Intro Those of you who have been following this site for a while will know that I have a certain proclivity towards engineering sometimes complex home theatre configurations. Naturally, as an Architect and Software Engineer (former life) I’m a huge fan of continual improvement – and my home theatre experience […]
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Well, I’ve finally managed to assemble the dream – a proper work space for working on servers, workstations, laptops and the like. It’s been years since I’ve been in a position to put something together, but a few weeks ago I managed to finalize the installation. Aside from the home […]
Hi There, Today we’re taking a look at the rather appealing Kensington KeyFolio Executive with Bluetooth keyboard. As regular readers would know, I’m a bit of a keyboard junkie, and I have developed a number of mobile keyboard solutions over the years. Here’s one of my favourites – a […]
Early last December we were fortunate enough to move into a brand new home which we bought off the plan – with a couple of slight alterations. One of those alterations was to fully network all rooms with CAT-6 Ethernet, terminating in the garage with plenty of space for wall […]
This morning, I received an e-mail which the various spam/mail filters managed to miss. With only a passing glance, I recognised this as a phishing attempt, and nearly gave it no further thought. However, being on an iPhone, the “from” address field had been truncated (to appear as “AppleStore@apple.e…”: After […]
As un-Architect as it sounds, I still very much like to stay “hands on” when it comes to hardware and software. Particularly, I like to hand build my personal machines so I can stay current with advancements in hardware. You may recall from the previous post, I’ve been planning on […]
Well, this has been a busy week. Today, I finished day four of a four day course on The Open Group Architecture Forum (TOGAF)’s v9.1 Level 1 & 2 Enterprise Architecture certification. The course has given me a very decent foundation of learning from which to build upon, and hopefully […]
Introduction As you’ll no doubt recall from my earlier 2012 article, I have a NAS in my home office. It is a Thecus N5200XXX 5-bay Network Attached Storage device, and it sits on my home gigabit network. The Thecus features an OS which accommodates pluggable “modules”, one of which is […]
I originally wrote this article about my now former employer, CGI Solutions and Technologies, back in January 2014 when I was lamenting what appeared to be the apparent demise of the company which I had originally joined in late 2011. Unbeknownst to me at that time, I was to be […]
Hi All, I’ve decided to volunteer to put together some informal technical (or non-technical) presentations at work recently as a way of kicking the cobwebs off after the holiday break. As usual, I’ll probably make the slides and notes available here on the site, so I’d like to see what […]
I found the wording of the Team Foundation Server post-install to be a tad demanding: “The following package installation requires an immediate restart of the machine: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.51.”: R
Time for a quick timeout — It recently came to my attention that the Aussie Wine Guy app for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 is doing a pretty decent trade. It’s ranked amongst the top apps in the competitive Food & Dining category in the Windows App Store. This is […]
An Announcement Recently I was on a bit of a writing spree, churning out new articles at an above average rate until I stopped just prior to the end of September. I haven’t run out of ideas.. hardly.. rather we welcomed some good news: What happened? My darling wife successfully […]
Editorial Update With the recent release of Visual Studio 2013 RC (which includes, by the way a “Go-Live” license) this issue with Visual Studio 2013 Preview has probably been overtaken by events. I’ll leave this here anyway as a historical footnote. How’s this? Tonight I fired up the VM I […]