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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 (think VSTS, Expression etc..cool geeky stuff). Joerg...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Sun, Aug 17 2008
Filed under: 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. As with many of the earlier “losses” it’s bound...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Sun, Aug 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Microsoft, Code Gurus, Cool Guys
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 of topics, some of them VERY relevant, especially...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, Jul 1 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Blog Fun, Visual Studio 2008, MOSS 2007, 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 driving (from point A to B) and came across a roo...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Thu, May 15 2008
Filed under: 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 who's done some phenomenal work with some of...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, May 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Guys
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 (the wild man of the australian DPE team at Microsoft...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, Apr 22 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Blog Fun, Cool Guys
frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger : 3 year anniversary

"3 years ago this week, I had major surgery" - that's how Frank Arrigo's blog post on his 3rd anniversary starts. I remember vividly his struggle (and trepidation) and subsequentl surgery and recovery from following his blog those years ago. Frank is now reporting that he's doing...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Mon, Apr 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Cool Guys
Bill Ryan is ready to consult!

Bill Ryan [MVP], an overall great guy, professional and adept in all manner of technologies are taking the step into consulting. Bill's been reaping the rewards and gaining some valuable experiences, while working at Magenic as a principal consultant. And he's now taking that a step further by...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Wed, Apr 2 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .Net Framework, Architecture, Code Gurus, .Net Training, Cool Guys
Pretty picture..

A colleague of mine, JP, just sent me an email with a photo he took in Bali on his last holiday (couple of weeks ago) and i wanted to share it.. the detail is fantastic and i really like this photo - i know less about photo aesthetics than i do about AFL, but this is very, very pretty. Nice work...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, Apr 1 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Blog Fun, Cool Guys
Another year...

I just received my confirmation email, letting me know that i've been re-awarded for 2008-2009. I'm still going to participate in the ASP.Net category. 2007-2008 really saw some dramatic changes in my field and i'm sure the next 12 months wont be any different. One of the bigger things on...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Tue, Apr 1 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Freaky stories, Cool Guys, MVP
Andrew Bartucciotto : Spell Check Web Service in Share Point - Excluding SharePoint Controls

How smart is this guy?? In just one day he cut down a massive task of mine on the project we're working on - and sorted out a problem i'd run into with excluding sharepoint controls (such as the People Editor) from being spellchecked. Andrew Bartucciotto : Spell Check Web Service in Share Point...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Mon, Mar 24 2008
Filed under: Filed under: MOSS 2007, Cool Guys
Andrew Bartucciotto - Long time coming...first post, yay!

Finally, Andrew got his finger out and posted his virgin post over at CSharpZealot.com.. Andrew Bartucciotto << for those who wants to customise MOSS, Andrew's the man... I'm sure we'll see a ton of great posts from him in the near future (nudge, nudge, wink wink Mr. A).

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Wed, Mar 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: CSharpZealot.com, Blog Fun, 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, WPF etc hopefully means we'll see some new innovative...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Mon, Feb 25 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Guys
ASP.Net MVC Framework articles

Naturally being in the web industry you HAVE to subscribe to Scott Guthrie's blog. Lately he's been posting a lot of news on the ASP.Net MVC Framework - something I think has been missing from the .Net framework for a loooong time. As always, Scott's thorough in his posts and these 5 take...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Sun, Feb 24 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .Net Framework, ASP.Net, Code Gurus, Cool Guys, ASP.Net 3.5 Extensions
[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. I wonder what Scott is up to now? Read all about...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Sun, Feb 24 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Microsoft, Cool Guys
John and Bronwen rocks Perth SQL Server UG

Valentines day - the official love day of the year (if you believe Hallmark that is) saw John O'Brien and Bronwen Zande finish their SQL Server UG Tour in Australia. The topic was SQL Server 2008 Spatial with Virtual Earth and it was a great event. We had 19 show up, yes us geeks don't really...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Sat, Feb 16 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Perth SQL Server User Group, Cool Guys
The Blogosphere is booming - Bill and Andrew joins the ranks of Uber Geeks

Finally, two of my colleagues has started their blogs up - after a LOOONG wait that is. Of course as is always the case, better late than never. Bill Poole is the Knowledge Team Manager for the Developers + a very experienced and talented developer and architect. His blog: http://bill-poole.blogspot...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Wed, Feb 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Cool Guys
We are looking for talent...

It seems that Perth is booming even more this year than last year - which definitely shows when we're looking for some 30+ people to join us by March. I joined Change Corporation late last year and have just finished my probation period..actually it was confirmed this Friday so I naturally had a...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Sat, Feb 2 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Perth, Cool Guys
CSharpZealot.com - OS Project: Crank

Major kudos to Michale Minutillo for getting version 0.3 out of Crank. So what is Crank? First of all, it's an open source project Michael started a couple of months ago. Michael published it first on CSharpZealot.com and i'm curious to see how that develops. Secondly, here's what Michael...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Mon, Jan 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Aussie Development, CSharpZealot.com, Cool Guys, Open Source Projects
Mitch Wheat mentions Free e-books from Microsoft

Mitch obviously has a lot less to do this Christmas than i've had, but thanks to him the word has gotten out that there's 3 free e-books available from MSFT Press. The three titles are: Introducing LINQ by Paulo Pialorsi and Mark Russo Introducing ASP.Net AJAX by Dino Esposito (one of my fav...

Posted to Brian H. Madsen - .Net Powered by Caffeine by Brian Madsen on Sun, Dec 30 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Cool Guys, E-Books

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