I'm a huge fan of the feedly reader in my browser. But there is something that has been driving me crazy. I constantly get unread messages that are entirely unrelated to my subscriptions, and I'm a bit of a stickler for making sure my inbox is cleared – including my RSS feeds, and I am …
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Sometimes you need to change the Session Timeout in your grails application. But the important thing to know is that its not really an attribute your application supports, but its something that you can tell your container to change.
To do this, you need access to your web.xml file, which is not available by default. First …
Read More >Today I went to Qantas’s 90th Birthday party at their Jet base in Sydney’s Mascot Airpot. John Travolta, the official ambassador for Qantas, was there along with a showcase of Aircraft that staff and friends could work around and through. Aircraft such as the original Constellation, the 707 V-Jet (John Travolta’s Personal Plane now), 767 …
Read More >I wouldn’t consider myself a Mac Fanboy (because I use and like other platforms and OSes) but I truly admire the constant quality that comes out of Cupertino. Their hardware, software, strategy and brand just comes together brilliantly.
But many of their applications are quite flawed, and need a lot of work. Regardless, I’ll typically persist …
Read More >They are famous words that have echoed with me for nearly 15 years. They were spoken to me by one of my early mentors in business. The discussion was around where you should invest in a business. And no matter how you looked it; great technology, great ideas, great processes, and even unique concepts are …
Read More >To have reached the No#1 spot in the Australian Aria Album Charts this week, you simply needed to have sold 3,600 copies!!!
Read More >One of the challenges with any software development team is to understand who should be driving the requirements? Typically this should be the responsibility of the Product Manager. But at Posse, we don’t have a Product Manager, instead, product management is done by myself and the CEO. This may be a little unusual, but as …
Read More >A few weeks ago I ‘officially’ became the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Posse.com, an Australian tech startup that provides a product & service affiliate sales channel for Social Networks that currently focusses on selling tickets to events.
So what is an “affiliate sales channel” you ask? Think of it this way; as our lives on …
Read More >After much frustration, I finally got my Virgin Mobile Huawai E160e modem to work on my MacBook Pro!!! And although it shouldn’t be that difficult, there is one quirk that I needed to do to make it work.
UPDATE: I have now used this solution on 2 different Macbook Pros; a 15″ 3.06 Core 2 …
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I finally got a UI designer to complete the mockups for my site. And when it was time to get the HTML markup, he suggested I use a “Design to HTML” service. There is lots of them out there. You pretty much give them the Photoshop PSD file, and in return they provide you with …
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