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Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
The unspoken truth about why your IT sucks
I stumbled across this article this morning and found it quite an interesting read. The article describes why many organisations struggle with IT due to a lack of standard definitions for terminology and practices.…
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Javascript runtime compilation using Asp.Net and Google's Closure Compiler
Working on complex javascript projects usually means working with lots of javascript files. When it comes time to deploy this to production it can be be very tedious and sometimes dangerous to do this manually. This…
Off shoring - Why bother?
Looking a bit further than the "rate" provided by off shoring services, you find a very deep pool of other issues that need to be considered before off shoring… and then you wonder, why bother? Unless your project is…
Exchange 2010 has launched!
Microsoft has recently released the new version of Exchange Mail Server 2010. As with each new version of Exchange new features are added and it's very nice to see that the focus on new features around retention,…
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Game of Life in JQuery
Hi All, I've just done a tutorial video on JQuery, I chose to hack together a quick version of the Game of Life. This tutorial aims to show how JQuery can help you modify the DOM on the fly and do some nifty…
IT Disaster Recovery Plans may be dead
PicNet Users Group - 22nd October 2009 Topic: Disaster Recovery The PicNet Users Group meets quarterly, bringing together CIOs and senior IT managers of large Australian companies to informally discuss important…