July 31, 2017 The value of certification I’m doing some work on communicating the value of (technology) certification. Opinions vary on the value of certification and in many disciplines there is…
September 30, 2014 Wearable computers at work This month I received a smart watch as a gift and one of the first things I did was wear it into work. I…
May 29, 2014 The Business interview I appeared on ABC’s The Business program last night talking about a possible Google acquisition of Twitch.tv for around $1 billion. The episode is…
September 29, 2013 What to do when the NBN comes to town: ONT time After waiting some time expecting to be notified of fibre availability in my area, and with the election nigh, I went ahead and selected…
June 30, 2013 What to do when NBN comes to town: it’s the pits Who would have thought boring telecommunications pits could attract so much media coverage. That’s the PR magic the NBN carries with it as it…
March 31, 2013 The path to PRINCE2 This month I received my PRINCE2 certification for both the Foundation and Practitioner levels. PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments) is a UK government standard…
February 27, 2013 Seafile, SparkleShare and ownCloud 5 More developments in the open source file hosting and backup, or “personal cloud”, space. ownCloud 5 is now in beta and I just learned…
August 31, 2012 Local OwnCloud hosting Since my last post about OwnCloud, I discovered local VPS hosting company Echoman is offering locally hosted OwnCloud instances for just $6/100GB/Mth! Read more…
July 31, 2012 Microsoft’s Azure: A Cloud any open source person would be proud of? Just looking at Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud and I must say it’s a broad portfolio of open and Microsoft technologies. By offering: Linux servers…
July 26, 2011 Nice reminder This article published on ZDNet.com today is a nice reminder of a story I broke almost a year ago. Today’s news: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/sun-ceo-explicitly-endorsed-javas-use-in-android-what-do-you-say-now-oracle/9285 My version…