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December 14, 2012

My 2012 as a Microsoft Regional Director

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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 […]

November 18, 2012

Microsoft is onto something here

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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 […]

August 13, 2012

TFS 2012 RTM to RC – Done

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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 […]

August 13, 2012

German Cars and User Experience

Adam Cogan Gadgets, User Experience 5 Comments

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 […]

June 3, 2012

Upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 RC – Done

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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 […]

January 5, 2012

Jack Cogan – RIP

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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 […]

July 18, 2011

Juval Löwy visits SSW

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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

May 31, 2011

Professional Scrum Developer Course – New Delhi Day 1

Adam Cogan Scrum, Training 3 Comments

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 […]

January 4, 2003

Eve Paraskevi Cogan’s is one and she is Christening!

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Please come along and enjoy a day with Eve to celebrate her Christening. When: Saturday January 4 2003; 11am Where: Greek Church in Leichardt And afterwords at our place till 5pm. A few pictures from her first year

January 4, 2002

Eve Cogan Makes it into the world!

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This is to announce that at 1.03 a.m. (Sydney Daylight Savings time) on Friday 4th January 2002 EVE PARASKEVI COGAN was born into the world by Anastasia and Adam Cogan. (In Greek Paraskevi means Friday). We can’t wait to hear Eve after Adam explained .NET to her.

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