cocoon by myriorama via flickr.com
The time has come to make the switch from Joomla! to WordPress.
This site is currently (June 2011) built on Joomla! for a variety of reasons. When this latest iteration of the site was put together, Joomla! was far and away the best choice, but not because of any inherent superiority over WordPress or any other platform for that matter. Continue reading
Stop! Hammer Time! by Joriel "Joz" Jimenez via flickr.com
Western Australia’s government agencies are in shock after the Auditor-General’s department exposed their woeful lack of cyber-security over the course of an elaborate two month operation.
Apparently they used a mix of software downloaded from the internet, and social engineering style techniques: in WA, the ‘attackers’ left unlabelled USB drives in reception areas, with staff in eight agencies plugging them into their computers to see what they were.
Fourteen out of fifteen agencies were unaware that they had been attacked.
This naturally raises the question of how often their systems had been compromised in the past, without them noticing.
Bookshop by steve_w via flickr.com
Yesterday Small Business Minister Nick Sherry predicted the demise of mainstream book stores within five years. The high Australian dollar, and the rise of online shopping are touted as being behind this. Continue reading
Not Listening by Yume Photo via Flickr.com
Add “The Backfire Effect” to the number of ‘Internet hoaxes‘ that the more mainstream media are starting to report on, and it’s more of the same that any veteran has known for a long time. Continue reading
There are a million and one frameworks for categorising constraints, and analysing the environment before, during and after projects start. It doesn’t matter which one you choose, as long as you look at it from all sides.
No matter what acronym you work to, make sure you cover all the bases.
