Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, tagged Azure, Office 14, PDC, Visual Studio, Windows 7 on January 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
February 2009 MSDN UNPLUGGED Dunedin – Take your Applications to the Cloud and Beyond – PDC, Visual Studio, Azure, Office 14 and Windows 7
Time: Wednesday, 18 February 2009 4:00 p.m – 5:30 p.m.
Welcome Time: 3:45 p.m.
Scenic Circle Southern Cross Hotel
Speight Room
Cnr Princes and High Streets
Dunedin
Click on the Google Maps / Street View for more details on directions.
Click here for more details / register.
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software on September 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Designed to address the latest needs of developers, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework deliver key innovations in the following pillars:
- Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) crosses many roles within an organization and traditionally not every one of the roles has been an equal player in the process. Visual Studio Team System 2010 continues to build the platform for functional equality and shared commitment across an organization’s ALM process.- Enabling emerging trends
Every year the industry develops new technologies and new trends. With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft delivers tooling and framework support for the latest innovations in application architecture, development and deployment.- <Click here to read more>
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software on September 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Imagine Cup is a competition held by Microsoft every year to encourage the students all around the world to use technologies to solve real world problems. The competition have a different theme every year, and this year, the theme is:
Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today. (more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft on September 11, 2008| Leave a Comment »
In September and October, Nigel Parker will present MSDN UNPLUGGED sessions created specifically for web focused developers to “get ready” for what is coming next. Nigel will discuss readiness and enhancements with Internet Explorer 8. Nigel will introduce Silverlight 2 and WPF 3.5 for developers focused on service enabled rich client development and then lead into a discussion on cloud based services including WCF, REST and JSON. (more…)
Posted in Computer Tutorials, IT, Microsoft, Software on August 24, 2008| 23 Comments »
Last Friday I went to a friend’s place to take a look of their computer because they think it have viruses on it. Their computer wasn’t as bad as I thought……but then again the computer was quite fast; so having a few viruses / Trojans running at the background probably won’t make much difference 😉 I ran a few virus / Trojan scanners on the computer and found a handful of spywares plus a Trojan! (more…)
Posted in Computer Tutorials, IT, ITS @ Otago, Microsoft, Software, University of Otago on July 5, 2008| 8 Comments »
The ability for web browsers to automatically detect proxy settings is really useful when you have to switch between multiple networks all the time. With Internet Explorer, proxy settings are being detected in both XP and Vista, but things aren’t going so well with Firefox! If you are using Vista and Firefox happens to be your default browser, you have to manually configure the proxy settings for it to work on our student network…which is NOT convenient at all! (more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, thoughts, tagged Imagine Cup 2008, Microsoft New Zealand on April 20, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I still remember the times we had in Auckland last year when we competed for the Microsoft Imagine Cup NZ Final…although its nearly one year on…but to me, it feel like everything just happened yesterday 🙂 (more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft, University of Otago on March 6, 2008| Leave a Comment »
DEV JAM is Microsoft‘s yearly orientation event that starts on the 4th
of March. The Microsoft Academic Team Paul, Ryan and Tarryn will be
visiting the Otago Campus on the 13th this month. This year the event
is focused on showcasing some of the new technologies including
gaming, user experience and streaming videos. There will also be a
chill out session involving XBOX consoles and the new SCENE IT Game!
To find out more info on the DEV JAM Demo’s please go to:
http://blogs.msdn.com/nzstudents/pages/dev-jam-orientation-2008-find-…
Date: Thursday, 13th of March
Where: Commerce Building 2.07
Time: Session 1 starts @ 12pm, Session 2 starts @ 2pm.
