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IT is full of bluffers. Thoughts from our resident bluffer.
You aren’t gonna need it
In the early weeks of my first real software development job for a proper software house, I was handed the remit to develop an address book application that looked like a real-life address book.
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Why should women bother with IT?
The percentage of women in IT is low and falling. The few female software developers that I’ve worked with have been either incredibly thick-skinned and/or so good at their job that everything they do is
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Not invented here
Let’s postulate a theory that with greater bias within an organisation towards knowledge and education there appears an inverse correlation to the incidence of the not invented here philosophy. Ergo, some purely anecdotal evidence. A number
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If you must couple, couple loosely
An up-and-coming customer relationship management (CRM) company wanted to put their system into our organisation; this was to represent quite a coup for them and would show the rest of the industry that they
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The fringe benefits of proprietary software
Working on a greenfield project is often seen as one of the most exciting challenges in IT but being dropped into an already running project in pre-launch has its own particular excitement and challenges:
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Open source, closed minds
In a previous role I was forced, by necessity, to use an open source IDE to develop Microsoft C# code. Although the organisation I worked for had a site-wide licence for all of Microsoft’s
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Over-specification, built-in obsolescence and Pivot tables
Last Friday I was party to a conversation about possible upgrade paths for a colleague’s PC. After several days on the end of support calls with a well-known anti-virus software producer a problem had
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Banging a nail into the Apple coffin
In 2006 I took the plunge and bought an Apple Mac Mini. I felt very self-righteous. Here were my first real steps away from the Microsoft eco-system. Sure I’d switched to developing software in
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