Yesterday I had an interesting training session on the British Computer Societies Skills Framework for the Information Age. For those not aware of it, SFIA (pronounced Sophia) is a standardised framework for identifying IT relates skills and expertise. The idea is that once you have standardised way if identifying skills and then measuring levels of […]
Monthly archives: April 2008
Hotmail for my domain
Like quite a few people I tend to keep my personal and work identities slightly separate, and part of that has been maintaining a domain for email – and more recently this blog. Back when I had a bit more time (and spare cash!) for geekery I used to maintain an Exchange server at home, […]
Apple Mac’s in the Enterprise – IBM’s take
Working for a company that does significant amounts of design work, being a ‘Microsoft house’ can cause our users some headaches. Although the design guys all love their mac’s, as an IT group traditionally it’s been hard for us support them and integrate them into the rest of our environment. There are plenty of aspects […]
Geotagging Photos
There’s a good post over on the MS Digital Memories Experience blog about how you can use the various Windows Live tools to add Geotags to photos without the need for GPS. It’s then followed with another post about linking your photos to a tour within Live Search Maps. It got me thinking… That’s pretty […]
LCS Public IM Connectivity
Here at work we’ve just setup Public IM Connectivity (PIC) on our Live Communications Server setup. Although it’s not my project I’ve been slightly involved as I designed the original setup here a few years ago. The good news is that it all seems to work quite well, you can’t quite do everything you could […]