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2010 6

  1. Goodbye Microsoft
  2. Getting Started with Parallel Programming in .NET 4
  3. WCF, REST and URL Rewriting with Windows Azure!
  4. Build Your Own Pivot Server in Windows Azure!
  5. New Gig!
  6. Australia, here I come… again!?

2009 23

  1. Expression Blend 3 and SketchFlow! Wow!
  2. Remote Command Service for Windows Azure!
  3. My PDC09 Session – Code and Clip!
  4. Guy Shahine from the Windows Azure Dev Team!
  5. Windows Azure, MSBuild, and Lotsa Files!
  6. Documentation Driven Development!
  7. What’s Your Cloud Address?
  8. Cloud Apprenticeship!
  9. Windows Azure and Live ID Auth!
  10. Tracing Windows Azure Apps to Storage
  11. WPC09 – My Windows Azure Session
  12. Looking Inside Windows Azure!
  13. Process Improvement Starts with a Blank Page!
  14. Build the right feature, build the feature right!
  15. What is Software + Services?
  16. Design for Failure, Growth and Distribution!
  17. Windows Azure: March 2009 CTP!!!
  18. Courtoons! See, Lawyers Are Worthwhile!
  19. Windows Azure: Settings Are Settings Are Settings..? Maybe Not!
  20. Windows Azure - Accessing the Request.Url Property!
  21. Windows Azure SDK on Windows 7 Beta!
  22. Windows Azure - Sending SMTP Emails!
  23. Windows Azure and Web Services!

2008 57

  1. Cya 2008
  2. Windows Azure Logs!
  3. Windows Azure Storage - Queues [0]!
  4. Windows Azure - Final Updates to PhotoStore App!
  5. Getting To My Sample Code!
  6. Windows Azure Storage - More Blobs!
  7. Windows Azure Storage - Exploring Blobs!
  8. Windows Azure - What Happens in the Data Center?
  9. I'm Going To Be In Oz!
  10. I've Changed Teams... And Jobs!
  11. For All You Godfather Fans!
  12. Developer Starter Guide for Windows Azure
  13. My First NFL Game!
  14. Windows Azure (a.k.a Red Dog) Explained!
  15. Now That's What I Call A Data Center!
  16. Day Job KPI Dashboard!
  17. The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds Talk
  18. Building A VE Mashup in Windows Azure!
  19. Azure SDK Samples and Run Elevated!
  20. Azure Services First Steps Guide!
  21. I Found An Old, Old, Outlook Form in my new Outlook!
  22. Is Azure Driving You Nuts!?…
  23. PDC 2008 Sessions Now Available on C9!
  24. How Can I Get A Azure Services Platform Token?
  25. Azure Services Training Kit!
  26. Day 1 PDC – Waiting to Exhale!
  27. PDC2008 – Day Minus 1
  28. Developer Ergonomics!
  29. What’s Ray Gonna Say!?
  30. Are You Thinking Way Outside The Box??
  31. Hee Hee… No End of The World… Yet!
  32. 49 Sleeps to PDC!
  33. VS2008 SP1 and .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 Available!
  34. My BizTalk Services Demo Code!
  35. I’ve Officially “Arrived”!
  36. Why Motivations Matter in The Cloud!
  37. World Wide Partner Conference… Load The Truck!
  38. Office Loafers!
  39. Is The Cloud Just A Big Server?
  40. I Got A New Job!
  41. The Truth About Chuck Norris!
  42. Check This Out from the CRM Resource Center!
  43. Eee'k! It's Asus' Little Fella!
  44. Dynamics CRM 4 Datasheets!
  45. Dynamics CRM 4 BDM Decks! Hot!
  46. CRM 4 DevJam in Oz!
  47. The Emperors New Clothes! Community CRM 4 DevJam!
  48. Windows Automotive!
  49. Dave's Laws: Email/Inbox Management
  50. CRM 4 Partner Readiness! Don't Say I Never Give You Nothing!
  51. 500 Posts! Wow!
  52. Want A CRM 4 Sandbox? Speak Now!
  53. Mo' CRM 4 Goodies! Will It Ever Stop?
  54. Who's Succession Plan Do You Want To Be On?
  55. Shanemo and Davemo's Poster Extravaganzataboulostified Offer!
  56. CRM and Web 2.0
  57. New CRM 4 Content! Good Stuff!

