by Kosten Metreweli | 20 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else
A new piece of research from Forrester (”Why Green IT Should Feature In Sourcing Plans”- by Euan Davis) suggests that sourcing executives will increasingly need to incorporate green considerations into their sourcing policies. I agree – here in the UK,…
by Phil Mayes | 20 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else, Teamwork, User Experience
Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Phillip Mayes (though I prefer Phil) and I’m a Technical Consultant for Tideway Systems. I’m writing what I hope will be the first of many entries sharing my experiences about what I do for Tideway, the challenges I face and the…
by Duncan Grisby | 17 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering
Before co-founding Tideway, I worked at a commercial research lab in Cambridge. The lab started life as Olivetti Research Limited, commonly known as ORL. Later on, it became the Olivetti and Oracle Research Lab (still ORL, just with an invisible second O), and a while after that, it became AT&T…
by Alex Horstmann | 17 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Macarati, User Experience
A very interesting report was published in February which analysed Vistas, XPs and Mac OSXs usability by Pfeifer Consulting, which did some very detailed analysis of the Mac and Windows UI. It conculded that (naturally) OSX was the superior UI, but also that Vista/Aero is worse than XP!
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by Alex Horstmann | 12 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Macarati, User Experience
The following point was part of a comment posted in response to my last article:
the single menu at the top of the screen is more confusing than helpful,
I’d like to comment on this as it is a common “issue” that Mac-o-phobes quote when trying to…
by Charles Rattray | 11 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Featured, IT Management
With my project manager hat on I write many project plans (gantt charts, to be precise). There is always a danger when writing these plans that they represent nothing more than wishful thinking on my part on how an engagement will evolve. There is a simple reason for this. Project…
by Alex Horstmann | 11 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Macarati, User Experience
I have to say, I think that I may be hooked! Even after I had bought my Mac and I was waiting it for it be designed in California, manufactured in Shanghai and assembled in Cork and shipped to me I was having moments where I was wondering if I…
by Simon Woodward | 05 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else
We’re in the closing stages now of releasing the first Integrations Group project, snappily named the BMC Atrium CMDB 2.0 Adapter version 1.0. There’s been plenty of activity around telling people what this piece of software is (ie. an adapter to Atrium whose mappings are fully configurable), but not much…
by Allan Mertner | 27 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering
When we are not quite sure what we need to build, we build a prototype as a way of experimenting with different options and allow ourselves to take shortcuts and use hacks that in production code would be completely unacceptable. The intention always is to throw away the code at…
by Allan Mertner | 14 Mar 2007 | Permalink | Software, Software Engineering
In Tideway, the group of almost 40 people that designs, develops, tests, documents and maintains our software is called “Engineering”. In other companies it is sometimes called R&D or Development or something in that vein, but it boils down to the same thing: This is where a group of people…
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