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...
This is a promo post for Greg Low’s new book on running user groups. Greg is a Microsoft Regional Director down under and a SQL Server MVP. He’s also run (and still runs) some very successful (by which I mean extremely helpful to the community) user groups. He’s written a few books, but the one I want to recommend is this one: Building Technical User Communities. Greg was kind...
I’m very pleased to report that our first meeting of the Sydney Business & Technology User Group went well. There was a much bigger turnout than I had expected (we ran out of pizza early!). My thanks to the people who came just to support the group even though it may not directly relevant to them – it was very much appreciated. Overall the night went well. My session was reasonably...
I’d like to announce the new Sydney Business & Technology User Group, commencing next Wednesday 30 May 2007. For those who want to cut to the chase, go the web site here: www.sbtug.com Who is it for? The new group is designed for senior developers, team leaders, software managers and software company owners. As such the talks are geared for that audience, but everyone is of course...
This is a difficult one to announce, but I have to let everyone in the Fox community know that I’ve made a drastic change to the Sydney VFP User Group. In this post I’ll outline the reasons why and the outcomes I am hoping for. Firstly, I need to let people know that the Sydney VFP UG is effectively closing down. In its place I am starting a new group which focuses (in a broad...
Solution: Set Hardware Acceleration to Full Problem: My mouse movement was really sluggish in a VPC running Windows 2003 R2 (but other OSes are fine) Acknowledgement: Thanks to Paul Adare on the Microsoft Newsgroup for sorting this one out Here's the steps: Right click on Desktop, select Display Properties Settings Tab Advanced Button Troubleshoot Tab Slide the Hardware Acceleration tab to...
Bottom line: you need to completely uninstall and reinstall office! As part of my re-install recently I had to reinstall Office 2007. Not a drama. But when I first started Outlook I made the mistake of not setting up an email account right away (silly me!). Well it turns out that Outlook didn’t really like this, and crashed when getting through the wizard and attempting to display the Home...
Just wondering if you could do me a favour… I’m trying to get a better handle on my readership, so I was hoping you’d be kind enough to subscribe to my FeedBurner feed instead of directly point to the Blogger URL. All you need to do is point your RSS reader to this: If you are just browsing (i.e. not using a RSS reader) then you can also use the new URL, but it won’t look as...
I love Picasa as a photo (and video) organiser. And I especially love how easy it is to put your photos on the web as albums (with no advertising!). It only takes a few clicks and a whole Picasa album is then available for friends and family to see. And although I had backed up all my photos (probably the most precious items on my machine when I think about it) I had never thought about backing...