Mark Newton
There are times in the life of a web designer / application programmer when, because of either the client’s requests or the setup of the hosting web server, that they are forced to program for a technology which would not be their first choice. Nothing would make me use Access on a web site; let’s […]
The news that XP has come to the end of its supported life has probably not escaped anyone with even a passing interest in computers and this process in not new, all versions of software at some time or another reach this point. The decision to upgrade is often taken for you when you buy […]
The development tools have improved out of all recognition as well, and this makes building Apps economically viable for most developers. On this note I am itching to get the latest mobile App development tools from Microsoft onto my work machine. To do this I need to be running Windows 8.1 and not 7 as […]
So what does Windows 10 mean for a developer? If you have been keeping up with the trends for windows application development is seems that Windows 10 is more an evolvement rather than any large changes. True, DirectX 12 will appear for the gamers and API’s like “Continuum” will provide ways for an app to […]
I often have to work away from the office and my lovely 12 core 3 screen beast and when working like this I can sometimes only connect to the internet via either a slow system or one that charges for the amount of data I use, as is the case if I bind my laptop […]
In a previous issue I wrote about the problems with the VAT on-line web application and the issue involved it getting it to print correctly, very important for something like a VAT return. John Pym who is a regular PcPro reader emailed me with a transcript of an email conversation about the same problem he […]
Whilst this column is called ‘Web Applications’ it is also a Real World Computing column and so I make no apologies for straying slightly ‘off topic’ this month as most of my time has been taken up with organising and running the IT requirements for the World Bridge Championships. One of my ‘hats’ is IT […]
Still on the subject of Twitter, the usefulness or otherwise seems to polarise people into one of two camps. In my view Twitter, like a lot of things in life, is neither good nor bad it is the users and the way they use it that will decide if it is of use or just […]
I recently went along with a business colleague to a one day seminar on Internet Marketing and whilst we were instructed in the Black Arts of optimising web sites for the vagaries of Google’s Search algorithms, I started to wonder about how some of the largest of the web sites out there promote themselves. I […]
Bricks and mortar or TCP/IP and HTML? Walk down almost any high street today and you will see an alarming number of shops boarded up, not just the small independently run ones but even big anchor shops in precincts have gone. This has obviously been the result of the recession coupled with some over optimistic […]