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Forza Motorsport 2
In case you have an XBox 360 and dont know whats coming with Forza 2... check this out.I like car racing, but this is a little over the top for my budget :-)
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Switching RSS Feeds - please follow me :-)
If you subscribe directly to my RSS feed either here or at www.burling.co.nz, please redirect your feed reader to http://feeds.feedburner.com/darrylburling. If you've been using my aggregated feed...
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Working at Microsoft and meetings
A few weeks ago I came to the realization that at Microsoft we have relatively few meetings. I know - it is probably something I should have picked up ages ago, but its not until you are insanely busy...
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Things I love about the new Live Writer
I really like live writer. I love online/offline applications that have both a software and an online component - I get the best of the experience with the best of the reach. Anyway, I've already...
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Dead hard drive, dead power supply
I've had a tough time over the last week or so. Last Monday my Hard Drive in my new HP laptop died, taking all its data with it. Fortunately, unlike some, I have been using foldershare (which has been...
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Random Stats
I was looking at my stats today from my blog and found some interesting things. Note that these are only the last 500 visitors - so this is not necessarily a dead accurate representation of the...
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Changes in DPE (and a new blog to follow)
As you may know Sean has moved on to Redmond which means we have a new manager here in DPE New Zealand.Scott Wylie is now the Director of the Developer and Platform Strategy team here in New Zealand....
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A peek inside the OSS Labs at Microsoft
There is a bunch of photos on Port25 taken inside the OSS labs at Microsoft. This is an interesting look at whats going on behind the scenes. It is reasonably well known that we have a OSS lab, but...
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Blog moved to burling.co.nz
When I first started at Microsoft I had my own blog on my own site. However, after a few months I started blogging here anyway and removed the blog from my own site.Recently I've dusted off the old...
View ArticleCongratulations new MVP’s
Each quarter we award those who work hardest in the technical community with an award we call the Most Valuable Professional. These awards are given for the contributions made to the technical...
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Launch – Building Connected Systems
As promised, I’ve uploaded the slides and code from my Connected Systems talk from the Launch events up to my skydrive, so if you are interested, you can grab them. The sample code includes the code...
View ArticleIntroducing the Christchurch Embedded .NET User Group (EDNUG)
Chris has blogged the details of the newest user group in New Zealand – in Christchurch – focused on Embedded development. The first meeting is next week – details here I have recently became involved...
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Tech Ed and MSDN Unplugged update
Sometimes it feels like we just live from one event to the next. So while we’ve now got the launch events out of the way, there is more coming – and we need your help to make them the best events they...
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Unplugged sessions – next week.
This month I’ll be out and about a little doing a talk in a few locations on mixing up the web: Title: Mixing up the web using HTTP, REST, WCF, PHP and IIS7 Abstract: HTTP programming is about more...
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Tech Ed – registration and speakers
If you have been hanging out waiting for Tech Ed registration to open, well, the wait is over! Yesterday we opened registration for Tech Ed 2008. This year Tech Ed is September 1-3. The other bit of...
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Tech Ed New Zealand Tickets – 25% gone
Ummmm, yeah.if you were planning on heading to Tech Ed this year to hear the likes of Scott Hanselman speak, I would be considering signing up real soon. The early bird tickets are already half sold,...
View ArticleMSDN Flash: Tech Ed – we have a problem…
I was going to open this editorial in celebration of the fact that registration for Tech Ed is now open and encourage you to register today. And – I strongly encourage you to register today. Not...
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How to buy Visual Studio in New Zealand
We often get asked "how can I buy Visual Studio and MSDN?". And since last time we posted on this was back in 2005 I thought we should update this guidance. If you look at the bottom of the MSDN NZ...
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When I first started at Microsoft I had my own blog on my own site. However, after a few months I started blogging here anyway and removed the blog from my own site. Recently I’ve dusted off the old...
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