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Some exploration in technology options that enabe teams to build solutions, but focus on the individual

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2017 1

  1. being introduced to Progressive Web Apps

2016 2

  1. Can you develop Grit, or do you just have it?
  2. When you are the big, do you help the small?

2014 3

  1. Working out the best Azure DC (region) from your location, even Australia
  2. Azure Enterprise Agreement Usage - Visual Tools
  3. Azure in Action Reboot

2013 23

  1. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter - 18th November 2013
  2. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter– 11th November 2013
  3. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 3rd November 2013
  4. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th October 2013
  5. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter - 20th October 2013
  6. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 23rd September 2013
  7. Getting Started with Windows Azure – some up to date DIY links
  8. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th September 2013
  9. Windows Azure @ TechEd Australia 2013
  10. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 8th July 2013
  11. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 1st July 2013
  12. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 23rd June 2013
  13. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 14th June 2013
  14. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 29th May 2013
  15. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 15th May 2013
  16. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 8th May 2013
  17. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 25th April 2013
  18. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 27th March 2013
  19. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 20th March 2013
  20. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th March 2013
  21. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 20th February 2013
  22. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th February 2013
  23. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th February 2013

2012 45

  1. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 29th November 2012
  2. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 21st November 2012
  3. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 15th November 2012
  4. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 7th November 2012
  5. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 31st October 2012
  6. Ye Olde Automated 16TB Windows Azure Virtual Machine demo
  7. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter - 24th October 2012
  8. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 17th October 2012
  9. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 3rd October 2012
  10. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 26th September 2012
  11. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 14th September 2012
  12. What's on Windows Azure @ Tech Ed Australia 2012
  13. Windows Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 5th September 2012
  14. #Azure in Action – Community Newsletter – 10th August 2012
  15. Join the Australian Incubation team
  16. #Azure in Action – Community Newsletter – 11th July 2012
  17. Windows Azure Challenge 2012 - Imagine Cup Winners
  18. Windows Azure SQL Reporting – Report authentication without credentials
  19. Changes from Windows Azure Caching Service to Windows Azure Caching Preview
  20. #Azure in Action – Community Newsletter – 4th July 2012
  21. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 27th June 2012
  22. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 20th June 2012
  23. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th June 2012
  24. Meet the new Windows Azure
  25. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th June 2012
  26. Meeting Windows Azure in Australia – Additional Online Event – 14th June 1-3pm
  27. INFOGRAPHIC: Cloud spurs sky high job and revenue growth
  28. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 30th May 2012
  29. #Azure Action –Community Newsletter – 16th May 2012
  30. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 9th May 2012
  31. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 2nd May 2012
  32. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 25th April 2012
  33. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter - 19th April 2012
  34. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 4th April 2012
  35. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th March 2012
  36. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 20th March 2012
  37. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 13th March 2012
  38. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th March 2012
  39. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 28th February 2012
  40. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 21st February 2012
  41. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 14th February 2012
  42. Windows #Azure Caching – Performance considerations
  43. #Azure Action – Community Newsletter – 6th February 2012
  44. #Azure Action - Community Newsletter - 27th January 2012
  45. #Azure Action - Community Newsletter - 20th January 2012

