I love being an employee of Datacom New Zealand. If you have an idea and the means to get it done, you’ll get it done at Datacom. My idea was to get a bunch of our top developers together [...]

iPhone or Android? .NET or Java? Coffee or ISO Tea? As geeks, it feels like the majority of our discourse comes down to technical debate. Scott Guthrie has put up a corker of a post dissecting technical debates in general. It’s [...]

Yes yes I know. SharePoint who the what now? Welcome, friend, to the delightful world of my day job. The way I see it, I have two options: Start an entirely new blog for my work persona that I’d update twice a [...]

It’s all Microsoft, all the time on Ben.geek.nz at the moment. Last week it was a week of brain-bending SharePoint training with Steve Smith from Combined Knowledge. This week I’m working with Mauricio from Geekzone on the Unnoficial Tech.Ed Blog. We’re [...]

You may or may not know that my day job involves bitwrangling for Datacom, using Microsoft development platforms (yes yes evil empire yadda yadda – give me a break). As such, I’m excited that Tech.Ed New Zealand is a mere [...]

The more time I spend in this software development game, the more I believe that all these fancy methodologies are just codified common sense. Back when I first started managing projects, I got hold of a great book called “The Project [...]

New managers will know that micromanagement is bad. In the software development world, micromanagement tends to be particularly bad, because it often means a manager who is out of date with technology will meddle in decisions best left to the [...]