Last month I was lucky enough to try out a wireless charging solution for the iPhone 5/5s courtesy of a local mobile phone accessories site called MobileZap. Before we get into the charger itself, I just want to point out how well designed the site is to use, it’s terribly […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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This morning I struggled to get Microsoft Lync 2013 to work. The symptoms consisted of the application running normally – I could authenticate, and the contact list would load – but after a few minutes the application would hang. Naturally, I Googled the symptoms and found a match for the […]
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 […]
Yesterday I attended an executive breakfast briefing hosted by Oracle at the Hyatt Hotel in Yarralumla. The event was hosted by Oracle’s Chief Technology Officer, Stuart Long and also featured a case study by NTT Communications. As usual, I took shorthand notes based partly off the presentation slides and mostly […]
Do you prefer offline help and documentation? Sometimes I prefer offline help, particularly when I’m travelling or when a stable Internet connection is not available. It is particularly useful if you work in an environment where external access is difficult, for example in a secure datacentre. I find offline documentation […]
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 […]
It’s been a few years – more than I’d like to admit – since I hand built my current server/workstation. It was way back in 2008 when living in Brisbane that I ponied up the cash to procure the appropriate hardware. Fast forward to now, in 2014, the current rig […]
Hi All. The Law Society are hosting an interesting seminar later this month in Sydney and the topic is about privacy in the era of modern technology – a.k.a the digital age. This is a very timely and appropriate topic for review as we are faced with brand new moral, […]
At the moment the annual Microsoft BUILD conference is currently under way in San Francisco in the United States. This is a time when Microsoft typically unveils major changes to its platforms and other major products – this conference sort of replaces the old Platform Developer Conference (PDC) from ye […]
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 […]
Did you know that Oracle and Java were available on the Windows Azure? Well, it’s true and the images have been available for some time now as previews in the Azure Virtual Machine gallery. If you’ve invested into Oracle/Java on Azure, you’ll need to be prepared for increased usage charges […]
Introduction Hello and apologies for the long delay between articles, I am now returning to the Entity framework. Following on from the previous article (Entity Validation) I’m back to review the latest edition of the generic data access class. In the time between my original series of articles concerning disconnected […]
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 […]