Facing up to IT
Dharmesh Mistry
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Developers in short supply?
The growth of mobile apps will highlight a serious shortage of developers
Apple have over 650,000 apps in it’s store, Android over 500,000 and so you would think there are too many developers out there with not enough to do?Whilst many of these apps may be experiments in using mobile development tools,...
July 30, 2012 1:00 PM Read Full Post
What's Microsoft On(x)?
Whats the motive behind Microsoft writing an Android app.
Last month Microsoft announced a beta project called ON(x), pronounced “on-ex”. Now apart from the strange naming reminiscent of the famous pop artist Prince changing his name to Symbol, this seems a little strange to say the least.However in case...
July 23, 2012 10:45 AM Read Full Post
The vertical UXP
Is there a need for industry specific User Experience Platforms (UXP)?
Whilst discussing what a UXP is and who the key players are with a customer I was asked an interesting question, “is there a need for industry (banking, retail, government ...) specific UXP ?”. My immediate reaction was that the technologies...
July 2, 2012 1:00 AM Read Full Post
The end of silo architectures
Solution vendors open up their architecture
From my discussions with customers and prospects it is clear that the final layer in their architectures is being defined by UXP (see my previous posts). So whether you have a Service or Web Oriented architecture most organisations have already...
June 25, 2012 1:00 AM Read Full Post
Programming with soldering irons
The next Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates is amongst our children
Raspberry Pi will rejuvenate the marriage of electronics and programming The last time I can remember seeing a programmer with a soldering iron was a long time ago in the hay days of micro computing in the late 70’s. A...
June 18, 2012 2:17 PM Read Full Post
Future of Mobile part 3
Is it about a phone and multiple screens?
Today I have 3 GPS devices, 4 Cameras, 3 Video cameras, 3 movie players, 5 music players and the list goes on. All of these are in a variety of devices that I use in different places for different purposes....
May 7, 2012 1:13 AM Read Full Post
Click, touch, wave and talk: UI of the future
Are multi-interactive interfaces the future User Interface?
First there was the Character User Interface (CUI, pronounced cooo-eey) typified by green letters on a black background screen. Then the Graphical User Interface (GUI, pronounced goo-eey) came along with a mouse and icons. Pen interfaces existed in the era...
April 30, 2012 1:01 AM Read Full Post
Is Apple Siri-ous about Voice?
Is Apple on the cusp of making voice interaction work?
When I first saw the new iPhone ads that featured voice interaction all I thought was WOW, Apple have done it, they have mastered voice interaction. What appeared to be natural voice interaction is the nirvana many people have been...
April 23, 2012 10:55 AM Read Full Post
A dirty IT architecture may not be such a bad thing
Simplifying your architecture looks good on paper, but is it worth the effort?
For some time both CTOs and architects have looked at enterprise architectures and sought to simplify their portfolio of applications. This simplification is driven by the needs to reduce the costs of multiple platforms driven largely through duplication. Duplication often...
April 16, 2012 6:00 AM Read Full Post
Is the dream of re-use outdated?
How much effort should go into making applications re-usable?
Since the early days of programming developers have chased the dream of creating code that can be used by other developers so that valuable time can be saved by not re-inventing the wheel. Over time, there have been many methods...
April 9, 2012 6:00 AM Read Full Post
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