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Understanding the importance of Containerisation and Docker

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For those who have worked with open-source technologies for some time would know that containerisation of apps and services is not a new concept. I was first introduced to the concept of virtual containers when Parallels formally known as ‘SWsoft’ and now called ‘Odin’ first released a product called Virtuozzo which provided a virtualisation technology that enabled operating system virtualisation. This was a platform […]

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Office Sway the new creative presentation tool for Microsoft Office

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Microsoft has just launched a technical preview of a new application that will join the Office family called ‘Sway’. I am interested as this new tool seems to be a re-invented web-friendly Publisher cross between PowerPoint and some Prezi attributes. As you can see from the video above and the sample Sway I have embedded in this post, the

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Big Data is tomorrows treasure chest for cyber criminals

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The last decade has seen the growth of cloud computing. Software and services delivered via the internet ‘the cloud’ has become the default and we now consume and post data to cloud services in some form or another every time we switch on our devices. The proliferation of mobile apps has certainly contributed to the

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SkyDrive to OneDrive: Re-branding announcement by Microsoft

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The last 6 months have been extremely busy for me with many projects on my agenda; unfortunately the blog received the least priority and finding time to post new content has been difficult. On the bright side, I had noted down topics to come back and write on so hopefully in the coming months I

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SkyDrive now has Recycle Bin and Excel Survey tool on the way

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As I am a big fan of the SkyDrive service and have been a long time user (Live Mesh Technical Preview user), I am always keen to keep up on the developments of the service as it moves into a more mature state. You can read the development team’s blog here: http://windowsteamblog.com/skydrive/b/skydrive/. Although in this post I wanted to

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How the internet is driving the evolution of the education sector now and into the next decade

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In this post I would like to share with you a TED talk that I found inspiring – enough to write this article. I have come to understand from working in the education sector for several years now the challenges that educators and schools alike face in today’s dynamic and ever-changing world. Education is the

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Unauthorized 401.1 Exception when calling Web Services in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

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This post is a small reminder to myself for the next time I may run into this problem when working with WSS 3.0 Web Services interface. Hopefully it might also save someone else a huge amount of time if they have a similar problem (A lot of time was wasted for me until I finally

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jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX Postbacks or Partial Page Rendering with UpdatePanel’s

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Recently I was working on a web application that made use of the new jQuery library for client-side UI enhancements. While being fairly new at working with ASP.NET’s AJAX I felt pretty confident that I would be able to make it all work to my advantage considering I have a good understanding/experience level with ASP.NET

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Free Anti-Virus Software: Microsoft Security Essentials now available

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Well, it’s been a bit of a wait for us Australian’s but we now have access to the Microsoft Security Essentials software. This is great news for everyone. You may remember back not so long ago when Microsoft released the Microsoft Anti-Spyware BETA then that package transformed into Windows Defender upon full release. Now days

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Configuring IIS 7.0 or IIS 6.0 for Silverlight Applications

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If your having a lot of difficulty getting a Silverlight application to work on your web server and can’t work out what the problem might be even after the Silverlight assemblies are registered on server and .NET framework is up-to-date then this might be what your missing. IIS7 for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server

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