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Monday, May 24, 2004 12:36 PM

XP SP2 Blog

I have finally stumbled upon Tony Goodhew's XP SP2 Blog. Tony is a Product Manager in the Developer Division at Microsoft, responsible for the developer experience with  XP SP2. I've had a quick scan of the blog and there is a lot of good
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Monday, May 24, 2004 11:40 AM

MSDN Connection Welcome Packs being distributed

Woohoo! The cards have been printed, the boxes packed and we have finally sent all the MSDN Connection Welcome Kits.  I'm pretty sure the system works because I received mine today!
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Monday, May 24, 2004 4:19 AM

Tech.Ed 2004 | National Convention & Exhibition Centre | Canberra - 3 - 6 August 2004

Tech.Ed 2004 is underway in San Diego at the moment (visit the Tech·Ed Blogger Site to read feedback from those who are there) and we are in the final stages of planning for Australia's Tech.Ed, scheduled for August 3 to 6 in Canberra. Here's a sneak
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Sunday, May 23, 2004 4:33 AM

A hit for Microsoft TV software

Back in 1995 I was part of the Microsoft iTV push. Some of the folks I worked with back then are still driving the vision and it is so fantastic to see a major cable operator go with the technology. If only we could get this here in Australia...
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Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:30 AM

Blogging Plug-in for Windows Media Player 9 & Visual Blogger = It Works!

Magically the Blogging Plug-in for Windows Media Player 9 Series is now working with Visual Blogger. I stopped and started the app and voila, I have a little footer with the music I am listening to. Pretty cool. Keep up the great work, Robert
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Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:01 AM

RSS Screensaver

There is lots to like about this app, a screen saver that consumes RSS feeds - http://www.cool-screensavers.com/onlinews.html  Online News Screensaver is a unique and informative screensaver tool that delivers the latest news right to the screen
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Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:22 AM

Car for Sale

I've been asked by Phil to plug the fact he has a car for sale. It's a nice car, I see it in the carpark each day. He loves it too. He is desperate to sell, as he heads overseas really really soon. So, get in touch with Phil if you are interested....
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Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:54 AM

13 Years at Microsoft

I've just celebrated my 13 year anniversary at Microsoft. It's been a fun journey. I've been really lucky, as I have done lots of different things, been exposed to different parts of the business, and seen it from different parts of the world. I have
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:48 AM

Still having fun with Visual Blogger.

 I cant get the pesky windows media plugin display thingy to work. And I've noticed the post time is really different to the actual time i posted the entry. right now it's about 4.47pm Thu 20 May. But if you look at the info below, it's different.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:17 AM

Testing Visual Blogger

Did I mention, I need to enabled the plugin on my windows media player!
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:15 AM

Testing Visual Blogger

It would help if I enabled the plugin on my windows media player!
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:12 AM

Testing Visual Blogger

 I have read that Visual Blogger is out, so I had to go and download it. I'm giving it a test run. The nicest feature (for me) is support of the Blogging Plug-in for Windows Media Player 9 Series
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:35 AM

Upcoming Gold Coast .NET User Group Meeting

Gold Coast .NET User Group Meeting Thursday, 17 June, at 6PM in Lecture Theatre 4, Bond University. We are fortunate to have Joseph Cooney presenting on basic code generation concepts and features in the .NET framework.  These features include
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Monday, May 17, 2004 8:36 PM

Sydney .NET User Group 19th May, 2004

The Sydney .NET User Group meeting is coming up and this month, they have a great line up: Joe Hardy will give you a demo of a real .NET compact framework + SQL CE for Windows Mobile 2003 app. It is a cool data-driven app for portable barcode scanners
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Saturday, May 15, 2004 12:38 AM

RSS Sync - really useful pocket pc app

I stumbled across a terrific app - RSS Sync. RSS Sync is a Pocket PC 2003 ActiveSync Extension. It synchronizes RSS/RDF news to your PDA - effectively creating an offline newsreader. Features : RSS Sync currently boasts the following features:
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Friday, May 14, 2004 8:58 PM

WTL now part of Microsoft's Shared Source initiative - posted to Sourceforge.

