For those of you with kids, here’s a scenario that you may or may not have thought of:
If you’re anything like me you’ve introduced your son/daughter to technology as soon as they’re able to grab something without sticking it into their mouths. You’ve bought them a little notebook mouse to fit their hand, and taught [...]
Big congratulations go to my dear friend Ruth Paul.
Ruth won the Children’s Choice Award for her illustrated book The King’s Bubbles (of which I have two copies - one for good, and the other for reading, and reading, and reading…).
I love Ruth’s artwork, and am proud to say I have one of her illustrations hanging [...]
People can sometimes go on a little about their particular technology fetish. Be it Apple, Blackberry, Palm, Windows, its nice to see some passion out there.
One thing is always sure to sell though, and that is well considered design. I’ve posted briefly about this before (http://moses.net.nz/2007/12/20/everything-coming-up-apples/) when I got my Mac. Here’s a short follow [...]
The second (and last I promise) in my series of shameless self-promotion; I just can’t go by without mentioning that I passed my PMP exam and am now a qualified Project Manager.
Many PMs that I know don’t put much emphasis on the PMBOK saying that its over-engineered and in some cases pointless. In a [...]
I had the great pleasure of graduating from Victoria University on the 15th. I love marching through town (my 3rd time) and wearing the academic gowns. Some may find it a little self-gratuitous, but if you spend 4 years of night lectures and assignments whilst working full-time you may want to as well.
Congratulations to VUW [...]
If you’ve read my blog you’ll know that I’m a Palm user with a possible hankering for an iPhone.
RIM’s recent announcement could open me up to the world of the Blackberry however.
Is it just me, or does the Bold look like a cross between the Centro and iPhone??
I love seeing organisations embrace technology, I really do. The first time I saw a waiter use a handheld device to take my order and have it transmitted wirelessly to the kitchen, I smiled.
McDonalds has been using Windows Mobile devices for a while now with wireless connectivity. Staff run down the long lines, [...]
Picture this: you need some work done on your car. You don’t know anything about engines, or sparkplugs or alternators. You just know that the engine is important, and you need someone with specialised skills to fix or enhance it.
Anyway, you take it into a garage - one that you’ve used before so you trust [...]
Do you limit the scope of new projects based solely on the technology you’re comfortable with?
Think about it. You or your team are technical experts on .Net with SQL Server and you’ve been asked by a customer to come up with a quick, but functional solution for a website marketing campaign. You’d use .Net of [...]
Documents with Style
I’ve spent a great many hours this week reviewing documents for the project that I’m managing. Whilst I understand the technology and the way all the various components of our application fit together, I don’t profess to fully understand the content; that’s not my job.
In a nutshell I need to make sure that anything that [...]