Paul Andrew
Technical Product Manager for Office 365 at Microsoft
Tech·Ed New Zealand 2005 Dates Announced
Plan to be there, last year there were 1800 people, 75 speakers and 120 technical break out...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/15/2005
Windows Media Center Extender Trial
I took home a Linksys Media Center Extender overnight to try out last night. This is a fantastic...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/15/2005
Wellington .NET User Group Meeting
Great meeting tonight with Nic Wise presenting. And tonight was the first meeting after 15 months of...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/09/2005
MapPoint Web Service now includes New Zealand
The MapPoint Web Service now includes data for New Zealand. Here's an article describing the changes...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/08/2005
Internet Explorer printing on A4 Paper
I reinstalled my PC recently and I'd forgotten about this. If I print from Internet Explorer at...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/04/2005
Welcome Sean McBreen
So my manager at Microsoft is Sean McBreen and he's just started blogging. <Here's where I say...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 02/03/2005
TV Tuning in New Zealand
I found this site today, useful for setting up your Media Center system. It lists all the TV...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 01/25/2005
Small Earthquake in Wellington
This morning there was an earthquake in my home town. No damage at home, but a couple of poorly...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 01/21/2005
TechEd New Zealand Speaker Call
Charles Sterling is the content owner for TechEd New Zealand and Australia this year. He's asking...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 01/12/2005
New Zealand Business Sessions Sample Code
I presented a session on Asynchronous Messaging with Web Services at the New Zealand Business...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 11/22/2004
HiTech Awards last weekend
It was very exciting to get to the HiTech awards night last weekend on Saturday 13th Nov 2004. It's...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 11/21/2004
New Blog Aggregator
My notebook computer has been acting up for a while with intermittent display corruptions and it's...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 11/21/2004
nGallery and ASP.NET Medium Trust
Today I decided to create a family photo album web site. I settled on using nGallery (from...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 10/31/2004
.NET coding is more fun than your day job
I just did Brad Abram's latest Whidbey Readiness Quiz and it was great fun. The comments on his blog...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 10/27/2004
.NET Developer Bloggers in New Zealand
Borrowed from Tim Sneath a list of .NET Developers in New Zealand who have a blog. Feel free to add...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 10/27/2004
New Zealand Developer Roadshow in November
In November (yes in a couple of weeks) we will be running a developer and business event in three...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 10/26/2004
Marlborough Sounds for the Holiday Weekend
I've spent the holiday weekend a bit off the beaten track in the Marlborough Sounds (Mahau Sounds in...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 10/26/2004
Fraud in Ministry of Health in New Zealand
An Australian IT worker (a project manager) John Bernard Denison was sentanced today in Wellington,...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 10/15/2004
Windows Media Center Edition 2005
I'm running Windows Media Center Edition 2005 at home and is't very cool. Sometimes it's not though....
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 10/15/2004
End of the Week
Well, yes I did get my Visual Studio Team System install working. A two VPC configuration is much...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 10/08/2004
Installing Visual Studio Team System
I'm working on installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 refresh which includes Visual Studio Team System...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 09/14/2004
Hello from my Ipaq 4150 b
Hopefully I'm now a mobile blogger. This is from a little app called Pocket Blog Writer by Kevin...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/27/2004
WiFi Product Idea
I don't know if this has been thought of before. I'd like to have a WiFi access point that is cheap...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/27/2004
MSDN Connection - It's Coming - Slightly Unofficial
Frank has an update on the hosting offer for New Zealand and Australia MSDN Connection members.
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/27/2004
Travel Diary - not
I'm in a SQL Server 2005 Developer Course that Bob Beauchemin is teaching in Bellevue today....
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/27/2004
TechEd NZ Feedback Ahoy
I just found Andrew Dixon's TechEd notes, disguised as Mr Dee. Cutting.
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/09/2004
TechEd NZ Speaker Feedback Links
TechEd New Zealand Feedback from Nic Wise, presenter of DEV403: .NET Framework: Writing Faster...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/09/2004
More TechEd New Zealand Media
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Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/09/2004
MSDN Connection - Welcome Pack Arrives
My welcome pack has arrived. I'm a dedicated developer. Hmmm... The "Score Some Recognition"...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/09/2004
Another TechEd New Zealand Press Article
TechEd New Zealand and in particular the Architects track hit the front page of our local...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/09/2004
TechEd New Zealand Keynote
I'm so much more relaxed this year as I don't have to orchestrate keynote speeches. Those things...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/03/2004
Other TechEd New Zealand Bloggers
It's the end of the day in my hotel room at TechEd New Zealand. Before I shutdown my GPRS for the...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/03/2004
TechEd New Zealand Day 1
Day 1 of TechEd New Zealand is done. We had a smooth registration of 1800 people - thanks to the 600...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 08/03/2004
TechEd New Zealand Abstracts Updated
We have updated the schedule page to link to the updated abstracts for each of the TechEd sessions....
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 07/09/2004
TechEd New Zealand 2004 Locked Down Schedule
It's live all the session titles, speakers and timeslots at...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 07/07/2004
TechEd New Zealand Schedule publishing soon
The TechEd New Zealand schedule including all the sessions, speakers and timeslots is complete. I...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 07/03/2004
TechEd New Zealand 2004 Content Updated
Almost all of the planned 120 break-out sessions have titles and abstracts for the sessions...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 06/23/2004
TechEd New Zealand Registration Site is LIVE
It's alive, or has been born as our webmaster would say. You can check out details of TechEd New...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 06/09/2004
TechEd: CTS405 Connected Systems: Choosing a Hosting Model - Dealing with Threads, AppDomains, and Processes
Lance Olson presented this session with a pleasant mix of analogies and deep technical stuff. The...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/29/2004
TechEd: DEV364 Windows Forms 2.0: Deploying Applications Using ClickOnce
The presenter for this was Jamie Cool. I was late to this session, but I stil picked up some...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/29/2004
TechEd BPR377 Windows SharePoint Services: Programmatic Access to Lists and Document Libraries
Speaker: Bryan Jeffries gave a nice talk about accessing Sharepoint lists (IW400). You'll notice I'm...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/28/2004
CTS400 Using Web Services Enhancements v2.0 for Messaging Over Multiple Machines and Networks
My notes on this nice talk by Keth Ballinger The first 15 minutes was a bit slow to get going in...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/27/2004
TechEd DAT200 SQL Server 2005 Whistle Stop Tour
I attended the SQL Server2005 General Session this afternoon led by David Campbell. There were so...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/26/2004
Exciting Infrastructure Announcements at TechEd
The day 2 keynote was led by Andy Lees. I watched some cool demos by Ilya Bukshteyn and Jon...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/26/2004
I went to Don Box's "where are we" talk
I went to hear from Don Box and Doug Purdy talking about Web Services in the TechEd session "CTS200...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/25/2004
TechEd USA 2004 Keynote
It was hard getting up this morning. I kept mentally calculating the time back home in Wellington...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/25/2004
Blog Spam Alert
I've noticed an increase in blog-spam in the last 24 hours. That is, fake comments on my blog for...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/22/2004
Channel 9 Foam Guy Evolution
Foam Guy from Channel 9 Evolves. Once he's finished you can get one by sending them a postcard....
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/09/2004
Publishing ASP.NET 1.1 App to Windows Sharepoint Services Web Site
Yesterday I built a small web site and I tried to publish it to my usual web site...
Author: Paul Andrew Date: 05/09/2004