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Microsoft Agile Tools Team doing Agile
Adam Cogan from SSW was in Redmond later last year, and he caught up with the TFS Agile Team while...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 02/21/2012
Scott Guthrie, David Campbell and Mark Russinovich at the Cricket
[I originally posted this as an editorial for the MSDN Flash] Happy New Year! As some of you may...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2012
Estimating and prioritising a product backlog in Sydney on 9 Feb
Richard Banks is presenting a Readify Dev Day in Sydney early next month on a topic that I suspect...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/10/2012
Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences 2012 - Call for Speakers Closes 1 December
The Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences are JUST around the corner. These events are...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/23/2011
Windows Azure BizSpark Startup Camp in Brisbane 2-4 December
Via Catherine Eibner On December 2nd- 4th we are holding an Azure Bizspark Start-up Camp in our...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/16/2011
Free Art for your WP7 App
If you're graphically challenged like me, but you still want to create gorgeous Windows Phone 7...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/13/2011
SQL Server Denali Sydney Breakfast Briefing 1 December
The good folk at Readify are running a free breakfast briefing on 1 December in the Sydney CBD to...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2011
LightSwitch Star Contest - Win an ASUS Laptop
The folks over at The Code Project have launched a cool contest so you can show off your LightSwitch...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2011
Talking LightSwitch Shop with Richard
While I was at TechEd last month, I sat down (twice) with Richard Banks and recorded an episode of...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2011
SwitchedOn LightSwitch and Azure briefings for Wellington and Auckland
I thought I was 33% of the way into the SwitchedOn briefings for LightSwitch and Azure, but today I...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2011
SwitchedOn Briefing Slide Decks - LightSwitch and Azure
I've just finished the first of the SwitchedOn briefings (Adelaide) - we built a LightSwitch...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/17/2011
LightSwitch and Azure Around Australia in October and November
The Power of LightSwitch on Windows Azure Update 10/10 - Now with Adelaide Details Introducing...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/06/2011
Azure Announcements at Build
Early this morning at the Build Conference we announced some exciting new Windows Azure tooling and...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/14/2011
Cool LightSwitch Extensions from Aussie Developer
Aussie developer Yann Duran has just published his second Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 extension....
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2011
Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks Session
As part of our developer readiness outreach, our Visual Studio Product Manager, Ibrahim Hamza, has...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/11/2011
TechEd 2011 Video Encoding Process and Status Update
Update (12 Sep) All of the session videos are now up and the high-quality video files are linked to...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2011
Visual Studio LightSwitch GDR for SQL Azure
While we were at TechEd (talking, by the way, about Visual Studio LightSwitch, twice), the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2011
August 2011 Windows Azure Releases
While I was overseas, the Windows Azure team announced the availability of the August 2011Release of...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2011
TechEd Australia Session Recordings and Decks
Update 4 Sep 2011 - The videos and slides are beginning to appear on the Channel 9 TechEd Australia...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2011
TechEd Australia LightSwitch Decks and Resources
My TechEd Australia sessions proved to be pretty popular and I had a great time catching up with...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/01/2011
LightSwitch Decks from TechEd NZ
I presented two sessions at TechEd NZ last week and I've attached the decks here for anyone who's...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/29/2011
Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games & Tankster Version 1.0 | Nathan Totten
This looks like it could be a lot of fun. I think I've figured out what my son and I are going to do...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/28/2011
Document Creation and Conversion with the OpenXML SDK and SharePoint 2010 Word Automation Services – Part 2
A long time ago, I wrote Part 1 of this post, based on the presentation I did at the 2010 SharePoint...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 04/06/2011
Counting the number of sections in an OpenXML Document
1/4/11 - Updated a couple of images and some of the code explanation Adam Cogan asked me a question...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2011
Storytelling - A Moth-eaten theme
One of the most effective ways to get a message, any message, across is to use stories. For some...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2011
More VSS to TFS Workshops this Month in MEL, SYD, BNE and Online
Hot on the heels of my post on the Readify DevDay in Sydney, I got a note about even more VSS to TFS...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2011
TFS for VSS Users - 1/2 day training in Sydney
I got this note from Sarah Webb at Readify today - looks like a good way to spend half a day if...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/31/2011
Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4 Training Kit Updated
I’ve been raving about our great Training Kits for a while now (including last week’s post on the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/21/2011
AlphaJax Wins Onya Award
Hi, my name’s Andrew and I’m an AlphaJax Addict. It’s been 15 minutes since I last...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/20/2011
LightSwitch Beta 2 Download and Training Kit
I’ve been excited by LightSwitch since I first saw it more than 18 months ago and the recent release...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/18/2011
Business opportunities in the cloud. NSW .NET breakfast seminar
I’ve been on the NSW.NET committee for a little while now and have been to (and presented at)...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/07/2011
More Great Training in Sydney–Build a Web Application Dev Day
Another great training/education opportunity for folks in Sydney is being run by Readify on Thursday...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/02/2011
Telerik running Seminars in Sydney in March
Telerik, the developer tools vendor, are setting up shop in Australia and are running a series of...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 03/01/2011
TechEd Australia URL Lists for downloading Videos and PowerPoint Decks
Update 2 - 21 Sep 2010 I've removed the lo-res wmv links because so few of them (<5) actually had...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/15/2010
Resources for Office and SharePoint Developers from my #APC2010 Session
Last week at the Australian Partner Conference, I presented a session on "New opportunities -...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2010
Frankly Speaking - Casting the Pod
Can't believe I haven't blogged about this. For just over nine months now, Michael Kordahi and I...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2010
Australian Tech.Ed Locknote Factoids
This year at TechEd Australia (aka #auteched) the locknote was delivered by Miha Kralj, Director in...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2010
The Platform Story–now available as an animated Feature
Some time ago now, I posted a thought piece in which I explained the evolution of the platform using...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 07/28/2010
Guidance for developing applications for SharePoint 2010
I got this in my inbox this morning: Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 06/30/2010
Training Kit Redux–More developer resources than you could shake a stick at
A while ago, I did a post about the great Developer Training Kits available for free download from...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 06/30/2010
Document Creation and Conversion with the OpenXML SDK and SharePoint 2010 Word Automation Services – Part 1
Update 2011-04-06 I Finally got around to writing Part 2 of this post. I had the pleasure this week...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 06/19/2010
TechEd Australia 2010 Call for Topics
Once again I've been "blessed" with the content owner role for TechEd Australia 2010 which...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2010
NXT2.0 Robot - The Journey Continues
In my previous post, I talked about getting a new Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 robotics kit and about...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/25/2010
Test Post from Word 2010
I've not posted from Word 2010 before (I prefer Live Writer), but I had a question from a colleague...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2010
Lego Mindstorms NXT2.0 - TrophyBot
For some time now, I've coveted the Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Robotics kit. It's a great teaching toy...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2010
SharePoint Saturday Perth event
SharePoint Saturday has reached Australia recently with the efforts of Brian Farnhill and Ben...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/29/2009
SharePoint 2010 Extravaganza at SBTUG This Wednesday
Craig Bailey’s Sydney Business and Technology User Group has a great line up this week,...
Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2009