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2013 4

  1. 2013: The amazing year that was
  2. Apply for two of the BEST JOBS IN NEW ZEALAND!
  3. So I Sold My Surface…
  4. 8 years on the ship

2012 3

  1. I’m internalising a really complex situation...
  2. Be What’s Next
  3. Webstock 2012 Less Than A Month Away

2011 18

  1. WebMatrix Start Building Better Websites
  2. ASP.NET vNext
  3. WDCNZ–HTML Media: Where We Are & Where We Need To Go
  4. Adobe Issues Flash Player Fix for IE9 Users Experiencing Issues
  5. Release an App for Windows Phone 7 in 7 Days for a Chance to Win a New HTC 7 Trophy Phone
  6. The Great Kiwi Windows Azure Competition
  7. 5 Things You Need to Know to Start Using Video and Audio Today
  8. Awesome-sauce MIX 11 Day Two
  9. 2011 MICROSOFT IMAGINE CUP FESTIVAL, AUCKLAND, 12th APRIL (Next Tuesday)
  10. Auckland Startup Weekend #AKLSW April 1-3
  11. MSDN Unplugged Web Session Full Length Video
  12. MSDN Unplugged - The Unnamed Package of Web Love
  13. Resources for NZ WP7 Developers
  14. Unplugged Web Session
  15. MSDN Unplugged Developer Events Around New Zealand Next Week
  16. The Mixing Room–Te Papa
  17. NZ MSDN Flash: The Unnamed Package of Web Love
  18. Using Windows Azure with Windows Phone 7, HTML5 and iPhone

2010 32

  1. Looking Back Over the Last 100+ Days
  2. Merry Christmas
  3. Road to 100 Windows Phone 7 Applications Built by New Zealand Developers
  4. IE9 Platform Preview 7 Available for Developers Today
  5. SilverStripe first open source web app to become Microsoft Certified
  6. PDC 2010 Live from the Microsoft Redmond Campus Tomorrow 5am!
  7. TechEd New Zealand Keynote – 3 Screens and a Cloud Demo
  8. The New Trade Me API and Windows Phone 7 Developer Competition
  9. TechEd NZ - From Research to Reality. A Demofest of Innovation
  10. Pivot View of Netflix Instant Watch Movies
  11. New Zealand Windows Phone 7 Dev Training Events
  12. NZ Herald/ Yahoo Daily Deals Delivered via Web Slices in IE8
  13. IIS Media Services 4 – Changing the Game
  14. Visual Studio 2010 with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 2
  15. An Hour With Bill Buxton – MIX10
  16. Silverlight 4 – What Devs Need to Know
  17. Photosynth Panoramic Deep Zoom Mosaic
  18. Visual Studio 2010 & Windows Azure Launch
  19. TEDx Auckland - Failure is the Best Possible Outcome
  20. IE9 - HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
  21. MIX10 Windows Phone 7 Content Overview
  22. The Orchard Project – Planting a Few Seeds
  23. A Closed Mind Killed the Retail Star
  24. All Hail The Gu
  25. Silverlight IE8 Web Slice + Desktop Application + Windows Phone 7 Series
  26. NV Interactive - New Zealand Cricket Match Centre Silverlight Web Slice
  27. Webstock Day 1
  28. Experience Webstock Behind the Scenes @ Workit.co.nz
  29. Windows Phone 7 Series Revealed
  30. Bing Maps Shows the Future at TED
  31. The Pollinator
  32. Azure, Webstock and Jeff Atwood

