it up with a movie. … Continued
3 months ago I kicked off a little experiment on twitter, http://twitter.com/virtualearth. As a Windows Live MVP I decided to tweet everything interesting I come across with Virtual Earth and also actively engage others tweeting about Virtual Earth. This weekend … Continued