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, […]
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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 […]
Recently, I had to authenticate to Team Foundation Server using an account with greater permissions to perform some administrative tasks. As you may know, this requires entering alternate credentials when you add the server to the list of TFS servers, or when you need to connect to the server. Once […]
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 […]
Yesterday morning I and a colleague made our way to Llewellyn Hall at the Australian National University to hear from the father of the World Wide Web, none other than Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Amongst his many accolades and roles, Sir Tim is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium […]
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 […]
This is sort of a follow-up to my first article on Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0). This afternoon I spent far too many hours troubleshooting an issue I didn’t really have. Part of this complete and total waste of my time stems from what I now believe to […]
Hi All, At the end of January, 2013 the father of the World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee – is touring Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. He is giving a number of free public presentations while he is in each city. This is an excellent (and financially extremely viable) opportunity to […]
Introduction This is going to be a multi-part series of articles with the end goal of producing a solution which handles security/identity claims across domain boundaries using WCF services and Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (with a federation trust) and Active Directory. In order to demonstrate an approach to handling […]
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 […]
As the BUILD conference (formerly PDC) kicks off in Redmond, we are finally treated to the official launch of the long, long awaited Windows Phone 8 SDK. Held under wraps for months, with precious few copies of the pre-release being seen, this SDK has been a long time coming. The […]
As you my or may not know, Microsoft has been touting its long awaited answer to the Apple iPad – the Microsoft Surface – for some time now. This is Microsoft branded, Microsoft-built hardware which will come in two distinct flavours being a version running Windows 8 RT (on an […]
Overview The recently released Windows 8 operating system contained support for an interesting approach to running your operating system – off an external bootable device. This article will show you how to boot your operating system using an external USB drive. If you’re not sure what Windows To Go is […]
Last night Microsoft’s TechEd conference kicked off the annual delegate event, this year titled ‘Hyped’. The venue was, incidentally, at the convention centre; a slightly disappointing change from MovieWorld in 2007. As we were leaving the centre after our last session of the day, we couldn’t help but notice the […]