2007 53

  1. JC Penney Catalog! Circa 1977! What A Great Year!
  2. Dynamics Developer Sessions - All 3 Screencasts last....!
  3. Dynamics Developer Sessions - All 3 Screencasts cont...!
  4. Dynamics Developer Sessions - All 3 Screencasts!
  5. There Are Two Things In This World I Won't Break!
  6. Dynamics Developer Session #1 - Screencast Part 1
  7. MOSSIG Podcast on Platforms! Unreal!
  8. Dynamics != Just CRM
  9. Communitize – Doing business with ourselves!
  10. Dynamics CRM 4.0 (formerly Titan) Partner Readiness Event in Oz!!!
  11. Windows Live SDK - Forms and ASP.NET Usage!
  12. I've Moved Blogs...
  13. Who's That Driving, Patrick Swayze! Ghost Ride It Baby!
  14. Expression Session - 21062007
  15. Yo Soy He-Man!
  16. ASP.NET AJAX for the... AJAX'y Challenged!
  17. Designers... Give me the good oil!
  18. BizTalk Labs - Why an Internet Service Bus?
  19. Calling All Experts!!!
  20. 1500 Conversations At Once!!! Tech.Ed 2007 in Oz!
  21. Do Not Call...Telemarketers Beware!
  22. W00t! BizTalk Services... in The Cloud!
  23. Feeling Vulnerable?
  24. Custom Web Development Jumpstart...What's This??
  25. Feed your inner Ghost!
  26. The Dollar Cloud! My Interpretation of Things to Come!
  27. Dear Dynamics Gods... I have idee!
  28. Small Steps in a +ve Direction for my SocNet!
  29. Ohhh Sweet! Guitar Hero II for XBox 360!
  30. Windows Cloud! What Would It Look Like!?
  31. Want To Work In Redmond!?
  32. Convergence Day #1ish...
  33. Are You Prodding The Meatloaf? Or Hunting The Buffalo?
  34. Silicon Valley!!! Whoaaa!!!
  35. BeatBox Mixer...Oh Yeah!!
  36. Oh Shiny Palm Treo 750
  37. I'm Getting Short Changed!
  38. What About Mashing Up Communities!!?
  39. Resizing Virtual Hard Disks...Suh'mo!
  40. Spend more time doing nothing!
  41. New Masheen!
  42. My Name is David... And I Have A Problem!
  43. Dirty Hands Make Happy Faces!
  44. RuBot II!!! Rubik's Cube Solving Robot!
  45. Satisfy the Hood In You!
  46. ISV Innovation Days! Come Git!
  47. I have my XBOX 360!!!
  48. XBOX 360 Update! They have my vouchers!
  49. Convergence Flair!
  50. Code the Fun Bits! Leave The Rest To Us!
  51. 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me!
  52. Web Page to RSS Feed! Easy as Feed43!
  53. What's A Dynamics ISV? So Glad You Asked!

