For those of you playing along at home, you’ll probably know that I recently changed jobs in the latter part of this year. I’d been looking for a new opportunity for a few months before accepting my new position. Unfortunately, job hunting can be a daunting and dispiriting exercise as […]
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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 […]
Merry Christmas all! This year my kids unpacked an Anki Overdrive: Fast and the Furious race track and associated parts – all anticipated of course. What is Anki Overdrive? Anki: Supported Devices We celebrated the day at our new “offsite” location (holiday home) in a part of New South Wales […]
Hi All, It’s been a while since I last posted – mainly distracted by the events of life.. and starting a new job. I’ll have some more content up soon, particularly a focus on completing the Enterprise Integration series. There will also be some more cloud computing coverage. R
Yesterday I visited the new Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California. The overwhelming size and engineering excellence demanded an article by itself. Henceforth, I’m continuing to write about my visit to the “classic” Facebook buildings. When we left off, we were waiting for the Gold Shuttle to take us across […]
Continuing on from my seminal visit to Google and the Computer History Museum yesterday, my tour of Silicon Valley today has taken me to the headquarters of yet another Internet behemoth, Facebook. Facebook is located at Menlo Park, a bit further north from Mountain View, not far south of San […]
Today I had the opportunity to undertake a tour of parts of Silicon Valley and the Google campus in Mountain View, California. It’s been a strong desire of mine to travel through the famous heart of the US tech sector, so today’s activities were quite awe inspiring for me, personally. […]
It’s that time of the year once again! As everyone winds down the year, it’s a time to reflect, rejoice and prepare for yet another year. It’s been a somewhat turbulent time for me and although there have been struggles, life continues. 2016 brings new challenges with new possibilities, and […]
The majority of my posts are technical in nature, as no doubt anyone who has been reading articles here at Sanders Technology over time will attest to. However, I’m now leaning more towards writing the odd article about “meta” topics which relate to the IT industry, or strategic concepts which […]
Reliability or luck? That’s a good question to ask. I’ve been buying Dell laptops almost exclusively for over a decade, and this is why. As of September, 2015 I own four working Dell laptops which span over a decade and a half in age, i.e. 1999-2015. Only one has a […]
Over the weekend I discovered a power pack which had gone missing to an old Dell Latitude CPt notebook which dates to the pre-Y2K era. Back then, I used to work for an anti-virus start up called vCIS which operated out of the basement of the Software Spectrum building […]
Intro Windows 10 was officially released last week. In the wake of the release, concerns have surfaced about privacy and control issues which are enabled by default in all popular versions of the new Windows – including Enterprise edition. We’ll take a look at what reasonable steps you could (or […]
In recent years, we’ve seen some outstanding developments in mobile telephony. One such innovation has been the introduction of Qi (inductive power standard) wireless charging. For the most part, the majority of modern mobile handsets (except iPhones!) now include Qi wireless charging as standard. For most others there are phone […]
There’s a post up on Labor leader Bill Shorten’s site addressing Labor’s position in regards to the draft mandatory metadata retention legislation and specifically to recommendations included in the Parliamentary Joint Committee report, released late Friday. Honestly, it’s not very encouraging. I really think Labor should be outright blocking the […]
It doesn’t seem to be discussed too much, but I think there’s great value in establishing a quiet, comfortable space in your home environment where you can work and focus. As a developer or architect your environment has a large impact on your creativity, your thinking and ability to concentrate. […]