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Dharmesh Mistry has supported financial services organisations with technology and management expertise for over 20 years. Dharmesh is CTO of edge IPK focusing on developing and launching an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

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Specialists can be better than jack-of-all-trades

Last month, I talked about convergence and the emergence of multi-purpose devices. It was a timely post. Check out the recent hype surrounding the launch of the updated iPhone. Media reports give the impression the whole world wants all-purpose,...

Tags: apple, applications

Rich Web Poor Web

When it comes to applications developed in Adobe Flash nobody can argue with their distinct visual appeal. Combining rich graphics and dynamic behaviour this is a technology that has focused very effectively on creating truly rich applications. Now other...

Tags: applications

Xforms to the fore?

Modern executive carry a bag full of internet-ready devices, such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants and laptops and have become used to being able to access information any where, any time and now on almost any device. Allowing...

Tags: applications

Client Side Session Management (part 2)- Sharing is good

In my first article we covered the issues of server side session management and the benefits from a server perspective of session data being managed client side within a browser. These benefits are mainly technology related, but what about...

Tags: applications, security, windows

Convergence and the iPhone

The headlines scream with news of ‘frenzied demand’ and ’swamped retailers’. Apple’s latest version of its converged mobile device the iPhone has just hit the UK shops – and customers are literally fighting to get their hands on a...

Tags: apple, applications, security

Client Side Session Management…

Ok this is an old hobby horse I’ve reeled out many times, and now that I’ve got round to starting a blog what better place to find a permanent home for this old equidae. The traditional way of managing...

Tags: applications

Building from the front to back

Building from the front to the back…Most discussions about service-oriented architecture (SOA) concentrate on back-end issues, such as middleware and integration. Such a healthy debate fails to recognise one key concern - your users will not make the most...

Tags: applications, security

End of development or end user development?

July 9, 2008 Don’t worry programmers, coding is here to stay. However, there is the question of whether all development should be done by programmers? I’d argue that business applications should be developed by business users with specialised tools...

Tags: applications

The “end of point and click”?

Hopes for future technology sometimes seem desperately romantic. It’s easy to feel slightly uneasy when IT experts talk about the increasing role of automation or robotics, for example. While it’s clear the continued evolution of technology is likely to...

Tags: applications

Web design with the customer in mind

Every business leader knows the customer is king - which means it’s strange that many firms still fail to pay enough attention to the customer experience. For those not aiming to compete on price, customer experience will be the...