2006 146

  1. Weighty Tomes!
  2. Mashups Are More Than Just Geek Love Children!
  3. WebAPI is the new RSS!
  4. Experience Layers/Systems and the Unified OS
  5. Awesome Video on Stanford's Robotic Car!
  6. Go Elf Yourself!
  7. Urghh!! It's not Web 2.0! It's Marketing List Nxt!
  8. Social Spasms
  9. How To Play the Business Service Integration Game!
  10. SaaS Special Interest Group in Sydney, Australia
  11. Business Process as a Service! Meta-layers and Designers!
  12. The IP Moneycycle for SI's!
  13. Vista! DPE Stahyle!
  14. Snowbot! Walk Away From The Scissors!
  15. I'm Only Middle-Class! Bloglebrity That is!
  16. Corbis...Cool Royalty-Free Pix!
  17. SP5, Windows Movie Maker and SoapBox! My 1st Trials Mobie!
  18. Eric's CounterPunch!
  19. Chem'zilla! I Don't Have The Flu!!
  20. MrDotBoto [Day 17.10.2006] - When you get the power! Then you get the Bots!
  21. Does this Podcast Make Me Sound Fat?
  22. DailyDevelopers...1 Week Old!
  23. Tiny Dancer!!!
  24. Franky and the 'Fro!
  25. Daily Developers is getting Screwed...!
  26. Brad's Bloggin'! And not being stingy too ;)
  27. Commercialunity! Gotta Keep them Separated!
  28. Frank Records A Blog! What tha?
  29. Debugging your Consultants!
  30. Office Development Lifecycle!
  31. The SaaS Bus! Get on Board! Stopping All Cash Pots!
  32. Better Code through Chunking!
  33. OzTFS.com! Go Grant!
  34. Want to be a Tech Star? Don't Try So Hard!
  35. More Marketing Pixtabation!
  36. SteveG and PC Based Recording!
  37. MOSSIG Looking Schweet!
  38. Daily Developers...Coming Soon!
  39. MrDotBoto! We have a heart!
  40. VIA Mini-ITX, a Paper Clip and 12V Power! We're At First Base!
  41. R.I.P Steve! You'll Be Missed Big Fella'!
  42. The Ever Complex Kurt!
  43. TechEd Dev’Shuttles
  44. Blog Heartbeat
  45. TechEd Conversations: BizTalk and TFS Builds!
  46. What is it about Haiku?
  47. Get Your Dev'Garten T-shirt at TechEd!
  48. Social Networking and Change through Negative Hype
  49. Daily Developer Events
  50. Dev'Garten on the way to TechEd!
  51. TechEd Attire...me no think so!
  52. Announcing the Daily Developer Movement!
  53. Could TechEd Be Bigger and Better!?
  54. Get Skooled 2006'ya!
  55. Identity vs. Feature Value!
  56. It's beginning to look a lot like TechEd...!
  57. Internal Technical Communities! I[Tee][Cees]!
  58. Frank does his best "Nortie"!
  59. Oh Stewie...you'll be the death of me!
  60. Team Foundation Server and Impact Modelling!
  61. What's your "dream" business card?
  62. Meego, Yougo!
  63. Team Foundation Server...it's more platform than product!
  64. OMG! Bill you're like animal!
  65. Enough of So!!!
  66. Get some Torque, on your fork!
  67. Hi Breeze, the is the fish...!
  68. More MeeGo! I can't stop myself!
  69. My Ears Are Burning! As Are My Pants!
  70. Sisters Are Doing IT for Themselves!
  71. Dev'Garten Phase 2!
  72. Letter to the Internet...Can you build me something?
  73. Web Dev and Royalty-Free Images!
  74. Bank Fraud Quality Slipping! What would Idris Yahaya Esq. say!?
  75. My idea for my mini-ITX board!
  76. Royal Elastics Make Nice Shoes!
