Paul Lynham, FIAP is standing for re-election to the IAP Council this year. He outlines his view of the IAP’s development here. The Institution of Analysts and Programmers is an organisation that I am proud to be associated with. Our profession is continually changing and the services and products we provide have become deeply embedded […]
Robin Jones wonders why open source solutions appear to have lower acceptance in the UK than elsewhere. “Nobody ever got fired”, the saying used to go, “for buying IBM.” Well, no. But why not? What has the supplier got to do with it? This line of thinking smacks of getting one’s excuses in first. If […]
Craig Golby MCMI, MIAP is a Project Manager and Business Analyst with retained technical skills in Java and Database technologies working primarily in the Financial Services sector. He is currently looking for contract work. Contact Craig at craig.golby@dignitas.ltd.uk for further information and a detailed CV. [Want your entry printed here? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]
GC Live, the UK’s leading event for public sector ICT, is at Earls Court on 9 and 10 June. Visit www.gc-live.com for details. Code Generation 2009 is at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, between 16 and 18 June. See www.codegeneration.net/cg2009 for more. W-Tech 2009 is a free motivational showcase supporting women interested in IT, taking place […]
Mike Ryan, the IAP’s Director General, has some very pertinent tips, given the current economic climate, for those considering starting their own businesses. Being an employee is in many ways a sheltered existence. Coming out from under the umbrella and setting up in business on your own account means you have to start doing things […]
Dr Peter M Ashby, MB, BS, DRCOG, FIAP (Cmpn) is standing for re-election to the IAP Council this year. Here, he re-introduces himself to us. I qualified in Medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, in London in 1960 and from 1980 worked on the writing and developing of medical databases for use in primary care and […]
Robin Jones worries about our inability to foretell the future or, in the more extreme cases, the present. It’s exactly 50 years since Arthur Koestler published ‘The Sleepwalkers’. For anyone unfamiliar with the book (and, if you are, I’d heartily recommend a quick trip to Amazon) it’s a fascinating history of Western science, especially astronomy, […]
Green IT 09 is at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London from 6 to 7 May. Visit www.greenituk.com for more information. SCL Information Governance Conference – Managing identity in a digital world is on 12 May at Mayfair Conference Centre, Marble Arch, London. See www.scl.org for further details. Wireless and Mobile 09 is at Olympia […]
Andrew McKay, MIAP recently offered to set up the IAP’s Official Group on LinkedIn, an offer the Council was happy to accept. Here, he talks about LinkedIn in general, LinkedIn Groups and a little about himself. The birth of the Internet has taken place within the lifetime of many of the readers of this article. […]
Council Elections As reported in February, the deadline for nominations for election to the Council was the end of the month, so we now know who wishes to serve for the next three years. Between now and July, each nominee will have the opportunity to introduce (or re-introduce) him or herself through these pages. This […]