2011 58

  1. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 13th December 2011
  2. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter - 6th December 2011
  3. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 29th November 2011
  4. #Azure Action -€“ Weekly Newsletter - 22nd November 2011
  5. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 15th November 2011
  6. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 8th November 2011
  7. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 31st October 2011
  8. Configuring load balancing for Windows #Azure #HPC Burst Scenarios
  9. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter– 24th October 2011
  10. SQL Azure announcements from SQL Pass Summit 2011
  11. Migrating the .Net Pet Shop to Windows #Azure
  12. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 3rd October 2011
  13. Data backup strategies for Windows and SQL Azure
  14. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 26th September 2011
  15. The challenge of migration – determining Windows #Azure migration complexity
  16. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 12th September 2011
  17. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 4th September 2011
  18. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter– August 30th 2011
  19. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 20th August 2011
  20. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 13th August 2011
  21. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 5th August 2011
  22. Pre-Conference Cloud Technical Training (PCTT) @ TechEd Australia 2011
  23. Powerpoint –Visibility and layering for Animations
  24. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 29th July 2011
  25. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 23rd July 2011 Mini
  26. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 15th July 2011
  27. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 8th July 2011
  28. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 30th June 2011
  29. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 24th June 2011
  30. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 17th June 2011
  31. Windows #Azure HPC Burst training course now online
  32. Remote Desktop in Windows Azure–what's it doing?
  33. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 10th June 2011
  34. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 3rd June 2011
  35. 5 Steps to run a Classic ASP page on Windows Azure
  36. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 27th May 2011
  37. Cerebrata - Scale up/down your Windows Azure instances
  38. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 20th May 2011
  39. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 13th May 2011
  40. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 6th May 2011
  41. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter- 29th April 2011
  42. Easter thoughts on Azure - Its like the phone, familiar and usable, not a change or a disruption
  43. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 1st April 2011
  44. Publishing a ACS v2 Federated Identity Web Role
  45. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 25th March 2011
  46. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 11th March 2011
  47. DiagnosticMonitor - RoleEnvironmentException was unhandled
  48. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 4th March 2011
  49. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 18th February 2011
  50. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 11th February 2011
  51. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 4th February 2011
  52. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 28th January 2011
  53. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 21st January 2011
  54. Complimentary BPOS for flood affected businesses
  55. Dev vs Dev–Windows Phone 7
  56. My simple approach to pagination in Windows Azure Table Storage
  57. things I learned building a Windows Azure Asset Library
  58. Windows Azure Storage Available for QLD business affected by the floods

2010 36

  1. 2011 Cloud Predictions–The best of
  2. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 10th December 2010
  3. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter– 3rd December 2010
  4. A tool for visualising disk space usage, and a tool to query data sources (including Windows Azure Storage)
  5. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 26th November 2010
  6. #Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 19th November 2010
  7. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter–12th November 2010
  8. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 5th November 2010
  9. I'm going be a Windows Phone 7 App Writer
  10. Upgrading a Mac Air with Windows 7– is it worth it?
  11. The last Windows largely deployed?
  12. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 29th October 2010
  13. #Azure Action - Weekly Newsletter - 22nd October 2010
  14. #Azure Action –Weekly Newsletter - 8th October 2010
  15. The Windows Azure team in Australia
  16. Readify: Azure Development days
  17. BOOK: “Developing Applications for the Cloud”
  18. HPC On Premise and Off with Windows Azure
  19. Started Azure Technical Specialist Role - Today
  20. Azure at TechEd Australia 2010
  21. The perfect candidate for Surface emerges – Board games
  22. Switch on the light
  23. the benefits of the Windows Azure platform with greater physical control, geographic proximity, regulatory compliance and data sovereignty
  24. Sydney Traffic Mapping With Bing Maps
  25. Five locally produced events
  26. Mark Vozzo at STBUG: What’s the big fuss about Bing?
  27. OFFICE MAYOR MEETUP 2010, Sydney
  28. Competition: Zooms for Improvement
  29. Augmented reality revisited… WPF TO SL4
  30. SharePoint 2010 Performance/Capacity Planning
  31. Silverlight 4 Training Kit released
  32. The Hyperspace Button
  33. Windows 7 Tweetup in Sydney on March 30th
  34. Twitter data visualisation for Windows Phone
  35. Time Management and meetings. Using your phone and desktop tools to better effect
  36. Should applications be on a closed platform?

