Robin Jones wonders about our sometimes-contradictory attitudes to prices and sources. The natives are restless again. The jungle drums of the technical press are rumbling darkly about the exorbitant cost of Vista upgrades, especially when compared to the equivalent charges in the US. But there’s another prevalent view, which can be stated as, “If you’re […]

Government UK IT Summit is at Victoria Park Plaza, London on 14 and 15 May. See www.euro-techforum.com for details. Technology Transactions for Financial Institutions is organised by the Society for Computers and the Law in London on 16 May. More information is at www.scl.org. The Wireless Event is at Olympia Exhibition Centre, London on 23 […]

Jean Davison and David Deeks of Sunderland University (an IAP Partner) report on the latest developments in PISO – Stakeholder Identification and Analysis (pisoSIA®). PISO has seen a number of developments since we last reported on pisoMETRICS in the April 2005 issue of VSJ. Here, as promised but somewhat belatedly, we update a report that […]

We welcome two new Fellows David S. Crichton BSc Starting as a programmer with Plessey in the mid-1960s, David has worked for some of the most illustrious names in the IT business. Following eight years with IBM working on internal systems David moved to Amdahl where, in 1990, he took over as Manager of European […]

Don’t Forget the IAP Spring Event on 20 April. Full details are in last month’s VSJ (and at www.iap.org.uk). There are still a few places available but you’ll need to hurry! Infosecurity Europe runs between 24 and 26 April in the Grand Hall, Olympia, London. See www.infosec.co.uk for more. The Helpdesk and IT Support Show […]

Dave Trollope, MIAP holds a degree in Computing and Informatics from the University of Plymouth and, since graduating in 1995, has worked in Chicago. Here he describes a set of C/C++ extensions he’s developing. After more than ten years of working with C and C++ it seemed to me that there should be some simple […]