Archive for October, 2007
SBTUG: This Wednesday: Assessing Business Ideas, and Team Foundation Server
This Wednesday 31 October 2007 the Sydney Business & Technology User Group has yet another great night lined up.
Our Business talk will be presented by James McCutcheon on ‘Assessing Good Business Ideas’. James is a serial entrepreneur and gifted speaker, as well as being a Microsoft MVP. He spoke last month on How to Start [...]
PERSONAL: Why have a link blog?
A few people have asked me why I now have a link blog (URL here, RSS here). There are a few reasons.
The main reason is the signal to noise ratio. Here on my main blog, I like to keep the S/N ratio pretty high. I try to consider posts carefully before posting them, and will [...]
COMMUNITY: Are events worth the cost?
Q: Is it worth going to community events like SQL Code Camp?
A: Yes – read on for explanation…
SQL Code Camp 13-14 October 2007
When considering any developer event these days it is important to calculate whether you are getting good value. With so much content available online, we need to evaluate the costs (financial, comfort, time [...]
Jonathan Schwartz is my new hero
I’ve been reading Jonathan’s blog for a while now (he’s the CEO of Sun) because I love his honesty, curiosity and ability to think right outside the square.
His latest post on reducing waste by improving efficiency is so simple and common sense as to be jarring – it caught me completely by surprise. I’ll never [...]
VFP: Did someone mention FoxPro?
Apparently there was some news about a Visual FoxPro release this week. I searched but couldn’t find anything . Except this, this, this, this, this, this. (To be fair to myself I did mention it on my link blog here.)
Or perhaps I was getting it confused with this article about salesforce.com’s new Visual Force, [...]
PERSONAL: Elcom – The first month
I’ve managed to make it through the first month of my new job . And I love it. I’ve held off posting about the new role until I felt I had a good understanding of the company, people and clients.
First off, the job. I’ve joined Elcom Technology as their new Technical Director. This means [...]
ACS: James Crisp on .Net 3.5
I went to the Australian Computer Society (ACS) meeting in the city last Wednesday night to hear James Crisp present on .Net 3.5 and VS2008.
James has his slides available here. It was a good session, with James explaining the following:
- A very brief overview of WWF.- A few simple WPF examples (Flipper, Particles, 3D materials).- [...]
RDN: Readify Developer Network 2 Oct 2007
Readify Developer Network
Here’s a quick summary of the Readify RDN session I attended tonight.Event details: Sydney, 2 October 2007, 6-8pm
Paul Stovell kicked off tonight’s session with an Introduction to Windows Presentation Framework.Overall an excellent session, covering the tools (Visual Studio, Expression Blend and Expression Design) before diving into XAML.Some examples to illustrate the ease with [...]
