Previous DaySkinning CSS Cats
Blog I am building a very simple site for an artist friend in Joomla!, part of my learning new skills in the dash for the green hills. (His name is Edward Bell, and I really admire his paintings). The...
What skills
Talkback "to plugging a critical skills shortfall" It would be interesting to know what those skills are. I admit I think there should be a balance between men and women, young and adults in any company....
RE:Vista gets the rock'n'roll treatment
Blog Comment Great guys - can we book a studio to make this tribute album? In the meantime, I know you all want a compilation of Microsoft's best promotional videos - including an early look at Mr Ballmer....
Sun criticised for MySQL Enterprise shift
News The company wants to offer some features of MySQL solely to enterprise customers, but critics say this is a sign the company wants to move the database away from its open-source roots
RE:Security is moving beyond the perimeter
Blog Comment Deperimeratisation, or focusing on the data where it is stored - unless you pay attention to the people who have access, the procedures they use, and just as important, the language they use,...
Phorm accused of making web browsing 'less stable'
News Security experts have warned of the targeted-ad company's history, adding that its infrastructure increases the likelihood of successful DoS attacks against ISPs
Remote working revisited
Blog “Communication is what's heard, not what's said.” Dan Buzzo, April 2008 With these words of wisdom ringing in my ears, I was speaking to a friend in Bristol who works remotely. She offered...
eBay bolstered by Skype and PayPal results
News The subsidiaries have brought in good first-quarter results, with Skype now boasting the largest registered user base in eBay's portfolio
Learning curve ball
Blog For the past few years I’ve been working as a specialised contract XHTML/CSS builder. As part of my planned move to remote working from the heart of Devon, I am starting to use the Joomla! Content...
Cheap Mac clone draws angry response
News Florida-based Psystar, the company advertising a Mac-compatible system, has attracted criticism from the hackers who created the underlying software
WordPerfect Office X4
Review Corel WordPerfect Office X4 best fits those who prefer traditional interfaces for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. We found the features rich, but the execution sometimes clumsy.
RE:Vista gets the rock'n'roll treatment
Blog Comment How about Careless Whisper? Or rather, Careless Vista... Time can never mend the careless Vista of a software giant To the PC and notebook, XP is kind There's no comfort in SP1 Pain is all you'll...
Vista Memory Leak?
Blog I'm wondering if anyone else has seen anything that looks like a memory leak in Vista? I've been running Vista Business on my Lifebook S6510 for several weeks now, and overall I'm pleased - at...
Security is moving beyond the perimeter
Blog I was reading some of the early results from our 2008 (ISC)2 Global Information Security Workforce Study recently and was quite interested to see that more companies are deploying cryptography and...
Yes! Microsoft must be stopped!
Talkback Great points! Microsoft is a business. No gigantic monopoly deserves welfare! But more than that, because of their position as de-facto standard, we actually must do more. We must fight...
Basically B****x
Talkback We have enough skilled workers, just that they are too old to be considered any more. I apply for jobs I could do but get turned down as experience isn't current; no relevant qualifications...
de-facto vs. de-jure
Talkback Microsoft is a 'standard' because they bludgeoned aside their competitors and got themselves a monopoly on the desktop. See CP/M-86, OS/2, WordPerfect, VisiCalc, etc. for the victims they left in...
O2 to launch mobile broadband
News The operator will become the last in the UK to introduce mobile broadband, but initially will only offer the service to its existing phone or home broadband customers
Vista gets the rock'n'roll treatment
Blog It's great to see Microsoft Vista entering the highly regarded field of corporate musical nonsense - this Springsteen-influenced number is a classic. My erstwhile colleage IT Anthems would love...
The secret to creating 'pretty' code
Q&A Perforce chief technology officer Christopher Seiwald maintains that software code should be more than simply functional
R&D takes backseat during HP's IT revamp
News As the company nears completion of a major three-year IT transformation, a senior vice president has explained why the slowdown in research and development was a necessary consequence
The ISO would disagree
Talkback I think you are confusing an ISO recognised 'standard' and a so-called defacto 'standard'. Until Microsoft hijacked the ISO approval process to favour OOXML, ODF was the recognised standard. We now...
ASUS Eee PC 900
Review The ASUS Eee PC 900 is an excellent update to the Eee PC 701. The keyboard is still difficult to use, but the addition of a larger, higher-resolution screen, a multi-touch touchpad and more storage...
Open source seen as key to SaaS adoption
News By 2010, around 90 percent of software-as-a-service providers will be using open source within their technology 'stacks', says Gartner
UK sees sharp rise in phishing attacks
News UK payments association Apacs has warned consumers to be vigilant after the number of reported phishing incidents shot up by 200 percent
Ofcom seeks to speed up UK fibre rollout
News The telecoms regulator has launched a review into ways of replacing existing copper networks, possibly by laying fibre through existing sewer ducts
