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Australian Windows Azure Innovation
Since joining the Partner Team to help partners adopt the Windows Azure platform, I have met many...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 04/23/2012
REMIX10 Last Chance to buy Early Bird Tickets
Tomorrow (Friday 14 May) is your last chance to buy early bird tickets at $195 including GST for...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 05/12/2010
Save $100 on REMIX10 Australia Lovefest tickets
As you may have seen on Michael’s blog, REMIX10 has been announced. Please find below the invitation...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 04/29/2010
Take the Donkey Work out of web development
We launched a new campaign today to promote the Web Platform Installer. Very simply, WebPI is a tool...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 04/20/2010
Win a TechEd 2010 Ticket for your Windows 7 Application
Terms and Conditions of Windows 7 Green Light Application Competition Instructions on how to enter...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 03/26/2010
MSDN Australia Book Club #3: Building on the Windows 7 User Experience to Delight Your Customers
Join us for this MSDN Book Club to discuss “Building on the Windows 7 User Experience to Delight...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 03/12/2010
Azure in Australia
Our Azure Lead, Greg Willis, was busy last week with the Australian Launch Event on Tuesday 23rd...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 03/04/2010
MSDN Australia Book Club #2: Developing Azure Applications for PHP, Ruby and Java using Eclipse
We hope you can join us for our second MSDN Australia Book Club. What’s the Book Club? A regular...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 03/02/2010
Register to hear Robbie Bach on the future of technology and entertainment
When? Tuesday 9th February 2010 at 6.30pm Where? University of Sydney: New Law School Auditorium...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 01/31/2010
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Just Got Easy
Optimise for and more! Microsoft announced today a new extension for IIS: the SEO Toolkit. Once...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 01/13/2010
MSDN Australia Book Club #1: Big Algorithms Made Easy
Andrew Coates and Joel Pobar have organised our first MSDN Book Club! Review Joel’s TechEd...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 01/11/2010
MSDN Book Club
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Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 01/11/2010
HTC HD2 coming in January
It is the Christmas present that is worth the wait ‘til January! The HTC HD2 You can win 1 of...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 12/19/2009
MSDN LinkedIn Group
Most of the Aussie DPE Team are on LinkedIn and I thought I’d create a local MSDN group for...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 12/18/2009
Introducing FranklySpeaking
Two of our Developer Evangelists, Andrew Coates and Michael Kordahi (as seen in the “we’re looking...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 12/18/2009
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update
Big news today from ScottGu’s blog is that there will be another public preview release of VS2010...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 12/18/2009
Are you a Hero? Sign up for AU$150
The Search is on... we are looking for Australia’s Certification Heroes! We want to hear from you if...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 12/01/2009
Innovation Day Tour 2009
Sarah in the Partner Team is organising a lap around the map for a series of Innovation Days. The...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/16/2009
Office 2010 Beta Available via MSDN
If you are an MSDN subscriber, Office 2010 beta is available for download. If you’re interested in...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/16/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Training
Check out this set of nifty Windows Server 2008 R2 training tidbits for developers: New R2...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/09/2009
Hammer Time
Today at 1.30pm (Sydney time) is HAMMER TIME. We will be holding our first LIVE Smooth Streaming...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/09/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Australian Road Show
The developer solution team are visiting eight cities over the next couple of months to tell...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/03/2009
New look for Aussie MSDN Flash
We published a new look for the MSDN Flash and I’d be interested in your thoughts: is this a useful...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/25/2009
Harvey Norman Plan To Sell The World’s First Copy Of Windows 7
Gizmodo have reported that Harvey Norman will be open at midnight this evening which makes them one...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/20/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is Here
Microsoft announced today the immediate availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/19/2009
New look for MSDN
Beth’s blog has some really good discussion about the new look for MSDN just around the corner… the...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/14/2009
3 weeks to submit your AIMIA Amy nomination
AIMIA is calling for entries into the 16th Annual AIMIA Awards, which celebrate the very best...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/13/2009
New Fixed Telstra Data Plans
Choose from two plans: Mobile email plan for businesses with Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or higher...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/11/2009
New blog design
Over the weekend I thought I would reskin the blog… and thought borrowing Scott’s would be a whole...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/11/2009
My new role…
I have realised my long term goal in joining the Developer Platform Evangelism group (known as DPE)....
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/09/2009
My new favourite thing
In the spirit of Oprah’s new favourite thing, the ability to join a conference call from the mobile...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 07/23/2009
Going to TechEd Australia? Look for Dave…
Coatsey has pulled some quick stats from the TechEd09 registration report… looks like the most...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 07/21/2009
Receive kudos for being you
I’m sure you’ve heard this via the normal channels… the Worldwide Partner Conference is open for...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 02/16/2009
The Economy and the IT Market
What do the experts have to say about the economy? Microsoft Financing has invited industry experts,...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/19/2008
They let me out of the office
Andy, Dave, Michael, Phil (who needs to start blogging as he has so much knowledge to share) and I...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/13/2008
BizSpark: calling all startups
Video: Steve Ballmer announcing BizSpark at the Developer Liberation Day, Thursday 6...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/07/2008
November 2008 SQL Technical Roll Up
The TRM blog can be found here https://blogs.technet.com/trm/ Downloads SQL Server Reporting Services...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 11/02/2008
DevSta Winners Announced
The winners for DevSta 2008 have been decided! Congratulations to Michael Minutillo and Jarred...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/30/2008
Want to join Steve Ballmer?
Our CEO, Steve Ballmer, is in town on 6 November. If you would like to join us, please I would like...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/26/2008
Sydney is a Toy City
Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. Mic showed me these great videos from Keith Loutit. I...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/23/2008
Intermec Developers Conference
Do you have any developers who need the latest information on creating mobile applications?...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/21/2008
RDN Dev Days
This must be event season, with the rush to get in before Christmas. Readify have published their...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/15/2008
Live Services Jumpstart
Spotted this on Angus Logan’s blog about deep technical training on our Live services. Get in...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/15/2008
Innovation Days 2008
The dates for our ISV road show have now been published and we’re coming to a city near you. What?...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 10/13/2008
Innovation Days, November 2008
We are about to announce our next ISV Innovation Day road show across Australia scheduled for the...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/22/2008
ISV Royalty Operations Webinar
We held our ISV Royalty LiveMeeting today with our Asia Pacific Operations Centre (APOC) who went...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/09/2008
TechEd SMB Pre Day
I went along to Robbie's Tech Ed SMB pre day today. I know now what Small Business Server and...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/02/2008
Daylight Savings Time of Year
Clocks are changing again next month. For me it's a confusing time of year as I always forget and...
Author: Christian Longstaff Date: 09/02/2008