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Free Microsoft Software and Online Services

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

As heard from This Week on Channel 9, here is a list of Free software and online Services.
The above list is “free as in beer”
Microsoft, and third party coders, have a whole bunch of cool bits and pieces over on Codeplex.com – which now supports SVN. C’mon gitsupport
Codeplex projects I follow:

IronPython
ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Dynamic [...]

Who woulda thunk?

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

My first chunk of heavy code on MSDN (yes, that MSDN!!) is a whole lotta PHP to SQLServer. Microsoft, and the world, is a funny old place.

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AIMIA Presentation: Web 3.0 and Visualisation

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

1000 Words
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First Irons in the Fire

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Downloaded from source and compiled.
IronRuby seems pretty self-contained (ie: all the Libs + gems) come along
IronPython: I need to find out how to point it at my cPython install
Can do simple .pyw to IronPythonWindows, including a call to .NET Windows.Forms
Off we go!

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Daylight Savings

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Microsoft customer? Read this.

As Mike Seyfang would say: been there, done that. And it should just work(tm)
The last thing we want is the cows fading in the sun due to the daylight savings.

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Microsoft Surface makes me sleepy.

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

This is one of the two Microsoft Surface’s that has been ‘smuggled’ into Australia. I fell asleep on it.

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TechEd 2008, Blogger’s Lunch Thursday 4th September

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

“Discussion: Are Social Networks the New User Groups?”
An ever popular feature of Tech Ed is the Blogger’s Lunch and this year should be no exception. Hosted by Roger Lawrence, Evangelism Manager at Microsoft Australia, this years Blogger’s Lunch will debate the proposition that Social Networks are the new User Groups. Make sure you add the [...]

Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released. The night before a big PR thing in Melbourne (Premier of Victoria, etc) and I decided to install it on my demo laptop. Brave, yet safe move.
What about this website?
Not so good. Something is broken somewhere. In the week before TechEd 2008 I don’t have time to [...]

Hello Photosynth, Love from Australia.

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I live only 5 minutes away from the most awesome vista in the world: the Sydney Harbour.
Now you can experience the Harbour on a not-so-sunny day (that is, this morning) thanks to Microsoft Photosynth (note: Mac users: we’re working on it. In the current term, you will need to Bootcamp to see Photosynths. The VMWare [...]

Dan Fernandez makes me Famous

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

This Week on C9: ASP.NET Maps, Apache, Sphere, Warcraft, and more

Dan Fernandez invited me to the super-secret building 20 monaco studios for the weekly show “This Week on Channel 9”

LOLCATS, Anguslogan and other topics of discussion. Fueled thanks to copious amounts of caffeine and some random birthday cake.
Big [...]

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