2009 80

  1. Throwing away the rulebook
  2. Smooth streaming on StreetSide thanks to Bing Maps Silverlight
  3. Ask the Development Tech Community
  4. pDC UPDate – Windows Azure for PHP, MySQL and a host of other popular open-source tools
  5. Windows 7 Themes
  6. Weary from IT marketing
  7. Infoglut - I'm making an email resolution
  8. Nothing comes for free?
  9. HopeMongers
  10. Links to “what to know” about Sharepoint 2010
  11. HP Envy
  12. Microsoft Helps – The Official Twitter account for Microsoft Customer Service
  13. Google: What if you don’t know any better?
  14. Microsoft Online Service opens to all - Microsoft and Telstra unveil cloud software offerings
  15. Social networking, UK winners and losers 2009
  16. My new computer, Mac Air, pending Windows 7 installation
  17. Designed for frustration – response to BankerVision
  18. Software Enabled Earth
  19. Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the .NET Services Software Development Kit (SDK).
  20. Microsoft Surface and RTT PowerHouse 3-D Technology Showcased at RTT Conference
  21. Mobile Videos & Development Web cast July 17th 2009
  22. The Glass - Perspectives on creating community
  23. Learning's from Remix 09 Australia – Azure, Blend and Silverlight
  24. some VHD Options in Windows 7
  25. Windows 7 Books in Australia - Half price for July 09
  26. We all have questions about the economy...
  27. Free HP Mini Netbook with Win 7 for TechEd attendees
  28. Deep Zoom Tiled Picture Mosaic
  29. Avril Henry – What will you remembered for from the Global Financial Crisis?
  30. Playing with HP Multi-Touch on Win7 for Amplify09
  31. Remix Sydney 11th June – Late Notice of Offer
  32. Blind searching – the taste test
  33. Creating a Windows 7 RC x64 VHD
  34. Windows Mobile 6.5 Toolkit
  35. Microsoft introduces new XBox 360 features, including controller-less gaming
  36. Just when you were thinking Touch was pretty cool
  37. Visual Studio 2008 Free e-Books & .Net Services
  38. Beginnings of Office 2010 info
  39. Going Green on TechNet and The Architecture Journal
  40. Windows 7 RC Example Changes
  41. Facebook and CoMo for Windows Mobile
  42. Office 2007 Service Pack 2
  43. MED-V compared to Windows XP Mode
  44. ExecTweets and Vine
  45. Compendium of Windows 7 Search Connectors
  46. Windows Live Opens Up
  47. Save Money on Certification – Until 30th June 2009
  48. Windows 7 – XP Mode
  49. Economist Cumulus – Software plus Services
  50. SOA, prioritise the the “SO”, rather than the “A”
  51. .NET services interoperability
  52. Windows 7 – Good press
  53. BizTalk Accelerator for ACORD messaging
  54. BitLocker to Go – Use in Windows 7 Beta
  55. WCF REST – Starter Kit
  56. Mobility – Australia – New Windows Mobile data plans coming in May
  57. ItzaBitza – a game promoting reading and creativity for kids
  58. Go Green with Visio
  59. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Power Management
  60. Twitter Notify
  61. Windows 7 Quick Keys – ZoomIt
  62. Microsoft Recite - a search technology for your voice
  63. Victorian Bushfires - Live Maps Collection
  64. My next phone and sync'ing
  65. Augmented Reality on GE site
  66. Federated Search in Win7: Adding news to your search
  67. GroupThink via Twitter, interesting observations from the superbowl
  68. Open question: What's the impact of a search engine returning faulty results?
  69. Some Sharepoint Search & Governance Resources
  70. Microsoft Tag – Make your phone a multi tag reader
  71. The Boyer Lectures - Brands and Dead Trees
  72. My experiences with Windows 7 Beta on MacBook Pro & Mac Mini
  73. Silverlight in Financial Services
  74. Surface Car Shopping
  75. Purchasing - A marketing view
  76. Dexter on Vista
  77. Top 10 Strategic Areas for Technology in 2009
  78. BitLocker To Go
  79. Windows Marketplace
  80. Home Cinema Tiny Speakers

