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  • November 7, 2010

    Windows Phone 7

    Last week I picked up a Windows Phone 7 running on a HTC Mozart handset. Added a few Apps (Feed Reader, Weather, Adobe Reader) and have been listening to FM Radio. Some highlights include a very fast data connection on Australia’s Telstra Network and an email client that is fully compatible with Hotmail. The Metro…

  • November 7, 2010

    Open standards

    I’m quite impressed with the current drive for and adoption of open technology standards in business. Open standards include (but are not limited to) UML, WSDL, HTML etc. Open standards demonstrate forward thinking in systems architectural design that is attempting to prevent long term vendor lock in e.g. ‘WSDL first’ Web Services development decouples the…

  • July 22, 2010

    My Epiphany

    Recently I’ve groked standards based web technology in a way that can only be described as an epiphany. This doesn’t mean I’ve turned my back on what I’ve known before, rather it means I’ve seen through my indifference to building software for the browser in a way that makes me a better developer. Specific technologies…

  • April 17, 2009

    Critical Thinking

    It’s interesting how different points of view can lead people to have different opinions given the same basic information. I’ve been a long time fan of building desktop software for Windows and have resisted the move to the web based technologies that are strongly favoured by the enterprise. My argument has been to choose the…

  • April 13, 2009

    Live Mesh

    Live Mesh is Microsoft’s offering (currently in beta) on the future of Cloud Computing for consumers. Live Mesh integrates with Windows Explorer and lets you specify folders & files that you want to synchronise between your devices. Currently I only have one device in my mesh (my laptop), but this still gives me a backup…

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