Over the past week, I’ve been attempting to get around to some cyber-housecleaning. As you may know from previous articles, I have a networked-attached storage (NAS) storage device by manufacturer Thecus which has 5x 2 TB drives configured in RAID-5 array. I’m always outage/data-loss conscious, so I implement a somewhat […]
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On Tuesday, Australia’s Liberal and National parties (“the Coalition” – in opposition to the governing party) released their alternative policy for the National Broadband Network (NBN) which was created by the current majority party, the Labor government. Their plan is to deliver a broadband solution to the Australian public sooner, […]
So I’m sure we’ve all had to contemplate this at some point in our development lifetime – when is it appropriate to grant developers and architects the key to the domain? There are quite a range of developers and software engineers out there, and for various reasons they do, from […]
Pardon the off topic post.. I’ll return to technical posts in a little while. For those not in the know, I’m on annual leave at the moment. This is usually a time to recharge the mental batteries and return fresh and animated. However, since this is my first big trip […]
To some an ‘Agile’ project means delivering value to a client or business more frequently than with other methodologies. This can be achieved, with the right people, the right sponsorship within the right organisation which is open to the concept. Other times, trying to run a successful Agile project will […]
Today I arrived home to find a neat little box waiting for me from my friends at dzone.com. The package had been dispatched a couple of weeks ago, and was eagerly anticipated. It was not disappointing, either – far from it. Some neat inclusions awaited, including the most perfect “hacker […]
Time for a little “off topic” content. Just after Christmas last year, I ponied up the cash to purchase a new turntable. The new equipment – made in England – is the Rega RP-1 and includes the RP-1 performance pack factory fitted, and I bought the “cool grey” finish. Because […]
I’m always a huge fan of the immersive gameplay experience, and the folks at Ubisoft are very, very good at it. Ubisoft are the name behind some of the most successful game franchises in recent memory, from Assassin’s Creed, Driver, Far Cry to the Tom Clancy series (Rainbow Six/Splinter Cell […]
As good technical people may tell you, a decent set of headphones can be the difference between a productive day and a really productive day behind the keyboard. Being able to zone into the task at hand is made so much easier by an immersive sound, and excellent acoustics. Over […]
Why hello gamers! Just had to write about these, frankly, awesome headsets which have just been released today. A friend and I have been waiting anxiously for over a month since we put our pre-orders in with EB Games last month at the Sydney gaming exhibition at Olympic Park. We […]
Hello Internet, This afternoon (Sunday, 30 September) at around 3pm I lost a black sunglass slip case containing my prescription spectacles somewhere between the Old Bus Depot Markets in Kingston (Wentworth avenue) and Kingston shops (Giles st and Green Square) in Canberra, ACT. The glasses in question are Ted Baker […]
Follow me on Twitter @ausrob maybe? At 12:30pm today, with green band on my arm (and extra swag in the conference bag), a group of helicopter flight winners made our way to the side of the convention building to await the promised chopper. We were split into groups of five, […]
We officially took off from Canberra at 8:30am winging it to the Gold Coast via Sydney airport. The one major advantage for me was being able to test out my Bose QC15 noise cancelling headphones. Success! What a difference, although I found that, initially, they did play a bit of […]
This evening I finally got around to checking out TechEd Australia’s session builder app online. It was honestly a real pleasure to see so many talented friends and former colleagues on the speaker’s list. This year, although the majority of the Level 400 sessions are infrastructure related, there’s enough Level […]
Regular readers of Sanders Technology will know (by now) that I’m not much of a user interface person. I started off in UX about 13 years ago, but gradually migrated into back-end systems like databases, data access design and web services. Does this disqualify me from passing judgement on user […]