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Spot the Australians.... yes, that's Roger holding up the video camera and Karo in the front of the photo d
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This is where the Taxi dropped us off at the hotel - cool view of the Eiffel tower. More over the coming days on the Imagine Cup 2008 world wide finals as they kick off here in Paris.
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Up until very recently I have been sporting an IBM Thinkpad T43. This was one of the last laptops with the IBM branding before it officially became Lenovo and was also one of the last single-core devices. That said, it did have 2Gb RAM and...
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Today I have been doing some work with the Windows Mobile notification broker, which, for those who haven't used it is basically the event bus that Windows Mobile has for notifying applications when system properties have changed. For example in my...
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For anyone who has been working in the Microsoft mobility and embedded space you will have noticed that there has not been an MEDC event this year. Luckily there is still an opportunity to get your gear-fix for the year at this year's TechEd. This...
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It seems that Microsoft has remembered that there are still developers out there building mobile applications. It would appear that there isn't much new stuff out there for mobile developers in the Windows Mobile platform (not much has really changes...
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When the iPhone first came out and everyone was raving about its user interface I had to agree with them, despite being a long-term Windows Mobile user. Of course, like all new user interfaces there are always going to be some learning points but on the...
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Just a couple of images captured from Monday and Tuesday here in Seattle: Surface Computing: Just One Big Expensive Toy ;-) Taking a break after talking Sync Services and SQL Server Compact Edition Dave's leading the charge (hey, he's not an MVP...
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Sunday afternoon saw some dodgy weather hitting the airport that resulted in my Qantas flight from Sydney to San Francisco being delayed by about an hour and a half. Whilst we were hopeful that they would be able to make this time up in the flight, these...
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Having not done much with Silverlight I thought I'd give it a go today building a very simple application that would periodically go off to a webservice, retrieve a new item and insert it into a list. The UI which you can see below is very basic ...
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Over the last couple of days I've been digging through some of the developer resources for working with the Office 2007 file formats and came across the announcement that the Open XML file formats have won approval as ISO/IEC standards. Although I...
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In case you haven't noticed, the Code Camp Oz 2008 speaker schedule has been announced. Looks like I made the cut and am sharing a RapidFire session with Mahesh Krishnanm. The title of my session is "Do you want a connection with that?"...
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Forrester Research report on "Defining a Mobile Enterprise Policy" - worth a read if you are looking at adopting mobile devices into your enterprise. With mobility becoming more significant to the enterprise with every day we are likely to see...
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Yes that's right, the first CTP of Sync Services for Windows Mobile is available for download! Get it at the Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET download site. Make sure you send feedback re performance, functionality etc to the forum at...
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Some you might recall that I issued a Skype Challenge last April where the rules were essentially: To go an entire month without using either a landline* or a mobile phone** to make or receive phone calls. You have to make all calls via Skype You can't...