A weekend’s life lost in labour By now you’ve heard of the critical PHP vulnerabilities.. well, it caused me to have to allocate two nights of sweat and time to upgrade the server and switch to a modern architecture for WordPress. I’ll be writing about that experience soon, but for […]
Hello, Today I resigned from my position as Head of Architecture at the Department of Health in Tasmania, a position I’ve held since December 2021. I’m not going to discuss the factors which motivated this decision, and I don’t have a new job to go to at this time. In […]
Microsoft’s formerly code name “Project Volterra”, now known as the Windows Dev Kit 2023 has arrived. It’s basically a NUC running a quite powerful ARM processor, some kick ass memory and a half TB built-in SSD. Device specifics 32GB LPDDR4x RAM and 512GB fast NVMe storage Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 […]
Happy Friday! I thought I’d close out the week with a “sneak preview” of what higher order Enterprise Architecture sometimes looks like. Below is a value chain as modelled in an EA tool which was posted to LinkedIn (see sources). At later stages of EA maturity, principally once core/fundamentals are […]
Hello all, After over four and a half years, I am leaving Raytheon Australia next Friday. I have been appointed as the Enterprise Architect for the Tasmanian Department of Health as a remote worker. I will be working from my home location and travelling to/from Tasmania as needs arise and […]
Hello Dear Reader, It’s been.. a while.. since I last posted. A great deal continues to unfold as the weeks and months fly past. If I thought that last year wasn’t tough enough, 2021 has perhaps exceeded it already and we’re only just about half way. I’m exceptionally fortunate that […]
This is a two-part series of posts. The first day covered Modules 1 & 2, and the second day, Modules 3 & 4. Owing to the pace of the training, I only managed screen shots and sporadic notes. The Q&A section is the most rewarding, I’ve added them at the […]
Day 1 – Azure Fundamentals This is a two-part series of posts. The first day covered Modules 1 & 2, and the second day, Modules 3 & 4. https://aka.ms/azfunpath Module 1 Compute, Storage, TCO, HA – shared responsibility, scale, elasticity, fault tolerance (MS manages) DR, Global, Latency, economies of scale, […]
Hello. You may not want your install of Microsoft Office products linked to a “Microsoft Account”, yet the product seems to force the issue? After entering a valid product key, do you receive this forced modal dialog, which forces you to link an account? (note: doesn’t seem to be forced […]
Hello. For a while now, I’ve been relying on a local time method for my test domain, and it’s finally caused me to go nuts. The time lag has been out to 20-30 minutes and it’s annoying to say the least. I did some Googling and found this excellent TechNet […]
Another year, another decade – more resolutions. Since the loss of the sandertechnology [dot] com I’ve found it a lot harder to get motivated to write. Traffic is minor, the page rank stinks and what took a decade to build is rather irrelevant now. My main concern is what to […]
What’s in a name? Last year through a series of unfortunate events I lost my foundation domain name – sanders technology [dot com] and was forced to register the dot net version instead. I’d held the dot com domain for over a decade and a half, and during that time […]
Introduction Continuing from the experience with Visual Studio 2017, the next edition – Visual Studio 2019 has been out for a while now. This edition follows the continuing trend established a few versions ago in providing two channels of licensing – by using a Microsoft Account or by supplying a […]
There’s times when you need to run an unsigned PowerShell script on Windows Server for convenience, for example when you pull it down from online. A word of warning – obviously – you need to know what any script does before you ever execute it – especially with privilege. Now, […]
Recently, I was asked to put together some material which explains what “the cloud” is, for a mixed (technical/non-technical) C-level audience. This came as more of a challenge than I had anticipated, and although there’s absolutely no shortage of material spruiking the benefits of the cloud(tm), there’s actually not that […]