Microsoft Announces new language: Db.NET

April 1, 2012 Humour
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In a perhaps unsurprising move, Microsoft has chosen this Sunday to announce their latest .NET language: Db.NET The release comes a day prior to the lang.next conference commencing in Seattle on Monday. Dubbed as vNext.NET the language features a number of key enhancements including the new Ostinato Framework,  Morendo Garbage Collection systems and Cantando Installer. [...]

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Insight into how Microsoft do daily stand-ups (Scrum meetings)

February 24, 2012 Microsoft
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It’s always interesting to see how other people do things. Which is why I really like this video of the Microsoft TFS Agile team doing a daily stand-up. Adam Cogan was able to shoot a quick video with the team whilst visiting them recently. There’s a short version and a long version (embedded below). It’s [...]

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Finding a Great SEO

December 28, 2011 General Tech
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Marketing Infographic by SEO Book

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WARNING: DW024: The payload: Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Core Error

July 2, 2011 General Tech
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If you’ve experienced the DW024 error when attempting to install Adobe Photoshop or one of the Adobe Creative Suites, then the following may help. The bottom line: Uninstall Adobe Reader. First, here’s an example of the error message: WARNING: DW024: The payload: Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Core {08EF22BC-43B2-4B4E-BA12-52B18F418F38} requires a UI parent with following specification: Family: [...]

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Resolution

April 1, 2011 Personal
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Life is a series of experiences. Some experiences are good. Some are bad. Life is also a series of relationships. Some relationships end well. Some end… not so well. Of those that don’t end well, it’s only rarely that we get the chance to revisit them and find out what went wrong. To resolve them. [...]

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SBTUG Web Content Management System Smackdown Presentations (UPDATED)

September 28, 2010 General Tech
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Here’s the presentations from our annual SBTUG smackdown event held tonight. Most of the presenters have sent me their presentations, only a few left to add. I wanted to say a big thank you to Nick Ellery (@nickellery) from Microsoft for looking after us on the night. Not only did Microsoft supply the venue (which [...]

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Google Instant Roundup

September 14, 2010 Google
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It’s been a week now since Google Instant hit the news desks of IT blogs everywhere. I’ve started getting a few questions from clients and friends about it, so I thought I’d put together a simple collection of recommended links, and finish off with some of my thoughts. There’s been tons of discussion of course, [...]

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Web Content Management System (CMS) Smackdown

August 16, 2010 Community
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I wanted to give you advance warning that we’ll be having our annual Web CMS Smackdown at SBTUG on Wednesday 29 September. Yes, September – roughly 6 weeks away. This was one of our most popular events at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group last year. If you’re already sold on the event and [...]

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Microsoft – Privacy versus Profits

August 4, 2010 General Tech
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Good leaders make tough decisions. They may not always be the right decisions, and usually not everyone likes those decisions, but they have to be made. Ed Bott’s post – Good Microsoft versus Bad Microsoft – highlighted this interesting piece from the Wall Street Journal. It’s about how Microsoft decided to kill off some of [...]

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Things I Like

August 4, 2010 Personal
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No particular reason for this post except to mention a few things I’m liking at the moment – feel free to move along now… Let’s Golf 2 – I’m not really a golfer, but this iPhone game has me hooked. Glenmorangie – taking a big risk and trying something different from my usual Macallan 12 [...]

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All About Microsoft promoting Google Apps

August 3, 2010 SEM
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Google certainly knows how to get it’s advertising in the right place. Take this piece on the ‘All About Microsoft’ blog (one of my favourite blogs by the way – Mary-Jo is a bit of personal hero of mine). It’s a post about Microsoft’s recent white paper (PDF) on improved efficiency in their datacenters. It’s [...]

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Microsoft Street Slide

July 29, 2010 Bing
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I love the stuff Microsoft is doing with it’s mapping technology lately. This latest one from Microsoft Research is particularly impressive. It’s called Microsoft Street Slide (not to be confused with Microsoft Streetside) and takes the whole photo stitching paradigm another step forward. It’s best explained in the following video, but in a nutshell it [...]

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Andrew Coates has his head in the clouds ;)

July 28, 2010 Azure
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Loved this little animated feature from Andrew Coates on the benefits of using the platform – if someone’s done the heavy lifting for you, then why not use it. Don’t worry about putting your own kids down the well . Available on Ch9 here. Andrew’s original Standing on the Shoulders of Giants piece here.

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Introduction to Search Engine Marketing

July 28, 2010 SEM
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Just realised I hadn’t posted this presentation I gave at the NSW.NET event last month. I was lucky enough to be presenting after Mark Vozzo who gave an excellent introduction to SEO, so my session on SEM flowed on nicely. In the SEM presentation (embedded below) I went through the following main points: How SEO [...]

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Bing with Mark Vozzo at SBTUG

June 28, 2010 Bing
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It’s going to be interesting to see what the Bing team have been up to lately – this Wed at SBTUG Mark Vozzo is going to be covering all the new stuff in Bing. He’ll be on after the pizza break (remember we have Gary Hayes talking about Augmented Reality in the first session). One of [...]

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Augmented Reality with Gary Hayes at SBTUG

June 25, 2010 Featured
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I wonder if you’ve spent much time considering what the benefits of Augmented Reality are for your business? Personally I think Augmented Reality is soon going to be as significant as Location has become today. A few years ago people thought tracking your mobile phone location was only useful for freight companies. Now we know [...]

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Using Excel 2010 Sparklines to Analyse Google Analytics

June 20, 2010 Featured
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Seriously, how would businesses survive if it weren’t for Excel? Excel is perfect for analysing analytics data in a variety of ways (eg using Pivot tables and Conditional formatting) and it keeps getting better. I’m loving Office 2010 and Excel 2010 in particular – it’s just beautiful to use. In this post I want to [...]

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SEO and SEM at NSW.NET

June 18, 2010 Featured
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I’m excited to be presenting with Mark Vozzo (<- SEO guru) at this month’s NSW.NET meeting. It’s on this coming Thursday morning, June 24. You can register here. The event is in two parts. Mark will be covering Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for 30 minutes, and then after breakfast I’ll cover Search Engine Marketing (SEM). [...]

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Australian SharePoint Conference Review

June 17, 2010 Featured
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I was fortunate to attend the Australian SharePoint Conference this week (June 16 & 17). This was a surprisingly good conference –  comfortable venue, well organized, top notch speakers, great networking and most importantly a very useful look in detail into SharePoint 2010.  Complaints & Reality There’s always a few things to complain about at [...]

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True Blood and Urgency

June 14, 2010 Personal
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Michele and I have decided to have a week off. Which, as you will know if you are a business owner, means you intend to relax but really just end up doing pockets of work in between snatches of non-work: TV watching, book reading and other activities that you think constitute ‘getting away from it [...]

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