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 […]
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 evening I was going through the filing cabinet trying to lighten our trove of paperwork when I came across this old domain renewal notice from my former registrar, Melbourne IT. Now, I suppose I had been lax in transferring the domain to a registrar with a more palatable pricing […]
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 […]
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 […]
Well, the holiday season is upon us… This usually means Christmas parties, a general drop in productivity and a gentle slide into rest and time off. I’m going to endeavour to continue to get articles up onto the site over the holiday period. I’ve got a box of goodies to […]
It was a little while ago that I blogged about Richard Bank’s approach to revert the menu in Visual Studio 2012 back to the friendly and reliable sentence case style that we all know and love. Since then, Visual Studio 2012 has launched with the RTM version, moving out of […]
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 […]