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Wed, Jul 29 2009 8:18

Send Sara Ford to Tech-Ed Australia, vote

An excellent opportunity has come up to get Sara Ford shipped down under to present at Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia! Sara put a petition video together which you can watch here . Afterwards head on over to the twtpoll and put your vote to good use by voting...
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Wed, May 27 2009 7:47

Agile what???

the Linked .Net Users Group discussions on LinkedIn often has some excellent discussions brewing – one of the last ones that came up was with regards to the Agile development methodology and how to get started with it. One of the guys, Neil Martin , offered...
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Wed, Apr 22 2009 0:06

Perth gets Silverlight Designer and Developer Network!!

Finally!!! Perth gets it's very own Silverlight Designer and Developers Network - SDDN - and they're kicking off their first event on Wednesday the 22nd of April, 2009 (yes boys n' girls, that's tomorrow). http://www.facebook.com/event...
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Fri, Apr 10 2009 11:49

Free 500 page PDF on the Entity Framework

Sometimes you get this one shining community star that just goes above and beyond…and sometimes something good comes out of it too :) Well, Zeeshan Hirani , from the C# UG in Dallas, released a 500 page PDF on the Entity Framework . 500???? pages??? After...
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Wed, Apr 1 2009 3:36

LIDNUG: Greg Low presents iFTS on SQL Server 2008, April 8th

Greg Low is visiting LIDNUG in April (yes, next week) – to be more exact, the 8th of April. I got the “time” of the day mixed up a bit, but will remedy that ASAP! You can get further details and register for the event here . Needless...
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Mon, Mar 30 2009 17:59

Australia’s very own Visual Studio Tools Product Manager is blogging – Welcome Joerg Lindner

So this is how we put Australia on the developer tools map!! Joerg Lindner, who recently joined us from Germany, is blogging – yeps, Australia’s very own Visual Studio Tools Product Manager is blogging. Needless to say, it’s coming on a good time, with...
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Thu, Mar 12 2009 9:06

Back to basics - testing in full or testing for essentials

Colin Scott - the proverbial coder - has posted another addition to this "Testing" ideology with an excellent entry titled " Better testing through lower expectations ". Everybody (or rather, everybody should) talks about testing today...
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Wed, Feb 25 2009 6:00

Thirteen23 releases “blu” a WPF twitter client..

yeah i know – we’ve seen tons of twitter clients out there – some has had some fizzle and delivered an experience, but most really just did what it’s meant to do, tweet. Does this new client do anything else but…tweet? not really…but it does deliver it...
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Tue, Feb 24 2009 6:49

LidNUG: Stephen Fulcher to present in March on ASP.Net runtime

The Linked .Net Users Group's next monthly meeting is just around the corner for the 5th of March (will get an Outlook calendar file up for the exact date and time for us that's internationally timezone challenged). This month's event will...
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Tue, Feb 17 2009 18:43

David Lean shows us how to use conditional formatting in SQL Reporting

wow i say!! David Lean has just released an in depth, 4 part series on how to use conditional formatting in SQL Reporting. This is probably the best and most in depth blog post i’ve seen on this topic! seriously worth the read if you’re working with SSRS...
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Wed, Nov 26 2008 12:41

Microsoft releases Chart Controls for .Net 3.5 SP1 - and they're free!!!!

Microsoft just recently released some very handy .Net Chart Controls for .Net 3.5 and does require SP1 - something which i've been waiting forever to see. These controls are very crisp looking and come in both 3D and 2D versions. There's a whole...
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Tue, Oct 7 2008 2:36

Perth gets two (sorry, three) brand new MVPs – Congratulations to the both of you!!

The communities i Perth are thriving – evidence of this is that we now have two (yes, 2) three (i stand corrected, we have 3) new MVPs. The first is Mitch Wheat – everybody knows Mitch as the leader and organiser of the Perth .Net Community...
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Tue, Sep 30 2008 18:51

PSSUG: Peter Ward presents on Business Continuity with Backup and Restore

We're running again and this time around we have Peter Ward (again, yay) delivering a business orientated presentation. There's more news - indeed big news, which will be announced at the event, so be certain that you come along. We have changed...
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Sun, Sep 28 2008 15:48

Service and support when it matters…Applied Innovations

A little while ago I was contacted by Kentico ( www.kentico.com ) with an offer for a free enterprise license of their CMS system. As I had planned on moving the Perth SQL Server User Group over to a site where we’re have a lot more control it came at...
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Mon, Aug 18 2008 9:15

Australia gets shiny new Developer Tools Product Manager – Joerg Lindner, welcome!

Australia has “lost” a whole bunch of DPE members over the last 1-2 years and it was looking more and more like everybody was abandoning us. But, as it stands, that’s not the case. Australia just got it’s very own Product Manager for Developer Tools ...
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Mon, Aug 11 2008 8:09

Australia lost two more MS guys to Redmond…

Sometimes good things come out of “bad” events..Here’s two, which saddened me a lot (i should have blogged it earlier, but i was still choked up about it…sniff sniff). David Lemphers and Michael Kleef left Australia’s MS offices to move to MS HQ in Redmond...
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Wed, Jul 2 2008 8:03

Visual Studio SharePoint Tools Blog Launched…phenomenal!!

Yeps – as the title indicates a new blog has been launched over at MSDN! It’s good to hear that the Visual Studio Business Applications SharePoint Tools QA team has joined us in the blogosphere (phew, long name for that team!!). They are promising a range...
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Fri, May 16 2008 7:59

Nigel Watson - compassionate geek

I was surfing around this early morning as my virtual image was taking yonks to boot up and i came across this post over at Nigel Watson's Blog . What I liked about this post is that it shows an almost uncommon compassionate behavior. Nigel was out...
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Wed, May 14 2008 11:00

Miss Bonita joins MCS - way to go girl!

A colleague of mine, Anita "Bonita" R. is about to embark to the other side of the country. She's joining Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant with primary focus on SharePoint. Bonita is a very well rounded SharePoint consultant...
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Wed, Apr 23 2008 8:11

8 Little Known Things About Me...Tag and Tell

Tag, tag, tag...Here's how busy i've actually been of late. very few posts (but it's picking up again) and i've had a hard time catching up with an ever-growing list of RSS feeds (i need to cull this methinks). Anyways, David Lemphers...
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