  77. Traditional Media's Fine Whine about Blogging!
  78. Could It Be? Big Brother Axed?
  79. I Second That Emotion!
  80. IT Screen Goddesses Calendar! Okaaay!?
  81. Cool vintage advertising assets!
  82. Blogstipation and Therapy!
  83. DIY Consulting Practice!
  84. Military Tactics for Software Development!
  85. Blinq and you'll miss it!
  86. Big Brother is dying! It's the effect of producing "Reality TV"!
  87. Who writes the "computer" lines in movies!?
  88. It's Sleet Geek 2006 at Perisher! Career development to your boss, boondoggle for everyone else!
  89. Tech.Ed 2006 Australia Site! I know famous people!
  90. SQL Server Express with Advanced Services! Rock your Kasbah!
  91. Scrimmage Outcomes - Session 1!
  92. How to fix the comment spam problem!
  93. Why you should get a degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering!
  94. Tim's Top 5 of SharePoint 2007 Business Wants!
  95. BizTalk for Developers Session tomorrow!
  96. Commercial versus Open Source Software! Cheese and Chives!
  97. Pedals and Pizza! The devils goad!
  98. .NET Multi-threading Developer Clinic in Melbourne!
  99. The What, When, How Long and Who I do stuff with!
  100. Blanket.NET and Spongy Interfaces!
  101. l33t sP33k Franky!! iT 41n't s0 7rIckY!!
  102. Towelie is working at Microsoft!
  103. Clarry Sighted!
  104. Performance Teams!
  105. Shameless Gloating: My Out of Office note for Friday the 31st of March!
  106. Mindstorms NXT!
  107. ZooTycoon 2! Fun play or hard work!
  108. VS Team Suite or VS Pro + N[etc.]?
  109. Dave Glover and Atlas! Who will win!?
  110. SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Workshops!
  111. Visual Express Contest! Win 10 gorillas!
  112. BizTalk Server 2006 Setup Cabs!
  113. BATter up! Smart Clients play ball!
  114. DLINQ Travels!
  115. Deal or No Deal...you're about to be Davie'fied!
  116. Hammer Time!
  117. Shiny LCD...noice!!
  118. Imperative RSS and .NET!
  119. You gotta be joking me! Who picked this Xbox game name!?
  120. It's alive! Team Foundation Server in the cloud!
  121. Code Camp Oz 2006...It's going to be BIG!
  122. Melbourne VSTS User Group Meeting!
  123. ASP.NET Radiation Training...Get Exposed!
  124. Lost in ISA Server 2004 Translations!
  125. Visual Studio Guy...I'm your father!
  126. Dev'Garten, Bensley and the CITC Gremlins!
  127. Hallelujah! Dev'Garten is home and hosed!
  128. Only in Japan!
  129. Tim and I are at it again! Windows Workflow @ the CITC!
  130. Comments are back!
  131. Women and Depression Conference!
  132. Blog DNS and Comment Spam!
  133. The Colonel, The BlogFather and Canolis!
  134. Nigel pedals a VSTS Team Suite upgrade!
  135. Patterns and Practices Summit!
  136. Code Camp and Blog Dung!
  137. Brian K on XNA!
  138. Security Interchange!
  139. Dev'garten Launch in Melbourne!
  140. What's better than being an MVP?..Part II!
  141. Tim and I work on our flow!
  142. What's better than being an MVP?.. An MVP Nominator!
  143. My heritage is looking pretty sketchy!
  144. Treat your mother right!
  145. Dev'garten and Hosted Team Foundation Server!
  146. Something to Drools over!

