Dec 13, 2019

8 Tips to Strengthen Your DevOps (Project KNOWnoise)

At SSW we’ve been lucky enough to deliver a cool project with many technologies and stakeholders. This project really benefitted from great DevOps practices. The lead developer was SSW Solution Architect, Matt Wicks. Matt is also a Microsoft DevOps FastTrack Partner Consultant, and he’s passionate about great DevOps. Making the client, Hutchison Weller happy Hutchison Weller had a unique requirement. If the construction project was going to create a lot of noise, they […]

Nov 6, 2019

SSW had fun at NDC – gotta catch ’em all!

Adam Cogan NDC Sydney 0 Comments

The NDC conference gets better and better every year. I look forward to it, and the SSW devs say it’s awesome. It’s located at the Hilton in Sydney’s CBD, and runs over 5 days. I attend a lot of conferences around the world and NDC is my favourite developer conference. The first 2 days are […]

Sep 26, 2019

I like big bots and I cannot lie… 5 simple ways bots should be answering questions for your business

Adam Cogan AI, NDC Sydney 0 Comments

Bots used to be very expensive to build. Now with Microsoft and Google offering nice bot development platforms, businesses are building bots in days. At SSW we have built bots on both platforms and discovered their differences, worked out the pros and cons, and some best practices for developing on these platforms. Regardless of the […]

Jul 29, 2019

BREAST – Improving Radiologists’ Ability to Detect Breast Cancer

Adam Cogan SSW Projects 1 Comment

Cancer is very prevalent in my family. My mum has had breast cancer; she has 5 siblings – 4 out of the 5 got cancer too. It really runs down one side of my family. So, this topic is pretty important to me, especially having two beautiful girls myself. We do a lot of software projects at […]

Jun 10, 2019

Video: The SSW Motorcycle – Risky attempt to move a big motorbike up some stairs…It seemed like a …

Adam Cogan General 1 Comment

About 2 years ago, I had a very serious accident on my motor bike that put me in hospital and wrote off my bike. As I reported I recovered fine. It was a shiny black cruiser, a Honda VTX 1800C fat-boy motorcycle, – a loud gorgeous bike. Even though I hadn’t had a stack since […]

Apr 5, 2019

China: Coming to a Town Near You

Adam Cogan Chinafy china, chinafy, didi, uber 1 Comment

I’ve been interested in China for over 2 decades. I’ve always been impressed with the way the Chinese have developed their own digital eco-system following the introduction of the Great Firewall of China in 2009. Since that fateful year, 2009, China, in its own technosphere, has evolved into one of the world’s leading digital economies. […]

Mar 6, 2019

Azure DevOps wishlist: auto-tagging Project Languages & Technologies

Adam Cogan Azure dear microsoft, tip don't rant 2 Comments

Say your project is basically a Vue.js, .NET Core 2.1, Azure Logic Apps and Azure AKS. I think it would be wonderful to see that straight away in the tags.

Some NuGet packages are important. e.g. Entity Framework or Azure Table Storage. These tell you a bit about the project before you even have a look at it. An amazing feature would be to improve the Auto Tag feature (for both products).

Feb 6, 2019

5 lessons in leadership from a “reluctant leader”, David Neal

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After presenting “Leadership for the Reluctant Leader” at NDC Sydney, David Neal sat down with Adam Cogan to talk about leadership. This is what Adam learned.

Jan 4, 2019

Adam’s 2018 in review

Adam Cogan General, JavaScript Frameworks, SSW Projects 2018 in review, year in review 1 Comment

2018 was a whirlwind year and one that I’m very proud of. It’s fun to look back on and share with you all. This year SSW launched 2 new user groups, hit our highest utilisation rates for client bookings, and ran dozens of sold-out training courses around Australia.

On a more personal level, I was lucky enough to be renewed as a Microsoft MVP for more than the 15th time, presented at a bunch of conferences, both in Australia and abroad, and spent several months living and working in Hangzhou, China with my little one, Ruby. Then, the whole family joined me at the end of the year in December.

Dec 5, 2018

Luckin Coffee vs Starbucks: A Luckin Success in China

Adam Cogan Chinafy china, coffee, luckin, starbucks 5 Comments

There’s a new coffee shop chain in China, called Luckin Coffee, and it’s been fascinating to watch their rise in the local market. I know from my own observations that the Chinese in the big cities love their coffee. I’m aware the current stats on coffee consumption per nation says that the average person in China drinks only 3 coffees per year. However, that is changing *rapidly*.