Darryl Burling @ Work
Thoughts and musings of the New Zealand Community DE
Powershell gadget and using WCS in the sidebar
Last night the guys from Mindscape unleashed their powershell gadget onto the world. This very cool...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/05/2007
Expression Web to be available through MSDN
Soma has announced this morning that Expression Web and Expr ession Blend will be made available to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/03/2007
Congratulations new MVPs
In New Zealand we have two brand new MVPs as of last weekend! Mark Orange (Intergen) and Chandima...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/02/2007
More NZ Sidebar Gadgets
There is lots of activity in the Windows Vista Sidebar gadget space here in New Zealand. There are a...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/02/2007
Novell Users International
Last night myself and Brett Roberts went along to the Novell Users International meeting (aka Novell...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/28/2007
VB6 to .Net resources
I sent an email to a VB6 developer this morning to help point them to some of the resources we have...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/26/2007
.Net Code Camp - Architecture for developers
If you didn't already know the .Net User Groups are holding their next code camp in Auckland on...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/25/2007
Surveying in Virtual Earth
Many organizations now use polls and surveys to get information about their end users and evaluate...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/18/2007
Windows Home Server
One of the cool things that you'll see in the Microsot Technical Briefings over the last couple of...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/15/2007
MEDC Australia - Change of dates
Yup, if you were planning on going to MEDC in Melbourne Sydney this year you'll want to check the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/15/2007
Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP now out
The March CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" is now out. You can get the VPC with all the installed bits...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/05/2007
Build a simple store locator with Virtual Earth - part 1
One of the things I've noticed is that most organizations are providing really basic...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/01/2007
Adding RSS to ASP.Net pages
Dmitry Robsman from the ASP.Net team created a RSS toolkit for ASP.Net last year. Its a great little...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/25/2007
SQL Server 2005 Service pack 2 released - Vista devs rejoice!
If you've been waiting for SQL Server 2005 to be released, well it is out now :-) When you install...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/20/2007
Adding ASP.Net AJAX to existing websites
I'm sure this has been posted a thousand times on other blogs, but I thought I'd put it up here...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/20/2007
Sidebar Gadgets - getting started made easy
We've got some great New Zealand gadgets up on the Microsoft NZ website now including ones from...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/19/2007
Congrats Alex
Alex has blogged that he's had a baby. I spoke to Alex a few minutes ago and he was on Dad duties at...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/15/2007
Technical training - with complimentary copy of Vista?
Unless you haven't been paying attention, we've got some technical training coming up: March 7 -...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/08/2007
Vista video competition - with cool geek prizes
Geekzone has kicked off a Vista Video competition. The idea is that anyone can submit a short video...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/08/2007
Mark starts blogging (for the architects out there)
Mark Carroll - cellmate, Liquidator, and local Wellington Architect for Microsoft has just started...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/08/2007
Building gadgets for Online and offline work
If you happen to be in Auckland this Friday, and you are considering building a Windows Vista...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 02/01/2007
NZ on codeplex
We have now got three projects on codeplex based on work started by New Zealand developers. What is...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/31/2007
SQL Server Compact Edition released!
Good news - SQL Server Compact Edition has been released. This is a new offering of SQL Server based...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/15/2007
Tech Ed - Who do you want to see in New Zealand?
I'm starting to think through speakers for Tech Ed 2007 and I'm interested in getting your help. If...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/14/2007
Web Service Software Factory released
If you are into building websites and want to take it to the next level but dont quite know how to...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/10/2007
Mix 07 Registration now open
Yup. I'm back at work, and one of the first things I saw in my inbox was that Mix registrations are...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 01/07/2007
The Future of Web Development
I've just finished another presentation on the future of Web Development. I'm now finished my...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/20/2006
Bored? Want to find out what it was like for MS to deploy TFS?
In case you have become bored due to us not releasing anything since Saturday (Visual Studio 2005...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/18/2006
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Coming tomorrow
Just announced (this was supposed to be announced next week, but...) that Visual Studio 2005 Service...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/14/2006
Firefox support for Windows Card Space
Good news if you are considering Windows Card space: Today we announced that that Kevin Miller – an...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/14/2006
Create a ribbon for Office 2007 in three easy steps
I'm preparing for a demo tomorrow on Office 2007 programability and I've been playing with the RTM...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/14/2006
PDC 07 Dates announced.
The dates for PDC07 have just been announced. PDC is the biggest developer event that Microsoft...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/12/2006
XNA Game Studio released!
This is cool. We've just released v1 of the XNA Game Studio. XNA Game studio allows you to develop...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/11/2006
Announcements from my inbox
2007 Microsoft Office File Formats The Microsoft Office File formats have been officially ratified...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/10/2006
Team Edition for Database Professionals now available
If you've got a Team Suite subscription you can now download the new Visual Studio Team Edition for...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/10/2006
Expression stuff hits the web - cool!
Well, the announcement is out. Expression and Microsoft's designer product suite has been announced....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/04/2006
Live updated - More gadgets now in NZ directory
Last night the Live team updated live.com with an update. As well as a bunch of new features for...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 12/01/2006
User Experience - hear from the gurus
Next week we have some gurus from the US office coming down to NZ to run a bunch of seminars on User...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/26/2006
SQL Code Camp - NZ Edition
I spent a little time over the weekend at the SQL Server Code Camp in Porirua. The event was...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/26/2006
Vista RTM now available for download via MSDN
Just thought you might like to know. Go get it! And if you dont have a MSDN Subscription, we've...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/16/2006
Embedded Technical Seminars
If you dont already know (and there seems to be lots who don't), there are some seminars on in...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/16/2006
Hey cool - powershell has RTM'd
If you are a command line junkie or just a command line power user then you'll like the PowerShell....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/15/2006
SQL Code Camp almost full
If you are thinking of going to the SQL Code Camp on the 25th and 26th of November, you need to get...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/13/2006
2007 Office RTM hits MSDN Subscriber Downloads!
I just had a look at my MSDN Subscription and the RTM version of Office is there to download! Best...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/12/2006
Want to go to Mix07 free(ish)?
I added the ish bit because while it may not cost you any money, it may cost you time. The IE team...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/09/2006
Mix07 - Dates announced
If you are trying to get your boss to agree to let you go to Mix, you can now tell him the dates....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/07/2006
The future of web development - podcast with Nick Randolph
Nick was nice enough to chat with me for the podcast he's now running (The Microsoft Developer...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/07/2006
Office not yet available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads
It seems I've been caught between a PR release and reality. Contrary to my last post the RTM version...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/07/2006
RTMs - Lots of RTMs!
We have arrived! Well, after much speculation and conjecture, we’ve arrived at one of those big...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 11/07/2006