2005 183

  1. Put a Spring in your step!
  2. Dev'garten is slowly growing!
  3. Want to play in my Dev'garten ya?
  4. Partial Classes, SQO and Casa Del Sterling!
  5. Me and DLINQ on Kleefy TV!!
  6. SQL Server 2005 and Database Diagrams!
  7. Telstra starts podcasting!
  8. Sydney Launch, Bare Foot Man and Bling Pop!
  9. Joel P in the place to be!
  10. The sponsor ship sets sail!
  11. 2 down, 5 to go! Make sure you're Commmunity Launch Party goes off!
  12. Oh and the bits floweth! WinFX November CTP supports VS2005 RTM!
  13. Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 SP2 and .NET 2.0!
  14. Adelaide, Clarry and DLinq!
  15. Whoo Whoo!! First Stop...Adelaide!
  16. Orange County Chopper rides on Microsoft! Yeah!
  17. The devil is in the detail...and the kernel too!
  18. VSTS and UML...Oz Style!
  19. Rock city! Oi! Oi!
  20. MSF...I'm your father!
  21. Get Ready to Party!!!
  22. OK, I'm somewhere between Wyatt Earp an Merve Hughes!
  23. Yes Build Master!
  24. VSTS Song! Great!!!!
  25. My Inner Child is Suprised!
  26. Go Paperless! Go Telstra!
  27. The Hoff and my helmet!
  28. I hope I'm not speaking out of turn here! Victorian .NET Architects UG is alive!
  29. SharePoint RSS! I have an idee!
  30. OOP...remember to break it out!
  31. They don't call us Evangelists for nothing!
  32. Where's the paddle?
  33. Free Books to download!
  34. It's like trying to solve world peace!
  35. Eldora's first steps...kinda!
  36. The storm cometh!
  37. Perth or bust...again!
  38. Calling all User Groups in Australia!!!!
  39. MVP's Please! VSTS and BTS!
  40. Davo G in the city! SQL Server 2005 looking pretty!
  41. 101 Samples Rock the Waa Waa!
  42. The CTPs never sleep!
  43. Feeds Rob!? Don't you code!?
  44. Visual Studio Team Foundation B3 Setup Issue #2: TFSService account!
  45. My new wheels :)
  46. Visual Studio Team Foundation B3 Setup Issue #1: TfsSetup account!
  47. Reminder! Visual Studio Team System User Group meeting in Melbourne, Australia!
  48. Chewy!!! You're the new Hansel!
  49. Hallelujah! Team Foundation Server Beta 3 is here!
  50. LOL, Cam, Frank, Dave...Picto'carousel!
  51. Continuous Integration Demo Code [Repost from https://blogs.msdn.com/buckh]
  52. Clarry is at it again!
  53. Perth SQL Server and Me?
  54. Visual Studio, SQL Server and BizTalk Launch fun and games!
  55. This is cool. See where planes are?
  56. You wanna get HARD with Kleefy!!?
  57. I have idee! A.k.a: Money Maker #1
  58. Visual Studio 2005 RC and TFS Beta 3!
  59. Yes Master!
  60. Visual Studio Team Suite RC on MSDN!?
  61. The missing LINQ! C# 3. ohh!
  62. Like some new bits...PDC ones that is!
  63. I'm burning! And it's all Chucks fault!
  64. My CSS Stayleee!
  65. Way out west!
  66. Ole' Skool! The way it 'twas!
  67. Community belongs to you! Not me!
  68. Dystopia Demo is now available for download!
  69. Whoops! I really need to RTFM!
  70. WinPF Demo: 8th of September, 2005
  71. The lady is a BUG!
  72. Roll your own RSS Reader...WinPF style!
  73. Demo text...Lorem Ipsum!
  74. Tech.Ed Presentation is now up on Crunk Code!
  75. Billy Jay Bob and Half-Life 2
  76. Want to code games? Visual C++ 2005 is the way to go!
  77. Wazza
  78. Clarry! Is now officially the face of development!
  79. SharePoint Web Services, NetworkCredentials, Sore Eyes!
  80. Visual XPath...top tool!
  81. First meeting of Melbourne VSTS User Group! Come git!
  82. Bitman's Place! This is very cool!
  83. Tech.Ed Singapore...I work here la!
  84. Just like paradise!
  85. More programming awe from the Man Child developer!
  86. Frank, I won't be coming into work tomorrow, Uncle Willy made me rich!
  87. Franky's Shirt versus My Cummerbund! You decide!
  88. Check out Bill Hilf!
  89. My new Tech.Ed style!
  90. Dr. Watson will be cracking open the Enterprise Library
  91. Gotta love context!
  92. Guess who was at TechReady too?
