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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 ...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 9:15 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Guys
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...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2008 8:09 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Code Gurus, Cool Guys
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...

Published Fri, May 05 2008 7:59 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Personal, Microsoft, Cool Guys
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...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 11:00 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Guys
[MS] Scott Barnes - New Product Manager for Rich Client Platform team

Here's the news that Scott was referring to re: his career taking a turn . If anybody could give this team a boost then it's Scott. He's been advocating the RIA solutions for a while now and having him on the team that produces Silverlight...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 6:17 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Guys
[MS]Scott Barnes : My career is about to take a turn..

If you work with the interweb and the latest technologies you have better subscribe to Scott Barnes' blog. Something is going to be revealed there pretty soon, that'll put not only australia on the interweb map but also have a worldwide impact...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2008 5:48 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Guys
Heroes Happen attendance pack to contain FULL version of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise

Wow - before Michael clarified this one, i was actually under the impression that this would be a "trial" or "NFR" license and not a full blown, production environment version of Windows Server 2008. Am I glad that i'm going now...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2008 9:38 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, MS Events, Windows Server 2008
Microsoft is releasing the .Net framework source code

It's a milestone in development - finally, the source code for the .Net framework is being released. At 9am local Redmond time, Scott Guthrie made the announcement via his blog. Link to Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries -...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2007 7:57 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: .Net Framework, Microsoft
Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk

I don't know how often i've had to delay playing with a new piece of released technology, just because I was in the middle of another set of tests and simply didn't have the time to create my own virtual server environment again to accommodate...

Published Sun, Sep 09 2007 9:50 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Working with SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft, Vista, Handy Tools, Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008
Best way to get Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 - Microsoft Secure Content Downloader 2007 CTP

I thought i'd bring this to peoples attention after having had some seriously slow speeds when downloading Betas from MSFT. Even via the MSDN subscriptions it can sometimes be extremely slow..and then if it fails you have to locate the download again...

Published Sun, Jul 07 2007 9:51 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Blog Fun, Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Secure Content Downloader 2007
Ozzie Rules Blogging : Release Candidate of Windows Presentation Foundation labs now available!!

Charles "Chuck" Stirling has just released a nice 3 part series of labs for WPF. After having a good read through them, i'm surprised in how much effort he must have put into these "manuals". If you haven't already had a read...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2007 11:03 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: .Net Framework, Microsoft, Handy Tools
MSFT Generation change - fresh blood in!

Over a very small period of time, we've seen announcements that some very prominent Microsoft people are leaving for other greener fields. Now it seems as if Microsoft is pulling some new blood in to Redmond. First we knew that Charles Sterling is...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2007 9:29 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft
Paul Randal is leaving Microsoft

Paul Randal , Principal Lead Program Manager for the SQL Server Core Storage Engine, is leaving Microsoft. Paul has long stood for the core of SQL Server, which is one of my passions, and has been involved with the SQL Server community for quite a while...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2007 11:49 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft
MS.COM powered by Windows Server 2008 beta 3, via Nick Mayhew

This is a story which makes me happy to hear. Even though Windows Server 2008 is yet only in Beta Microsoft has opted to port the entire contents of the Microsoft web site onto Windows Server 2008. If that isn't a case study to relay the fears of...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2007 11:22 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Surface web site launched

I seriously want a table like this...anyways, this new technology (well sort off, HP apparently has a VERY high-end, non-affordable version) just got a home. www.microsoft.com/surface i'm still totally keen on this idea...i wonder what the wife would...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2007 10:06 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, Blog Fun, Handy Tools, Microsoft Surface
Microsoft Partners in Perth..who?

As some may have noticed, I'm fairly keen in getting Perth marked on map in regards to Microsoft and the programs they offer. One such program, which i personally think a corporation can benefit largely from participating in, is the Microsoft Partner...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2007 11:54 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft, MS Partner Events, Perth
Perth Ignores Concurrency - Nick's .NET Travels

Nick Randolph posted a post-presentation follow-up to the Joel Tobar event at the Perth .Net Community of Practice last week. I know i should have attended and seriously wanted to, but some family matters came up and i had to leave early to take care...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2007 9:43 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Microsoft
I see things....

Lately i've seen a lot of "hysterics" from the Open-Source community about Ruby and how Ruby is going to take development to another level and how the Microsoft .Net platform is shaken and loosing followers. Haven't we seen this all...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2007 12:52 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: .Net Framework, Personal, Microsoft
New ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Release - ScottGu's Blog

One thing about Scott Guthrie's blog is that there's always GOOD news coming from him. I know that he writes his own blog and doesn't have an assistant or some other write it for him. I think Scott's blog was one of the first i ever subscribed...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2007 11:44 AM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: ASP.Net, Microsoft, ASP.Net - AJAX, Handy Tools
Defy All Challenges - Microsoft Visual Studio

I caught a glimpse at this ad today on one of the sites i frequent when i'm terribly bored. It looked pretty cool and eventhough i'm rarely in the habit of clicking on ads i just had to check it out - so, mission accomplished for the marketing...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2007 11:28 PM by Brian Madsen

Filed under: Personal, Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft

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