By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
 Last year over 80 attendees rolled up their sleeves at Tech Ed and got hard to work playing with Lego at the Lego Serious Play Women Build Event. We challenged each attendee to suggest ideas on ways to contribute to their local community to help encourage and support women working in IT.
Catherine has been hard at work organising this year’s event and since then has heard many a great story of the contributions both male and female attendees have made back in their local communities as a result of last year’s event. Microsoft want to recognise the people who have achieved great things in their local community in the last year and thank each of them for their efforts!
So, how did you do?
Tell us your story or the story of someone you know. Share the challenges and successes experienced. Go in the running to receive recognition from peers, win some cool prizes from our sponsors and possibly be awarded the inaugural 2010 Women in IT Community Contributor of the Year Award!
Nominate yourself or someone you know here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WIT2010
Tech Ed Australia 2010 WIT event
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
As part of the launch of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has provided a number of seeding cards to selected MVPs around the world to drive the adoption of the tools and platform. We were lucky enough to receive 3 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription cards to distribute to the community. For his effort on the Deep Earth open source community project, we have given David Theissen (aka DotNetNoobie) one of the subscriptions. So we’re on the lookout for any Aussie developers out there who you think deserve the other two. Leave your comments or email us your suggestions for someone you think is worthy and why.
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 16 August 2010
 This year we’re back presenting at Tech Ed Australia on the Gold Coast. It should be massive this year as the event is already sold out!
If you want to see our session our abstract is below. If you want to catch up and say hi drop us a line or find us on your favourite social media platform. WEB303 – Showcase your ideas on Bing Maps Wednesday 25 August 15:30 – 16:45 The exciting addition to Bing.com is the new Bing Map Apps. Showcase your ideas and reach even more people by developing a dynamic solution to be featured on the Bing Maps site. Come join John and Bronwen to learn how to develop your application for this new SDK and start building yours today.
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
 Today Bing Maps updated their base Road style tiles, the results are amazing.
New:
Old:
The new map symbology is significantly cleaner, easier to read and more appropriate for us to rendering data over the top.
We often ran into issues where the vibrate orange roads were to dominant and if, for example, we wanted to draw the user’s attention to the route of a vehicle we had to make they visualisation louder. With the new style we can be more subtle, we can use colours that compliment the users site.
Overall Bing has made a significant investment in adding some high quality to design to all of its assets. I’m very proud that the Bing Maps team have been able to take on a significant challenge like this and deliver.
View the new style yourself and see if your location is easier to find, clearer and works better for your application:
http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/
What do you think of the new style? You can reach me on http://twitter.com/soulsolutions
Technorati Tags: Bing Maps,Symbology
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