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Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:30 AM

Two more additions to the Aussie .NET Blogger list

The Aussie .NET Blogger list continues to grow, with two new additions today - Nic HaC and Adrian Bezzina Welcome to the Aussie .NET Blogger list gentlemen. [ Currently Playing : The Bitter End - Placebo - Triple J Hottest
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Friday, March 25, 2005 10:58 AM

Global Organisation Seeking Good People

I got an email from a local recruiter this week asking if I could assist in their search for good people. You can review the job description for Analyst Programmer /Developers - C#, SQL, ASP.NET,VS.NET, Biztalk and Support /System Engineers
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Friday, March 25, 2005 10:39 AM

Sounding Off Interview is Posted

The interview I did with Sean Kaye has been posted. I'm downloading it now and will be listening to it soon, followed by all the other podcasts in my 'to listen' queue. Good thing I have a 4 day break. [ Currently Playing : Forgotten Years
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 7:47 PM

Sneak Preview of new MSDN Flash

We are a day late for the new MSDN Flash, but you won't be disappointed. We have a guest editor, as well as news of the MSDN Update that rolls out in April. And, we are announcing the availability of the new look MSDN Australia site. Make sure you
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Monday, March 21, 2005 3:06 PM

Another Interview with Me

I was interviewed today by Sean Kaye over Skype. Sean expects to have the podcast/blogcast/audiocast online sometime this week.  We covered a bunch of topics, such as the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 releases, Entlib, challenges IT Professionals
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Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:25 PM

Blogmap gets better and better

Chandu has been busy. He has updated his Blogmap application with a bunch of new features - new look blog badge, Flickr style tags for better browsing, a new home page, and a bunch of other improvements. I've updated my blog with the new elements. So
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Friday, March 18, 2005 3:17 PM

Avalon and Indigo March 2005 Community Technology Preview

Michael Swanson writes We've released the Avalon and Indigo CTP for March, 2005 (otherwise known as the WinFX"! SDK) for MSDN Subscribers. The download includes documentation, samples, command-line compilers, and various tools to
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:42 AM

Jarrad Plunkett joins Aussie .NET Blogger list

Another addition to the Aussie .NET Blogger list., as today I've added Jarrad Plunkett. He's running a new release of DNN which has a blogging module. He is an active member of the .NET developer community in Melbourne. Welcome to the Aussie
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Monday, March 14, 2005 1:42 PM

My Dream App : the dream continues

If Greg Low can dare to dream, dammit, so will I! Almost a year ago, I wrote a post about My Dream App. This generated a few comments and some emails from different folks, links to sites. I even got a screen shot of a sample which got me very
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:49 PM

IE and Standards

Recently I have had a number of folks beating me up regarding IE and the support for standards. I guess the release of Firefox added fuel to this debate. Today, while catching up my posts, I saw a good posting by the IE team regarding this very
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:24 AM

Breakfast Bytes Post Panel Report

So, the Breakfast Bytes session is over and it was a lot of fun, especially finding that unsecure WiFi hotspot - thank you SSID "anygate", I really appreciated that. For the folks who have come to my blog following the session, here's some
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:48 AM

Photo from Breakfast Byes Session

  i took this shaky photo during the session at Breakfast Bytes
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:21 AM

Live from the Breakfast Bytes panel

I'm sitting on the Breakfast Bytes panel with my fellow bloggers Mick Stanic & Mark Jones. I better pay attention to the discussion, I am getting questioned next.
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:42 PM

Feedback & comments following Breakfast Bytes Session

I've been keeping an eye on posts from folks who were at the Breakfast Bytes session this morning. So far I have found the following, excluding my posts: brekky bytes... Chewing on blogs over Breakfast Bytes Great Australian Blog seminar @ The
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:51 AM

BizTalk developers are worthy of inclusion in the Aussie .NET Blogger list

I got an email from Mick Badran asking to be added to the Aussie .NET Blogger list. Of course. I should have done it earlier in the week after I got your note about the Sydney BizTalk User Group. Mick, you are a most worthy member
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:39 PM

Aussie Office user & bloggers - C'mon let's take up the challenge

Steve Rubel has taken the Office Marketing team to task and given some suggestions on how to use the power of blogs. He has some suggestions that are all really good suggestions. I am going to lead the charge locally on behalf of the team. (Why,
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:56 PM

