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November 20, 2008

Live Services Jumpstart – Sydney – Dec 8 and 9

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20November

There’s only a few spots left for the Live Services Jumpstart in Sydney. It’s an intensive technical training session on Microsoft’s consumer web platform technologies. It’s being run by James McCutcheon and Dr Neil Roodyn (two of my new work colleagues at nsquared) and covers more than 20 technical sessions, hands-on labs and the opportunity to chat with numerous Live Services dudes...

November 20, 2008

Melbourne Silverlight Designer and Developer Network

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I’ve seen a few posts about this lately (eg Kordsi, Coatsy, Jordsy, sorry couldn’t resistsy), and with good reason – it looks like a really exciting new user group (or ‘network’ to be more correct). Here’s the Silverlight Designer and Developer Network (SDDN) website, which tells you their first meeting is next Thursday 27 Nov (held at Microsoft in Melbourne) kicking off around 5:30pm...

September 22, 2008

Microsoft IT Showcase

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22September

Microsoft gets more than 25 million spam submissions a day. Makes sense I guess, they’re a big company. I discovered this staggering stat going through their Microsoft IT* Showcase write-up on moving to Exchange Hosted Services. I’m not an IT Pro so the article probably isn’t aimed at me – but I still found it an interesting article to scan through. Microsoft basically transitioned the...

September 21, 2008

Office Outlook Connector Beta 2

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21September

There’s a new Outlook Connector released, and this one improves the sync features with Windows Live Calendar. Supposedly. I had a play with Windows Live Calendar and I quite liked it. Having the connector would make it seamless to share calendar items. So I downloaded and installed it. Ran up Outlook and it crashed. Try again. Crash. Uninstalled the Outlook Connector and it still crashes...

September 12, 2008

VSTO: Access Add-ins?

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12September

I get a few emails each week from people asking about various VSTO related scenarios. I can usually point them to a related MSDN forum entry or blog post, or even (on a good day!) solve it for them myself. Interestingly the question of Access add-ins has come up a few times lately, so I thought I’d make mention of it here. Basically, the official position is that building Access Add-ins is NOT...

September 9, 2008

IE8: Compatibility View Settings – set for all sites

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09September

Less than a day on IE8 I’m really getting frustrated. It’s not IE8’s fault of course, but the majority of sites I visit have problems rendering (my own included). Yes, it is up to the site owners to fix their sites, and yes they should have been more standards compliant in the first place, etc, etc, but hey, then there’s reality! Anyway, I’m going to try and stick with IE8 (at least for...

September 9, 2008

RECAP: Ray Ozzie on Internet Services and Mesh

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Just a quick post to note these links to Ray Ozzie’s previous memos: From November 2005: The Internet Services Disruption From April 2008: Services Strategy Update As I re-read them this morning, I was struck by how much easier it is to understand ‘vision’ in hindsight :-) Well worth reviewing yourself if you glossed over their impact the first time (as I did). (Thanks to Grant for...

September 9, 2008

PDC: Understanding Microsoft priorities

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Oh how I wish I was going to PDC, but no, sadly I won’t be there :-( However that hasn’t stopped me going ‘window shopping’ on the PDC agenda page. The first thing that strikes you when you land there is the breakdown of sessions – I’ve highlighted the tags I see as unusual: Six sessions on Oslo (ie BizTalk) and seven on Parallelism should tell you something about the focus Microsoft...

August 25, 2008

TECHED: RFID Palava

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25August

UPDATE: I changed some wording slightly – the term ‘tracking people’ was misleading – see comments for more details :-) It’s going to be interesting to see the reactions of attendees to the RFID tag palava at this year’s TechEd in Sydney. For those who missed it, the dudes at Breeze (Mick Badran and Scott Scovell amongst others) have been working hard for the last few months putting...

August 24, 2008

TECHED: Interesting mix of non-bloggers

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24August

I have to say I’m very much looking forward to TechEd next week. There’s a ton of exciting things to learn about this year, and with a swag of releases under their belts I’m sure Microsoft has had a tough time putting together the session tracks. As per usual I’ll be attempting to cover almost all of the tracks and get a broad high level view of where Microsoft is heading. I love the...

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