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Expression Web to be available through MSDN
Soma has announced this morning that Expression Web and Expression Blend will be made available to MSDN Premium subscribers.Good news if you are part designer and part developer. This decision was...
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MSDN Flash Editorial - Expression Web and Tech Ed NZ teaser
Great news last week for those of you in the web development space, thanks to the great feedback from the developer community we’ve decided to release ExpressionWeb and Expression Blend (when released)...
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MSDN Flash: What Multi-targeting means to customers
One of the new features of Visual Studio 2008 is the ability to target multiple versions of the .Net framework with your application. I briefly mentioned this my last editorial, but I thought I'd...
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MSDN Flash - What is in Windows Server for developers?
The last editorial I wrote about Visual Studio 2008's multi-targeting support, however as the Launch coming in February is about Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 I thought I might shed some...
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MSDN Flash - Daylight Saving and Tech Ed wrap up
Tech Ed is done. It was a great event and before you forget I want to remind you of something you may have heard about at Tech Ed and if you didn’t its critical that you understand it. One of the...
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Lessons Learned from five years of SDL
Michael Howard, the kiwi at the cutting edge of security in Microsoft in the US has written a great "Lessons Learned" article for this months MSDN Magazine.Even if you don't get the mag, you can read...
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MSDN Flash - Here comes the wave!
Last week Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing. If you have a MSDN Subscription, you can download it now. Visual Studio 2008 will hit store shelves in late Jan/early Feb. In spite of the...
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How to buy Visual Studio in New Zealand
We often get asked "how can I buy Visual Studio and MSDN?".And since last time we posted on this was back in 2005 I thought we should update this guidance.If you look at the bottom of the MSDN NZ...
View ArticleCongratulations new MVP’s
Each quarter we award those who work hardest in the technical community with an award we call the Most Valuable Professional. These awards are given for the contributions made to the technical...
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Launch – Building Connected Systems
As promised, I've uploaded the slides and code from my Connected Systems talk from the Launch events up to my skydrive, so if you are interested, you can grab them. The sample code includes the code...
View ArticleIntroducing the Christchurch Embedded .NET User Group (EDNUG)
Chris has blogged the details of the newest user group in New Zealand - in Christchurch - focused on Embedded development. The first meeting is next week - details here I have recently became involved...
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Tech Ed and MSDN Unplugged update
Sometimes it feels like we just live from one event to the next. So while we’ve now got the launch events out of the way, there is more coming – and we need your help to make them the best events they...
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Unplugged sessions – next week.
This month I'll be out and about a little doing a talk in a few locations on mixing up the web: Title: Mixing up the web using HTTP, REST, WCF, PHP and IIS7 Abstract: HTTP programming is about more...
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Tech Ed – registration and speakers
If you have been hanging out waiting for Tech Ed registration to open, well, the wait is over! Yesterday we opened registration for Tech Ed 2008. This year Tech Ed is September 1-3. The other bit of...
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Tech Ed New Zealand Tickets – 25% gone
Ummmm, yeah.if you were planning on heading to Tech Ed this year to hear the likes of Scott Hanselman speak, I would be considering signing up real soon. The early bird tickets are already half sold,...
View ArticleMSDN Flash: Tech Ed – we have a problem…
I was going to open this editorial in celebration of the fact that registration for Tech Ed is now open and encourage you to register today. And – I strongly encourage you to register today. Not...
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How to buy Visual Studio in New Zealand
We often get asked "how can I buy Visual Studio and MSDN?". And since last time we posted on this was back in 2005 I thought we should update this guidance. If you look at the bottom of the MSDN NZ...
View ArticleBlog moved to burling.co.nz
When I first started at Microsoft I had my own blog on my own site. However, after a few months I started blogging here anyway and removed the blog from my own site. Recently I've dusted off the old...
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