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Training with Udi Dahan – it’s all about business 08 Feb 2010 I know it’s been a while since I wrote my last post but in my defence :) I went to SEA for over 5 weeks and on purpose disconnected from the whole IT-related online world. It was great :). Anyway, back to the topic. A couple weeks ago I went for a week long training( Advanced Distributed System Design [read more]... |
Pawel Pabich Senior Consultant |
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SharePoint Saturday Perth wrap up 07 Feb 2010 SharePoint Saturday Perth was run on Saturday. I organised this over the last few months and from what I have heard, it was a very well received event. We had over 115 people attend with a full 100 at the keynote and wrap up sessions at the end! I think that makes it the biggest SPS in Australia to date [read more]... |
Jeremy Thake Principal Consultant MCT, WSS+MOSS MCTS |
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Independent SharePoint Consultant for hire 07 Feb 2010 I have decided to move on from my role as Principal Consultant at Readify after handing in my notice last week. As of March, I will be pursuing a career as an Independent SharePoint Consultant in the Perth area. I am looking to assist customers to lead and mentor their teams on SharePoint based projects [read more]... |
Jeremy Thake Principal Consultant MCT, WSS+MOSS MCTS |
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Multi-touch VJ..err..DJ…err..nevermind. 06 Feb 2010 I’m about 10 days out until I get my hands on my multi-touch monitor from Dell. As a result of this long wait, I’m just exploring the web tonight to see what’s out there in multi-touch land. I came across this video via vimeo (which can I just say is where all the creative people [...] [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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FUI – Igniting the Fantasy User Interface spark. 06 Feb 2010 Introduction Every single time I’ve been given a brief to design something, I often will browse the internet for inspiration, in that I just need something to help nudge me into the direction of an idea. I also constantly keep mug shot’s of user interfaces that I often enjoy interacting [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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My Slides: Microsoft UX: What Just Happened 05 Feb 2010 I’ve been travelling around Australia in the past few weeks talking about Microsoft UX and essentially “What Just Happened”. I’ve uploaded my slides to slideshare.com (though they don’t animate, booo hiss..) but none the less they are there for those who may have attended [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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DataGrids are the safety blanket for bad design. 04 Feb 2010 I’m constantly in and out of meetings with developers who are making some pretty intense Silverlight based solutions. It’s exciting and irritating at the same time to see them having all the fun in Silverlight and all I do is give advice etc on how to fix X or approach the product from Y [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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Microsoft Innovation. If it falls, does it make a sound? 04 Feb 2010 New York Times has kicked up some serious dust in the Microsoft ethos around whether or not the company does innovate. I often have found myself at a cross-roads of agreeing and/or disagreeing with people like Dick around the term “innovation”. I say this as I pretty much agree with Dick’s [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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Solving Complexity with Message Based Architectures 04 Feb 2010 Ultimately most complexity in software comes not from the requirements, the business logic, or even the underlying systems. Most complexity comes out of a poorly considered and managed architecture, and this is commonly seen in tightly coupled systems that rapidly degrade into Big Balls of Mud. The key [read more]... |
Jak Charlton |
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I am now a Microsoft Virtual Technical Specialist 04 Feb 2010 Today I went and signed a contract with Microsoft here in Western Australia to join the " Virtual Technical Specialist " programme. I've had plenty of questions on what this role actually is…so here goes from what I know already. Effectively as a Virtual Technical Specialist I will be reporting to William [read more]... |
Jeremy Thake Principal Consultant MCT, WSS+MOSS MCTS |
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My WPF 5.0 Wishlist 02 Feb 2010 Here's a list of things I'd like to see in the next version of WPF: Blend's Behaviors and TriggerActions model should be part of the .NET framework, not a custom Blend assembly, and should have VS support I shouldn't have to declare the same half-dozen xmlns:abc entries in every XAML file. An ASPX inspired [read more]... |
Paul Stovell Senior Consultant, Technical Specialist (WPF)
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Expression Blend presentation 02 Feb 2010 I gave a presentation titled “Expression Blend for Dummies Developers” at the Silverlight Codecamp in Melbourne over the weekend. Here is the slide deck from the presentation. Expression Blend for Dummies Developers.pptx I did the presentation using pptPlex, so it looks better if you have that [read more]... |
Mahesh S Krishnan Principal Consultant |
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Handling WCF FaultExceptions with SilverLight 3 01 Feb 2010 Silverlight 3 Introduced the capability of handling WCF fault exceptions. Using FaultContracts is a good way of managing and shielding WCF exceptions, but I also wanted the silverlight client to be able to: Catch generic CLR exceptions and propagate them to the client as a generic fault exceptions. Catch [read more]... |
Nalaka Withanage Senior Developer |
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Adobe the platform company that relies on other platforms. 01 Feb 2010 In my twitter feeds I’ve been reading a lot of mixed opinions on Adobe, and given I often weigh in on all things Adobe, I thought I’d write down a few of my ideas on where I would take Adobe if I were CEO of the day and was talking on stage to the [...] [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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Interview with Mark Coleran. 01 Feb 2010 I just finished watching an Interview Adobe Evangelist Lee Brimelow put together around UI’s for the movie industry. It occurred to me tonight that I did an interview with the great Mark Coleran in Jan 2008 but never published it!. To help carry this insight into Hollywood and the software industry, [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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Revolutionary Incremental UX Going unnoticed. 01 Feb 2010 Friday I was on a flight from Perth to Melbourne and was watching the movie IRONMAN on my iPhone (3hr flight – welcome respite from Qantas’ usual propaganda TV). I love this movie for a number of reasons mostly because every time i see the FUI (Fantasy User Interfaces) it just gets my creative mojo [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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More bad luck 30 Jan 2010 As my attempts to learn Sync Framework continue, I find even more issues along the way, this time with the SQLCE runtime. The basic scenario boils down to attempting to fill a Detail view from a dataset linked to a SQL Compact Edition datasource. When the application is run, an error message to the effect [read more]... |
Scott Baldwin Senior Developer |
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Quest Site Administrator Reports for SharePoint OnDemand - Quick thoughts 28 Jan 2010 I saw a tweet from the Quest guys promoting their new cloud based app called ' Site Administrator Reports for SharePoint | OnDemand '. A bit of a mouthful, but a pretty compelling little tool! Essentially you download an app to your local machine and then it opens up the cloud based app in a browser [read more]... |
Jeremy Thake Principal Consultant MCT, WSS+MOSS MCTS |
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iPad is still missing iPlugin due to Compete wars 27 Jan 2010 I am currently sitting in a hotel in Perth, working on a presentation about Silverlight and at the same time like most people around the world, listening or reading as much information as I can find regarding the new Apple iPad. Firstly, I like the device and it fits my needs well given I travel [.. [read more]... |
Scott Barnes UX Specialist
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TFS 2010 Console Application and the .Net 4.0 Client Profile 27 Jan 2010 One little frustration that has caught me twice now (and so it’s time to blog it so I remember it), is that when you create a Console Application and then start adding references to any of the TFS API libraries to it (such as Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll), if yoiu just accept all the defaults [read more]... |
Scott Baldwin Senior Developer |
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