2008 93

  1. Model View Controller Free Templates
  2. Happy Twitterer
  3. Window Shopping – Nice UX
  4. Things for Christmas for Techos
  5. Build management
  6. HTC Touch HD Update
  7. Is Windows 7 the Solution?
  8. Alternate HTC Touch Interface
  9. How does Virtualisation Cut Costs AND Save Energy
  10. Blackjack II to HTC Touch HD - First thoughts
  11. PDC Disk - All the links you need
  12. Kevin PM Twitter
  13. PDC. Mesh, Mobile, Services links & videos
  14. PDC - Picks from "watching it live"
  15. PDC and Mesh
  16. PDC and Surface
  17. Windows 7 - What the PDC Build is saying in the press
  18. "hello cloud" - What's new PDC Day One?
  19. Silverlight quick picks
  20. Ministry of Sound Vista Gadget
  21. Windows 7 - Pre PDC
  22. iphone substitute - HTC Touch HD?
  23. Out of touch - Touch Wall
  24. Windows 7 - its going to be [available on disk] at PDC
  25. DeepZoom your PowerPoint Presentation
  26. Fishing for a reaction on Vista
  27. Build your own Halo Master Chief Helmet
  28. Advertising campaign starts in the US with "Shoe Circus"
  29. Perspective on Chrome?
  30. Surface first touch
  31. Photosynth of RFID Day 4
  32. Behind the scenes at TechEd 2008 Australia - Prep Day 2
  33. Touch platform debates rage on
  34. How to video sites
  35. Power Management Tools
  36. Intelligent Spelling Check in Office 2007 - the blue squiggly line
  37. Microsoft Sphere; A Multi-Touch Interactive Spherical Display
  38. Article buzz on service offerings and announcements at PDC continue to grow
  39. Mojave - the Vista Ultimate experience
  40. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide
  41. ie8 beta - site readiness
  42. Digital immigrants suffer Internet-induced attention deficit disorder.
  43. Web Visitors to Citizens - The Web Citizen
  44. Web Visitors to Citizens - The Web Resident
  45. Web Visitors to Citizens - The Web Visitor
  46. Web Visitors to Residents to Citizens
  47. Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide - 1st Edition
  48. EATK = Enterprise Architect Took Kit
  49. Linq to Sharepoint
  50. more videos on Microsoft Surface
  51. ASP.NET Model View Controller Framework Quick Look
  52. Developing for Surface
  53. New Environment Site - Innovating to improve the world
  54. PDC 08 - it is going to be big
  55. Waratahs
  56. Aspiring Architect Series 2008
  57. Reading Syndication Feeds from within Silverlight 2 beta
  58. How do I fix the inexplicable "Item has already been added" errors with XAML?
  59. Silverlight game mashup with Live Earth
  60. Ultra portable options and directions
  61. Highlander to be re-made
  62. Getting my head around Live Mesh
  63. The Velcro Organisation
  64. Security White Papers
  65. Windows Live Messenger Facebook Application
  66. Help Aussie kids learn
  67. World Wide Telescope Announced
  68. Constant Partial Attention (CPA).
  69. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 BAM
  70. Windows Mobile Weekend Reading
  71. Photosynth on CSI
  72. Live Maps Birds Eye of Sydney
  73. TechPoint Newsletter Financial Services Headlines
  74. Xobni - Changing my email etiquette & work practices
  75. PopFly Game Creator - Wow
  76. Testing new gadgets
  77. What to do with nostalgic techy T shirts?
  78. Thoughts on when to ESB
  79. .net 3.5 - my recent presentation resources
  80. Self actualisation
  81. Twitter and Microsoft Open Source Heroes
  82. BizTalk 2006 R2
  83. ie8 in beta
  84. Microsoft Unveils New Interoperability Principles
  85. N1 Modem wars
  86. ADO.NET 2.0 Overview
  87. Beginning my Vista gadget for SharePoint Events
  88. Value from Microsoft Virtualisation
  89. Apple charge for faster Wi-Fi
  90. Microsoft Application Virtualization - New Stuff
  91. Blog Backups
  92. Windows Live - Some new-ish stuff
  93. Microsoft Office Outlook Connector

