frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger
Ponderings from the Pacific Northwest by an Aussie Geek who works at a software company
The AMP Innovation & Thought Leadership Festival
I have been invited to speak at the upcoming AMP Innovation & Thought Leadership Festival. It's...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/22/2007
Designer or Developer ?
Think you can tell the difference? See if you can guess who’s the designer and who’s the developer....
Author: frankarr Date: 06/20/2007
Play! A video game symphony
we got our tickets to the show Off to the Sydney Opera House on the shortest day of the year...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/20/2007
A free introductory guide to social media
Trevor Cook and Lee Hopkins have put released the Second edition of their social media white paper...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/19/2007
More Evangelists! Jorke Odolphi joins the team.
Last week another piece of the puzzle dropped into place. I was able to fill a role that had been...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/18/2007
Get up to speed on Silverlight before the masses with Readify
Andrew Parsons sent through a brochure for a new training course being offered by Readify -...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/18/2007
NYT: Next in Child Prodigies - the Gamer
Excerpt from New York Times Article:Next in Child Prodigies — the...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/17/2007
NYT: A High-Definition Media PC That Evokes Legendary Technology
Excerpt from New York Times Article:A High-Definition Media PC That Evokes Legendary...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/17/2007
Still more TechEd LOLCats
The TechEd LOLCat meme grows some more. New additions to the gallery Lucas Moffitt Nigel Watson Nick...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/16/2007
The Architecture Journal
Just in a conversation with Nigel and we were talking about the Architect Journal The Architecture...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/14/2007
Those Klever Kiwis : Background Motion
Those boys over in the land of the long white cloud have been busy. They have launched a site for...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/14/2007
lots and lots of TechEd LOLCats, LOLMonkeys and LOLseals
Nice to see the TechEd LOLCat meme grow. Some new additions to the gallery Brian Madsen James Green...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/13/2007
In Australia, .NET hasn't got any foothold ????
There's been lots of talk in the blogosphere in relation to a recent post by Martin Fowler entitled...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/12/2007
O Hai, I has TechEd LOLCats
Already seen some excellent TechEd LOLCats following my earlier request Nick Hodge : i can has...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/12/2007
Sold Out
AU ReMIX SOLD OUT! Technorati tags: auremix07
Author: frankarr Date: 06/12/2007
Tech.Ed LOLCats : I'm in ur event, subvertin' yr hierarchy
You all know what LOLCats are? (You don't? Well go read this definition from wikipedia. I'll be...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/12/2007
AskaSQLGURU.com
I got the following from MVP Peter Ward, sounds like a cool initiative. From: Peter Ward Sent:...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/08/2007
the Australian Architecture Forum 2007
Nigel Watson and Charles Sterling have worked hard in pulling together the Australian Architecture...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/08/2007
NYT: Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play
1024x768 Clean false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Excerpt from New...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/08/2007
Emma and CyberQuoll
Emma came home the other night and asked me if I knew about CyberQuoll. Apparently it was from...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/07/2007
chlong is here to help
I've been meaning to do a welcome email for Christian Longstaff who joins Microsoft Australia as an...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/07/2007
AASG : Queensland Traffic
Another Australian Sidebar gadget about Queensland Traffic Cameras. This one is from the good folks...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/05/2007
5/6/7
Cool date. It's also World Environment Day Technorati tags: World Environment Day, 5 June, 05/06/07
Author: frankarr Date: 06/05/2007
Announcing Ruby.NET interop support in Beta 0.8
The Ruby.NET team at QUT continues to release updates. I got the following email from Wayne Kelly...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/05/2007
NYT: The Internets, They Can Be Cruel
Excerpt from New York Times Article: The Internets, They Can Be Cruel...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/03/2007
AASG : Queensland Traffic Cameras
Spotted this on the Windows Live Gallery Queensland Traffic Cameras Provides real time feeds of...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/03/2007
ReMixing it up ?
I got the following question in email today Hi Frank, I just got the registration confirmation. It...
Author: frankarr Date: 06/01/2007
Windows Live Writer Beta Update
We're all excited about the freshly released update to Windows Live Writer Technorati tags: WLW,...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/30/2007
NYT: Touch Screen in a Table Is the Latest Wrinkle in Computers
Excerpt from New York Times Article: Touch Screen in a Table Is the Latest Wrinkle in Computers...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/30/2007
Spreading the word about Silverlight to BANDT
I spoke to Noelle Waugh from B & T today. It was the first time I had spoken to anyone from B...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/30/2007
When a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it....
I just had an IM from a frustrated Tatham Oddie who is having problems with IE7 and doesn't know who...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/28/2007
The birth of a new usergroup : Sydney Business and Technology User Group
I've been part of an email discussion with Craig Bailey over the past few weeks in which a new user...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/28/2007
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Arrigo
UPDATE Entry was deleted : Frank Arrigo, Wikipedia & Wikipedia editing policy … again. ,...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/26/2007
Calling All Experts who are heading to Tech.Ed OZ
Dave Lemphers has put out the call We're doing something different for "Ask the Experts" at Tech.Ed...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/24/2007
Josh Gliddon sees some Silverlight
I had Josh Gliddon, IT Editor from the Australian Financial Review, visit last week, after we...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/21/2007
Open XML, Open XML, Open XML, Oi, Oi, Oi !!!!
Ok, so it doesn't work as a war cry This year is an important year for Microsoft and its Partners as...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/21/2007
My Sweet 16th : 16 Sweet years at Microsoft
Today is the anniversary of when I started my career at Microsoft - 16 years! Here's some ways to...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/19/2007
ASP.NET Site of the Day -- MyAssetsOnline
I get emails from folks all the time telling me about the stuff they are going to do / doing / done....
Author: frankarr Date: 05/18/2007
Live Earth - Concerts for a Climate in Crisis
Jeremy "OffBeatMammal' Cath has a post about the upcoming Live Earth Concert Lots more info,...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/17/2007
WEBJAM : Jamming at ReMix07
I love this quote from Lachlan from a recent post Webjam are stupidly excited to announce that we'll...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/17/2007
Business Week on10
The team On10 have been featuring a bunch of cool unified communications demos. Polycom - It's...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/17/2007
overexposed? Moi?
Yesterday I featured in two separate little thingys. An article in the Australian Financial Review...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/16/2007
What's hot on Codeplex?
There are 1456 projects on Codeplex (as of Monday 14 May 2007) The 10 most popular : AJAX Control...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/13/2007
What's being covered at ReMix ?
I spotted an email floating around about the two tracks at ReMix Australia. Design Track Australian...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/13/2007
NYT: A New Attitude for the Hip
Excerpt from New York Times Article:A New Attitude for the...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/12/2007
ReMIX Australia Blog Bling
Michael Kordahi is over his vertigo and has gone ahead and put together some blog bling for ReMix...
Author: frankarr Date: 05/10/2007