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LEARNING TO FLY WITH WITH LEARN TO FLY - MELBOURNE   SEPTEMBER 5, 2018   LTF student Balendran Thavarajah has just successfully completed his first solo flight. We thought it would be a great idea to share his flight story, to show you that it is possible to juggle a busy professional and family life with your dream of learning to fly. LTF: YOU’RE CURRENTLY COMPLETING YOUR RPC – WHAT’S YOUR END GOAL WITH FLYING? Balendran: In the short term, I would like to complete my RPC with passenger and cross-country endorsements. Ultimately, I want to obtain a Private Pilot Licence. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO FLY? I was fascinated by planes and the idea of an aircraft moving through the air. As a kid, I wanted to be a fighter jet pilot but, growing up in Northern Sri Lanka during a prolonged civil war provided no such opportunities. After arriving in Australia, I realised that private aviation was not for the privileged alone. Last year,
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Hiring for success

                              Hiring for success It goes without saying that you hire great people and they build a company for you. Here are three points to consider when you are hiring, particularly if you are hiring to build your first product. 1. Don't hire someone if you would not work for them This has nothing to do with how smart the person is; it is all about the attitude and personality. This is the philosophy Facebook adopted in their early days and Zuckerberg publicly admitted that he did not hire people if he thought he could not work for them. If you hire B grade players they would end up hiring C grade players and the quality continues to drop. Pay attention to equal employment opportunity laws and make sure you clearly state your requirements in the position description. You will be asked for feedback from candidates with qualifications and experience meeting the selection criteria but eventually failed to make it. 2. Hire the smartest people and get o
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Next Generation Testing Leadership Summit in Melbourne

                          Next Generation Testing Leadership Summit in Melbourne As the mobile devices and Internet of Things are reshaping the landscape for testing and QA, the Next Generation Testing Leadership conference in Melbourne on the 27 of May 2015, would feature discussions and workshops on a range of topics including future of testing, mobile testing as well as cloud and IoT testing. When productivity and time to market determine whether a product would survive, it is absolutely important to make sure that quality does not take the back seat. Rapid innovation in technology and applications place enormous pressure on testing to keep up. The next generation testing will demand tools to test sophisticated applications in the areas of connected homes and smart cities. I am delighted to be part of the conference and champion the cause for non-traditional methods to QA. Check out the agenda and complete list of topics here. http://www.nextgentesting.org/melbourne/201
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Combine agile and rapid prototyping to deliver a successful Microsoft Dynamics CRM project very quickly

  The Situation: If you are in the Software Development space you would have been at some stage, part of a long and winding CRM project. Also the reasons for the lengthy CRM projects range from requirements changing through the course of the project, lack of strong vendor selection process to strong leadership to make critical decisions. There is no silver bullet that can get you through the project without any of the above simply because projects are established and executed by people. How do we tackle a CRM project without much fuss.?   The Solution discussion: Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides the basic building blocks and the tools to extend it to meet your custom requirements. It is also easier to deliver a successful Dynamics CRM project faster by Combining Agile and rapid prototyping. This is exactly the approach being demonstrated here. This approach may not work if you don’t have enough experience within delivery team to estimate work effort accurately and execute variou
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External Authentication providers for SharePoint 2010–(Oracle/Sun Directory as user stores)

External Authentication providers for SharePoint 2010: Thank you for continuing to read my blogs. It is a Sunday afternoon and the Roosters are leading Panthers 10 points to 6 in NRL, by the look of it, it has all the signs of turning into a one sided match in the second half. I thought I might write a blog about SharePoint and Single Sign On with Non-Microsoft Technologies. The Problem: Often Organisations would like to utilise their existing stack of technologies with SharePoint. This is due to the popularity of SharePoint as a platform to consolidate and provide a range of application services either to replace an existing set of tools or compliment an existing applications suite. We fall under the latter. I am working within a truly heterogeneous environment at the moment, the extranet applications are built on a mix of technologies such as OpenText Livelink for DMS, Java and JBPM for for workflow and front end portals, Sun Directory and Oracle for User data and other DB La
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Copying SharePoint 2010 Site Collection from Production into DTS environment via Database back up and restore

  If you are running SharePoint farms then you would have come across this requirement at least once, which is to replicate a production site or site collection into Development, Test or Staging environment. There are a number of blog posts and articles on how to copy down the site or site collection without much trouble but I have not found one which worked as expected. The Database back-up and restore method is a quick and easy method or cheaper solution than commercial tools available in the market. This method works well if you would like to quickly copy content. With the content database attach method the key is to be aware that the following items which are farm related attributes, need attention as they are not copied across. Search scope and Indexes, User accounts and Managed Metadata.  There are easier ways to overcome these. Search scope and indexes have to be redone and it does not take too much of your time. If your DTS environments have different users than the producti
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Microsoft Dynamics XRM proxies–Early bind in ASP.NET web service

  As a hands on Development Manager I often get to lead by example, in my latest attempt to fast track re-development of some of our Java based web services to ASP.NET web service, I went about this using XRM based early bind method. I also explored SDK and JavaScript to execute the Dynamics rest API. For a starter our web service methods roll up large datasets therefore JSON based service was obviously not suitable. Also the java based services made calls to multiple stored procedures through Hibernate frame work, the idea was to convert any calls to Dynamics CRM using XRM with LINQ and other bits and pieces using NHibernate framework. I am keen to learn alternative methods and very open for feedback on the approach I have taken here. Without further ado here are the steps.   1. Re-Compile XRM to include proxies for Dynamics CRM customisations. This was easily done by executing the following commands within the CrmSvcUtil.cmd file REM $0\..\..\Microsoft.Xrm\bin\CrmSvcUtil /code
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