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Green Grading

Getting people interested in environmental issues is tough enough but, once interested, they are faced[...]

The Price of Free

A couple weeks ago, OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released, and millions of consumers downloaded it, including[...]

Green IT

This was a ’seed’ article for the launch of ooffoo, a Green community site for[...]

Agile Software Development: Is it right for you?

This article is hosted on an external website. Please click here to view it in[...]

The illusion of multitasking

Have you heard of David Allen or Getting Things Done, sometimes abbreviated to GTD? He’s[...]

Positioning And Understanding Virtualisation

Audience – Zycko’s channel partners Occasion – Annual channel partner meeting Presenter(s) – Tony Lock[...]

View from the defence: seven reasons for security as a service

I’m just back from RSA Europe 2008, where I was hosting a panel on software[...]

Just semantics? Or is it true?

The semantic web is one of those things that has been much talked about, especially[...]

Secure Printing – chastity belts or ID cards?

Whoever invented the term ‘the paperless office’, they should be shot. The world is getting[...]

Are software developers a security hazard?

Well, no, of course they are not – no more than anybody else of course.[...]

How to tackle green apathy

Coming back from a holiday, loaded with the usual environmental guilt, I found a 14-page[...]

Achieving software development success is all in the balance

Application development remains undeniably important to organisations large and small. The need for software design,[...]

Cloud computing is hot air, unless…

As you may know, I spend a lot of time working with some very knowledgeable[...]

Making sense of BPM – Hello Wood. Shift it, Trees

With our friends at Freeform Dynamics, we set out to explore the topic of ‘business[...]

The jury’s in: Effective software delivery

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been running a series of articles, polls and feedback[...]

Storage Expo – What happened in 2008?

In 2007 the UK’s large exhibition focussed on the storage industry found itself parroting all[...]

How should software developers be paid? – By the line?

The success of any software development organisation depends on balancing a whole range of factors[...]

Revealed: The golden rules of managing software projects – Buff up your halos

We asked what looks to have been a pretty contentious question – what’s the role[...]

SAPTechEd: Lead or follow, but get out of the way

Another theme at SAP TechEd08 is agility-as the company evolves, it needs to help the[...]

SAPTechEd: Irony and Contradictions

The annual SAPTechEd, being held in Berlin this week, is hosting over, 4500 attendees, record[...]

SAPTechEd: Maintaining enterprise IT momentum through an economic downturn

Sitting here at SAP TechEd08, one nagging question gets in the way of appreciating the[...]

Should software developers do it for themselves?

On March 7, 1992, a little-known Finnish software developer called Linus Torvalds issued version 0.13[...]

Agile Development’s Secret Sauce – It’s all in the recipe

One criticism levelled at Agile methodologies for software development is that of scale. “It’s all[...]

Agile development – can’t scale, won’t scale?

Who could fault the base principles of agility? I was recently talking to a CIO[...]