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Research

Currently undertaking an Information Technology Degree in Honours by Research with Southern Cross University. The chosen area of study is Web Site Navigation looking specifically at how distraction on a website can effect a persons uptake of information. During the months of August/September/October i ran an online game experiment on www.websitenavigation.org the data from the experiment has been analysed an a thesis and industry paper is being prepared. The expected release dates for the thesis…

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Open Source Software

Why I use open source code Because it is not about re-inventing previous concepts but utilising and improving upon proven concepts. Therefore reducing the time it takes to simply get it working and spend that time on making it suit the business needs. What about Intellectual Property? As a business you can ask yourself, do you want the cost associated with maintaining and developing your own framework or technology? When technology always changes and is…

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DrupalCon Sydney & that #hashtag

Well DrupalCon Sydney went off with a bang and was a fantastic event. I ran around for the large part of it performing my role as Social Media Lead. My role was made harder by the fact that there was a consorted spam attack on the @DrupalCon account which seemed to be coming from a small group of people. This was not occurring because the #DrupalCon was trending. The good news is we managed to…

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Mozilla OS >> It is no longer a pipe dream

“I have been following MozillaOS for awhile now but this week I got to meet some people in Mozilla HQ in London who were responsible for pushig it forward. I can not tell you how excited I was. I have been watching this project since its announcement as I feel that it will be a real game changer for the Mobile Marketpace. Why do I think this? There are a couple of reasons that I…

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Seems Android is “attracting” Women

“Was not happy with this article today, http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/nokia-playing-to-win-with-fir… mainly the comment, “”Telsyte was seeing ‚all sorts‚of people buying Android devices or saying that they wanted to buy Android devices, Mr Fadaghi said. They’re not just nerdy males. We’re seeing a lot more females attracted to Android for the fact that [Android] devices have a lot of different looks and form factors. [They’re] a little bit more personalised than just the standard iPhone. Ok so the…

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