I have been trying to find a stylus to use with my iPad. I have tried a few, and they have been generally disappointing. I like to use my iPad to draw pictures and it’s hard to do with my fingers. But styluses are generally not …
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I’m traveling in the US this week to go to the Microsoft Convergence 2012 conference in Houston and then to Las Vegas to meet some vendors. This is the first time I have consciously travelled without my laptop on a business trip, and instead, brought my iPhone and iPad.
It’s day 3 and I don’t miss …
Read More >I recently attended a presentation where an interestying graphic was presented. It was a map of the world where each? of the lines represented a social connection of significance. The darker the line, the more significant the connection.
But there were some interesting visualisations here;
- Firstly is …
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How do you know when you are finished? This can be quite difficult.
You are working on something and you need to get that deliverable finished; a document, a piece of code, a project, a building or a Lego creation. But when do you now you are done?
This can be extra hard if you consider yourself …
Read More >Technical Debt is a concept that was introduced in Agile project delivery as a way to understand how to make better software development decisions. I think it’s just as relevant in any technology based decisions.
So much so that I propose that there is a mathematical formula to explain it.
2012 has started and so has my 5th month at Echo Entertainment, and I must admit, I’m having a ball!!!
For those that don’t know, Echo Entertainment was the result of a demerger of the casino business in TabCorp. We own & operate 4 casinos in Australia; The Star in Sydney, Jupiters on …
Read More >Came across this really interesting infographic about customer retention. The focus is on gaming, but at a high level, the key points are critical and most often forgotten.
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Source: From the great mixpanel blog on gaming, http://blog.mixpanel.com/2011/09/16/infographic-what-you-should-know-about-visitor-retention/
Read More >Enterprise Architecture is an important practice that has come out in the last 10 years. To me, its an attempt at the ‘grand unified theory‘ in business & technology. And of the most important models within Enterprise Architecture is to derive the Business Architecture which sits at the top of this tree. After …
Read More >I have been involved in some interesting conversations recently, where technical founders are struggling to find business co-founders and vice versa. Additionally, there seems to be the search for the holy grail of what …
Read More >When solving a problem, we come across what seems the most obvious issue, and fix it. We then assume that the problem has gone. But there are many instances when there are a deeper set of problems that don’t appear so obvious.
Take for example debugging code. When it is determined that there is a bug, …
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