Today is the anniversary of the birth of Grace Hopper, who among other things is credited with creating COBOL. For those of us with a little age behind us COBOL provided us with many years of programming experience and even now there are billions of lines of COBOL code still running. Even at the back-ends […]
As in previous years the IAP Diaries are now available. As many people now use electronic organisers we no longer automatically send them out. If you are a member and would like one please contact the office and we will send one out.
From today you can pre-book your IAP Symposium place at an early bird price. See the link to the left for more information. Members of the Institution should log into the Members area for member rates.
We’ve assembled a group of speakers with a huge range of experience and expertise for next year’s symposium on “The Internet of Things”. Here’s a preview: Dom Guinard, CTO at Evrythng is working on Evrythng’s suite of managed applications to make products smart. These are built in three main areas: tracking, personalization and sales and […]
As part of the IAP’s improvements in its systems (including IT); over the next few months we will be trialing our new Membership system. Some of the newer features on this system, allow us to email various letters to you, including Receipts, Subscription Renewal Letters, reminders etc. We have already been using the receipts with […]
This this little gem may interest some of you who want to get into developing apps for the Android market. Tesco now offer the ‘Hudl’ an Android based tablet computer about the size of an IPAD Mini or a Kindle. Nothing particularly special so far, it costs around £120, but here is the bonus, if you […]
From the on-going Edward Snowden saga through the use of drones to the creation of three parent embryos society is currently immersed in difficult ethical issues. In this, the first of a series of articles on the ethical issues facing software developers in the industry today, we look at the area of software testing. This […]
The Institution’s 2013 AGM will be on Saturday, 19th October, at Boundary House, Boston Road, Hanwell W7 2QE, starting at 1.00 pm. The AGM is usually a short meeting, its purpose being merely to fulfil a requirement of the Companies Acts, but all members of the Institution are welcome to attend. Those wishing to do […]
Join us at 18:00, 8th October, at Redhook (http://www.redhooklondon.com/contact), Farringdon, London to meet and network with fellow members of the IAP. The main topic under discussion will be “Moving to Mobile”. Many of us develop desktop or web applications (amongst other things), but with the ubiquity of smartphones and other portable connected devices most of […]
With Microsoft now offering you £150 for your old Apple IPad against a new MS Surface, the question it raises is which one would you buy. I had my IPad for 3 years before I bought a Surface RT and I was very happy with it. So why did I change? The simple answer was […]
