Tatham Oddie

Some photos from last night are up on my Flickr photostream.

With maleorderonly.com now ticking over in San Fran, and Tech.Ed ’06 done and dusted, it felt like time for a decent break.

After a 6 hour drive under splendid blue skies, in the 1970 MG Midget (4 cylinder, 2 seater sportscar) with the top down, to the sound of everything from Oasis to the New Radicals, Tom and I arrived in Macksville. Along with Toby and Fran, we’ve subsequently cooked up an Asian storm, polished off a bottle of Pinot Noir, baked and eaten a Flour-less Middle Eastern Orange Cake, and finally polished off a bottle of port that I still had hanging arround since Code Camp in April. I’m now blogging from bed to the sound of waking birds.

Geez it’s a tough life here in Australia…

If you want something done, I suggest you email me and wait. Ok ok … I’m going to open my email and do some work now.

Paul Glavich and I will be delivering our talk later this after noon … just pushing up the resources now.

Blogs

• Paul Glav: http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich
• Nikhil Kothari: http://www.nikhilk.net
• Garbin: http://aspadvice.com/blogs/garbin
• Wilco Bauwer: http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/Atlas.aspx
• Bertrand Leroy: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy
• Shawn Burke (Atlas Control Toolkit lead): http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke
• Scott Guthrie: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu

The web service we used

• http://usergroups.it/WebServices/UsergroupData.asmx

Community Site

• http://atlas.asp.net

I’m going to try and deploy a live copy of the demo to http://usergroups.it/ later today, and will also post a set of the code resources at the same time.

Update: The application is now live and useable on http://usergroups.it/

Update: The code resources are now available at http://tatham.oddie.com.au/explicate/Resources/Tec…

Testing out the cool Virtual Earth integration in Windows Live Writer.

The big day has arrived (finally!).

(PS: Writing this post from Windows Live Writer … hope it works better than Word 2007 B2)

I received an email from Bernard Oh the other night asking for some bloggin’ love to cover the new Student Day page on the TechEd 2006 website: http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched/student.

And it’s going to be is going to be an awesome day! Student Day is our opportunity to show the larger students community what we got!

There are going to be sessions by Michael Page, MS Recruitment, Microsoft Digital Lifestyle (Media Centre and XBOX 360), Windows Vista and Office demos and also Microsoft Expression (our interactive and creative suite, not to be confused with VS Express).

It’s going to be awesome with a great mix of content for all IT interests. Oh yeah! Definitely not, your typical Microsoft programming fest 101. Not to mention top notch prizes like an Intel-based laptop, XBOX 360, Smartphone etc to be won.

Just making a note of this awesome page: http://aspadvice.com/blogs/garbin/archive/2006/03/05/15591.aspx