January 2007 - Posts

Google, a promise they just couldn't keep...

As you might know, on Australia Day SSW was looking up and smiling and Google was meant to come to the party with their low flying aircraft taking some aerial images. We got some press but then we found out Google didn’t deliver the goods. Apparently Read More
posted Wednesday, 31 January 2007 3:30 PM by adamcogan | 2 Comments

Look Up And Smile - add your photos to the map

Today it is Australia Day, a public holiday downunder. Microsoft Australia has launched phase 2 of the Look Up And Smile project. Where ever you are in the world, and no matter what you are doing to celebrate being alive you can take a photo and add Read More
posted Friday, 26 January 2007 10:49 AM by drneil | 0 Comments

Survivor - Development

I once heard of a development group where every three months a vote was taken and the bottom ten percent of the group were replaced by newcomers. It sounded a bit like Survivor - Development. A common immediate reaction is to assume that it would become Read More
posted Friday, 26 January 2007 8:20 AM by drgreg | 2 Comments

Architecting Gadgets for Online and Offline Work

On Friday 2nd Feb I will presenting at the Auckland .NET user group on Architecting Gadgets for Online and Offline Work Chris Auld will be presenting on User Access Control for Developers. So two RDs in one night and pizza, what more could you want Read More
posted Thursday, 25 January 2007 1:37 PM by drneil | 0 Comments

SSW looks up and smiles - come join us

Do you know about Microsoft Live maps on tomorrow on Australia Day? http://www.lookupandsmile.com.au/what_map.aspx?ID=pi1mE2gaz3 Do you also know that Google maps are doing something similar on the same day! http://www.google.com/intl/en_au/events/australiaday2007/index.html Read More
posted Thursday, 25 January 2007 12:00 PM by adamcogan | 1 Comments

SQL Down Under Code Camp dates announced

Hi Folks, SQL Down Under Code Camp for 2007 will be held at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga on October 13th and 14th. (These dates are now final and differ from our tentative dates a week earlier. We had to move to cater for those attending the Read More
posted Tuesday, 23 January 2007 9:38 AM by drgreg | 0 Comments

Pan's Labrynth

I don't normally write movie review blog entries but I went to see Pan's Labrynth with a group from Readify last night. Director Guillermo Del Toro has done a stunning job on this. Fantasy drama isn't really my thing but I found the movie captivating. Read More
posted Friday, 19 January 2007 9:28 AM by drgreg | 1 Comments

Five things about me

I have been watching this "5 things about me" travel over many of the blogs I read. Last week or so, Dr. Neil tagged me so I guess I am now part of this blog game. I typically try to stay away from this chain mail type thing, but have been asked to respond Read More
posted Wednesday, 17 January 2007 2:49 PM by adamcogan | 4 Comments

Email overload

I just posted to my blog on email overload I wonder how the TechTalkBlog readers deal with email so I am asking the same questions again: How do you deal with email?Do you shut your email application when you have work to do? If you subscribe to Read More
posted Tuesday, 16 January 2007 8:47 PM by drneil | 0 Comments

Then listen to this...

Once you have listened to Dr. Greg's podcast get this in your MP3 player, Dr. Neil's Notes 37 The topic is:Breaking down work items with a team Enjoy :) Read More
posted Friday, 12 January 2007 1:43 PM by drneil | 0 Comments

SQL Down Under show 20 - Richard Waymire

SQL Down Under podcast show 20 with guest Microsoft Program Architect Richard Waymire discussing the released version of DataDude, SQL Server development and fishing is available now for download from www.sqldownunder.com.   Enjoy! Read More
posted Friday, 12 January 2007 12:29 PM by drgreg | 0 Comments

Work should be fun - Pump up the volume

In Adam's latest post he puts forward the argument not to have music in the workplace. Greg started this conversation and pointed out that " many great writers have commented that they prefer working to classical music". I beleive some music gets you Read More
posted Friday, 12 January 2007 7:13 AM by drneil | 2 Comments

Music in the office - A deadly distractor?

I love my new Zune and I know others love their iPods, but should we be using them at work? Is there a way to use them effectively at work? I've had the "music debate" with numerous people about using personal music in the workplace. Regardless of whether Read More
posted Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:31 PM by adamcogan | 5 Comments

New SideShow Devices

Dan Polivy of the SideShow team shows off some cool new SideShow devices. I worked with Dan and his team a while back on the original SideShow API and sample code in the Windows Vista Platform SDK. It looks like there will be quite a number of SideShow Read More
posted Wednesday, 10 January 2007 7:42 AM by drneil | 0 Comments

Rules, we don't need no stinkin' rules!

I love the line in the movie where the Mexican guy in the possie says "Badges, we don't need no stinkin' badges". Dr Neil's post on rules caught my eye. One of the quickest ways to start a flame war on any email forum is to start discussing coding Read More
posted Saturday, 6 January 2007 6:02 PM by drgreg | 3 Comments

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

It always amazes me how developers seem to think there are hard and fast rules for creating some part of their solution.Let me make this clear: There is no one right way to build software. There are lots of wrong ways in certain circumstances. Let's Read More
posted Friday, 5 January 2007 6:46 PM by drneil | 2 Comments

Listen up...

Another week another podcast Topic:Aligning teams that are geographically distributed Enjoy :) Read More
posted Friday, 5 January 2007 6:43 PM by drneil | 0 Comments

Eat too much in the last couple of weeks?

It is sometimes hard to control the urge to eat more of that lovely food over the holiday period. I expect there are a few of us who are now turning their attention towards ways to remove the after effects of too much food and not enough exercise. My Read More
posted Wednesday, 3 January 2007 6:29 PM by drneil | 0 Comments

That meme thingy, it spreads onwards

You may have noticed the blog tagging meme that is going around at the moment. Frank got tagged, Craig got tagged and passed it on to Hugo who passed it on to me.  At first I considered ignoring it and letting it die there. Why do we do these Read More
posted Tuesday, 2 January 2007 5:26 PM by drneil | 0 Comments

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2007, another year, another set of possiblities. The start of a new year is a good time to set your sites on new targets and goals.What goals do you have for 2007?Create your own heaven in 2007 :) Read More
posted Monday, 1 January 2007 8:31 AM by drneil | 0 Comments