2009 46

  1. Join WebsiteSpark with Kentico Software in New Zealand and get a Free License of Kentico CMS Professional Edition.
  2. Trade Me - .NET Developers Wanted!
  3. My Pakari Tree Photo on Flickr is Getting Some Lovin
  4. PDC Day 2 – Silverlight 4
  5. PDC Day 1 – Windows Azure
  6. Silverlight & Te Papa
  7. Stop: It’s Hammer Time!
  8. Microsoft UNPLUGGED Update - December 2009
  9. The Great New Zealand Internet Slow-Down
  10. The ONYAs Closing Soon
  11. FTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome and Firefox running together on Windows 7 in Windows XP Mode
  12. Air New Zealand Fashion Week Finale!
  13. Giorgio Sardo's NZ IE8 Road Trip + Web Application Toolkits
  14. Announcing Microsoft WebsiteSpark
  15. Silverlight 3 + Expression 3 Launch
  16. TBWA, adidas, the ALL BLACKS and Photosynth
  17. Silverlight 3 Released
  18. Bing Photo Contest
  19. Wellington Code Camp Completed, SharePoint Conference Tomorrow
  20. Yellow Maps
  21. GOVIS09 Videos Making Windows Media Streaming work Cross Platform.
  22. UNPLUGGED – Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3
  23. Microsoft UNPLUGGED
  24. Expression For Art’s Sake – 3 1/2 Day Silverlight 3 Camp – Wellington, NZ
  25. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 Available Now
  26. Tech.Ed New Zealand Tickets Selling Fast!
  27. NZsynth – How It Was Done
  28. NZsynth and WEB09
  29. Update on Silverstripe and the WebPI
  30. Tech.Ed ANZ Call For Content
  31. ROAD TRIP! MSDN Unplugged Coming to a Town Near You
  32. ACP Media Development Leads To Pure Direction
  33. WEB09 - ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Challenge
  34. Come see Tim Heuer present Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services Wednesday night in Wellington.
  35. Mix09 Keynote Video Shown At Auckland Web Meetup
  36. Internet Explorer 8 Released, IE6 down 8.8% in NZ in 8 Months.
  37. Intergen, Buttercups and Silverlight Accessibility.
  38. MIX09 Sessions Available Now!
  39. MIX09 Day 1 Keynote
  40. DeepZoom-Tastic
  41. Yellow, BLACKCAPS First to Build and Deploy on IE8 in New Zealand.
  42. IIS Smooth Streaming Available Now
  43. MSDN Flash - Web 09: It's about User Experience, and the tools to create it.
  44. Louis Vuitton Pacific Series 2009 Auckland New Zealand – The Silverlight Story
  45. Sneak Peak of the Windows 7 MSDN Flash Newsletter.
  46. Windows 7 Beta Get It Now Before Everyone Else!

2008 39

  1. MSDN Flash Christmas Special
  2. Live Services Jumpstart – Day 1 Morning Session
  3. Deep Zoom Photographs
  4. Customising IE8 to Drive Users to Your Website
  5. Artist in Residence Melbourne Dec 1-5
  6. WCF REST Starter Kit
  7. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit
  8. Live Platform Jumpstart 2009 in Sydney 8th-9th of December 2008
  9. Day 3 PDC Microsoft Research Rules the Roost
  10. WPF/ Silverlight Control Toolkit - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP
  11. November Events Christchurch, Wellington & Auckland
  12. Windows Cloud = Windows Azure
  13. Silverlight Version 2 RC0 Released! Prepare Your Applications Now
  14. Right Click
  15. Unplugged - Preparing for Cloud Computing & PDC
  16. Matt Hellers sessions from the IE8 Roadtrip
  17. Sneak Peek of the Next MSDN Flash Newsletter
  18. H.264 video support And Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) Coming in Silverlight!
  19. Web On The Piste
  20. Photo(synth)sister
  21. Tech.Ed NZ Going Social
  22. Live Mesh Available in New Zealand
  23. IE8 Action Plan (& How we can rid NZ of IE6) - barcamp2 Auckland
  24. A Day Out In Auckland
  25. Build A 10,000 x 10,000 Mosaic of Images with DeepZoom
  26. Why is Silverlight 1 broken with Firefox 3 and how do I fix it?
  27. On Sunday Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Was Released
  28. How to Become a Web Partner in New Zealand
  29. I got my phone, my zune & my running shoes and headed off on a photo run.
  30. Jose Fajardo is one to Watch
  31. Web Solutions Tool Kit for Action Pack Subscribers
  32. Tech.Ed New Zealand 96% Sold!
  33. Microsoft Unplugged - Come join me in May 2008 for MIX08: A Developers Perspective
  34. How Did You Do That Fancy PIP Reflection Stuff?
  35. Training on all the Latest Stuff!
  36. 20x20 Session From Last Night's Web Meetup
  37. The days of instant Constant Feedback to a Product Launch are Here
  38. Webstock Buzz Posts
  39. It Took Me Four Months But Here It Is - Thirty One Demos in Thirty Nine Minutes.

