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Sanity Prevails

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

The FOSS com­munity has been con­cerned about the dif­fi­culties, pros and cons of includ­ing Mono-built applic­a­tions as a part of stand­ard Linux builds. Both Pro and Con. Most recently, the Ubuntu Tech­nical Board pos­ted to their Ubuntu Developer Announce mail­ing list their exterm­ely prag­matic pos­i­tion on Mono applic­a­tions. Today Microsoft exten­ded the Com­munity Prom­ise to […]

28 Weeks. 18 Weeks Down

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

18 Weeks 18 weeks and 735 emails ago, Gian­paolo green-lighted my involve­ment on an Andrew Coates flight of fancy: What if we gave every paid del­eg­ate of TechEd a Net­book run­ning Win­dows 7? Ideas are easy, imple­ment­a­tion is hard. By involve­ment read “Pro­ject Man­age­ment”. And, oh what a won­der­ful ride it has been. 18 weeks of discussions, […]

Microsoft and Web 2.0 Stuff

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Like Michael Rees, Kath­ryn Green­hill asked me to list “web 2.0″ things that Microsoft has avail­able to provide some bal­ance to a Mur­doch Uni­ver­sity event. By web 2.0, Kath­ryn meant: “To me, Microsoft plays really well in the large cor­por­ate ap space and is very good at that … but if I want to show […]

New.CloudApp();

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Why not try mak­ing a new cloud applic­a­tion on Microsoft Azure with PHP. And poten­tially #win? More details are on the New.CloudApp() web site.

Microsoft and Open Source, Unhandled Exceptions. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Microsoft and Open Source, Unhandled Excep­tions. Microsoft and Open source? Isn’t that like cats and dogs liv­ing together? Dis­cuss and learn what (where and why) Microsoft is embra­cing Open source. See which Microsoft tech­no­logy can pos­it­ively affect your Open source based pro­jects, and how you can con­trib­ute. We would also like to hear your unfiltered […]

The offer

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

DM me at @nickhodge Only 5. ALL GONE!! Once received, I need a pic­ture of you in said T-shirt – in a pub­lic place. Please be wear­ing more than the T-shirt supplied.

Using Webslice and IFrames in WebSlices

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Test­ing only. If you are read­ing this, please ensure you are using Inter­net Explorer 8 Webslices are new con­sumer fea­ture in Inter­net Explorer 8. You can embed simple HTML within a WebSlice that is a por­tion of a pre-existing page. To get IFRAMES and OBJECT to work there is a little tweak­ing required. Then you […]

To a Social Media Practitioner

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Today was the last day I will appear as a “social media expert” on behalf of Microsoft. The inter­net and social media is main­stream, and it’s time to move on. And do my real day job: evan­gel­ising Microsoft’s developer tools. Back­ground Over the week­end, Chan­nel 10’s Rove attemp­ted to fist twit­ter, bring­ing in at least […]

The Future

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

I first met Stephen Elop dur­ing Macromedia/Adobe integ­ra­tion talks and sub­sequently in Punta Mita, Mex­ico. He is one smart cookie for a Cana­dian. Now here is at Microsoft lead­ing the busi­ness soft­ware side. Watch this video to get a glimpse of the future of tech­no­logy in our lives. The key theme I can see is […]

This digital life (version 2.0) May 2007

Friday, January 30th, 2009

From Vista magazine, May 2007 This digital life (ver­sion 2.0) Nick, a recent addi­tion to Microsoft, is a long time blog­ger, presenter and geek. Read Nick’s exploits and stor­ies at http://www.nickhodge.com. A part of Nick’s “job” at Microsoft is to col­lect and record Australia’s Geek Stor­ies. Turn your web browser to http://thegeekstories.com. To hear what Nick is […]

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