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Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:38 PM

Community Server and Feedburner

The discussion about knowing how many people read your blog was started the other day by James Green . I quite like the idea of waiting for people to tell me they've read my blog, or referring to it in their own blogs, or posting a comment on my own one...
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Friday, December 29, 2006 2:10 PM

Ok, who didn't get an Acer laptop?

I was just looking at the list of some of the people who got these things . In no particular order: Robert Scoble , Craig Pringle , Mitch Denny , Brandon LeBlanc , Scott Beale , Joey deVilla , Mauricio Freitas , plus a heap of others I'm sure. Naturally...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:19 PM

The only way to do a handover

Over the years I've seen a few people quit their job, and typically as soon as they hand in their notice, panic sets in as the person's replacement is identified and a handover is done. And how is a handover done? Essentially by pair programming . It...
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Friday, December 01, 2006 2:35 PM

Simulation questions in 70-431

Earlier this year I was one of four people who wrote a bunch of simulation questions for 70-431 . Today I heard from someone who has sat the exam with that content in it. It's great to get feedback on them, because it really helps Microsoft Learning work...
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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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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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Monday, October 16, 2006 12:07 PM

Developing presenters with an open mic night

In August I ran a tag-team user-group meeting . The idea was that people within the group would get up and give a really short presentation about something which they thought was cool. I had a few people put their hands up, and I prompted a few more people...
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