2007 109

  1. Cool French Silverlight 1.0 App
  2. 2008 Summer Road Trip - register now!
  3. Minty is at it again... this time with WS2008!
  4. Beta of Silverlight 2.0 with Go-Live license in Q1 of 2008
  5. My Unplugged Session
  6. Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released
  7. Provoke Isha, Ari and the team Launch Fly Buys in MOSS
  8. Unplugged Events and Live refresh
  9. Windows Live is Now Officially Live ;)
  10. Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plug-In for Expression Encoder
  11. EATC Auckland Fourteen
  12. EATC Auckland Thirteen
  13. EATC Auckland Twelve
  14. EATC Auckland Ten
  15. EATC Auckland Eleven
  16. EATC Auckland Nine
  17. EATC Auckland Eight
  18. EATC Auckland Seven
  19. EATC Auckland Six
  20. EATC Auckland Five
  21. EATC Auckland Four
  22. EATC Auckland Three
  23. EATC Auckland Two
  24. EATC Auckland One
  25. Expression around the Clock
  26. Expression around the Clock Remix
  27. In Rainbows
  28. Expression Around the Clock 2 More Sleeps!
  29. The Hub TV - Gym Silverlight
  30. HD Feed Recorded Live at the MSNZ Partner Conference
  31. Microsoft Expression Blend 2 September Preview
  32. As promised to many here are my links from recent presentations
  33. Virgin Schmap
  34. Expression Encoder now available for trial and purchase
  35. Silverlight 1.0 Released to the Web
  36. Web On The Piste - Post 1 - The Web Jam
  37. Webjam Video - Web On The Piste
  38. Juha reports on Hackers hitting the New Zealand Herald website.
  39. Tech.Ed Keynote Video Single Stream
  40. In Tech.Ed Spirit Rowan has posted last years keynote on slideshare!
  41. A Series of Fortunate Events
  42. Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2, and Silverlight 1.0 RC
  43. What would you look like if you were on the Simpsons?
  44. 10 Million Live Internet Streams for Live Earth!
  45. Great to see Darryl getting amongst it this weekend!
  46. ZamDes Wellington
  47. debatr BETA and More
  48. Another Little Time Waster
  49. Just saw HD View on Nathans' Blog Very Cool!
  50. Free Training DVD's in New Zealand
  51. Microsoft.com on Windows Server 2008?
  52. Silverlight Video from Auckland Meetup
  53. REMIX MELBOURNE is in Full Force
  54. Well Well Well
  55. Silverlight Gears of War Demo
  56. BackgroundMotion.com
  57. BBC and Photosynth
  58. Imagine Cup
  59. Tech-Ed 92.5% Sold!
  60. Its hard to remember to live before you die...
  61. Microsoft Expression Landed Today
  62. Rugby Video and the Web
  63. WOW LIVE EARTH Will Be Huge!
  64. Looking for the 6 Best Web Site Creators in New Zealand
  65. My first Silverlight Video... Composed... Transcoded... Uploaded and Embedded... All in 5 minutes!
  66. Resources for Learning WPF & Silverlight
  67. Open Source != User Generated Content... IMO
  68. Trade Me Gadget Launched
  69. Wow... Radio 2.0... This blew my mind!
  70. Get started With Silverlight Streaming
  71. Silverlight Community Site - MIX Keynote
  72. Thirteen23 are at it again!
  73. MIX07 DaY 0.9
  74. Pre Conference User Experience Summit
  75. How You Can Get Yourselves Ready for Mix Next Week
  76. Lest We Forget
  77. Technical Briefing Wrap and HOLIDAY!
  78. TVNZ Ondemand Launches
  79. Emerging Web Technologies
  80. Guy Kawasaki
  81. Old Skool Radio 1, NET Radio 0
  82. Peter Gutmann
  83. A Spate of Infectious Disease
  84. Well I Finally Did It!
  85. Machinima, Scott Guthrie and WPF/E
  86. Solving the Ticketmaster UX Problem.
  87. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Visa Pre-Sale! Yeah Right!
  88. Do you work with ASP.NET? Take 2 hours to learn AJAX!
  89. What is better than 1 offline newspaper to read on the Plane? 4 Offline Newspapers ;)
  90. What do these sites have in common?
  91. Arcast NZ
  92. Flickr is Down
  93. Just saw this .NET 3 training
  94. Australia pass 100 in Wellington!
  95. BizTalk 24/7
  96. BarCamp Sydney
  97. Counting the days... 26 work days, 3 keynotes, 3 presentations and 1 external conference.
  98. Lost in Translation
  99. My Response to Nat's "Threads Considered Harmful" Post
  100. The Wow Starts Now! Vista & Office Launches in New Zealand
  101. WPF Ready for Win Forms Prime Time? The Xceed DataGrid for WPF.
  102. ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released
  103. Rowan Simpson, Trade Me and Browser Wars 2.0
  104. AJAX Security
  105. Top Albums of 2006
  106. ContentPresenter.com
  107. "Five Things You Probably Don't Know About Me"
  108. CES Yahoo and Windows DreamScene
  109. Rise and Shine

