By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 17 July 2008

Dinner 1 of the Brisbane Girl Geek Dinners is SOLD OUT!!!! Send us a message if you missed out and want to know about future events.

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By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 17 July 2008

This is a big event going on right now in Sydney, Australia. We put together a little video to show all the places around the world the event has been held in celebration.

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By Soul Solutions on Monday, 14 July 2008

We recently became a Microsoft Certified Partner and today we received two big boxes of goodies via FedEx from Microsoft. These contained our welcome kit, software, a big banner and two nice plaques to hang on our wall.

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By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 10 July 2008

So you’re a Virtual Earth Developer, busy times, why would you want to sit an exam on it? I sat the beta exam last year and although caught out a little by the MapPoint Web services questions got a reasonable score.

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By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Today we released an update to www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au to support RSS feeds of everything in the collection. One benefit of allowing access to the rich content in XML is third parties can do amazing things. PicLens offers an amazing experience for browsing images and video by tapping into RSS feeds. See some highlights in action:

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By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Part of qualifying for the Data Visualisation Specialisation calls for 2 members of your organisation to pass the Microsoft Virtual Earth 6.0: Developing Applications exam.  Ever wondered how many people have passed that exam? Well now you can…

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By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Girl Geek Dinners kicks off in Brisbane in August. All the details can be found here: http://girlgeekdinnersbrisbane.blogspot.com/2008/07/girl-geek-dinners-brisbane-dinner-1.html

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By Soul Solutions on Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Today we received confirmation that we had achieved Microsoft Certified Partner with Information Worker Solutions Competency (Data Visualisation Specialist) for our work with Virtual Earth.

We thought we’d see who else is in the same area and had a look at the Partner Finder, and it looks like we’ll be the first Data Visualisation specialists in Australia.

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By Soul Solutions on Saturday, 5 July 2008

I found this bug today in the default code outputted from the Deep Zoom Composer code. It doesn’t take into account the aspect ratio when panning so you need to divided the width by this ratio or else or vertical panning will be strange.

newOrigin.X = currentPosition.X - (((e.GetPosition(msi).X - dragOffset.X)/msi.ActualWidth)*msi.ViewportWidth);
newOrigin.Y = currentPosition.Y - (((e.GetPosition(msi).Y - dragOffset.Y) / msi.ActualHeight) * msi.ViewportWidth / msi.AspectRatio);

I also don’t like the way you can pan your image out of view and get lost so added a little helper really quickly (sure someone can improve on this)

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By Soul Solutions on Saturday, 5 July 2008

I recently put my car up for sale on a few of the leading used car sites here in Australia. In preparation for the sale I had the car detailed and took some nice high resolution pictures of it. You could say i was rather disappointed by the way it was shown on the site.

Yes those 8MP images and my 18MP interior panorama don’t really look the same at 75x60px. So what could it look like if drive.com.au used Deep Zoom? I decided to make a quick mock up:

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