By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
 Got confirmation through that I'm shifting MVP expertise from Windows Live to Windows Live Platform. See new profile here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Bronwen.Zande
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Are you in the UK and interested in learning how to develop with the Windows Live Platform? Then there's a couple of event coming up that you might be interested in...
From UK ISV Blog
The Partner Readiness have just announced the release of the Windows Live Platform Services course. This 1.5 day deep dive covers the core technical aspects of Windows Live Platform Services including:
- Overview of Windows Live
- Si ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Thursday, 7 February 2008
Next week we're travelling to Sydney and Perth to deliver our presentation on SQL 2008 Spatial with Virtual Earth. If you're around in Sydney on the 13th we're going out to dinner and drinks with some of the ladies from GeekGirlBlogs. If you want to join us check out the details and sign up http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=20904290649.
And if you're in Perth and want to have a drink after the talk..let us know..we need a tour guide :)
The session details for our talks are:
SQL 2008 Spatial with Virtual Earth
In this visually interactive talk we explore the new spatial data types, functions and indexes directly related to the real world using the interactive browser based Virtual Earth control. ...
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 28 January 2008
So you heard about Live Services and not sure what they are or want to hear a bit more about about the different services?
There's a series of webcasts available that i first saw here.
- Session 1 – Windows Live Platform Technical Overview (200 Level) . Get a broad look at the Windows Live development platform and discover the various ways you can integrate Windows Live APIs and controls into your applications and deliver rich web content in exciting and innovative ways.
- Session 2 - Read More »
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
2008 started well, with a nice email this morning informing me I've been made a Live Services MVP. What a great honor to be part of a pretty exclusive group. Have a look at my MVP profile here.
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
Back in December, John did a podcast with Craig Murphy about Windows Live, Virtual Earth and the community in Australia.
Check it out on Craig's site here: http://www.craigmurphy.com/podcasts/041-John-OBrien.mp3
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
I blogged about a bit of a roadtrip of SQL User Groups for a presentation of SQL Spatial. We've now added a second Hobart session to the list - Hobart .Net Usergroup.
The blurb for our talk is:
SQL Spatial with Virtual Earth
In this visually interactive talk we explore the new spatial data types, functions and indexes directly related to the real world using the interactive browser based Virtual Earth control. We focus on the new Geography data type providing an overview of the new functionality as directly applied to mapping. This includes the storage of points, polylines and polygons as well as real world tasks like effective rendering to the map, geofencing and proximity searches. We explore the power of union and buffering. Finally we examine the new index specifically built for fast spatial lookup.
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By Soul Solutions on
Monday, 31 December 2007
Being the last day of 2007 and all, I thought I'd do a recap on the ViaWindowsLive community site. Since we launched the Beta site on September 7, we've had 27 articles sumbitted by you..keep them coming.
Article Contributions
- John O'Brien (7)
- Bronwen Zande (4)
- Derek Chan (3)
- Daniel Wissa (2)
- Vasudev Gurumurthy (2)
- Beth Massi (1)
- Robert McGrath(1)
- Gfw (1)
- Brian Peek (1)
- Darren Neimke (1)
- Marco Anastasi (1)
- Mike McDougall (1)
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By Soul Solutions on
Sunday, 23 December 2007
Came across "Agent M" today on this blog. "Agent M" is a Windows Live Agent to help it's banking customers with enquiries, faqs etc. If you want to have a play with it just add m.m2u@maybank.com.my to you Live Messenger friends list and start asking questions etc.
I love seeing new examples of agets. I've played with smarterchild and encarta for a few years now..they can be very addictive...and earlier this year wrote a Live Agent for a demo. Improving and extending the words/phrases/questions etc. can be very addictive.
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
 Bored this Christmas and looking for something cool to play with? How about playing with some very new code that combines Silverlight and Windows Live Services. If you haven't played with it you should:
http://tafiti.mslivelabs.com/
And the big announcment today is the source code is available for you sink your teeth into:
http://codeplex.com/WLQuickApps
So if you keen to see what Silverlight and Windows Live Services are all about and have a few spare hours over the break I highly recommend checking this out. I'm sure it will generate some ideas for you in 2008.
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