Project management lessons from the chicken and the pig
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
You may already know this story, but for those who don't I hope this will provide an interesting distraction. Mr Pig and Mr Chicken were taking a stroll through the farmyard one day and thinking about a life outside of the ranch. Mr Chicken says, "Hey Mr Pig, we should bust this coop and pig pen...
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Martha Lane Fox backs Coding for Kids programming tuition
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Remember Computer Club at school? If you are a 40-something like me, you may remember the Commodore Pet, the BBC Micro and daddy of them all, the Research Machines 380-z with its whopping 56K of RAM costing over £3000 as it did back at the end of the 1970s. Bringing us (thankfully) bang up to new...
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Supercomputer software, wind power turbines & big data analytics
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
With the creation and deployment of environmental "renewable energy" technologies now growing at a faster rate than ever, the 'touchpoints' for IT-driven infrastructural support for the eco-energy sector are also growing at a commensurate rate. While IT firms selling to this space are having to be...
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Programming possibilities: recognising facial recognition technology
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
As seemingly impossible as we might have thought it 50 or 60-years ago that a journalist would be using an electronic slab to write this story 33,000 feet in the air, there was also a time when the notion of facial recognition technology was thought beyond the realms of scientific research. Well...
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How loosely coupled applications beat middleware
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
This is a guest piece written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog by Phil Lewis, business consulting director for UKIMEA at enterprise software vendor Infor. A lot of people in business hate the software that runs their company. Executives grudgingly accept the painful shortcomings...
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¡Ole! Spain drives legality into mobile services with Sybase 365
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Mobile-focused software application developers might want to take more than a passing glance at what's going on in Spain just now. Arguably not always known as the technology epicenter of Europe, the northeast region of Catalonia is Spain's high-tech hub, apparently? OK so there's Mobile World...
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Why is it called cloud computing?
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Why did we settle on the name cloud computing for the delivery of hosted and managed service-based computing? All we needed was a term to describe a cavernous domain with (potentially) limitless expanses of space. Surely "dungeon computing" would have sufficed -- or would that have sounded too...
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Compuware’s dynaTrace does APM, UEM and BTM with great TCO, but so what?
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Compuware's dynaTrace division is taking its application performance management (APM) wares to market this month with an ebullient skip in its step. Using warm and fuzzy vendor-marketing terms like "unparalleled business value", "shortened time-to-value" and, wait for it... "lower total cost of...
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VMware and the 40-foot ISO shipping container
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
VMware, Trend Micro and F5 Networks all gathered around one oblong-shaped roundtable late last week to discuss the state of the cloud, the future for the virtualised corporate network and the importance of 40-foot ISO shipping containers. VMware's chief cloud strategist Joe Baguley escorted the...
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