From time to time, people change jobs, move house, telephone numbers or just their email address. Please remember to let the IAP office know about your changes so we can ensure we contact you at the right address/email/telephone and also keep our records up to date.

The next IAP Symposium will be held on the 8th of April 2014 at Kew Gardens. The title for this event will be ‘Internet Of Things’. As we firm up the speakers and other details about the Symposium we will let all our members know and post more information on the web site, LinkedIn and Twitter […]

The IAP is looking at ways to provide more useful information to its members. This includes Webinars, Short Training Videos (Bite Size) and short how to do articles. We would be interested in knowing what you think would be useful in each category (or other categories if you have them). For example, I have 2 […]

As mentioned about a week ago, we are introducing the ability to pay your membership renewal via World Pay. This went live yesterday evening and if your renewal is due you can login to the Members Area and pay. You can find the option under the ‘Paying Your Subscription’ menu option. This saves you time […]

The Institution has been quietly progressing a number of items related to the 10Es Transformation Programme over recent months. Alastair Revell (Director General) and Paul Lynham (Vice-President and Director for Member Engagement) have asked Santi Mondejar, FIAP to convene a group of Fellows who have expressed an interest in helping to set up a regional structure. […]

Shortly the IAP will be introducing the ability to pay your subscription online with your credit/debit card rather than having to ring into the office and give us your details. This is aimed at reducing costs on postage and telephone calls and reduces the risk of fraud. We will also be able to take payment […]

The Institution has set up a job board in conjunction with JobTarget as part of its 10Es Transformation Programme. This will provide members with a portal to search for both jobs and candidates from the Institution’s website. JobTarget was chosen as it has entered into partnership with other institutions, societies and associations based in the […]

We have now added the 10 Es to the main menu as some of you were having trouble finding them. If you would like to discuss anything please call the office.

Many of us as developers design programs to be easy to use in an office environment using tools like Visual Studio to design the forms and reports etc. In doing so we use the Mouse to draw our designs. Yesterday Douglas Engelbar the inventor of the Mouse died at the age of 88. As an […]

From an Article in the IAP’s SDP magazine by Matthew Skelton When raising log events in code it can be difficult to choose a severity level (such as Error, Warning, etc.) which will be appropriate for Production; moreover, the severity of an event type may need to be changed after the application has been deployed […]