We’re launching a new product this week. This Thursday morning to be exact. You may know that Elcom, where I work, is a web company that builds products for medium to large companies. We do intranets, extranets, portals, web sites, etc. Plus we do a fair bit of customisation. Over the last few months we’ve been turning things around a little and ‘productizing’ our custom...
This Wed at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) we’re lucky enough to have Aaron Saikovski along to bring us up to speed on all things Microsoft Groove related. Oh, and check out the prizes… When: This Wed 28 May 2008 Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm) Where: Microsoft, North Ryde Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388 Cost: Free (Pizza all provided) Plus: Prize:...
The whole Gen Y thing really intrigues me. On one hand I think the concept behind Gen Y is a complete myth, and on the other I think there is something compelling we can learn from. In this post I cover the following: why Gen Y is a useless categorisation why I think the IT crash is coming soon why Gen Y will be especially disadvantaged, and some suggestions for how we can all best survive...
In case you are running your site on BlogEngine.NET and missed it, a security patch was released in mid-April. Al Nyveldt notes it here, and the official announcement from the team is here. In order to be safe you need to be running 1.3.1.0 (or later). It is important you upgrade asap. As per the request from the team I won't go into details of what the issue is, however it is easy to find if...
If you have any interest in the Yahoo – Microsoft saga (that is far from finished btw) then I recommend listening to this Gillmor Gang Emergency edition. The first 10 minutes are annoying as they get themselves organised (and should have been edited out) and the last 5 minutes is a bit of a ‘he said, she said’ distraction, but the rest is a fast paced insight into the deal. The...
We’ve had a last minute change to tonight’s meeting. Unfortunately Mitch Denny has had to pull out (due to illness), but in his place Richard Banks will be presenting. His session will be covering Agile Project Management. Richard is a Principal Consultant at Readify and a Certified Scrum Master. Full details are available on the SBTUG site here. (Note: my session on the 2008 Stack...
No doubt you’ve done this at some point: You’re at an event or user group and find yourself chatting with someone new. A friend of yours strolls over and joins the conversation. Being the polite person you are you introduce your friend to the new person. They reply with ‘oh yes, we already know each other – Bob here is my brother…’ Easy to feel embarrassed...
This Wednesday 30 April 2008 at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) we’ve got another great meeting organised. This month: The Evolution of Enterprise Software Development presented by Mitch Denny. When: This Wed 30 April 2008 Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm) Where: Microsoft, North Ryde Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388 Cost: Free (Pizza all provided) Plus: Prize:...
A simple one. Sorry if you all know this already – but I keep coming across people who’ve missed it – so please read on. You can easily hide the ribbon in any of the Office 2007 programs simply by double clicking on the tabs. Thus becomes with just a double-click on the Home tab (or any tab). Oh, and I assume you know you can customise the Quick Access toolbar easily enough: As...
I don’t know if you read the Outlook Team Blog, but if not I recommend it – there’s stacks of goodies over there. Take this one for example, on entering dates in Outlook. I didn’t realise you could enter a date as easily as ‘next tue’ and Outlook would work it out for you automatically: Gets converted to As Kristel explains, there’s a bunch of terms that...