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, tagged Internet Explorer 8 Beta1, Microsoft on March 6, 2008| 2 Comments »
I’ve downloaded and installed the Internet Explorer 8 Beta1 (IE8 Beta1) this afternoon…the interface looks very similar to IE7 (of course), with a few enhancements (E.g. the Zoom feature)… (more…)
Posted in dot net, IT, Microsoft, Software, tagged Microsoft, Visual Studio 2008 on January 22, 2008| 2 Comments »
Q. Say you have a Solution in Visual Studio with a few Projects…and you’ve finished debugging with the first one…how do you move on and debug your next Project? (more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, University of Otago, tagged 2008 Summer Road Trip, Dunedin, Microsoft on January 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Summer is here! And with it is coming new technology from Microsoft that will affect how we design and build infrastructure and applications.Come and join Chris Auld (Microsoft Regional Director) and Jeremy Boyd (Microsoft Regional Director) along with local, Beric Holt, as they set up a solution entirely on Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and host an application built in Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 over a two hour period. (more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Office 2007, Software, thoughts, tagged Microsoft, Office, Office 2007 SP1 on December 11, 2007| 8 Comments »
Looks like Microsoft is giving us “an early present” by releasing the SP1 for Office 2007 before XMAS 😀 The first service pack for Office 2007 is suppose to be out on the 11th of December…but the link doesn’t seem to be working tonight 😦
Check out this link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
At the time of this writing, the link “Download and install Service Pack 1 for Office 2007” won’t lead you to the right place, all you will get is: “We’re sorry, the page you requested could not be found“. Looks like Santa forgot to put the present on the web page 😉
Hopefully when I wake up tomorrow morning (12th of Dec), the link will be working 🙂
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You can also checkout: Visio 2007 Service Pack 1 and Project 2007 Service Pack 1
But the end result is the same (page not found) at the moment 😦
Posted in IT, Microsoft, tagged dot net, Dunedin, Ivan Towlson, Microsoft, NZ .net user group, WPF on November 14, 2007| Leave a Comment »
http://dot.net.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=1&mid=388&ctl=Detail&xmid=1767&xmfid=2
Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Dunedin 28/11/2007
Gather at 5:30pm, starting at 6:00pm (finishing 7:30pm)
Catering: Pizza and drinks will be served prior to the presentation commencing.
Door Charge: FREE
Venue: Centre for Innovation, University of Otago (downstairs seminar room), 87 St David Street
(more…)
Posted in IT, Microsoft, thoughts, tagged Boot Camp, Christchurch, Code Camp Boot Camp, Microsoft, NZ Dot Net User Group on October 25, 2007| 1 Comment »
I have to say this is the first time I’ve ever done any planning for my trips 😉 I’ve always thought it will take a long time to plan for a trip, and its impossible to do it within a day or two, but this time I’ve proven that planning could be a lot easier with the help of technologies like the online maps and of course, emails and websites 😀
Posted in IT, Microsoft, tagged Boot Camp, Christchurch, Code Camp Boot Camp, Microsoft, NZ Dot Net User Group on October 24, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Chaks and I will be going down to Christchurch on 2nd of Nov to take part in the NZ Dot Net User Group‘s Boot Camp. One of the best thing about this Boot Camp is that a lot of people from the industry and even Microsoft are coming to give us a presentation on the latest Microsoft Technologies…and best of all, the event itself is FREE!
Posted in Apple, Computer Tutorials, IT, Microsoft, Software, tagged Launchy, Quicksilver. on October 15, 2007| 4 Comments »
Quicksilver is one of my favorite apps on the Mac platform, but what about Windows? Is there anything we could use on Windows that acts more or less the same as Quicksilver on the Macs? Well, it turns out that there are quite a few! I personally prefer Launchy, which is an open source keystroke launcher for Windows 🙂
Posted in Computer Tutorials, IT, Microsoft, tagged 120 days trial, Reduced Functionality Mode, RFM, slmgr -rearm., Vista on October 10, 2007| Leave a Comment »
If your friends are still not sure whether they should get Vista or not, then you can tell them to use Vista as a trial and experience this great OS themselves. But the initial trial period is only 30 days, and for some, that’s not enough, so what can we do? Reinstall every 30 days until we’ve decided to get it? That’s probably not the best option unless you’ve got lots to spare time to kill. Here is a simple tutorial to show you how to extend Vista’s trial period to 120 days, which is probably more than enough for most of us 😉
Posted in IT, Microsoft, Software, Study, University of Otago on September 24, 2007| Leave a Comment »
A lap around Visual Studio 2008
Dunedin 11/10/2007
Gather at 5:30pm, starting at 6:00pm (finishing 7:30pm)
Presented by Darryl Burling | Developer & Platform Strategy Group |
Microsoft New Zealand Ltd
Explore all the new Visual Studio 2008 features, from language
enhancements; improved designers; Web and smart-client development
tools; to Visual Studio Team System, a suite of software lifecycle
management tools poised to transform how you deliver software for
Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web.
Catering: Pizza and drinks will be served prior to the presentation commencing.
Door Charge: Free
Venue: Centre for Innovation, University of Otago (downstairs seminar room)
87 St David Street www.otago.ac.nz/about/campuses.html
Register: http://www.dot.net.nz/Default.aspx?tabid=34
(For catering purposes, please register if you are planning to come)
NZ Dot User Group: http://www.dot.net.nz/
Posted in IT, Microsoft, thoughts, University of Otago on September 21, 2007| 2 Comments »
The Dunedin Microsoft Student Day was held in room 2.20 in commerce building on Tuesday…and it was a huge success! The turn out rate was quite good; more than 50 people have turned up for the event…which is not bad consider this is the first time we have this in Dunedin.
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