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My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment Before becoming a journalist I had had a real job as a computer graphics programmer, working with some very high-end systems that cost, believe it or not, upwards of $250,000. It was all so hard to work with, you needed a programmer to make... [11 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up He's been a programmer, a visionary, a populist and a target for custard pie throwers both real and metaphorical. Brilliant technologist, ruthless businessman, chino-trousered philanthropist, founder of the most influential technology company of... [27 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile Hamon brings a solid technical background to the CIO role, having studied computing at the London Computer Electronic School and cut her teeth as a programmer. Claire Hamon joined the construction and building maintenance company Rok Group in... [11 Jun 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment He began his career as an analyst and programmer almost 20 years ago at British Steel. Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with. Reminiscent of a buccaneer perhaps? Possibly one of the legendary accounting pirates from Monty Python's Crimson Permanent... [11 Mar 2008]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Hollywood fears the geek
Comment For those of you that haven't seen Die Hard 4.0 - warning, spoilers ahead - the arch-villain turns out to be a computer programmer. Rejoice! Techies are now so feared by the public they are being cast as the master-villains in Hollywood... [18 Jul 2007]
Alex Robinson
CIO Profile He worked for two years at Leicestershire County Council as a programmer and then relocated to Norfolk with his family and joined Norwich Union as a systems analyst in 1989, rising to the position of IT director in 1999 and then CIO, via a spell... [06 Jun 2007]
Brampton Factor: Vista complaints
Comment When I was a young programmer, several decades ago, it was considered that the average rate of code creation was around 20 lines (tested and documented) per day. Windows Vista has arrived and if you buy an off-the-shelf PC you will almost certainly... [20 Feb 2007]
Leader: Closing the skills gap
Leader What use is a good programmer who can't write a project update or check if it is on budget? The so-called 'IT skills gap' continues to be a problem for many businesses, for both experienced staff and high-quality recruits from university and... [04 Jan 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.05.06
Round-Up A freelance computer programmer this week hit the headlines after reporting that he had developed a DVT while sat at his PC putting in an eight-hour shift. How are you feeling dear reader? Hopefully you're in good health. [12 May 2006]
Brampton Factor: Are Google, IBM and Microsoft really rivals?
Comment Formed by a man who chose to drop out of university, it was characterised by the idea of the gifted but undisciplined programmer. silicon.com is proud to introduce a new monthly column by long-time contributor and Devil's Advocate Martin Brampton. [25 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.01.06
Round-Up Apparently Chris Taylor, a computer programmer from Leeds, was alerted to his girlfriend's infidelity when his pet parrot, who shared their home, started to betray the name of Suzy Collins' secret 'bit on the side'. [20 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: The Microsoft-to-Google defection
Comment By and large, the last thing any programmer wants is a copy of somebody else's program. Every decent programmer knows that other programmers' work is seriously deficient. It is accusing the search engine wizard of hiring a programmer who knew about... [23 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Theory into practice
Comment Martin Brampton recently had call to try his hand at developing an open source software project - and in the process testing out some of theories he advocates. How did they stand up? After my website was hacked a couple of months ago, I needed a... [19 Apr 2005]
Outsourced ecommerce: Call it a trend
Comment If they lost their chief programmer I would lose everything," he says. What are the risks and rewards you can expect from this practice? Ben King reports. Outsourcing was a total nightmare and it nearly destroyed our business," says Keith Milsom... [08 Feb 2005]
Torvalds: "Solaris is a joke"
Comment But the 34-year-old Finnish programmer - a regular fixture in the silicon.com Agenda Setters list - isn't fazed by Solaris. When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system... [21 Dec 2004]
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