Earth calling Tim Cook...
There's a scene in Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' in which a character asks 'What have the Romans ever done for us?' This is then followed by a host of other characters giving many useful things …
Tagged: software-development
Crystal Reports...where did you go wrong?
Many moons ago, when you could write useful software on a computer with less processing power than my last cellphone, there was a reporting tool called Crystal Reports that was incredibly useful for t…
Apple - why 2014 could be like 1984
Back in 1984, Apple had Ridley Scott direct a very imaginative advert)to launch the Macintosh computer. It ran twice - once on a small TV station late at night to get it in the running for some award…
The 'father' of home computers dies...
A few days ago one of the pioneers of the home computer revolution of the 1970s died. Ed Roberts), an MD in Georgia, died after a long battle with Pneumonia. Back in the 1970s his company, MITS, move…
Why are some Open Source support people so damn rude?
Don't get me wrong - I love Open Source software and have used some of it fairly widely in various development projects that I've done. I'm also aware of the fact that people involved in the develop…
Chrome - the prissy Maiden Aunt of browsers....
I'm currently involved in developing a web application of moderate complexity using Ext to provide a 'Web 2.0' front end on a PHP/mySQL application. We've endeavoured to make it work across a range o…
I want to use Ubuntu on a laptop...but....
Many, many moons ago, and I mean in the last century, I had a version of Linux running on one of my PCs, and lo, it was good. If you liked command lines and stuff like that, as the PC concerned wasn'…
Your email address CAN be harvested from Facebook...a heads up!
Or...yet another reason to watch who you befriend.... Facebook attempts to be what's known in the online world as a 'Closed Garden' - interactions with the rest of the Internet are restricted somewhat…
Google predict the end of desktop PCs....
When I started in IT, I encountered a program called 'The Last One'). It was a menu-driven application generator that allowed a non-programmer to specify the sort of system they wanted (within a limi…
Twitter Phishing...YOUR responsibility!
The recent spate of Twitter 'phishing' attacks have been interesting for me in a number of ways. First of all, my wife received one of the phishing DMs from a contact of hers whose account had been co…