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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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Tue, Apr 21 2009 16:00

International Laksa Day

We discovered some time back, that team building is very important here, so to continue along that track it's been decided that International Laksa Day . This is the day we go to a great place in Perth to eat Laksa for the not-so-time-honoured tradition...
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Wed, Feb 18 2009 5:03

Thrive - Microsoft launches career coach

Microsoft has just launched a new site for handling your career - besides the content i'd like to add as a sidenote that it's great to see Silverlight used in public web sites launched by MSFT. Including fact sheets and certification information...
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Wed, Jan 7 2009 15:09

Microsoft Certification Offers – Australia only

Microsoft has just launched their Microsoft Certification Hero Campaign which enables MVPs to forward some nice benefits for those wishing to take any MCTS, MCITP or MCPD exams before May 31st, 2009. Here’s a link to the specific certifications: www.microsoft...
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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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Mon, Nov 17 2008 6:07

Sobees - taking social networking a step further

Frank Arrigo (still) Australia's premier geek and techoblogger, posted about Sobees - this is the first i've heard of it, but dang it looks good!! Over the last couple of years, social networking has become an essential part of an IT Professional's...
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Wed, Nov 12 2008 6:43

JRE to include MSN Toolbar..Sun and Microsoft best buddies?

Saw this article today, which related to the JRE runtime and the fact that they'll be including the MSN toolbar with its download. "Who says the age of miracles is past? Sun, which loathes Microsoft, is going to distribute Microsoft’s search...
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Wed, Nov 5 2008 15:21

DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS - Steve Balmer in Sydney, 6th of November

Update: You can still catch the event as it's being streamed on the www.microsoft.com.au/powertodevelopers site. So if you missed it, go have a look this weekend. Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft, is in Sydney and will be addressing Australian Developers...
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Mon, Oct 27 2008 6:07

This has to be the best idea ever - Baconnaise

A young colleague of mine sent me this link today and i must say it has to be the absolute best idea ever!!!! http://www.baconnaise.com/ Man, i love bacon...i love the taste of bacon...If i could have bacon flavoured coffee then i'm sure i'd be...
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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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Wed, Aug 13 2008 10:30

Office DevCon 2008 – Nov 1-2

Was just informed this morning, by Graham Seach, that the Office DevCon 2008 site has gone live. If you’re into office development (that’s Microsoft Office…VSTO FTW!!!) then this is the event of the year that you don’t want to miss. Speaker opportunities...
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Wed, Aug 13 2008 9:48

Must have application gets certified…Diskeeper rocks the virtualisation world

Here’s some news that i’m seriously impressed with – not only because i’ve been using Diskeeper for a LOOONG time, but also because of the level they’ve come to. Diskeeper has just been certified for Hyper-v…that’s alongside IBM and Symantec..Not too...
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