Attie Heunis's Journey
The ramblings of a Caucasian African American
Author: Attie Heunis
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Yammer was acquired by Microsoft in 2012 for US$1.2 billion and I think they had great expectations of it becoming a corporate social network. Equivalent to Facebook for companies. But I doubt that this has realized for them. Yammer’s integration with Office 365 is confusing and flawed. For instance creating groups in Yammer has no…
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Yesterday we took a(nother) Philly sightseeing trip. This time we took the train with SEPTA’s Independence Pass. Friends informed us of this pass and for folks in the suburbs like us, it’s perfect for a day-trip to Philly. I always say this when we go in to Philly for fun, but it’s a great city.…
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Having been in software for 20+ years, the one thing that remains consistent is change. As soon as you think you have a technological stack working perfectly something new is released and disrupts it all! New technology often provides significant value so developers & architects are eager to utilize it, but it’s not always clear…
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Cara & Lené completed the 2018 Girls-on-the-Run 5 km race on this pleasant Wintry day. It was a great job done by both participants. Cara had a lot of support from her school as well as her team mates.
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It’s taken a few years, but today Elke and her team finally won an EBYA soccer league. Although she’s been playing for a few years now, this was Elke’s first year in the Girls 6th – 8th Grade division. Coach Ron and the assistant coaches were fantastic. Elke learned a lot and the team had…
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My team has implemented the excellent IdentityServer3 for our Single Sign-On provider but we kept running into a very irritating and intermittent issue for some of our users: IDX10311: RequireNonce is ‘true’ (default) but validationContext.Nonce is null. The error occurred when our users were navigating to the https version of the site but they were being redirected…
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I needed a laptop and so after doing some online research decided on Microsoft’s Surface Book. Touted as a laptop first and a tablet second, it seemed perfectly aligned for my requirements. The model I picked had good specs (although a little light on the hard drive) and good reviews and I didn’t pick up on any of…
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So while I empathize completely with the Parisians, I can’t help but be sad that there isn’t a bigger outcry over the terrors that continue to play out in South Africa.
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Having visited Hibernia Park in the middle of Winter and the first week in Spring, this was easily the most beautiful I’ve experienced it.
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So here we are. We have been proud USA residents for 6 months now! Needless to say, but with a wife and two kids, but not the dog :-(, it has been quite a change from our somewhat idyllic lifestyle in Boesmansriviermond on South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Although there are fundamental political, crime & race…
Attie Heunis's Journey 