News & Updates
January 13, 2010
Cloud Computing Offering Comparison
Hello and welcome to my first new blog post of the decade…aka 2010! I recently underwent a research of the various big cloud providers as part of a new project / product inside PicNet and I thought this would be a good place to share with you some of ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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 ...