2016 was a big year for Microsoft developers. We saw good work from Microsoft – the 3 biggest items for SSW are: Extending .NET to non-Microsoft platforms like OSX and Linux with the release of .NET Core, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for Mac Some of the guys in the SSW office are now […]
I love these end of year review posts. When you’re in the thick of a project, it can be hard to see the forest for the trees, but when you stop, reflect, and look back… it’s a beautiful landscape. That’s what this year has been like. Celebrity deaths, the US election, the SSW reno… phew. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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. […]
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 […]