Getting the Point Two years ago, in these pages, we reminded you all that we are always happy to receive updated details of members’ careers with a view to upgrading them. For all membership grades except Fellow, the Points system, which effectively distils a member’s career in terms of education, training and experience, into a […]

Southampton-based IBM mainframe programmer (COBOL, CICS, PL/1,VSAM) seeks permanent / contract IT work. Willing to commute if permanent (including Central London) and to work away if contract. Opportunities to cross-train welcome. Elementary training undertaken in Visual Basic, HTML, JavaScript, SQL. Contact Linda Nadolny, MIAP at lvnadol@hotmail.com or 023 8074 1064 / 07941 603270. Mike Toole, […]

Digital Expo 2003 is at the NEC, Birmingham from 20 to 22 May. Visit www.digitalexpo.co.uk for more details. Internet World runs between 3 and 5 June at Earls Court, London. See www.internetworld.co.uk for information. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]

Those of you who were at last year’s Symposium will remember an entertaining and thought-provoking presentation by Mike Wetton on a marketing perspective for Web sites. So that the rest of you don’t feel left out, we asked Mike, a director of Allery Scotts, to write a piece for VSJ. He’s done better than that. […]

New IAP Office As you may have noticed if you’ve visited the IAP Web site recently, we’ve moved to a new office. We’d run out of space at the Culmington Road premises partly because of expansion and partly because of the range of member services we now offer. The new address is Suite 307, Boundary […]

Robin Jones considers the password conundrum Not long into the New Year, a report circulated around the news wires that up to 80% of calls to help desks were from users who had forgotten their passwords. Admittedly, that was the top end of the scale but 35% of respondents to a survey by Axios Systems […]

Noel J. Bracken, MIAP is a consultant with 15 years in the IT Industry providing software solutions to real time problems. His skills include analysing and developing using OO, E/R and Data Flow Diagrams, Normalisation, VB, VB.Net, COM, COM+, SQL Server, Oracle, PL/SQL, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript. He’s available now. Email him at PlanWServices@aol.com. John Rees, […]

The Computer Trade Show is at the NEC, Birmingham between 2 and 3 April. See www.ctshow.co.uk for more. Infosecurity Europe 2003 is now Europe’s largest information security event. It’s on at Olympia, London from 29th April – 1st May 2003. See www.infosec.co.uk for more details. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with […]