Archive for July, 2008
« Previous EntriesCapture the Brain Power: PDC2008
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008If you are a Professional Developer: you will want to attend PDC2008.
Yes, even if you are a web developer.
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Steve Jobs. Presenting EOF, PDO, WebObjects, Excel, Windows NT 3.5
In-browser Python: Silverlight + IronPython
This is Not Your Father’s Microsoft
Sunday, July 27th, 2008A day after the Apache Foundation OSCON announcement, Sam Ramji presented to us Microsoft-ees in Seattle.
PHP, ADONET etc. The world is a different place. All a part of Microsoft realizing that Open source is not going to go away, and the means of engagement is working with the community: not against it.
Phew.
I’ve landed at [...]
Creativity++
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Microsoft has a financial year that matches Australia’s financial year: July to June.
Each financial year the cards are thrown up into the air, and depending on which tarots are on top: the organisational entrails are read and the future is foretold. Or, at least that is what it seems like from deep in the trenches [...]
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 is now available.
Power Pack 1 fixes the data corruption bug as well as delivers significant new functionality including:
· x64 support for home computers running Windows Vista
· Home Server Shared Folder backup
· Improved remote access experience
· Improvements to power consumption and performance
· Localization support for Japan and China
Double check Tranquil [...]
ROI on MBA
Monday, July 21st, 2008In 1993 I started on the road to a Masters in Business Administration. More commonly known as an MBA.
Completed in 2002, the MBA has given me a deeper understanding to theories driving business. MBAs are designed to provide a broad understanding of how organisations work. I found the most enlightening topics related to Legal studies [...]
Apple I Basic as MacOS X / Unix Shell
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Apple I Basic, recently recovered from an old Apple I has been recompiled to run on MacOS X as a Unix Shell.
There is something perversely wonderful about bringing a modern language such as Apple I Basic to an older OS (Unix) <grin>
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We need to Save the Analog Refugees
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Marc Prensky invented the concept of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, now used by all and sundry to describe generational change.
I would like to extend this into a concept of Analog Refugees.
These are people who have been forced to leave their Analog world and forced into the digital realm.
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Go Team SOAK!
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Best in the world: Team SOAK from Victoria, Australia have won the worldwide Imagine Cup 2008.
SOAK stands for “Smart Operational Agricultural toolKit”. I saw this demonstrated in the preliminary finals prior to ReMIX finals for the Australian Imagine Cup contenders. As a farmer’s son, I instantly saw the application. Measuring water, including rainfall, is a [...]
Email is for old Farts
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008… to paraphrase the quotation below. Thanks to danah boyd for the inspiration.
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Thanks to Mark Pesce for the recommendation to the Essentials journalist, Nick Galvin.
Oh, and Fiona Morris had a version of the photo taken with cats. The cat versions were funnier. Behind the scenes: when the photo as [...]
The Long Tail Fail. It’s All Just Social?
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
In the Wall Street Journal today there is an article on recent consumer research which shows that the world is not changing it’s tail.
“The Long Tail” posits that all products are equal on the Internet. A statement with which I agree: at the beginning all ideas, products are equal.
The research, from Professior Anita Elberse, states [...]
