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After the drought: first shoots emerge for Australian retail
Monday, February 3rd 2025
After a tough few years, Australian retail is showing the first signs of stability. Challenges remain, but recent data suggests consumers are more confident, spending is increasing, and the drought may finally be coming to an end.
Now or never: harnessing growth opportunities in retail
Tuesday, April 16th 2024
Amidst a wave of layoffs in the tech sector, retail and consumer businesses have a unique chance to leverage cutting-edge technology and talent, creating an opportunity for growth and innovation.
AI in 2023 - it works well enough now
Wednesday, August 30th 2023
After attending the Web Directions AI conference, it's clear 2023 brings significant advancements in AI. Yet, as its potential grows, challenges in interaction models and ethical considerations persist.
ChatGPT and Generative AI in the enterprise
Sunday, February 12th 2023
There is a lot of opportunity for Generative AI from a business technology perspective. Talking with other technology leaders, we discuss what risks and rewards may exist.
Building embodied bots with JavaScript
Saturday, August 12th 2017
Explorations of how to build bots with JavaScript that blend virtual and physical worlds, using chat interfaces like Slack to create embodied agents.
Making the move to metalsmith
Saturday, February 13th 2016
I moved this site from WP to metalsmith.io in order to get a more pure authoring experience. The result is good, though there were a few gotchas along the way.
The meandering journey of NodeBots Interchange
Tuesday, January 26th 2016
What started as a plan to simply make components work a bit better with NodeBots turned into a way of managing any firmware using JavaScript.
Datatium - data as material for contextually responsive design
Wednesday, September 9th 2015
Responsive design is still very screen size focussed where as we should be considering context much more than we do. This talk explains how Datatium helps resolve this.
JavaScript: not just the language of the web
Monday, September 7th 2015
JS is moving out of the browser and into all manner of places. My notes and slides from my talk on this topic at JSFoo 15.
Applying the lessons of mobile dev to IoT
Wednesday, September 2nd 2015
IoT product development has the opportunity to draw on some of the lessons hard won over the years of developing for mobile.