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July 3, 2012
IBM Smart Cloud Enterprise
It has been over a year since IBM launched its public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Smart Cloud Enterprise (SCE) and over three months since PicNet moved its external facing applications to SCE. From this, I would like to share with you ...
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July 2, 2012
A fantastic shift is occurring in IT Management
For a while, there had been predictions of the death of the internal IT department. Wrong! There had also been predictions about the death of the IT Manager and CIO. Wrong! What is just occurring, in my view, is a fantastic shift, a shift from being ...
June 20, 2012
Solid Principles: Part Two - Open Closed Principle
‘Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension but closed for modification.' [R. Martin] The OCP is a set of strategies based on inheritance and polymorphism that aims to make code more extensible with fewer side ...
May 14, 2012
Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it's nearly everything
Productivity is the efficiency with which an economy (or a company or a business unit) transforms inputs into outputs. At a high level, improved production efficiency can generate higher real incomes and lead to long term improvements in the living s ...
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May 14, 2012
Solid Principles: Part One
Over the coming weeks I plan to do a bit of a study on the SOLID principles. SOLID stands for: The term was coined by Robert Martin [http://cleancoder.posterous.com/]. The five principles if used judiciously should result in code that is easier to ma ...
May 14, 2012
Windows 8 Preview
With the upcoming release of the Windows 8 "release preview" in June and the full release of Windows 8 rumoured to be set for October, I thought now would be a good time to have a look at the next iteration of Microsoft's flagship and see what the fu ...
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