News & Updates

Marco Tapia

January 11, 2010

Generate Revenue and Forget About Offshoring

Taking on this great opportunity for CIOs, Rodney Gedda wrote on 9th December 2009: Generate Revenue and Forget About Offshoring, Advises ex-CIO. Marco Tapia PicNet - Information Technology Services IT Mangement and Support Services Software Developm ...

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Guido Tapia

January 7, 2010

Promising Signs From the IE Team

I was excited to read about IE joining the W3C SVG Working Group. This hopefully means that IE 9 will have SVG support. There has been a lot of noise around IE 9 and graphics rendering but this is the first solid hint as to which direction that will ...

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David Booth

December 15, 2009

The unspoken truth about why your IT sucks

I stumbled across this article this morning and found it quite an interesting read. The article describes why many organisations struggle with IT due to a lack of standard definitions for terminology and practices. Click here: ...

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Guido Tapia

December 10, 2009

Javascript runtime compilation using Asp.Net and Google's Closure Compiler

Working on complex javascript projects usually means working with lots of javascript files. When it comes time to deploy this to production it can be be very tedious and sometimes dangerous to do this manually. This solution compiles all the javascri ...

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Marco Tapia

November 24, 2009

Off shoring - Why bother?

Looking a bit further than the "rate" provided by off shoring services, you find a very deep pool of other issues that need to be considered before off shoring… and then you wonder, why bother? Unless your project is huge and demands enough resources ...

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David Booth

November 16, 2009

Exchange 2010 has launched!

Microsoft has recently released the new version of Exchange Mail Server 2010. As with each new version of Exchange new features are added and it's very nice to see that the focus on new features around retention, governance & compliance and the abili ...

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