Darren Brook, MIAP is a freelance software developer. He has extensive experience in systems analysis, database design and software development. Latest technical skills include .Net, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, ADO, HTML, XML and COM. He is currently available for work and can be e-mailed at darrenbrook@btconnect.com [Want your entry printed here? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the […]
Microsoft’s TechEd Europe runs between 5 and 8 July in Amsterdam. See www.mseventseurope.com/teched/05/pre/content/ for details. The Mobility Summit examines the benefits and pitfalls of mobilising technology to achieve competitive advantage. It’s at Victoria Park Plaza, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London on 11 and 12 July. Visit www.cnetnetworks.co.uk/etf/mobility/ for more. [Got an activity or event coming up? […]
Email Redirection Now and then we remind members of services we offer that may have slipped their memories. This month? note is about your right to an email address of the form @iap.org.uk. Our scheme works like most such facilities. You apply for an IAP email address via the members?area of the Web site. Once […]
Council member John Weller has a longstanding interest in the history of computing. Here he describes one of the earliest attempts to design an automatic calculator. Is that a ‘work in progress’, you ask? Well, it was never finished… Almost everyone who has been involved with computers will have heard of Charles Babbage, ‘the father […]
Email Redirection Now and then we remind members of services we offer that may have slipped their memories. This month’s note is about your right to an email address of the form <yourname>@iap.org.uk. Our scheme works like most such facilities. You apply for an IAP email address via the members’ area of the Web site. […]
Council member John Ellis, FIAP wrote an article in last March’s VSJ which, he fondly imagined, described castles in the air. Here he points us at two recent reports that show that some of the castles are already drying concrete. Following my recent fantasy foray on the use of electronics to interface with the brain […]
Darren Brook, MIAP is a freelance software developer. He has extensive experience in systems analysis, database design and software development. Latest technical skills include .Net, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, ADO, HTML, XML and COM. He is currently available for work and can be e-mailed at darrenbrook@btconnect.com [Want your entry printed here? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the […]
Gartner’s Application Integration & Web Development Services Summit is at the Palau De Congressos de Catalunya in Barcelona from 13-14 June. See www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences for more. INTERNET WORLD 2005, Internet Conference and Exhibition, is at Earls Court, London, from 14 – 16 June. See www.penton.com for details. GC 2005, the Government Computing Conference and Exhibition, is […]
As regular readers know, Council member Paul Lynham traditionally writes a report on the annual symposium to which we devote the whole of ?AP News? Here is this year?. The annual symposium of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers was held on Thursday, 11 March in Trinity House, Tower Hill, London. Mike Ryan, the Director […]
As regular readers know, Council member Paul Lynham traditionally writes a report on the annual symposium to which we devote the whole of ‘IAP News’. Here’s this year’s. The annual symposium of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers was held on Thursday, 11 March in Trinity House, Tower Hill, London. Mike Ryan, the Director General […]
