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Another Microsoft Move and Shake

Last night I went down to Little Bay to play a social game of hockey with Andrew which was a ball of fun - it helped that we won! Interestingly he shared the fact that yesterday Roger Lawrence was appointed Frank 's replacement as Group Manager Evangelism (hope I got the title right) in the Microsoft...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-30-2007
Australian DPE Team Welcomes (back) a new Member

Yesterday I caught up with Finula Crowe who is currently the Wave 2008 Community Launch Leed for Microsoft. She had some awesome news which is that she is rejoining DPE as Audience Marketing Manager. In Fin's own words her "passion for Developer, Architect and extended Influencer communities...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-23-2007
Visual Studio 2008 - Are 3 Pillars Enough?

As some of you will be aware, Dave and myself have embarked on writing the sequel to Visual Studio 2005 , aptly name Professional Visual Studio 2008, which should be completed early next year. For the last month or so, while we were waiting for the contracts to be finalised, I have been going through...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-23-2007
Australian Microsoft Developer User Groups

Back in 2002 when I, with the help of Power Business Systems , started the Perth .NET Community of Practice there was a lot of emphasis being placed on building the community by Microsoft. All around the country the DPE team worked with user group leaders to help support the groups wherever possible...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 09-14-2007
I'm an Idiot!

Stephen are you happy now? I'll start by saying that while I might be an idiot I think that Stephen's comment was just childish. Judging by his resume (which came up with "page not found" the first time I clicked the link .... what server is it running on btw?) I understand that his background is firmly...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-23-2007
Even kids can build Sandcastles

SoftTeq partner, fellow Perth-ITe and co-ordinator of the Perth .NET Community of Practice , Alastair has posted a link to the March 2007 CTP of Sandcastle - a documentation project for .NET similar to what NDoc did. I posted on this back in August last year where I observed that the process of using...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 03-08-2007
Windows Mobile 6

So I'm not the first, and won't be the last, to blog about this but I just thought I'd add the appropriate links: Windows Mobile 6 has been announced which of course will come with a whole set of new features. In case you were wondering here are a couple of people from within Microsoft who have more...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-08-2007
User Interface - Who thinks it's important?

I've just finished listening to two of Ron Jacob's Arcast shows both of which covered aspects of User Interface. With the work that we are doing at Intilecta this is clearly an area that we place a strong emphasis on as part of our product development process. What I don't get is why everyone has suddenly...

Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 02-04-2007

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