Phil Factor The Yancey Men Ever wondered what the perfect IT director might be like? Phil Factor experimented...… 03 October 2006 10 min read
Damon Armstrong Contract Coding: Ensuring your Client pays up Damon Armstrong learned the hard way that not having a clearly defined project scope or contract can come back to... 26 September 2006 21 min read
Phil Factor The Essex Men A band of muscly Essex men take on the geeky IT department in a basketball match - if you think... 14 September 2006 10 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week: Kirk Haselden Author and SQL Server development manager, Kirk Haselden, talks about SSIS, gruelling interviews on an empty stomach, and his role... 07 September 2006 9 min read
Phil Factor Was Offshoring Responsible for Hamlet? Phil Factor imagines how Hamlet ended up as the play we know and..err..love, with a little help from cost-cutting and... 05 September 2006 8 min read
Jim Fuller XML and RDBMS: 10 years on As we approach the 10-year anniversary of XML, Jim Fuller provides a personal retrospective, focussing on how XML has been... 25 August 2006 10 min read
Phil Factor If IT had been responsible for the Creation In which Phil Factor takes the liberty of retelling the Creation story to make it 'relevant' to the modern IT... 09 August 2006 7 min read
Adrian Furnham Cultivating Creativity in your IT team Professor of Psychology, Adrian Furnham, discusses whether or not you can teach your IT team to be creative.… 25 July 2006 4 min read
Phil Factor The Whipping Boy Talented and highly-valued IT professional or convenient corporate whipping boy? Phil Factor walks the line...… 21 July 2006 10 min read
Phil Factor The Ghost in the Machine I have always felt rather second-rate as an IT pundit as I have yet to introduce my own TLA (Three-letter... 27 June 2006 9 min read
Dominick Reed Creating Usable Applications If I had a penny for every person who said "usability is just common sense", I'd have a pretty reasonable... 21 June 2006 15 min read
Phil Factor Talking Technical Developers, programmers and designers tend to be deeply geeky types, immersed in the minutiae of the technology. In stark contrast,... 26 May 2006 5 min read
Phil Factor Betting on Promotion The process of appointing managers in large IT department is shrouded in mystery. The bewilderingly random and illogical nature of... 09 May 2006 7 min read
Phil Factor The Writing on the Wall Phil Factor offers an intriguing theory on why so many, hugely complex, government IT projects fail. Is it because there... 27 April 2006 7 min read
Helen Joyce Driving up software quality – the role of the tester Have you ever wondered what a software tester does? Helen Joyce, test engineer at Red Gate software gives us an... 20 April 2006 7 min read
Matt Stephens Agile Development and ICONIX Software projects fail for all sorts of reasons, although the same reasons crop up over and over again. The ICONIX... 06 April 2006 16 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week – Glenn Johnson Meet Glenn Johnson; he runs Glenn Johnson Technical Training and has just written "Programming Microsoft ADO.NET Applications - Advanced Topics".… 04 April 2006 13 min read
Phil Factor IT Agencies and the Devil Whenever I worry about how I shall earn a crust when my mental powers start failing, I always console myself... 15 March 2006 10 min read
Douglas Reilly Database Geek of the Week – Tom Moreau "In grad school, I had a temporary assignment as director of the undergrad labs, where I had to manage the... 13 March 2006 13 min read
Douglas Reilly Coming Out as a Cancer Survivor – A Guide for Software Developers A personal perspective on the responsibilities of a cancer-surviving software developer… 06 March 2006 13 min read
