Mark Newton
As is often the case at this time of the year I am writing this column from a remote part of the globe. Well, when I say remote, what I really mean this year is that I am talking about the Netherlands, and an area called Veldhoven. The reason for my temporary relocation is the […]
Security is never far from the headlines these days, whether it’s the latest chunk of data lost by a government department or some story of a group of hackers attempting to gain access to bank accounts. All these stories are of concern to anyone who develops an application that is either used by others or […]
I was invited by Adobe to a pre-launch announcement of CS5.5, I shan’t go into great depth about this upgrade as most of it covered the video editing components of the suite. What I shall cover are the parts that might concern a web developer and in that respect I regret to say that it […]
Oh the joys of remote working! I’m writing this column on my iPad in its ‘away from home’ cover which includes a Bluetooth keyboard, whilst sitting in the waiting room at Conrad Anderson in darkest Birmingham whilst the mobile internet satellite and Wi-Fi system is being fitted to our Motorhome. When travelling around the country […]
If, you are like me, and use Visual Studio a lot then you might be interested in Sara Ford’s Weblog ‘Tip of the Day’ at http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/default.aspx. Sara gave a very interesting presentation at Remix 08 on these tips and I came away with a lot of very useful tricks and time savers and now have her […]
One demonstration that seemed to be lacking at this event was showing the new Microsoft vision of programmers and designers working together on an application. Microsoft has been making big noises about their developing tools enabling this. If this is so then why don’t they show this in work? We were subjected to half an […]
An amusing cautionary tale came to my notice the other day: A council had a new email system installed and after a couple of months they started to get complaints from residents that they were not responding to numerous request about planning applications, on investigation it appeared that the councils new but somewhat over zealous […]
Whilst we are on the subject of on-line shopping indulge me whilst I make an observation on the ‘Verified by Visa’ system. This is the credit card security system where after you have entered your credit card information with the shop or their internet payment provider another window pops up from either Visa or Master […]
My musings about the future improvements in search engines were caused by me having a day trip away from the office to NXTGEN’s excellent Fest09 event in Cambridge. Regular readers will probably remember me mentioning NXTGEN user group, a rapidly expanding group of like minded people interested in Microsoft technologies and pizza. They meet all […]
Because of the fast pace of innovation within the IT industry, making predictions in a magazine article can be a dangerous thing because of the long lead times associated with print. The prediction could be proven wrong by the time the magazine hits the bookshelves, but despite this I am going to risk such a […]