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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 agree, he is a guru) managed to cram a comprehensive overview of the...

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 VFP team (ie they are not replacements for people leaving)...

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. This won’t be so much...

You may have already seen this little gem:

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 talent I didn’t possess. Kishor had it.’

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 addition to our VFP stuff). The reasons for my hesitancy were because I...

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 weekend re-installing all my stuff J). It makes you realise how lost you can become without your machine. Sure, everything was all...

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 services etc. Incomplete and...

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 worth buying for the ‘easy, offline experience’. Good reading for software...