Darryl Burling @ Work
Thoughts and musings of the New Zealand Community DE
Off to Bootcamp
This weekend is the first ever South Island code camp - themed in a military way its been called...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/01/2007
Visual Studio 2008 - Multi-targeting
As promised, here is the first of my screen casts on Visual Studio 2008. This one focuses on...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/31/2007
MSDN Flash - Visual Studio and taking on the world
After the last six weeks traveling around the country speaking, its great to be back in Wellington....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/30/2007
First Girl Geek Dinner
After Tech Ed, a number of technical women decided that they wanted to get together a little more...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/29/2007
Lessons Learned from five years of SDL
Michael Howard, the kiwi at the cutting edge of security in Microsoft in the US has written a great...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/23/2007
SQL Server for PHP driver CTP released
If you happen to be building sites in PHP and want to take advantage of SQL Server, we've just...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/22/2007
User group events this week
Well, its another week with several user groups on. Tomorrow night (Wednesday) the Auckland CBD .Net...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/15/2007
Auckland SharePoint user group tomorrow night
Also - just a reminder for those of you in Auckland who are interested in Sharepoint - the first...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/08/2007
Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington this week!
It seems funny to be saying Wellington here I come, when that's where I'm based and currently...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/08/2007
Opening up the source of the .Net Base Class Libraries
Today we've announced (through ScottGu) that we are opening up the source code (complete with...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/03/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Shell and VS2008 SDK
I've had a couple of customers ask about using the Visual Studio Shell and given I've just stumbled...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/03/2007
Working with Microsoft
I have a presentation that I've done a couple of times now about how to work with Microsoft...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/02/2007
Whats new in Visual Studio 2008 - talk and demo
We are kicking off a series of events for anyone interested in getting an update on new tools,...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 10/01/2007
Starting a user group (Lessons learnt)
The following post was written by Chandima Kulathilake who was one of the founders and is a leader...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/13/2007
Guest Blogging - Starting and running a User Group
We've got some smart people running User Groups in New Zealand. They have been running user groups...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/13/2007
Community Leader of the Year
The user group leaders in New Zealand do an outstanding job. These are the people who out of passion...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/10/2007
My User Group Tour kicks off... here is my schedule
Next week my User Group Tour kicks off. This is the first one since last year, and I have more user...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/08/2007
BootCamp 07 - November 3-4
You may have already noticed the murmurings of another code camp - just weeks after the last one....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 09/06/2007
Tech Ed WIT dinner kicks off Girl Geek Dinners
The Women in Technology evening at Tech Ed has generated quite a bit of discussion and even...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/30/2007
https://mscommunities.net.nz - all NZ communities under one roof
One of the things we launched at Tech Ed (the card on the left that Louie is holding) is...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/29/2007
Host your email using Live Mail and Live Domains
Mauricio set up geekzonemail.com last week. In two days he signed up 50 new email accounts - pretty...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/27/2007
Tech Ed sessions - top 10
I'll I've just got the Evaluation results for Tech Ed, so I thought I'd share the top 10 sessions...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/24/2007
MSDN Flash - Daylight Saving and Tech Ed wrap up
Tech Ed is done. It was a great event and before you forget I want to remind you of something you...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/21/2007
Tech Ed Blog posts
I thought I'd put together a list of blog posts I haven't already linked to elsewhere. Code Camp:...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/20/2007
Collaboration - we all have something to share
Brenda was recently quoted in the Fryup on ComputerWorld with regards to the story behind...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/18/2007
User Group Meeting at Tech Ed Today!
Rodney Lake has organized a last minute User Group meeting for anyone interested at 4pm today at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/14/2007
Evermore @ TechFest
I haven't spoken to anyone who didn't enjoy the Tech Fest last night. That means I've either spoken...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/14/2007
Depth of technical sessions
One of the things we often get feedback on is that we often don't hit the mark on session depth....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/13/2007
Women in Technology - wow
The Women in Technology dinner went off really well. The team did a fantastic job and everyone was...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/13/2007
Ask the experts
The ask the experts evening went off. I have been going to Tech Ed for a few years now and I don't...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/13/2007
Tech Ed - Keynote and market place...
Well, we are well underway at Tech Ed. The first event of the day was the keynote. Interestingly, in...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/13/2007
Welcome to Tech Ed New Zealand!
Its the first day of Tech Ed New Zealand and we are ready to rock. Last night was the speakers...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/12/2007
Geekzone: Behind the scenes at Tech Ed New Zealand 2007
Mauricio did a behind the scenes Q&A with me yesterday for the "Unofficial Tech Ed Blog". It...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/09/2007
Windows Home Server - oops
This is bad... Must fix this soon....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/08/2007
Blogging about Tech Ed?
I mentioned this before, but thought I'd call it out separately as it was at the bottom of the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/08/2007
Speed up Vista - new patches out
Yesterday we released two patches for Vista that should be useful to you end users. The first one...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/08/2007
Day of Code will rock!
Kirk and the guys have done a great job of promoting the Day of Code and with the fantastic speakers...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/08/2007
Open XML Sample coming your way
Last year I was speaking on the Open XML file formats in Office 2007. Initially I wasn't thrilled to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/07/2007
TechEd Comnet updated
Comnet is available. You may have known that - I've mentioned it before. Comnet is the system we use...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/03/2007
VB6 Migration Training with the VB Program Manager
If you've got a VB6 application that you've been considering upgrading to .Net, we've got help for...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/02/2007
MSDN & TechNet Flash: Get Ready for Tech Ed!
Tech Ed is almost upon us. In less than two weeks, Tech Ed New Zealand is underway. This year’s...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 08/01/2007
Day of Code
I've been bad to my good community peoples and haven't posted about this (sorry guys), although...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/31/2007
Women in Technology
As previously mentioned we are having a Women in Technology evening on Monday August 13 at Sky City...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/30/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been released
Hot off the press. We just released Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008. Soma has all the details. Check...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 07/26/2007