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December 28, 2016

My George Michael Tribute – 7 signs for his 7 number one singles

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I’ve had a long love of George Michael’s music… Bought every album… Loved his concerts. The early concerts had a lot of young girls… The last concerts had a large percentage of Greek women in their 40s 🙂 and gay guys in their 20s. What I liked most of all was George’s sincerity in his […]

December 8, 2016

How to learn Angular 2 fast

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This month we have been running our Angular Super Powers tour in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. We always knew Angular 2 would be a hot topic, but we were overwhelmed with the demand for the 1-day training event. We sold out tickets in every city. We even had to turn some people away due to the fire […]

November 8, 2016

The SSW Getaway

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Trump is President. It was certainly an experience being in the USA for the vote results last night. It’s been a big surprise for everyone I’ve spoken to on the Microsoft Campus. My prediction in 6 months: Trump says: I’m cancelling the wall. Hillary suggested it in the 1st place and I always said it […]

October 13, 2016

Power BI – No More Guessing

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UPDATE 9/02/2017: I’ve added Uly’s Power BI presentation to the bottom of this post.  Power BI has significantly changed how I view my company’s data, and the insight I now have into how my business is running is unprecedented. The biggest change has been that the account managers are now in charge of making the reports, […]

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September 14, 2016

SSW Chapel – Doing a Renovation in 6 Days!

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I am happy to let you know that the SSW Chapel is up and running. We completed the renovation in 6 days and is now the smartest conference area in Sydney because it allows both recording and live streaming.

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August 11, 2016

Hanselman Unplugged 2

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Last week was awesome! NDC Sydney was such a fantastic event. It was super well-run by the Vikings from Norway + SSW was well represented with 2 cool stands at the conference and 4 speakers. We had Adam Stephensen (aka Stevo) and Duncan Hunter from our Brisbane office + Danijel Malik and myself from Sydney. […]

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July 29, 2016

Handsome man Hanselman is coming to Sydney

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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 […]

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June 26, 2016

Australian Government Software Project: How to blow 10 million dollars

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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 […]

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June 6, 2016

I have learnt how to train developers in the shortest time possible

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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 […]

June 3, 2016

The Microsoft Band 2’s UI vs. Fitbit

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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 […]

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