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 […]

e-skills UK is collaborating with employers and universities to design this new flagship degree programme, to launch in 2014. You can see more details here and there’s also a link there for you to complete a short survey indicating the technical and other skills you want to see in graduates of such a course.

The Institution’s 2012 AGM will be on Saturday, 20 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 […]

The full line-up for this year’s event is now available and members will be receiving a copy of the flyer advertising it in the post shortly. If you can’t wait, click the image below.  

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a draft code of practice for the successful anonymisation of personal data and the assessment of risks of unique identification from anonymised data. The consultation period ends on 23 August 2012. You can find the draft code and a response form here. The IAP will make a response based […]

This year’s Symposium will take place on 23 November at the London Film Museum, which is housed in the former debating chamber of County Hall on the South Bank of the Thames, with stunning views of Westminster across the river. As this year sees the Institution’s fortieth birthday and it coincides with Alan Turing’s centenary, […]

On 18 April, the Director General, Alastair Revell, wrote to all IAP members to introduce the start of the Institution’s transformation to meet the new and ongoing challenges faced by the IT community. We’ve distilled them into the following ten statements that define how we will interact with our members: Enhance – We will enhance […]