Victoria Higginson, LIAP has completed training at Computeach International studying Business Systems Analysis and Design using CASE tools and SSADM and is now in her second year of a BSc (Hons) degree in Computing. On completion, she is hoping to commence an MSc in IT Security and is looking for a P/T job where she […]

Legal IT is at the Business Design Centre, Upper Street, Islington, London on 6 and 7 February. See www.legalitshow.com for details. TFM&A 2008 (Technology for Marketing & Advertising) Conference & Exhibition  is at Earls Court, London from 12 to 13 February. See www.t-f-m.co.uk for more. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with […]

IAP Spring Seminar 2008: Advance Notice This year’s very successful event on HMS Belfast proved a hard act to follow and midnight oil has been burning at the IAP offices. But we think we have come up with a formula that combines the best features of the Belfast programme with the more traditional style of […]

Robin Jones describes the philosophy behind the new IAP Student Software Development Prize. Over the last three decades, the Institution has been involved with a number of higher education bodies, both in the public and private sectors. It currently has formal partnership agreements with several UK universities. We have been consistently impressed by the quality […]

University of Plymouth Nets IAP Prize The University of Plymouth’s School of Computing, Communications and Electronics has become the first to offer the Software Development Prize funded by the IAP. This will be awarded every year to the student who completes the most professional software project. It consists of a cash prize of £100 plus […]

Accountz.com has a vacancy for a software application test engineer. The successful applicant will be able to set up test frameworks that will cover all major platforms for our commercial Java software applications. The ability to understand the underlying architecture and help identify and pinpoint defects is also a requirement. The ability to correct defects […]

Council member John Ellis, FIAP is rapidly becoming the IAP’s resident futurologist. In the first of a two-part article he expands on some ideas he introduced in VSJ for March 2005. Some time ago I wrote a series of articles on making Web sites accessible for the disabled. I finished the series with what appeared […]

Brian Candy, MIAP has been in the IT industry for over 27 years, originally joining the IAP back in 1986. Here he describes his most recent venture. NetSense.Biz was formed in May 2007 to offer affordable Web-based applications for small businesses. These applications can be developed in either ASP.NET 2.0 or PHP 4/5 but our […]

Robin Jones tries to evoke your sympathy and makes a new case for the Very Thin Client. One morning, a month or so ago, I turned on my workhorse computer to find that it had turned itself into an expensive automatic switch. I switched it on, it deliberated for a few minutes and then switched […]

The Charity IT Conference 2007 is on 7 November at the QEII Conference Centre, London. See www.plazapublishing.co.uk for details. IDC’s Mobile Enterprise conference is at the Radisson SAS Portman Hotel, London on 29 November. See www.idc.com for more. Serena Independent Consultant Workshop is in St Albans on 30 November. See more at www.serena.exvn.com/ICWShop.html. Information Management […]