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The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.08
Round-Up The console on display at Bletchley has no screen or keyboard and programming the machine was done initially through the front panel. No one does nostalgia like they did in the good old days, conventional wisdom says. [12 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Antique computing, Segway protest and ID cards
Comment I too started my programming career on one of these machines at BP's Research Centre. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. [11 Sep 2008]
The CIO's route to the top
Comment Gordon Lovell-Read, who has just left Siemens UK where he was CIO and director of corporate business technology, has a programming background but rose to the role of CIO after spending 17 years at HP in a number of... [11 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?
Comment The idea of 24-hour programming efforts to improve delivery speed has plunged me back into that familiar debate of strong opinions and scanty evidence. Pressure is building up behind a move to managed services at the... [10 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment In each of the five inventions considered - Software 2000 and laser printing, Astron Clinica and cosmetic surgery imagery, Inrotis and identifying proteins in drug therapy, SurfKitchen and mobile internet services, and Cyan Technology... [13 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune
Comment Must have CCIE, MCSE, PhD in Agile Programming Methods (Oxbridge pref) and have 25 yrs' experience. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our... [06 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment The US National Football League (NFL) expects to see $900m from digital media developments, such as a new five-year Sprint contract to deliver NFL programming to mobile devices. Not true, says Silicon Valley-based Howard... [29 Nov 2007]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile In the past year, Benioff also made salesforce.com programming language Apex available to independent software developers. This is the third appearance on the Agenda Setters list for CRM services company salesforce.com's... [12 Oct 2007]
How to be a top CIO
CIO Analysis A quick look at the profiles of those on the silicon.com CIO50 backs that view, with a significant number going on from computer sciences or mathematics degrees to IT support and programming roles and then IT management. [06 Jun 2007]
Alex Robinson
CIO Profile A short and ultimately unsuccessful spell as a freelance writer led Robinson to try out a computer programming training scheme, which he says was the turning point in his career. What they say about him: "Demonstrates... [06 Jun 2007]
Ken Harvey
CIO Profile Harvey has a degree in finance from Chicago's DePaul University, is certified in multiple programming languages and is widely recognised for his expertise in real-time financial transaction processing. [06 Jun 2007]
IPTV for beginners
Comment What are the technical, programming and business forces needed for escape velocity? Between today's cacophony of web-video services and the promised land of seamless interactive programming is the... [04 Jun 2007]
Brampton Factor: Ageism myths
Comment For example, third generation programming languages have hardly changed in the last 30 years. Ageism in IT is much like other kinds of prejudice, says Martin Brampton - most of what we assume is untrue. [22 May 2007]
Brampton Factor: Vista complaints
Comment But before getting down to some programming issues, let's digress to consider the environment. Martin Brampton sounds off on the ways Windows Vista fails to live up to its promise - and what it tells us about the... [20 Feb 2007]
Leader: Closing the skills gap
Leader 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 college.silicon.com's most recent annual Skills Survey found that while... [04 Jan 2007]
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