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July 2007
ITIL - Return of the Process 3
I’ve spent most of today updating my ITIL Foundation Certificate knowledge by attending a refresh course run by Proactive Services. Well done Leon and Chris for a well presented day which can’t have been easy given the sometimes sparse information on the current iteration of the most popular IT framework in the world, and [...]
The Ultimate Tribute to IE7
I was converted to FireFox about a year ago, and haven’t looked back since. I’m fully switched over at work, but haven’t been brave enough at home as the whole IE ingrained mentally still reigns in my family and I’d be forever trying to explain the differences between FireFox and Internet Explorer.
Surprisingly Microsoft forced the [...]
New Smartphone with Unix Kernel (and its not the iPhone)
Name a new smartphone with a Unix Kernel, touchscreen display and no buttons, and you’d be forgiven if the iPhone popped into your head. In fact the newest smartie on the block is the Neo1973 (good year that, a nod to the year the mobile phone was invented) from openmoko. What makes this [...]
The iPhone Lockdown
Don’t you find it interesting that Apple, the beloved vendor of the technorati, has locked down the iPhone tighter than a gnats rear end?
Those of us with interests in mobile phone development already knew that Java was out, let alone Mobile Java. Now the extent of the lockdown is hitting home with developers. [...]
Giving Grads Better Tools…
I read an interesting article this morning debunking the standard thought that successful software developers need a healthy dose of discrete mathematics in their academic diet (”Forget Maths“). It follows on nicely from an essay by Kurt Cagle about the looming labour crunch that the IT industry is about to face (”Tech Labor Crunch“).
In [...]
Crossroads
hmph! The video recorder finally gave up the ghost this evening. I find myself in a tech quandry…
You see the opportunity is now wide open for me to upgrade my old Sky STB to a MySky, or dust off the old HTPC sitting in the corner of the lounge, or cross-grade to a [...]
About “Presence” (not presents)
I was lucky enough to find a spare hour of Rod Drury’s time this week to impart some of his knowledge to the guys and girls at work. Having Rod as a speaker meant the turn-out was better than normal, and he didn’t disappoint with some healthy discussion.
Rod is a big advocate of creating a [...]
What Daylight Saving Changes??
Am I the only one in the country worried about this?
I don’t won’t to scare monger, but this is surely a mini Y2K problem just waiting to rear its ugly head. So why aren’t we hearing more about the effort (or lack thereof) being placed into solving this imminent problem??
I feel there is a distinct [...]