Thoughts on building a great business

on Business, General

I’ve just introduced a new blog category to my blog topics Business. So in this category you will find some of my personal thoughts on business related things. Despite being at an early stage in my career, the idea of running a business at some point during my career journey is something I’m interested in doing. At this stage I’m not sure when that might happen, but I guess I’ll know eventually. Below are some initial thoughts on what I think makes a good business. This category is basically my thoughts regarding things I think I’…

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dasblog Macros & Technorati tags

on DasBlog, General, Technorati

I was spending some time today trying to figure out how to turn DasBlog categories into technorati friendly links because it seems Technorati doesn’t pickup the default dasblog category URLs, I’ve come across some posts that talk about creating custom macros to display digg it …etc links at the footer and this I came across this link here that has a list of tons of existing dasBlog Macros. In the link above I found that there already exists a <%TechnoratiTags%> tag that you can use, this will display your categories at technorati tags instead of the default…

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Boot Camp 2007 Wrap Up

on General, NZ.NET

So it’s been a week since Christchurch’s first ever Code Camp, Boot Camp 2007, came to an end. It was an AWESOME couple of days. We were worried about the weather a day before the event due to forecast but it turned out to be fantastic! We had a Boot Camp theme for this event as you know and speakers and helpers (the Boot Camp commanders) got to wear army look T-shirts and dog tags which I thought were really cool. The event had a total of 17 sessions spread over 2 streams presented by 13 speakers listed…

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Christchurch CodeCamp Update

on .NET, General

The planning for the the first Code Camp in Christchurch is moving along pretty well but the main thing we need for this event to succeed is YOU, if you have not registered for the event already please do so. Below are updated details on the event. TO REGISTER GO TO: https://www.codecamp.net.nz  Trimble Navigation, Birmingham Drive, Addington, Christchurch. Map here Speakers are confirmed and sessions are close to finalised. Chris Auld (Intergen, MVP) Jeremy Boyd (Mindscape, MVP) Darryl Burling (Microsoft) Chris Crowe (Trimble, MVP) Edwin Dando (Clarus) Peter Jones (Intergen, MVP) Bryn Lewis (Clarus) Pat Martin…

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RSS Feed Readers: What are people using?

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I’ve been using Sauce Reader for reading all my feeds till now and I want to move on but can’t decide on what to use. What is everyone using out there. The only 2 annoying things with Sauce Reader were it’s a desktop thing so cant read all my feeds from anywhere without my computer, and a few crashes every now and then, other than that, I really liked using it. I know of several other replacements to Sauce Reader such as FeedDemon that I can try, but I was thinking of an online reader, and so…

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Linked In at last!

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I’m not sure why I haven’t done this previously but I’m now registered on Linked In! Will add the link to my blog soon, I’m slowly adding people I know to my list but you could make this easier for me by adding me too 🙂…

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New Blog Look &amp; Feel

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I’ve done a few modifications to the look and feel of my blog – hopefully to the better, and there’s still a bit more to come. Blog now has a new background colour and a reorganized andrearrangedright side, removed the Google/Amazon ads for now. They were cluttering the area I think, also added a little bio about myself and created a new feedburner feed. Please do subscribe to the new Feed Url : https://feeds.feedburner.com/DanDotNet I hope the changes are nice!…

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Microsoft NZ 2007 Technical Briefing on the way

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The first MS NZ event for ‘O7 after the launch is coming next month, lots of awesome content and also some nice give aways and all for just $199. Details are here I even noticed that JD– 2006 Blogger of the year award winner -will be co presenting with JBthis year. Nice stuff JD. The next generation of Microsoft tech geeks is emerging. Looks like me & JD are leading the wave but in slightly different ways(Shameless self promotion here :-)) I’m sure JD would agree this is just the beginning!…

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