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I was in a meeting today with Tania Netterfield and she shared some certification plans with me that...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008

Especially now that Ken's on the team, I have a real interest in the cool stuff people do by...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008

Matt Nunn sent this round recently - a couple of additions to the many Virtual Images you can...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008

And it's where the VSTO2003 blog used to be :). Christin Boyd has posted a welcome message and...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008

Another place heroes happen ...Craig's finally announced the results of his labour over the past...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008

Greg beat me to it. The Australian Partner Readiness site has three great SQL2008 sessions listed...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2008

February 14, 2008, 3:00am Sydney Time Join us for an exciting webcast specific for the Oil and Gas...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/09/2008

January 16, 2008, 12 Noon Sydney TimeLook -no slides - just kick the tires! Want to find out what's...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 01/08/2008

While I love talking about the great developer experience in Office 2007 and VSTO v3, I acknowledge...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/29/2007

Continuing the trend of making it easy to get your hands on a pre-configured environment to help...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007

In September, we recorded the sessions from a full 5-day Visual Studio 2008 Training Workshop. These...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007

We had the pleasure last week of hosting Doug Turnure, the Developer Evangelist from Atlanta,...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007

Via the irrepressible Trika: Microsoft Certification for Developers Join the Microsoft Certification...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007

Back in June and July, I did a series of posts about the great Virtual Labs that are available for...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2007

As one of the pillars of Visual Studio Team System, I always talk about the guidance, both built...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007

From Khawar Ahmed on the OBA Blog: One of the OBA related news at TechEd Developer Barcelona was...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007

I'm on the way to Redmond (about an hour out from San Francisco) and clearing my backlog of "Blog...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007

This just in from Nick Ellery: Imagine Cup is the world’s premier technology competition for...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007

I've been meaning to blog about this for ages. Darko Jovisic, a Developer Evangelist from Croatia,...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007

Don Kerr just sent this through (he, Nelson Lin and and Dave Glover are presenting): Get the...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/21/2007

I'm in Perth as a result of GITA inviting me to speak at their Seminar and Workshops. I presented on...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/21/2007

The word's getting out there (a little too slowly for my liking, but anyway ...): SQL Server 2008...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/15/2007

Sharmilla sent this through today. Microsoft proudly presents its first MCT Community Summit 2008 in...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/15/2007

This just in from Paul Andrew. We just completed the .NET Framework 3.5 update to the Commonly Used...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/14/2007

A couple of great XNA Games Studio Express events this week in the MS offices in Sydney and...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/12/2007

I was chatting with Ken Levy a couple of weeks ago about what he's up to now (he works for the...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/11/2007

I got a nice note from Joe Hanna of vantage IT today following my presentation at the Office DevCon...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007

Great workshops in the MS offices next week Topic: Virtual Earth - Real Revenue Where: Microsoft...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007

The last batch of Virtual TechEd Fishbowl movies from TechEd Australia have been posted. Check 'em...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007

Michael's twirling dancer link generated a lot of chatter, but this one seems even less fathomable...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2007

I LOVE VSTO v3! As part of my demos for Graham Seach's Office DevCon, I've developed a VSTO v3...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 10/31/2007

<disclaimer>If it's not obvious from the content, I have a personal interest in this...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/25/2007

26-Sep Updated table formatting "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/24/2007

The Virtual TechEd Fishbowl Editors have been at it again. Four more great videos. The Wide Ranging...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2007

Hear Frank Chism, world expert in high performance computing, discuss the future of cluster server...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2007

Great initiative from Christian Longstaff and the local Partner Team Following the success of...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2007

As I posted previously, Grahame Seach is pulling together the community Office DevCon in Sydney this...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/18/2007

Two new videos from the Virtual TechEd FishBowl. While you're at it, check out the BuilderAU video...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2007

I just got this note from Faith Rees about some exciting .NET 3.0 training being conducted by our...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/11/2007

Tatham and Dr Neil alluded to it in their fishbowl interview, and now Anna's been plugging it too....

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2007

More great work from the Virtual TechEd Team. Check out the new videos from the Fishbowl: Tablet...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2007

As you might expect, there's been a bit of discussion on the internal aliases about the results of...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2007

Soon to be East-Coastian Nick Randolph has just posted pointing to some great Windows Mobile...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/05/2007

Via Wayne. The Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 R2 Readiness program is a Microsoft initiative...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2007

A bunch more of the videos from the Virtual Tech•Ed Fishbowl on the Gold Coast have gone up....

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/04/2007

In my farewell post to the previous Editors of TechTalkBlogs, I dropped five hints about the next...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2007

Tired of squiggly lines under correctly spelt words like colour and flavour (not to mention anything...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/31/2007

Over at TechTalkBlogs, Bronwen has put out a call for all geek girls to contact her (now I'm going...

Author: Andrew Coates [MSFT] Date: 08/30/2007

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