2008 Summer Road Trip is coming... Make sure you secure a seat!

on NZ.NET, 2008SummerRoadTrip

So it looks like details are finally emerging on the 2008 Summer Road Trip, don’t know what I’m talking about yet? read on… You may have heard that Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 & Visual Studio 2008 are either already in RTM or will be so in 2008. Therefore you might want to start thinking about tuning in to the latest stuff and this is why the 2008 Summer Road Trip is here. Darryl, Jeremy and Chris will be visiting the following cities on the specified date to talk to each community in the regions below about…

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Boot Camp 2007 Wrap Up

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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

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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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Live Search 2.0 is here!

on Windows Live

This is just a quick post to mention that Live Search 2.0 is here. Check it out it’s being rolled out world wide but only seemed to arrive to NZ a couple of days ago. See the Live Search blog for more details. I will be posting my thoughts on it soon.…

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Getting Facebook & Windows Live Together: Part 2

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I’ve had a play with the idea I suggested in my previous post about this topic and using the Facebook Developer Toolkitit was possible to get a lot of information out of Facebook and display those in a .NET application and you can also get info back in XML format so this should work well with a gadget. So far so good… BUT the problem with using the toolkit or the Facebook API for that matter is authenticating your Facebook application user so you can get some info. For a web application you have to redirect to the…

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Via Windows Live

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" title="" /> I’ve recently been made aware of a new sitewww.viawindowslive.com that provides a great place for developers to find resources about the Windows Live family of products. The site is still in the early days but more content is going in all the time, I’ve even started contributing some stuff myself and will be writing more stuff very soon. Here’s a brief description of the site taken from the about page “Welcome to the Via Windows Live community space. This space is dedicated to you as a developer to help you build and understand…

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Getting Facebook & Windows Live Together, well sort of!

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I’ve recently been wanting a lot to dig deeper into other areas of Windows Live that I don’t know much about and get myself to learn more about these. Of course the hard thing in moving forward with that stuff aside from motivation is thinking of an idea of something that can be done. I think I found an answer to that today! Here’s something I’m going to try and see if I can do with or without help and I think it’s a cool idea! One that will help me learn more about Windows…

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Christchurch Code Camp (BootCamp 2007) Is Coming

Some of you may have heard that Christchurch is about to have it’s first CodeCamp ever and it’s going to be a great event.Peter, Chris & Darryl have already blogged about it and now it’s my turn. I was waiting on us confirming the venue and dates and now they have been confirmed, the event details are below. Myself and Peter will be sending out speaker invitations this weekend so some of you should expect to hear from us soon 🙂 So whether you want to present a session or just attend one then don’t wait!…

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Setting up Windows Live Custom Domains for your email

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I’ve previously blogged about Windows Live Custom Domains and POP3 support in my last two posts but didn’t really talk much about setting it up. Thanks to Darryl’s postI don’t need to! You can go read his full post but here’s a quick summary of what you need to do. – Register your own domain name if you don’t have one – Head to domains.live.com and sign in using a Windows Live ID/Passport – Choose the Setup Windows Live Hotmail for my domain option – Note the settings given by Windows Live Custom Domains…

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POP3 Support for Windows Live Custom Domains?

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I had a look around and I think I found the answer to the above question. The answer happens to be there is no support for POP3 with Windows Live Custom Domains at the moment.I found the following piece of information here “Right now these protocols are not supported for free or paying users.We are evaluating adding these protocols to the product in the future, but likely as part of the above subscriptions.We currently do support protocols for rich e-mail clients like Outlook and Outlook Express in the above subscriptions.” So as far as I can tell…

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