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Speaking at Tech Ed NZ 2008

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:20:31 GMT

We decided to be different and go to Tech Ed New Zealand this year. We’re doing a couple of presentations at Tech.Ed NZ if you want to check them out.

WEB217 – The Live Highlights Package – 3/9/2008 – 1:40-2:10pm

GEN101 – Virtually There – Girl Geek Dinner – 1/9/2008 8:00-10:00pm

Abstracts are below:

Live Search Article Available

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:33:59 GMT

Back in March I had an article on Live Search published in Code-Magazine. I’ve finally gotten around to publishing on our site. You can check it out here.

We’re now a Microsoft Certified Partner

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:33:10 GMT

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.

Uploading videos to Silverlight Streaming – New article.

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:06:34 GMT

With Roger’s Demos Happen {Here} Competition in full swing, I thought a new article to help get your videos in might help a few people. So I’ve created a new article on how to upload videos to Silverlight Streaming using Expresion Encoder 2 and the Silverlight Streaming plugin. Check it out here.

Remix Australia - done and dusted

Mon, 26 May 2008 04:01:56 GMT

We've been a bit lax in our blogging the last week...mainly because we were travelling around for Remix Australia. For those who missed out you missed an awesome event! So I'll use this post to give my highlights of the events and to answer some of the common questions we were getting from you all around the ASP.Net Virtual Earth Control and the upcoming Contoso Bank Quick App. We had a great time and it was really good for us both to be allowed to show some unreleased bits for the first (and 2nd if you were in Melbourne) time ever!

Speaking at Remix Sydney and Melbourne 2008

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:35:57 GMT

Remix is coming to Australia - double strength. There are 2 separate events in Australia this year. 20th May in Sydney, and 22nd in Melbourne. We're presenting a couple of demos at both events in the Windows Live session with Angus Logan.

Silverlight Streaming saves me Bandwidth

Wed, 14 May 2008 01:53:15 GMT

I posted my first dev article on liveside.net on the weekend, it all about making a panorama, using deep zoom, virtual earth and silverlight streaming.

Today I checked the reports on usage:

5,644 hits on the sample application in a few days! That could have been my entire server's bandwidth for the month (50GB).

Web Applications for the Real World

Tue, 13 May 2008 06:08:17 GMT

We were invited to present a guest lecture (2hrs) at QUT today on Web Applications in the Real World. Our brief - show some cool demos and tell some stories about working in the real world.

Auto-generation of designer.cs file not working

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:47:17 GMT

All of a sudden my project stopped autogenerating the designer.cs files for all my page and controls in my Visual Studio 2008 project. Apart from being really annoying it's just WRONG!

No matter what i did it wouldn't fix the designer.cs file. So I started down the track of regenerating the files in a new project and then it happened again!

So I tried deleting the designer.cs file and right clicking on the page and choosing "Convert To WebApplication".

April - a month in review

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:00:00 GMT

Blogging has been a bit light on this month. As you may have noticed we spent a lot of time travelling this month. We discovered it takes as long to get from Brisbane to Montreal as it does to get from Montreal to Seattle. So a summary of what we got up to this month.

John was renewed as a Live Services Platform MVP
Bronwen presented at the Montreal Girl Geek Dinner
We did a workshop on Virtual Earth at Museums and the Web Conference
John delivered a paper onExploring the National Gallery of Australia online database for prints and printmaking spatially
The Prints and Printmaking site won Best of the Web - Research Category
The MVP Summit attendee Virtual Earth map was shown at the MVP Summit Keynote
We got stuck in Chicago and missed the first day of the MVP Summit
We both attended our first MVP summit and got to play with a surface

May should have some exciting things. We're speaking at Remix in Sydney and Melbourne so if you're going and want to catch up drop us a line.