2007 73

  1. Windows Vista SP1 - my likes
  2. Vista gadgetsdemos in Financial Services
  3. BizTalk RFID Services - Sydney - Microsoft Partner Readiness Training
  4. Microsoft Virtual Server support
  5. Issues when editing editing PDFs via Sharepoint 2007
  6. Posters
  7. Quincy - Microsoft's Green Data Center
  8. RFID case studies and presentation
  9. Optimising Vista for Energy Efficiency
  10. Updating my Mac Mini Vista Media Center for Australia
  11. Data Protection Manager 2007 - Protect Exchange, SQL and SharePoint
  12. Andy Lees's on Virtualisation
  13. Vista tweak tools
  14. Writing, communication, technology and relationships
  15. More green dream - "carbon neutral" a new panacea?
  16. Get stuck in: Smeaton's guide to intervention
  17. Larger 2.5" drives, but how to clone
  18. Systems Center Service Manager
  19. The Green Data Center
  20. Blogging Statistics
  21. BizTalk 2006 R2 Launch Statistics
  22. Financial Services Developer Links
  23. My Windows Mobile Phones
  24. Sydney BizTalk R2 Launch
  25. Account Technology Specialist
  26. Our new beta search
  27. Name translation from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008 products
  28. The roadmap for Smart Client
  29. Alistair Cockburn - You know you are not doing agile if
  30. WCF for .net 3.0 - Various web casts and links
  31. Microsoft Touch Desk and Surface
  32. SOA/ESB Integration in the Real World
  33. New TechNet ANZ Vista Gadget
  34. enterprise 2.0
  35. Adding new TFS user and not being able to login
  36. Best practices for TFS - The TFS Guide
  37. Results of upgrading my Mac Mini HDD, cloning, partitioning to maintain Vista setup
  38. Microsoft Live TV for Vista Media Center
  39. Wifi - bad for you = bad science
  40. Changing Team Foundation Server Credentials from Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer
  41. Changing Team Foundation Server Credentials
  42. New UP some Linq
  43. TFS and Vista Gadgets with WPF
  44. WPF Master Details with an Object Reference
  45. WCF fault - The creator of this fault did not specify a reason
  46. .net @ work - network mashup examples and links
  47. Defining a basic Development Architecture
  48. The problem with incrementally fixing an application?
  49. Singleton becomes PerCall - ReleaseInstanceMode
  50. Using the Action Generic Delegate for callbacks
  51. Addressing Man in the Middle Attacks
  52. Finally a new version of Apple's Bootcamp
  53. WCF - Could not find default endpoint element
  54. Vista wallpapers
  55. WGA Internet Explorer 7 issue
  56. TFS lock checking
  57. TeamPlain Web Access free for Team Foundation Server
  58. Enable missing Australia content on Media Center
  59. Banned words
  60. Baldness - Raising funds for the Leukemia Foundation
  61. Team Foundation Server Tools
  62. Another reason to goto Vista Ultimate
  63. More thoughts on IT Forecasting...
  64. Sharepoint - Can not add the user because a user with that name already exists
  65. Team Foundation Server - Working folder is already in use
  66. Technology Forecasting - a new .Net?
  67. Upgraded? to Apple Macbook Pro (with Vista Home Premium)
  68. WCF Pre-reading
  69. Consumer Centric Marketing
  70. Aussie Wow is Now
  71. Noise concerns on buses to usability
  72. Tagged by Mick
  73. Realising Business Benefit with Service Orientation

2006 35

  1. CCF = Operational Improvements
  2. Customer Care Framework
  3. New toys and some business architecture
  4. RFID ecosystem Presentation Grabs
  5. MSMQ and SOA Conference RFID
  6. ReadyBoost Compatibility
  7. Microsoft SOA and Business Partner Conference
  8. List of BizTalk Persistance Points
  9. Sydney Mobility
  10. BizTalk Host Best Practices
  11. New gadget - i-mate SPL
  12. ASP.Net Scavenging
  13. ASP.NET Custom Caching
  14. Vista Readiness Review
  15. Windows Mobile Device Center (Beta 3 Release) for Windows Vista RC1+
  16. Vista RC2 installs
  17. Radio Frequency Identification Beta 1 Walkthrough
  18. Sharepoint RSS ticker
  19. Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, Book Review
  20. RFID Setup
  21. Live Everything
  22. Maxtor Mini Software Working in Vista
  23. Office 2007 or LiveWriter - Killer Blog apps
  24. Fixed Office 2007 Link Problems
  25. Threat Modelling. Define, Model, Measure
  26. Maxtor Mini
  27. Is “Geek” the new cool?
  28. RFID - Glorified Barcodes?
  29. BizTalk Rangers, web-casts etc.
  30. Things I discovered about Vista today...
  31. Mac Mini Rc1 Update
  32. Adventures into WMDC
  33. Post install restrospect
  34. Moved blog home to here
  35. Mac Mini Vista Media Center Update