From the monthly archives:

June 2007

QUALITY: You are what you repeatedly code

June 29, 2007General Tech

Just going through my backlog of blog posts and read this one from Paul Stovell (from over a month ago).
I totally agree with his main point that ‘we are what we repeatedly code’. It takes a while to build a habit. I wish more coders wised up to this. But more importantly I wish [...]

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ACS: Speaking at ACS Wollongong next Wed 4 July 2007

June 29, 2007General Tech

Next Wed I’m speaking at the South Coast Chapter of the Australian Computer Society, discussing ‘5 Mistakes Software Managers Make‘. This is based on my recent talk at SBTUG, but expanded a little taking into account the great feedback I got at the meeting.
Details here
Not sure if any of my readers are Wollongong based, but [...]

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SBTUG: Web 2.0 and Connected Systems presentations available

June 29, 2007General Tech

Looks like Rahul’s beaten me to it again… the presentations from Wednesday night’s sessions at SBTUG are up.
A quick report: Steven Ringo gave a very good overview of Web 2.0, where it is used, popular sites, how it can be used in business and where it is headed. Most useful.
Scott Scovell (and yes, Rahul, I [...]

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VFP: Talman is hiring

June 28, 2007General Tech

As Rahul has posted, Talman is looking for two more staff to build our VFP team:

A Senior VFP Developer
A Senior QA + Testing professional

There are details on the links about how to apply.
Please note: the roles are only open to Australian permanent residents at this stage.
What’s interesting about this is that we are growing our [...]

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SBTUG: Web 2.0 and Connected systems this Wed 27 June 2007

June 25, 2007General Tech

This Wednesday at Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) we have two excellent sessions lined up.
The first (Business) has Steven Ringo talking about all things Web 2.0, explaining the different offerings, but most importantly outlining how they can be useful to your business.
The second (Technology) is an overview of Connected Systems by Scott Scovell. [...]

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MANAGEMENT: Hiring and firing

June 15, 2007General Tech

You may have already seen this little gem:
http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/fired-with-enthusiasm/
If not, then be dazzled by the genius of Kishor (not his real name).
Do you relate to the author’s comment towards the end?:
‘It was at that point that I realised I would never make it to the top rank of IT managers. Something else was necessary; a [...]

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VFP: FoxPro blogs

June 14, 2007Visual FoxPro

As noted by others, there are a two new VFP bloggers, including:
Bo Durban
Craig Boyd (not sure about this guy – tread carefully J)
Btw does anyone know what Kevin Ragsdale’s new blog address is? The new FeedBurner link he provided last week doesn’t appear to be working…

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NETWORKING: Speed-Networking report

June 14, 2007General Tech

About two weeks ago I attended this event, a speed networking event for .Net companies. The idea is that the ‘community’ of .Net based companies get to know each other better for the purposes of partnering and network building.
I was a little hesitant but went any way (Talman does a lot of .Net stuff in [...]

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VFP: 3+ days to FoxPro ass kicking?

June 14, 2007Visual FoxPro

Interesting tidbit from someone who needed to learn VFP in a hurry
http://n0tablog.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/how-i-learned-visual-foxpro-in-an-emergency/
Compare this to this

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PERSONAL: I’m back… again…

June 9, 2007General Tech

Yes, just got my notebook back after a week without it. This is the second time in as many months that my machine has died. This time it died on Monday morning when I booted up at work, but I’m lucky enough to have it back late on Friday arvo (so I can spend all [...]

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CLARITY: Anyone understand SOA?

June 3, 2007General Tech

Here’s what’s frustrating me lately – there is no easy way of getting simple answers to anything. Nothing is simple anymore. Everything gets swamped in too much information.
Take Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for example. I want a simple, agreed upon definition for this phrase. I usually explain it in terms of having different servers exposing web [...]

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BLOG: Eric Sink

June 1, 2007General Tech

Just thought I’d recommend Eric Sink’s blog and book. As I mentioned in an earlier post I thought everyone read his blog, but at UG the other night it turns out many were missing out on this little gem.
I’ve read the book, and yes, it is mostly just re-workings of his blog entries, but still [...]

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BOOK: How to run a user group

June 1, 2007General Tech

This is a promo post for Greg Low’s new book on running user groups. Greg is a Microsoft Regional Director down under and a SQL Server MVP. He’s also run (and still runs) some very successful (by which I mean extremely helpful to the community) user groups.
He’s written a few books, but the one I [...]

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BizTech: Sydney Business & Technology User Group report

June 1, 2007General Tech

I’m very pleased to report that our first meeting of the Sydney Business & Technology User Group went well.
There was a much bigger turnout than I had expected (we ran out of pizza early!). My thanks to the people who came just to support the group even though it may not directly relevant to them [...]

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