Software, AI and IT insights
Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
Web 2.0 - what is it? A practical and realistic definition of Web 2.0
After reading many web sites, discussed with peers, IT professionals, Marketing people, etc, I think I have come across to best possible definition of Web 2.0 I attended an AMCHAM seminar by Dominic Thurbon from the…
in Productivity
New web site for PicNet - 50 reasons why you need a web site
We have produced a new web site for PicNet including a refreshed corporate image, look and feel. Our top notch web designer, the creative and the development teams have put together a great web site to inform our…
Rendering a Spark Partial View to a string
I needed to do this recently so I searched the interweb and quickly found this great article by Brent Edwards: http://blog.edwardsdigital.com/post/Rendering-a-Spark-partial-view-to-a-string-or-JSONP-with-ASPNET-MVC.aspx…
Time is Money
As the old adage goes - "Time is Money". This is especially true for those who provide professional services. Traditionally, professional service providers such as accountants or lawyers have recorded their times on…
in It Support
Spam - is it a real problem? More than 90% of emails are spam.
At PicNet we managed service a number of corporate environments, and at some, we have installed Google email filtering powered by Postini (that we resell rebranded as Risk shield email protection). At others, we have…
XML Settings Files - No more web.config
One of my pet hates is working on projects where previous developers have decided to dump all of their settings in the web.config file. Some of the reasons why I dislike this practice is: So now lets look at the nice…