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Chris Auld: Degrees in Law and Information Science from Otago Universty, New Zealand.
TechTalk 01 Apr 2009

Cloud Manifesto Indepth Review

Chris Auld writes "...reading the document itself most of it feels so obvious it barely warrants saying- it’s PR puffery really. I’m going to cherry pick a few statements from the document to discuss...Given that this Manifesto appears to be largely driven by East Coast companies I can’t help but think..." Read post »
NET Framework 23 Mar 2009

MIX09 Sessions on Silverlight and SharePoint

Chris Auld writes " ...watch me deftly dancing across the stage in my yellow Crocs. Both sessions are a bunch of fun!...Building Accessible RIAs in Microsoft Silverlight [and] State of the Art in Web Site Design on Microsoft SharePoint..." Read post »
Visual Studio 11 Mar 2009

How to Create a Structure for a SharePoint Theme in VSeWSS v1.3

Chris Auld writes "...VSeWSS doesn’t provide a Visual Studio project type to create Themes...creating these by hand is a bit of a pain in the…especially if you have to do it during a presentation (come to my presentation at MIX09! ‘State of the Art in Web Site Design on Microsoft SharePoint’). So I wrote a little Macro that creates these folders for you..." Read post »
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Chris Auld

Director of Strategy and Innovation Intergen Limited Wellington, Wellington, NZ Send email to Chris Chris's blog  »
Technical Expertise .NET Compact Framework, .NET Development, .NET Framework, Active Directory, Active Server Pages, ASP .NET, BizTalk Server, Building Distributed Applications with .NET, Business Solutions, Commerce Server, Content Management Server, Data Access Technologies, Pocket PC & Smartphone, SQL Server, SQLXML & XML Mapping Technologies, Tablet PC, Visual Basic .NET, Windows Server 2003, XML, XML Web Services
Years of Experience 14
Certifications METRO-C, METRO-T
Awards MVP- Connected Systems
Vertical Industries Served Accounting and Financial, Analytics and Reporting, Customer Relationship Management, E-Business, Distribution, Sales and Inventory, Human Resources and Payroll, Manufacturing, Project Management, Retail Sales, Supply Chain Management, Biotech applications, Engineering applications