James McCutcheon is an Aussie .NET Blogger too

I got an email over night from James McCutcheon asking to be added to the Aussie .NET Blogger list.  James is from an Aussie ISV, J3 Technologies, and it looks they focus on the mobility space and are doing mobile application development
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:45 PM

Latest MSDN Flash on its way

The new MSDN Flash is poised to be delivered to all it's subscribers. Catch the sneak preview from the pirate archive. [ Currently Playing : Sexy - The Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk (04:44) ]
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Monday, March 07, 2005 5:12 PM

Rob Johnston - another Aussie .net blogger

I was doing some ego-surfing with PubSub and came across Rob Johnston's blog - he mentioned that he listed to my podcast. Reading his other posts, I found out he was based in Perth, running a small ISV. So I asked him if he would like
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Sunday, March 06, 2005 9:22 PM

Sydney BizTalk User Group - First Session coming soon

The Sydney BizTalk user group is getting together for the first time. I got an email from an excited Mick Badran this evening with all the info. The fun kicks off March 30 at 6.30pm at the DDLS offices in George St. More info below. Title: BizTalk
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Saturday, March 05, 2005 11:02 PM

A treemap of *my* hard drive.

I've been playing around with a fantastic utility called SequoiaView, which uses a visualization technique called cushion treemaps to provide a single picture of the entire contents of a hard drive. This is one of my must have utilities that I always
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Saturday, March 05, 2005 8:11 PM

David Lemphers moves his blog, so I must respond

Dave Lemphers physically joined my team this week, and over the weekend he joined us on blogs.msdn.com. This causes me to update a number of pointers, in particular the Aussie .NET Blogger list. Did you know this list now has 77 local Aussie bloggers!
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Saturday, March 05, 2005 10:49 AM

The littlest developer

I got a terrific note this morning from proud dad Chris! He signed up his new baby son as an MSDN Connection member and sent through a link to a photo of baby Cameron with his membership card - fantastic! The big question - what language does
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Friday, March 04, 2005 7:17 PM

Hello Neigh-blogger - the next feature of Blogmap

Chandu has been busy. He has been adding features to his awesome Blogmap service. It is really easy to implement. Here are my neighbours Cool. I'll be adding this button next ... [ Currently Playing : Armatage Shanks - Green Day - Insomniac (02:17) ]
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Friday, March 04, 2005 7:01 PM

Joe's the Man!

I got a reminder from Dave Lemphers to add Joe Sango to the Aussie .NET Blogger list. Welcome Joe! We all want to hear your experiences with VSTS. [ Currently Playing : Homecoming: The Death of St. Jimmy/East 12th St./Nobody Likes You/Rock
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Friday, March 04, 2005 9:09 AM

An Aussie Walking Through Avalon and Windows Forms Interoperability in Code

I got a note from Nick Weinholt (SDNUG legend) about a new article posted on MSDN by local boy - Deepak Kapoor. The article is called Walking Through Avalon and Windows Forms Interoperability in Code and it's a really good read. Give's
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:03 PM

Will .Net 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 be supported by Virtual PC on a Macintosh.

I get a few "interesting" questions each week, but this has gotta be the winner of the year so far. I have removed the name to protect the innocent and those bolding & underlines were put in by the author of the email. I am not confident of
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:56 PM

G'day new visitors

If you have come to visit me following my sponsorship of G'day World from Demo@15, or from the recent article in The Bulletin on Business Blogging by Josh Gliddon, let me say G'day. I bet you are wondering who the hell I am, and why did I support
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:57 PM

G'day World invades Demo@15

The team from G'day World have posted tbe fruits of Cameron's visit to Demo@15. I was fortunate enough to win the eBay auction for sponsorship of this particular show. It was a small price to pay to be part of podcasting history!
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:58 AM

A blog about eforms

The company behind Infoview has started a blog - a new business/technical blog about electronic forms based solutions built on InfoPath and InfoView. It will be interested to see how this pans out - will it be an authentic voice
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Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:16 AM

Business Blogging article in The Bulletin

I was interviewed last week for an article in The Bulletin. The article is out today. It features me and Lenn Pryor from Microsoft, as well as four other Aussie bloggers Trevor Cook, Mark Jones ,  Derek Lark & Neil Napper. It's a good introduction
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