  93. Awesome! Joe announces the Melbourne Visual Studio Team System User Group!
  94. Anyone looking to do a Visual C++ PoC...I can suggest the Half-life 2 Engine!?
  95. PDC...is the cat out of the bag?
  96. VSLive! It good!
  97. Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) and BizTalk 2006 (Pathfinder)...oh, and Gary and Bub too!
  98. Devmo
  99. BizTalk 2006 Beta
  100. TechReady 1 - 2005: Day 3 - Clarry, TechReady Hunter!
  101. TechReady 1 - 2005: Day 2 Sessions Update - Anders blew my mind!
  102. TechReady 1 - 2005: Day 2...Update #1
  103. TechReady 1 - 2005: Day 1 Sessions Update
  104. TechReady 1 - 2005: Day 1...Update #1
  105. Feature #2334...you services are no longer required!
  106. My first comic strip...talent only a mother could love!
  107. Redmond.2005: Day #2
  108. It's not only a Smart Client...it's purdy too!
  109. Send Jeff a postcard, and he'll send you a Channel 9 Guy!
  110. Ooooh, Acrylic! It feel so nice ya!?
  111. Redmond.2005: Day #1
  112. Come git! Visual Studio 2005 Pricing for Oz!
  113. Catching Daz's Project Distributor
  114. Maybe one day I can be Governor!
  115. Build some VSTS muscle!
  116. Joey and the Doctor! What is the VSTSEclipse project?
  117. Introducing Macktastic Lemphers Shmoove
  118. And the winners were...!
  119. Work experience goes both ways!
  120. Frank, I wrote this really cool software...honest!
  121. I bet The Boss never ate in the dark!
  122. Low rider drives a little slower!
  123. Oh joy! I'm off to Tech'Ed!
  124. June CTP versus Beta 2...Rick, it's Dave here!
  125. What would Visual Studio Team System Blogging look like?
  126. InfoPath .NET Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005
  127. Help get the Finalizer to Tech.Ed '05 Oz!!
  128. ARC up!!
  129. Do it to me one more time..!
  130. And the winner is...CV's Aunty!!?
  131. From n00bie to gzus in a few short strokes!
  132. David, this is Big Brother, get the hell off my Wi-Fi!
  133. Da na na da na na, AzMan!
  134. Don't be fooled by the blocks that I got!
  135. Due to popular demand...I've re-blinged my blog!
  136. Demo of Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2
  137. First it was the van, now it's the bus!
  138. And the van keeps on rolling!
  139. Dropping in from outer space!
  140. Firewalls do little against hackers who come through the front door!
  141. Hosted Labs! Now that's what I call service!
  142. VS2005 Team Build installation problems!
  143. Why do you have to go and make things so complicated?
  144. XBOX2! MTV! OMG!
  145. Get the snip!
  146. 63 more reasons to switch to Cobol.NET
  147. Office Smart Client Development site
  148. Cobol.NET!!!! Woot!
  149. I got a little something for you's!
  150. Go VSTSEclipse!
  151. Let's get Visual, Visual, I want to get Visual!
  152. SDM the way you like it!
  153. Bhuji Nights!
  154. I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it!
  155. Anon?? What the?
  156. A Lil' IIS Ditty
  157. Get well soon Franky!
  158. I want to build it, so they will come!
  159. Quick Pointers to VSTS Webcasts
  160. We got a live one here!
  161. Congratulations Wai Kee!
  162. VSTS Pricing, I hope it was worth it
  163. OMG! Will you look at this blog, it's like, soo ugly!
  164. Eclipse Plug-In Update
  165. [*Sob* *Sob*] OK Frank, I confess!
  166. Code to make your toes curl.
  167. Dot Net Languages
  168. Wasted mid-life.
  169. Happy Easter and Things
  170. Kiss my ASP!
  171. Dynomite! It's VSTS, and it look guuud!
  172. Can't we all be friends?
  173. Ain't no blog as dope as mine, it's just so fresh, so clean...
  174. The Think Tank!
  175. Happy St. Patrick's Day
  176. Total eclipse of the heart
  177. Great How-To Site
  178. Mo' Templates
  179. MC Hammer Bloggin'!
  180. How often do you get a second shot?
  181. Feed me!
  182. Visual Studio 2005 February CTP
  183. Don't be stingy, get blogging!