tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65362979549005585922011-07-08T10:46:11.234+10:00This blog is dedicated to deciphering the latest and greatest (and legacies) in the technology world in bite sized, digestible formats that busy people can review quickly and easily. Along with this will come my unbiased opinion of the items discussed, based on over 20 years working in the technology industry. I encourage comments and feedback: good or bad, so please do not be shy!Brett Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04752903490735495604noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536297954900558592.post-55102725372503035472010-02-08T16:15:00.003+11:002010-02-08T16:18:41.260+11:00

For your review:

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Last night I (along with my colleague Dave Birchall) had the privilege of presenting at Microsoft Australia to the BizTalk Users Group (thanks Mick Badran!).Our topic centred around the InRule business rules engine and business rules management system - and how it might work with Microsoft BizTalk Server. As many of you in the world of BizTalk might know from experience, the BRE supplied can be

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Recently I found myself out of the office with web mail access only. As we have Exchange 2007 I was able to connect to our web mail via Outlook Web Access (OWA). I found that I would compose a new email (or reply) and hit 'send', but the new message would only be persisted and get stuck in the Drafts folder.This seemed to only happen on occasional days, and it didn't matter if I was using the OWA

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Total cost of ownership (TCO) plays a large part in the consideration of developing, purchasing and building of enterprise software applications. Not only does one need to consider how much effort and cost it will take to gather requirements, analyse, design and implement the system, but also what will the ongoing costs be.One of the key factors to understanding in the costs of supporting and

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I have recently started working with Microsoft CRM 4.0 and have been smitten a bit by its capabilities. However I do find that out of the box there are some simple things missing that would have been nice to provide.One of the main items is this: if you open a new Phone Call form and select the Recipient, you need to manually enter the phone number into the Phone Number textbox.After lots of hair

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Recently I came across what I would consider a huge leap forward for the planet - proof that our addiction to petroleum-based fuels has a rehab program: the resurgence of the electric car. Now this is not anything new by any stretch - electric vehicles have been around for quite some time now. However, a very smart, very well funded startup has emerged from Silicon Valley that will change the way

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This was bound to happen sooner or later, and I am actually very interested to see where this service goes. qik.com is a streaming video live-to-web service that uses the video camera on your mobile phone (limited to certain, but many models) via your mobile internet connection.qik is yet another service in the plethora of those available in the ever-growing social media/web 2.0 space. It is

Brett Ravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04752903490735495604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536297954900558592.post-63533595269601216972008-06-19T12:30:00.000+10:002008-06-26T16:44:05.508+10:00

There's something abuzz in the social media space lately that you may have heard of. www.twitter.com is a new-ish 'micro-blogging' service that allows you keep tabs on those people you are 'following' and to allow your followers to keep tabs on you.Make sense yet? Didn't think so.If you are a user of Facebook or LinkedIn, you have already seen something similar in action. Close to your profile

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