2006 103

  1. What are you doing this Friday at 9:30am?
  2. Expand Your Portfolio... it's a wrap!
  3. New Expression Site & WPF/E CTP.
  4. December UX Events
  5. SWF2XAML (Flash to XAML) - Mike's at it again!
  6. Bill Gates @ Stanford University
  7. Ohhh PodCast sooooo Web 2.0 (i think?)
  8. TradeMe Design!
  9. World Usability Day in Auckland
  10. Auckland in 3D...
  11. Photosynth
  12. Windows Vista has RTM'd
  13. Virtual Earth 3D
  14. We're Gold Baby! Now we can have some real fun!
  15. Have you been to Zune.net?
  16. 2007 Office System Developer Map
  17. Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP has been released!
  18. .NET Framework 3.0 eLearning clinics - Free Until the Launch of .NET 3.0!
  19. Office File Conversion Utility
  20. Here we go again more company aquisitions IHUG, youtube...
  21. The Team at IE7 has told the world we're coming this month!
  22. Live Search
  23. Office Developer Training in October
  24. Wallop out of the Gates!
  25. Beta of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 available now!
  26. A hidden feature in the New York Times Reader
  27. Do you have a laptop with not much RAM and would like to run Vista on it?
  28. Brilliant
  29. Wpfery
  30. Great new overview article on WPF
  31. Driving instuctions to tonights party.
  32. WPF Times Reader
  33. Trinity Evolutions - The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Beta!
  34. I am loving RockStar!
  35. WPF Screencast of My Session from Tech.Ed
  36. Ever wondered how much your friend paid for their house?
  37. September CTP of Expression Interactive Designer and Beta 1 of Expression Web Designer are Available
  38. Introducing Windows Vista RC1 and .NET 3.0 RC1
  39. WPF Demo Reel and my code from Tech.Ed
  40. Just like Google… Sony buys .NET property
  41. Tech.Ed New Zealand Top 10s
  42. The Panel & The Party
  43. Web vNext Panel Discussion Tech.Ed NZ
  44. Tech.Ed Bring on Day 2
  45. What makes a blog?
  46. Tech.Ed Keynote
  47. TechEd Keynote
  48. Tech.Ed is Open!
  49. .NET 3.0 at Tech.Ed NZ – 15 Sessions!
  50. Tech.Ed NZ if you are going lock in your schedule today!
  51. 75% or 3/4
  52. ATLAS in Auckland Tonight! We have 50+ confirmed already but plenty of room for you to come along.
  53. The Unified Communications Revolution
  54. Blinq… Bling and Ruby.NET
  55. Bongidae
  56. Live Mail Desktop
  57. MicroISV’s and Project Glidepath
  58. Go XBAP, WPF/E and Big Screen Photos! Aussie Aussie Aussie...
  59. WebStock Videos are live
  60. My 3 Degrees of Seperation to Robert Scoble
  61. .netfx3.com Is Live
  62. 3 Day Vista Developer Training this week in Auckland Wed,Thr,Fri
  63. Grr What a Day!
  64. Windows Vista Beta 2 Public Download Available!
  65. Gordon Bell's New Zealand Trip
  66. John Campbell & Tana's handbag.
  67. Sneek Peak at thi weeks Flash.
  68. Webstock Take 2
  69. LINQ and EWD available now!
  70. Did anyone else notice that xtra broadband was down nationwide tonight from 5-8pm?
  71. Trade Me Case Study
  72. Mix06 Sessions and adCenter
  73. ScottGu and TechEd ANZ
  74. Where you been?
  75. Tech.Ed 2006 - Web Development Track
  76. Tech.Ed 2006
  77. XPS Paper Specification
  78. Dday
  79. Aussie Security Seminar Videos Available
  80. Cure Kid Adventure Race
  81. VSTO V3 March CTP
  82. Code Master Challenge
  83. Auckland User Group - A day in the life of a Team Developer
  84. Open XML Developer - yes it is an org!
  85. IE7 "Layout Complete"... ATLAS "Go-Live"... Day 1 @ MIX06
  86. The Windows Vista Developer Story
  87. Made In Express Contest
  88. Link Link Link Link Link...
  89. This weeks MSDN Flash Leaked on the Web!
  90. MSDN magazine... Visual Studio 2005 and Infocard.
  91. TradeMe Sale... Media rumble Fairfax v ACP... NZ Website Rankings
  92. WinFX Runtime Components February CTP
  93. Microsoft Security Seminar ’06 Auckland St-Patrick's Day
  94. So it's official it is "Office 2007"
  95. Scoble's very own blog chain letter... The brrreeeport report.
  96. Build your network of strong support
  97. MIX...CSS & Live.com Gadgets
  98. TFS... VSLive and Soma in New Zealand
  99. TradeMe starting to run on ASP .NET
  100. Expression Graphic Designer & Expression Interactive Designer... go get it!
  101. Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 has been released
  102. Nasdaq
  103. WF & WCF Beta2 "Go-Live" licenses & the Jan WinFX CTP.

