Continuing on from December’s “My 2012 as Microsoft Regional Director” post, I thought I might reflect on how 2012 went at SSW. It really was another great year for SSW with the launch of our new Metro website as well as our new SSW TV site. In 2012, SSW TV went from zero to 30,000 […]
Video: Celebrating our first 20 years – Sydney .NET User Group I am proud to be able to say that I have been running the Sydney .NET User Group for over 20 years now. During that time we’ve had some great and memorable speakers sharing information about a range of .NET topics. We’ve kept evolving […]
I’d like to let you know what I’ve been up to this year (next month, I’ll let you know what SSW has achieved). Since my main job is helping companies adopt and deploy Microsoft technologies, my roles at Microsoft are very useful for my customers and staff. As a Microsoft Regional Director and ALM MVP (where […]
I’ve just come back from Build 2012 where we have seen the fruits of Microsoft’s work over the last few years being Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and of course most importantly the Surface. I was lucky enough to be in the front row so I got to see things up close. We now have […]
Last weekend, we decided to take the plunge and upgrade our SSW TFS 2012 RC instance to the shiny new TFS 2012 RTM. It was early I know, we considered the risks vs the rewards, made a roll-back plan with HyperV and quickly decided it was worth the effort. We ploughed ahead with the upgrade […]
Updated August 12, 2015: I bought a Tesla. It has the most enormous touchscreen – no irritating nobs to turn 🙂 G’day Developers! For the last month I was driving through Germany, Italy, Austria and Croatia. I hired 3 different cars. Having mainly driven Toyotas, I was keen on experiencing some variety. The 1st one was […]
Over the weekend, we decided to take the plunge and upgrade the SSW TFS 2010 instance to the shiny new TFS 2012 release candidate. Initially, there was some debate as to whether we should upgrade what is the busiest server in our environment. One call to Grant Holliday made all the difference and we quickly reached a […]
1st February 1917 – 4th January 2012 94.9 years Figure: Jack Cogan’s British Passport Yesterday, 2 significant events occurred: · my eldest girl Eve, had her 10th birthday · my dad died at 94 The one thing I am most thankful for is that my dad still stayed himself, right to the end. He still […]
Juval Löwy came to visit us at SSW last week to present an Architects Masterclass. He covered the Service-Oriented Development process and WCF and treated the attendees to some enthusiastic opinions on software development architecture. Cheers, @AdamCogan
I’m in India at the moment with Damian Brady and Adam Stephensen running a Professional Scrum Developer course. The training is with a group of 24 guys with varying roles – developers, testers, architects, and managers. At the end of the course, they will all have the opportunity to sit an online exam to become […]