The 7th Annual UK Datacentre Design and Management Conference is on 11 and 12 November at the Royal Lancaaster Hotel, London. See www.DatacenterDynamics.com/london for details. Information Security and Identity Management is at the Victoria Park Plaza, London on 20 November. See www.kablenet.com for more. The 9th International Animation, Games and SFX Conference runs from 24 […]

David Morgan, the IAP’s President, discusses his experience of a too-common system development problem. I’m primarily a project manager. It’s the job I’ve been doing – together with some business analysis – for the better part of twenty years, on the Indian sub-continent and in the UK. So I’ve never really seen myself as a […]

We welcome two Fellows who have recently been elected. Jeffrey Tyrrell  BSc (Hons) LLM MBA Jeffrey is a solicitor who started out in 1977 specialising in technical disputes.  Rising to become Managing Partner of his firm he then branched out into the management of change; this is where he has built his career, particularly in […]

Robin Jones goes green-ish Listeners to Radio 4’s Now Show will no doubt recall an audience member’s plaintive cry that, every time he sends an email to his printer, he gets an extra page whose sole function is to ask him if he really needs to print it out. I’m sure he was being ironic. […]

Reminder: The IAP’s 2008 AGM is on Saturday, 11 October, at Boundary House, Boston Road, Hanwell W7 2QE, starting at 12.00 noon. Members who wish to attend should contact the office (0207 567 2118 or admin@iap.org.uk) in advance. Storage Expo2008 is at Olympia, London on 15 and 16 October. See www.storage-expo.com for details. The Symbian […]

In a modern media age where IT vendors of all shapes and sizes are able to hit us with product-driven messages designed to sit in our subconscious, it is refreshing to know that the developer-user community has lost none of its momentum. Providing software engineers at all levels with invaluable ‘real-world’ feedback and engagement possibilities […]

VBUG and the IAP Many IAP members will be familiar with VBUG, which has been supporting developers using Microsoft technologies for nearly fifteen years. We have recently signed an agreement with VBUG that offers benefits to both organisations and to their members individually. In particular, IAP members will be entitled to attend two VBUG meetings […]

Robin Jones ruminates on the power of metaphor Sometimes we use a word happily for generations without its having a really useful definition. Take ‘information’, for example. It wasn’t until Claude Shannon described it as a reduction in uncertainty that information theory took off. On the other hand, concepts may develop almost surreptitiously without a […]

Steven Cholerton FIAP has left his previous employment of 9 years as IT Manager and board member at Utopia Furniture Limited and has started his own business as a Consultant / Contractor specialising in Database / Software Development and Security. Steven is a  Member of the BCS, a Chartered Information Technology Professional and is certified […]

Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit is on 10 and 11 September at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London. See www.gartner.com for details. The 47th FITCE Congress takes place at Logan Hall, Bloomsbury, London from 21 to 24 September. See www.fitce08.eu for details. IP ’08 is for IT professionals involved in specifying and implementing converged networks. […]