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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:52 PM

Code Camp hits Adelaide

July 7-8 is the date for Code Camp SA. If you're superstitious and seven is your lucky number, then it might be worth pointing out that the date is 7/7/7. It's being organised by ADNUG, UniSA and the ACS, and you can find a full list of speakers...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 3:16 PM

Interviewed

Debbie Timmins , who I met through the ACS , asked to interview me. If you're interested to know what she asked, and how I responded, then check out http://deb.foocode.net/?p=87 Deb has been involved with the Young IT side of the ACS recently, and...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:02 AM

Paul Turner

Paul Turner is an Adelaide guy I know well. He's been a trainer at Kaz for quite a while, is on the local ACS executive committee with me and has been involved in the local .Net user-group too. He's had a couple of major lifestyle changes in the last...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:48 AM

Coffee and Community

It's amazing how coffee can be conducive to community. Community is about sharing, it's about developing passion and enthusiasm, it's about friendship. And coffee is too. The age-old invite - "Let's do coffee" - is a great way to sit down with someone...
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:41 AM

ACS BEC meeting

Last night I attended my first ACS Branch Executive Committee (SA) meeting. It was certainly quite interesting. Great to meet the other people, even some of those who are stepping down from the committee now (presumably to be replaced by me!). The new...
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Friday, October 27, 2006 12:52 PM

On learning (Calvin and Hobbes, the ACS and digital natives)

Digital natives learn differently. How do we take advantage of that? The funny thing is that right away, I've written this from an external perspective, when I'm probably in a mixture of both camps. Feel free to consider me in either camp as you...
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Friday, October 27, 2006 11:57 AM

What's wrong with IT?

To a large degree, it's the perception of experience. The IT industry has so many things wrong with it. It tends to be 'governed' (I don't know of a better word for what I mean there, 'run' would be wrong) by people in their 50s...
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:03 PM

ACS SA Branch Committee member now

I am now a member of the ACS Branch Executive Committee for South Australia . Hopefully I can influence things in some way, for the good of IT, the ACS and Adelaide. Of course, I have a few thoughts on what needs to be done... but I won't list them...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:03 PM

ACS SA Branch Committee

I've been nominated for the ACS SA Branch Committee. I've been a member of the ACS for a few months now - a Senior Member even. But it hasn't really meant a lot so far. As I want to be an influencer, particularly in regards to promoting IT...
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