Back in April, WiX code was released to Sourceforge under the shared source initiative. Today, I saw that Windows Template Library (WTL) is now part of Microsoft's Shared Source initiative, which will allow people external to Microsoft to contribute
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:50 PM

Three Unexpected Results in Empirical Open-Source Software Engineering

On Thursday Tyson Dowd attended a talk by Stephen R Schach from Vanderbilt University.  He talked at UTS in Sydney about some empirical research into OSS Slides for this talk are at:http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~srs/three.unexpected.ppt
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:09 PM

Aussie XMLTV WebService

I stumbled across a really interesting xml webservice that does something really handy, provides access to a local Australian TV program guide information. A very handy service indeed. Development One's XMLTV based television programme guide information
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:48 AM

ASP.NET Site of the Day -- Cracker

Those guys at F2 are really getting into ASP.NET. I got a note from one of the developers of a new site they launch earlier this year - http://cracker.com.au - which is a free classifieds site. Here's their About Us page At Cracker we have a
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Monday, May 10, 2004 6:59 PM

Windows Media Center continues overseas march

CNET has gone public on this, so I can post it...... Windows Media Center continues overseas marchMicrosoft plans to announce on Monday that its Media Center operating system is moving into new countries, even as the software maker works to make the
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Monday, May 10, 2004 6:29 PM

MSDN Connection Member Update

The following email went out to MSDN Connection members today: Dear MSDN Connection Member, The excitement and support that developers across Australia have shown for the MSDN Connection program has been phenomenal - thank you for being apart of it!
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Monday, May 10, 2004 6:24 PM

MSDN Australia - June Twilight Developer Conference

We're on the road again! The Microsoft Security and Management Summit is a complimentary, full day technical briefing designed to extend your security and management skills. Building on the foundations provided at the first Security Summit in March
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Monday, May 10, 2004 5:42 PM

Solution Builder Phase 2 Winners

Back in March we spent a few days reviewing solutions for the second phase of the Solution Builder Asia program. Well I am delighted to say that all that hard work has paid off, and we have a number of winners!!! Winning partners in Round 2 of the Microsoft®
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Friday, May 07, 2004 12:41 AM

CeBIT 2004 Sydney - Product using .NET FX

I saw many solutions being shown at CeBIT that had been developed using the .NET framework and the .NET Compact Framework.  More than I expected, to be honest. I'll take that as a positive :) And I saw one app that knocked my socks off! It is called
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Friday, May 07, 2004 12:21 AM

CeBIT 2004 Sydney - My favorite photo

I took a few photos while I was at CeBIT - my XDA II has a camera, so it's a shame not to use it. Some photos were ok, some were silly some were just gratuitous - have a look at the moblog for more. But my favorite was this one - it's
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:55 PM

CeBIT 2004 Sydney - Thoughts

I did a wander of the floor at CeBIT today. What struck me was the number of companies doing the same thing - mms gateways, content management systems, web-based erp, sales force automation, mobile field service, crazy embedded devices. Lots of good
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:44 PM

CeBIT 2004 Sydney

I did a wander around CeBIT today and saw some cool stuff, but the thing that blew my mind (and made me feel nauseous) was the 3d tv screen. I'll pay more attention tomorrow and note down some more interesting stuff - but in the meantime, checkout
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:40 PM

ASP.NET Site of the Day : Mission Australia

Now, here's something interesting. The Mission Australia site is an ASP.NET site. Mission Australia is a non-denominational Christian organisation with a vision to spread the love of God and meet human need. So it's kinda cool that they have an ASP.NET
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 1:47 PM

@ Cebit

I've spent the day at Cebit.  it's been fun - met lots of old friends & made some new ones! I've put some photos on my moblog more later................. Posted from my XDA II
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