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No Mo' Mo' !!

If you've seen me over the past few weeks, you'd have noticed some strange fungus growing under my nose... Don't worry, it isn't contagious, and it's gone now anyway. See, along with thousands of other males throughout the world, I grew a moustache to Read More
posted Tuesday, 4 December 2007 9:30 PM by DanToomey | 0 Comments
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Brisbane Inaugural BarCamp - 24 November 2007

Peter Ward has organised the first Brisbane BarCamp for this weekend!What is a BarCamp BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and Read More
posted Wednesday, 21 November 2007 9:57 PM by DanToomey | 0 Comments
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News Flash: Windows Server 2008...Training! What?! Now?? Here?

Hi folks, I'm a firm believer in as a developer knowing how your operating system is going to run your program. Learning as much about the environment is a big winner in my book. I was fortunate to be notified by an excited Anthony Borton telling Read More
posted Monday, 15 October 2007 11:15 AM by MickBadran | 0 Comments
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Microsoft SharedView Beta

One of the cool Microsoft products I have tried out lately was codenamed "Tahiti". This great little application allows you to easy shared individual applications and your entire desktop easy with other people over the Internet. I learnt today that Read More
posted Friday, 11 May 2007 9:13 PM by anthonyb | 1 Comments
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Great Longhorn content during Technet Update sessions

Yesterday I decided to head down to the Microsoft office and catch the second half of the Technet Update Session in the Microsoft Theatre. I was presenting a session on Longhorn Server for the Brisbane Infrastructure Group from 6pm so it was quite convenient Read More
posted Wednesday, 4 April 2007 4:00 PM by anthonyb | 2 Comments
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Vista Pre-RC1

Now that TechEd is over, things are pretty quiet over here, so I thought I'd post about my Vista Pre-RC1 experiences. I have installed Vista Pre-RC1 release and it is much improved over the previous Beta2 builds. IMO, you could not use the beta2 builds Read More
posted Thursday, 31 August 2006 10:18 PM by glav | 0 Comments
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More podcast interviews form TechEd (Eric Deily and George Moore)

Here are another 2 podcasts from TechEd2006 in Sydney, Australia. 1st one with Eric Deily of the IIS team, and the second with George Moore of the Windows Live Developer Division Eric Deily George Moore Click on their names to get the podcast.  Read More
posted Friday, 25 August 2006 12:01 PM by glav | 0 Comments
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Almost there

So TechEd starts this week. I trust you are all "a quiver" with anticipation. Just wanted to give a final rundown of what you'll get at the presentation Tatham and myself will be giving on Friday (yes last session last day) on building Read More
posted Monday, 21 August 2006 4:37 PM by glav | 0 Comments
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Questions. If you have em, I'd like to hear em...

As part of TechEd, I am lucky enough to have been given some time with some key presenters to do a podcast interview(s). Have a look at the list of people I'll be interviewing at TechEd below. If you have any questions that you'd like me to specifically Read More
posted Thursday, 10 August 2006 3:40 PM by glav | 0 Comments
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Interesting Statistic - Passport, Windows Live, Identity

I attended a presentation by Kim Cameron who has a blog all about Identity. It was a really good albeit short presentation on the Laws of Identity and how Microsoft Cardspace (ships with Vista) addresses that. One interesting statistic I learned from Read More
posted Tuesday, 8 August 2006 10:53 PM by glav | 1 Comments
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Self Promotion

Just in time for TechEd, the book that I have co-authored with Wally McClure, Scott Cate and Craig Shoemaker is about to hit the shelves. Its titled "Beginning AJAX in ASP.NET" and you can pre-order it from here. With any luck, I should have some copies Read More
posted Wednesday, 2 August 2006 4:02 PM by glav | 0 Comments
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Friday Opinion by Glav: My favourite or most influential features in .Net 3.0

There are many new features in .Net 3.0 that are major releases in themselves. Things like Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, formerly Indigo), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and Windows Cardspace. Out of Read More
posted Friday, 28 July 2006 10:23 AM by glav | 0 Comments
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TechEd-Wear

For the longest time I've been wanting to buy some gear from ThinkGeek. Whenever Frank posts his latest haul, I get extremely jealous. But I've never really been able to justify the expense. Well, last week I bought a friend a birthday present - and Read More
posted Friday, 7 July 2006 9:38 PM by geoffa | 2 Comments
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Friday Opinion by Geoff – Top 3 Reasons I attend Tech Ed

Well, Glav's done his, so now for mine. Todays Topic: Top 3 Reasons I attend Tech Ed. The Major Geek Out. There's so much cool stuff to go and learn and find out about. Several days of non-stop brain pumping. I love it. Although, sometimes it's Read More
posted Friday, 7 July 2006 9:27 AM by geoffa | 2 Comments
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Friday Opinion by Glav – Top 3 Reasons I attend Tech Ed

  Today's post is my first of the "Friday Opinion" posts I talked about yesterday  where each of the guest bloggers discusses their opinion on a common topic.   Todays Topic: Top 3 Reasons I attend Tech Ed.   So here are mine: Read More
posted Friday, 7 July 2006 8:42 AM by glav | 3 Comments
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