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Virtualisation Smackdown next Wed 26 August

August 20, 2009 Main
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I’m pretty excited, I gotta say, about this month’s Sydney Business & Technology User Group meeting – we’re having a Virtualisation Smackdown! It’s this coming Wednesday, starting at 6pm.
Here’s the details:

Date: Wed 26 August 2009
Time: 6pm – 9pm
Location: Microsoft, North Ryde (map)
Web: www.sbtug.com
Phone: 0413 489 388 (call me if you get there after 6pm [...]

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Microsoft iPhone Apps

December 13, 2008 Link

As Mashable and TechCrunch report, Microsoft is testing the waters with the iPhone App market, releasing a a little app: Seadragon Mobile (here’s the official announcement on the Live Labs blog). The app (available for free on iTunes App Store, allows you to browse Deep Zoom images effortlessly. Check out the simple 42 second demo [...]

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Parallel Computing

October 25, 2008 Main

Boring history prologue
I started playing with ‘computers’ back in the days when they came with 3K of memory (Vic 20 anyone?). And thank goodness I was too young to have experienced the punch card era… They quickly scaled up so that by the time I was at uni, 16MB of RAM was becoming standard. Fast [...]

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TECHED: Lock note – Predicting the next 10 years in IT

September 7, 2008 Main

Easily the best TechEd lock note I’ve seen (but then again I’ve only been to TechEd 4 times).
Miha Kralj talked us through the technology changes we’ll be seeing over the next few years.
If you get a chance to see his presentation (I’m sure it will be repeated at other events, or put up on a [...]

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ISP: iiNet spreads the love

July 3, 2008 Main

I’m not really one for writing critical posts – frankly I just don’t have the energy…

But I’m also not really one for saying thank you either – and this is something I really should be doing more of.

Sure, there’s heaps of minor irritations every day, but in the scheme of things I think I’ve got [...]

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OPINION: The Death of Gen Y

May 16, 2008 Main

The whole Gen Y thing really intrigues me.

On one hand I think the concept behind Gen Y is a complete myth, and on the other I think there is something compelling we can learn from.

In this post I cover the following:

why Gen Y is a useless categorisation
why I think the IT crash is coming [...]

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Grand Theft Auto 4 sells $500M in first week

May 11, 2008 Link

Yep, half a billion. Not that anyone really needed convincing, but computer games are big business. This one eclipsed the record set by Halo 3 last year.
And games are only going to get better.
Interestingly – but I can’t find the reference (send me the link if you know it) – I was told last week [...]

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Important Microsoft announcement… about Mouses

April 8, 2008 Link

I’m assuming you subscribe to Microsoft’s Press Release feed right?
Well, for the one, or possibly two people world wide who don’t, I just wanted to make sure you are alerted to this highly important development. You will be overjoyed to learn that the Wireless Optical Notebook Mouse 3000 will be available in five colours [...]

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SitePoint HTML and CSS References

March 18, 2008 Link

You’ve no doubt used SitePoint before. So I probably don’t need to tell you about their excellent CSS Reference. And it’d be silly to think you don’t also know about their freshly released HTML Reference. Great resources.
Technorati Tags: SitePoint, CSS, HTML, Reference

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On reducing spam

February 13, 2008 Technology

Alan Lee gives an overview of how we reduced our spam email count here at Elcom. Interestingly, Alan found that 95% of all our email was spam – a figure that matched with reports I mentioned earlier in the year.
The numbers: In the first week of implementing the changes we blocked 206,563 emails out of [...]

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XML turns 10 – Happy Birthday

February 12, 2008 Technology

XML turned 10 years old on10 Feb.
I remember working on a project back in the very late 90s (can't be sure when but it was using SQL 7.0) and we decided to use XML as a mechanism for storing certification results (so yes, we were using XML in SQL 7.0 – quite an achievement in [...]

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Mesh networks coming to Sydney

February 12, 2008 SBTUG

Last year the wonderful Laurel Papworth blew us away at SBTUG with a presentation on Social networking.
In the course of her presentation she mentioned the whole mesh network concept (eg Meraki). I truly had tingles down my spine when I heard about the concept.
Thanks to Laurel for this post in which she highlights the [...]

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CLARITY: VSTS, VSTO, VSTA, VSX

February 2, 2008 Clarity

Seems like Microsoft is having a V Day, every day. Here's a run down of the main V technologies/tools:

VSTS (Visual Studio Team System)

Firstly, Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2008 (the current version) is Microsoft's IDE for building .NET based applications, be they Web, Desktop, Device or Microsoft Office based.

Visual Studio comes in a number of different [...]

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Silly money continues to flow

January 31, 2008 Technology

When will the correction finally come? We've seen no end of silly money being thrown around by Venture capital companies of late, and now it seems that Google and Facebook are chasing grad students with fistfuls of cash. $95K for a grad student with no experience is crazy talk, but the comments on the post [...]

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Chris Sainty on LINQ to SQL

January 21, 2008 Microsoft

Chris Sainty has a series of excellent posts on LINQ to SQL.
Start here, and the just subscribe to his blog for the updates (11 of them so far if you include his post on Extension Methods).
Technorati Tags: Chris Sainty, LINQ, SQL

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TECHNOLOGY: Security, email and SPAM

January 21, 2008 Technology

Reading through Australia’s IT news roundup over the last few weeks has been illuminating.
Security
Take security exploits and spam for example. This reminder on SQL exploits welcomed us back to the new year, alongside this note about how 70K web pages were hacked in a single week. And a new take on the hijacking side [...]

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Domain name shenanigans

January 21, 2008 Technology

The news earlier this month about Network Solutions automatically registering any domain you search for on their site has been universally condemned. And rightly so. Supposedly providing a service, but actually reducing service for your (potential and existing) customers is only ever going end up with reduced market share.
I first read about it on TechCrunch, [...]

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Google, Wikipedia and China

January 20, 2008 Technology

Three interesting things happened last week.
First up, Wikipedia turned 7 years old. Happy Birthday Wikipedia. Wikipedia was and is the world's first open source encyclopedia, and remains one of the top 10 most visited sites in the world. Big things happen slowly.
Second though, Google hit 600USD. This, after hitting a high of 747USD last November. [...]

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Geocoding a physical address with Yahoo and VB

January 20, 2008 Technology

Code Project has a nice little article on how to use Yahoo Web Services to return the geocoded results of an address lookup. For those who don't know, Yahoo has a full developer network with stacks of articles for a variety of development tools including .NET. Also check out their Developer Centre blog.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo [...]

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Is the ECM market ripe for consolidation?

January 20, 2008 Elcom

An interesting article from Computerworld on the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space (of which my employer – Elcom – is a major player).
Elcom is an ECM company, and we are always grappling with where to best extend our product. Lately we have seen the value of our systems being the platform for a business to [...]

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