Tonight I was lucky enough to meet Eric Ries, the founder/leader of the Lean Startup movement. Eric came to Sydney after being coaxed to this side of the Pacific by our ever resourceful and impressive friends, the Kiwi's, for Webstock, and Mick Liubinskas and Michelle Williams did
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While Startup Camp Sydney #3 was on this weekend, I was stuck in the middle of a very different engineering project - Backyard 2.0. Following on from Frontyard 2.0 this time last year, a bunch of us - thanks Mum, Pete, Amanda and Luke - got stuck into
After reading Techcrunch's post about following the Winter Olympics online, and realising that expensive broadcast rights would mean accessing international content from Australia would be tough, I headed over to ninemsn, the web presence for Australia's Channel 9, who have the rights to the 2010 Winter
Well, today is Valentines Day. As is the case with most things, The Simpsons got it right in this episode, which went on to win an Emmy back in 1998. You only need to watch the first 2 mins to get the joke. 09.22 Enjoy ;-)
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Just a small hat-tip to my home town basketball team, the Wollongong Hawks, who tonight are playing their last home game for the regular season, 2009/10. I remember with the sadness and disappointment a crowd of about 6000 people felt when the Hawks played what we all thought was
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Tonight I'm presenting a lightening talk at the ICT Illawarra event, our final event for 2009. Entitled "Plugging into the Startup Scene", I try to capture in a 5 minute talk some steps that can help Australian technology entrepreneurs to get connected to the thriving and
I've been around the Analytics scene for a few years now, and one of the biggest hassles with tracking for really really big sites, or sites where security is a massive deal (online banking, etc), has been the need to tag all the pages (for javascript tracking), or
We've got some exciting plans cooking in the cauldron over at Hiive Systems, and one of them involves replacing our existing config management system for deployments - a couple of config files separated into always changes and rarely changed parts - with something more scalable, dynamic while still
The Princes Hwy, the major road from Sydney, down the south coast of Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, ranges from suburban roads to freeways, and understandably, the speed limit along this road varies according to conditions. Through most of the suburban sections, this multi-lane road is
Unfortunately, the next month or two are likely to result in some form of legislation passing the Senate that results in all Australia's having their internet connections filtered using a mandatory, opaque system controlled by an agency of the Federal Government. Way back in January this year, after
I was lucky enough this week to be a guest of the team from Kells at a lecture they ran in Wollongong, featuring the acclaimed Simon Longstaff from the St James Ethics Centre. The morning lecture, which went for about an hour, with more than half an hour of questions
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News broke over the weekend (Australian time) covering the formal responses to the FCC's questions of Apple, AT&T and Google regarding the recent Google Voice debacle. Michael Arrington has written a really good piece on the responses of Apple, and he makes a compelling case that