[SiliconBeach] Re: Does the Innovation Dilemma effect you?

2011-10-09 Thread robjames
I'm with Antony The secret is not in your idea, but your ability to execute it! Ideas are too overvalued, and I'm sure we all have at least a few a week, but in most instances, do nothing about it. Telling your idea to someone, they still have to believe in it, come up with a business model, devel

[SiliconBeach] Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-10-09 Thread robjames
Sorry all for my spam blast from LinkedIn. Quite sneaky actually, I thought I was logging on to linked in, but it was to send invites to all my email contacts! Serves me right for using the same password :-/ Rob On Oct 8, 8:55 am, Rob James wrote: > I'd like to add you to my professional netwo

[SiliconBeach] Re: Are you on Twitter?

2011-09-29 Thread robjames
@snaglepus On Sep 28, 3:54 pm, Derek Winter wrote: > Hi All, > > I’ve set up a list for Silicon Beach twitter-ers. There’s 25 people from the > Silicon Beach emails I've scanned so far on the list … there's bound to be > plenty of other people, so if anyone else uses twitter, please let me know

[SiliconBeach] Re: A cafe to work at around Sydney CBD

2010-05-11 Thread robjames
Hey Michael I often work from Cafes around Sydney. I have a few favourites. Some have Wifi, some don't, but wanting to be the wireless warrior, I have a Wireless broadband dongle. They are 80 bucks and I buy prepaid 500Mb at $15 as I need it. What areas of Sydney do you want to be at? I generally

[SiliconBeach] Re: Why is programming fun?

2009-04-14 Thread robjames
I agree with the others sentiments. It is fun when you are being creative and 'building' something, but when you have to trowel through hundreds of thousands of lines of code on a low level function to find a bug, um... not fun for me :-) RJ On Apr 14, 11:47 pm, Scott Yang wrote: > True. >

[SiliconBeach] Re: Setting up Offshore development teams

2009-04-10 Thread robjames
ng via IM is > pointless, with the language barrier there is so much which can be > miscommunicated, it's tough enough in our native language. > > Agile approaches are rarely implemented within the major Chinese software > corporations, quite a few borrow heavily from CMMI.  I &g

[SiliconBeach] Setting up Offshore development teams

2009-04-08 Thread robjames
Hi All, I have been following this group for some time, but felt that it was time to introduce myself and start contributing. My name is Rob James, and I have been involved in technology, particularly start-ups for most of my career. My most recent role was as CTO of Aegeon Corp, an Australian C