Darryl Burling @ Work
Thoughts and musings of the New Zealand Community DE
Robotinvaders.com – let your bot loose!
The live messenger team have set up a competition. What do you have to do? Create a live messenger...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/19/2006
Tech Ed NZ still filling up fast!
We had an internal meeting about Tech Ed this morning and it was revealed that it was already 47%...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/15/2006
Bill Gates to transition to part time role in 2008
Today, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have announced a transition plan for Bill to move from his full...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/15/2006
Webstock videos now available.
The webstock videos are now online and available for download. If you’re interested in web browsers...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/14/2006
Landscape Smartphone developer support is here!
Wow – two (well one and a half) mobile blog posts in one day... amazing! Anyway, the Visual Studio...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/14/2006
SQL Everywhere CTP available
The SQL Everywhere team has just released the first CTP of SQL Everywhere. If you don’t know what...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/13/2006
Vista for Developers - last minute deal on training
Nigel has got the details of some last minute training on offer in Auckland for Wednesday-Friday...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/12/2006
WinFX is now the .Net Framework 3.0
I'm a little slow on this one due to having a life on the weekend (well, a life without work...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/11/2006
Clarification of NZ MSDN Pricing
If you’ve been looking at the prices on https://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/- (set the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/08/2006
Getting Vista Beta 2
As you probably know Vista Beta 2 is available now from the get ready website. Unfortunately, we...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/08/2006
MSDN Wiki now online - add your contribution
The guys over at MSDN have put up a Wiki for the Visual Studio documentation and the .Net Framework...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/08/2006
Office 2007 - something new every day
Dont ya just hate it when that happens. We just finish telling everyone about the export to PDF...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/05/2006
Expression Web Designer and Master Pages
I've been planning on upgrading my own website for a while now. The old site was a DNN site and a...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/01/2006
Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
Today Soma has announced that we've extended the Visual Studio Team Edition range to include an...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 06/01/2006
Live SDK now available!
Last month I blogged that the live.com development experience was about to improve.... Well, it just...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/28/2006
Webstock - the end
I've been here at webstock for the last two days (including today). Now we are nearing the end......
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/26/2006
Download the VSTO v3 June CTP for Office 2007 Beta 2
Yes, as promised at Connect on Monday, the June CTP is now available for download! You'll need this...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/23/2006
Microsoft Hypervisor - cool stuff
The word Hypervisor in the virtualization world refers to a virtualization server (like Virtual PC...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/23/2006
Did I mention...?
Tech Ed is now 15% sold out... if you want to go - get in quick - we are selling out faster than...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/23/2006
A string of announcements
Yesterday at WinHEC Bill Gates announced a number of things that are interesting in a number of ways...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/23/2006
TrafficWatch hits the Gadget Gallery!
As you may know I've been working with a number of partners to get Gadgets up and running for...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/22/2006
Links and resources for Office 2007 development
In my session from connect I listed a bunch of resources in my last slide that might be useful if...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/21/2006
Write Arcade games in Visual Studio Express
It looks like someone in Corp has been busy writing some of the old arcade games in .Net, and...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/16/2006
Tech Ed NZ - Early bird gets the worm cheaper!
If you are considering coming to Tech Ed in Auckland this year, you should seriously think about...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/14/2006
What does "Simplified User Experience" mean?
If you read through the comparison charts for Visual Studio Express you'll find that the Express SKU...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/14/2006
Advertising in Vista
Jonesie has asked about advertising in Vista... will Microsoft be covering your desktop with ads?...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/12/2006
Vista and 2007 Office System Readiness
Like JB, I really enjoyed the conference yesterday. Lots of people are really interested in the 2007...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/12/2006
MEDC Melbourne - its worth going!
If you've been wondering if its worth heading to MEDC in Melbourne even if work dont want to pay for...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/10/2006
MS Security blog - you'll want to add this to your list
Jeff Jones is the director of trustworthy computing for Microsoft in the US and he knows his stuff...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/09/2006
Are you coming to Office and Vista Readiness?
This week I'm busy preparing for the Office and Vista Readiness training that kicks off on Thursday...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 05/07/2006
Did you know? (reading RSS on live.com)
We've been having this ongoing discussion about live.com... And at the same time I've increased my...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/27/2006
TradeMe getting AJAXified
I got a note from Rowan at TradeMe today to let me know that they rolled out their first bit of AJAX...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/27/2006
Patterns and practices DVD
If you didn't get to the Patterns and Practices summit in Sydney but want a copy of the DVD for...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/27/2006
Getting started with Gadget Development
So you want to start developing gadgets for live.com... what do you need to get started? I'd make...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/26/2006
Live.com developer experience - its about to improve
I found out this morning that we've hired a new PM for the Live.com team. He's focused specifically...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/26/2006
Live.com - what?
After my talk at Code Camp last week Tim has thrown in his opinion of Live.com (and Vista - but I'll...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/26/2006
Live.com Gadgets - Mine is now live.
I've finally finished (for the moment) my first Gadget for www.live.com. Its simple and its basic,...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/21/2006
Scott Guthrie coming to Tech Ed New Zealand!
Nigel has posted about his new baby (congrats again Nigel), but at the end of his post he sneaked in...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/20/2006
Visual Studio Express is now Free!
Great news - if you've been confused about whether Visual Studio Express editions are free or not...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/19/2006
Atlas Controls Toolkiit now available
The "Atlas" Control Toolkit is a collection of samples and components that makes it easier then ever...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/12/2006
Vista and Office 2007 readiness - registration open!
We're having our next technical event in May, starting in Wellington on May 11, then Christchurch on...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/12/2006
How BillG works
This is an interesting article written by BillG about how he uses technology to get his job done....
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/06/2006
Live.com - cool stuff you may not know
I was talking to Nigel this morning about something to do with live.com that had just been released...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 04/02/2006
Watch the Security Seminar online.
While we didn't video the security seminar locally, the Aussies did, and because we shared content...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/29/2006
ineta Live
Ineta are running a bunch of tech web casts directly from the product groups in the US called ineta...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/29/2006
Visual Studio Team Suite 180 Day Trial - free shipping (NZ Only)!
If you've been thinking about giving the new version of Visual Studio a spin, but haven't had the...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/27/2006
Code Camp - filling up fast
I think there are about 20 places left for the first ever DNUG Code Camp. If you want to go, you...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/27/2006
VSTS Training - yes you can get it in NZ now!
Mark (the local architect advisor) has been working away to get VSTS training available here in New...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/27/2006
Coming to a city near you soon!
In this weeks flash I let the cat out of the bag that we are planning another tour of Wellington,...
Author: Garry Trinder Date: 03/27/2006