2005 77

  1. MSDN Subscribers get WinFX on Vista on the RTM builds of Visual Studio 2005 just in time for Christmas!
  2. Mix
  3. MSDN Flash Archive and wrap up from Launch.
  4. Grouper 2
  5. Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Hosting Deployment Guide!
  6. Visual Web Developer - You Know You Want It!
  7. Rob's Hitchhikers Guide to Airways New Zealand
  8. *READY*
  9. Go and get $1650 USD worth of free training on VS 2005 & SQL! Offer closes today!
  10. New Generation of Microsoft Certifications for you and me!
  11. Sony
  12. Alleviating concerns regarding hosting SQL Server Express solutions.
  13. PDC wrap user group session Auckland.
  14. Launch VS SQL & BTS
  15. It is all... too cool & so so addictive!
  16. Connect 05' Technical Sessions
  17. Peter Jackson executive producer in Halo movie to be shot entirety in Wellington!
  18. Windows OneCare Live
  19. Meet DPE NZ
  20. Did I mention that I love my MSN Space?
  21. Winfs
  22. Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta
  23. Paul Andrew & team just launched Windows Workflow Foundation WWF at PDC in LA.
  24. Make sure you keep an eye on my PDC photo Album!
  25. Microsoft MAX
  26. Regional Director Side Meeting at PDC.
  27. Off to PDC 2005 - Stay In Touch!
  28. Scoble interviews Bill Gates
  29. Introducing Microsoft Dynamics™
  30. MSDN Flash Volume 9, Number 17 - September 5, 2005
  31. Tech.Ed New Zealand Presentations Available
  32. Tech.Ed Podcasts!
  33. Tech.Ed Day 3 Is Ready To Go!
  34. New Zealand Tech-Ed 2005 Rolling Thunder...
  35. Student Day Rocked! Tech Ed is Set To Fly!
  36. The First Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is Now Available!
  37. TechEd is upon us... let me tell you the place's to be!
  38. SQL Server 2005 Hands on Learning - 9 Free Courses!
  39. VS2005 Update - What You Have Been Waiting For!
  40. Visual Basic 6.0 ADO & Transmogrification For The Masses.
  41. MSDN Flash Volume 9, Number 16 - August 16, 2005
  42. Resources for Visual Studio 2005 & SQL 2005
  43. Half-Life
  44. Kit's CLR Slides & Demos
  45. More SQL 2005 smarts...
  46. Where is the Closest Starbucks to the Golden Gate Bridge?
  47. Are you ready for SQL Server 2005?
  48. Congratulations Aftermail
  49. New Logos for DPE
  50. Tech.Ed New Zealand - Early Schedule.
  51. Farewell to the Lions.
  52. WeFly247 we've got it so you can go get it!!
  53. Visual Studio Team System Grok Talk at TechEd 2005 in Orlando.
  54. James Newkirk's tool for migrating NUnit unit tests to Visual Studio Team System.
  55. Microsoft Update v6
  56. Longhorn, IE7 and RSS
  57. Visual Studio Team System Slide decks from Tech-ed Orlando
  58. New Zealand Visual Studio Team System Competition
  59. PodAttack on Don Box at TechEd 2005
  60. Microsoft Integration Technologies: When to Use What
  61. Darren Neimke... Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework... This weeks .Net User Group Meetings
  62. BizTalk 2006 will make it to CTP next week.
  63. The ASP.NET Roadshow the videos are now available!
  64. Mike Roberts and CruiseControl .Net
  65. Get the Guidance Automation Toolkit for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2
  66. Update on the Visual Studio Team System Product Line.
  67. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2 - Get It Now !
  68. Tech-Ed 2005 Get It Now!
  69. Tell me more about Visual SourceSafe 2005 Beta 2.
  70. Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2
  71. Chris Liddell appointed as new Chief Financial Officer at Microsoft.
  72. So you want to be a guest editor on MSDN Flash?
  73. SQL Server 2005 CTP - April 2005 now on MSDN
  74. Can I use Team Foundation Server with earlier versions of Visual Studio?
  75. Beta 2 has shipped on MSDN!
  76. Where are all your BizTalk Posts?
  77. More Than Just a Hello World