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Hard to believe, but my software career has been rolling along for about 18 years now. My career is old enough to vote, to be drafted for US military service, to drive, but ironically not old enough to drink alcohol (if there’s one thing my career does well is drive me to drink!) Over those …
Dialog boxes. Oh how I hate dialog boxes - particularly when there's so little dialogue actually involved! Anyone use Outlook? You've probably seen this gem: So the software is smart enough to see that I entered a comma delimited list, but it's not smart enough to replace them …
I’m delighted to be invited to the Australian Computer Society’s Young IT Professionals meeting this week to give a short preso and participate in a panel discussion on “cloud” computing. For events on this topic in the past I’ve generally spent most of my time talking about the different …
We’ve seen a number of high profile outages recently in some IaaS and PaaS offerings. All vendors (I hope) have various service level agreements (SLA’s) that try to explain the guarantee that they make about the availability of the platform. But what happens when …
The YOW Cloud Night was primarily a panel discussion, I did share a couple of slides about Azure. By request, here they are... YOWAzure.pdf Download this file The Sydney stop of the event is next week (June 14 - visit http://yownightsydcloudjune.eventbrite.com/ ) so please come and join …
There’s a disconnect between the business models for custom software development of the past and the new age of SaaS and PaaS. It goes a little something like this: The "exectuive" thinks that this whole PaaS thing sounds like the bees knees. He can finally get that project …
The Windows Azure Australia “My Concept Rules” contest has been an incredible success and the winner will be decided tomorrow June 2 at REMIX11! We have decided to add a “people’s choice” category to the contest, too. Use the following FaceBook page to vote …
Great title for this panel discussion " Hey! You! Get Onto Our Cloud!" I'll be representing Azure along with speakers from Amazon Web Services, Ninefold, CloudFoundry, Salesforce and others. A great knock-down, drag-out night of PaaS carnage: guaranteed fun for all! Melbourne - …
I had an excellent session yesterday with a distinguished (ahem) panel of judges to try to cull some of the entries in our Australian Windows Azure "My Concept Rules" contest down to a short-list of finalists. Now, I'll say right at the outset that the entries were almost all …
I've been having a conversation among some of my colleagues here on the Azure team about Apple getting into the PaaS space. You may have seen this post http://gigaom.com/apple/apple-may-have-snapped-up-icloud-com/ about a new domain they may have grabbed. While …
