If it doesn’t go anywhere else, I might put it here …
If it doesn’t go anywhere else, I might put it here …
Friday, January 10 2014
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When it comes to online access for my kids (currently aged 13 and 11), the challenge is to find an appropriate balance between safety and access.
Saturday, December 10 2011
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Quite by chance, today I stumbled across a story that was old back in my university days, a story about a PDP-10, a hacker, and a magic switch.
Tuesday, September 27 2011
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I’ve just acquired a new phone - an LG C900k Windows Phone 7 device. It’s awesome and I’m having a lot of fun with it. It’s not the only mobile computing device I have, just the newest, so I thought a comparative review was in order between it and the oldest mobile computing device I have, my Cambridge Z88.
Tuesday, September 06 2011
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After my recent presentation at the recent Tech Ed conference in Auckland, I’ve spent a little time reflecting on the feedback received and identifying some lessons learnt. I thought that blogging these might prove useful for others as they work towards their conference debut.
Friday, December 03 2010
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Clay Shirky’s TED Talk How cognitive surplus will change the world, published on ted.com in June 2010 talks about a trillion hours of available thinking time that is now available every year, and how this cognitive surplus might change the world.
Tuesday, November 16 2010
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Many thanks to Colin and the Palmerston North .NET User Group for hosting my presentation last night. Based on the conversations after my talk, it seems you enjoyed my presentation and that most of you had something useful to take away.
Saturday, May 15 2010
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So, here I am, suffering gadget envy. Half the team at work has iPhones - the things seem to be like some kind of disease. Every time I turn around someone else has one. What with the iPad, the rumoured new HP slate, netbooks of all kinds (including netbooks based on Windows CE) and the allure of Windows Phone 7 Series, I’m overwhelmed with an excess of choices.
Monday, December 14 2009
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Several years ago, I specialized in Delphi software development.
Friday, November 13 2009
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So, Google’s got a new language - “Go” which seems pretty cool.
| TechEd New Zealand 2009 19 Sep 2009 |
| An Architects Life 26 Aug 2009 |
| Monitoring by Ear 18 Jul 2009 |
| PhpMyAdmin and the White Screen of Death 12 Jul 2009 |
| The Pragmatic Programmers have a Magazine 06 Jul 2009 |
| Quote of the Day 14 Jun 2009 |
| First Impressions of Google Wave 06 Jun 2009 |
| Unscary Code 19 Mar 2009 |
| Scary Code 18 Mar 2009 |
| Real World Information Modelling: Naming 15 Mar 2009 |
| Is that an Ad? 18 Feb 2009 |
| Listening time 12 Feb 2009 |
| Drupal APIs 07 Feb 2009 |
| Swiss SRP 28 Jan 2009 |
| A Nice Round Number 21 Dec 2008 |
| A Server out of Space 18 Nov 2008 |
| Foundations of Programming 08 Oct 2008 |
| New Zealand TechEd 2008 13 Sep 2008 |
| Outcome Based Thinking 12 Aug 2008 |
| Inversion of Control 28 Jul 2008 |
| Software Development Meme 19 Jul 2008 |
| Continuous Integration with TeamCity 11 Jun 2008 |
| Creative Passion 06 Jun 2008 |
| Comfortable Clothes 24 May 2008 |
| The end of Delphi? 13 May 2008 |
| The End of an Era 10 Apr 2008 |
| Endurance 19 Mar 2006 |
| Measure of Thought 30 Jun 2004 |