Scott Hanselman is in Australia as a special guest presenter at NDC Sydney and will be stopping in Sydney to talk at an extra-special Sydney user group, where he will be presenting two 1-hour sessions: What you need to know Come and find out from Scott Hanselman what you need to know to be a […]
UPDATE: journalist James Robertson mentions this post in his article, “Federal election 2016: Liberal Party company charging taxpayers for ‘antiquated’ software, say experts” in the Sydney Morning Herald. – I hate waste, but while running a software company, I’ve seen plenty of it over the past 20 years. Sometimes an app that could have been […]
My goal over the years has been to shrink the time for a developer to learn new technology so they are job-ready. A couple of weekends ago, I was invited onto the Locknote panel at this year’s DDD Sydney conference. The topic of discussion was learning. The two most common questions asked were: What is […]
Let’s do an analysis of the UI differences between the FitBit and the Microsoft Band. Watch out, Microsoft… the FitBit user interface just got better. I last blogged about the Microsoft Band 2 and my wishlist of 25 features. I’m pleased that the team has already fixed 3 features, leaving 22 remaining 🙂 Everyone in the Cogan household is […]
SSW is live with SharePoint 2016 and to me, this is the most exciting release ever! Jeff Teper, the boss of SharePoint, is back and you can definitely feel it in the latest feature announcements. I see cohesion in the announced features, a vision of connecting people with their data both organizational and personal, on […]
Google have made some great changes with the next version of Angular a.k.a. Angular 2.0.
Here are the 6 things you should know about Angular 2.0.
Over the years, I’ve talked about how I’ve wanted features shipped into production quicker. Now I’m going to talk about how you can ensure that the features that your devs ship are at a high quality. When the devs get to the exciting point when the code is done, they commit the code (in Git) or […]
JavaScript frameworks are a lot like high fashion. One moment you’re in and the next, you’re out. To demonstrate just how turbulent the current landscape is, we made a short “Mad Money” style parody video explaining which JavaScript frameworks you should be using this year. It’s only 2 minutes long, give it a watch now […]
I’ve come to really enjoy writing these end-of-year review posts. I find it’s not until I’m looking back that I realise just how huge a year it’s been, and how much we’ve achieved – and 2015 was no exception! This year SSW doubled our YouTube presence, we’ve kept working and upgrading to the best and […]
UPDATED: 14 December 2015 – An update added music controls and an inactivity monitor UPDATED #2: 16 December 2015 – Updated to reflect some feedback I received from Ali Alvi, product owner for the Microsoft Band 2 UPDATED #3: 20 January 2016 – After spending more time with the band, I’ve added a few more tips for […]