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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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Gen Y: Welcome to the era of multi-taskers

Is your organisation ready for the technology-led social transformation?

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If you are in your thirties or older, you might remember a working life before the internet. For Generation Y, the equation is more simple - most people in their twenties and younger don’t remember a social life before the...

November 30, 2010 10:58 AM Read Full Post

Tags: email, facebook, internet, online communication, social computing, social networking, tweet, twitter, web 2.0

The new legacy is HTML

Learn the lessons of COBOL. Get a grip now

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The legacy of past computing decisions is one of the biggest technology challenges facing businesses. What’s more, lessons from the past are not being heeded. Let’s start with the most famous legacy code of them all - because if you’ve...

November 23, 2010 3:58 PM Read Full Post

Tags: ajax, applications, architecture, code free, coding, css3, front end, front end development, graphical user interface, gui, html5, layered architecture, modern web technologies, presentation layer, programmers, programming, screens, self build, soa, software development, user interface, web 2.0, web design, webfonts, webworker

Put end user development at the front

How to take your IT department forward

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Here’s a wake up call for the IT department - end-user computing will definitely become dominant; it’s just a matter of time. Proof comes in the form of modern business practices. Increasing numbers of executives are now saying that time...

November 22, 2010 9:58 PM Read Full Post

Tags: applications, architecture, business analysts, code free, end user development, eud, front end development, layered architecture, programmers, programming, self build, skills shortage, software development

Can end user development solve the standards puzzle?

Give them the tools and they'll drive standardisation

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Have you tried developing for the web recently? Did you find the broad range of forms, formats and requirements to be helpful or a hindrance? The chances are that you fell into the second camp; any IT specialist dabbling their...

November 21, 2010 6:57 PM Read Full Post

Tags: end user development, eud, programmers, programming, self build

Microsoft: Wake up to smell the (HTML 5) coffee

Then pass the Java to Adobe

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Another month, another confusing set of stories relating to Microsoft’s web framework Silverlight and the next generation mark-up language HTML5. I wrote about the relationship previously, referring to Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch’s suggestion that the future of the...

November 15, 2010 4:06 PM Read Full Post

Tags: browser, google, htm, microsoft, ria, silverlight, standards, user experience, user experience platform, uxp, w3c, web wars

Mobile user experience matters...

Think before you develop

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I don’t want to just knock mobile phones. I might, at times, seem like I’m picking on handheld devices - but nothing could be further from the truth. Looking back on my blog posts during the past year-or-so, it’s notable...

November 11, 2010 10:24 AM Read Full Post

Tags: apple, blackberry, convergence, customer experience, devices, mad, mad - multiple access devices, mobile, mobile applications, mobile development iphone, mobile internet browsers, multiple access devices, multiple access devices, presentation layer, research in motion, symbian

Ditch your mobile strategy for a multi-device one

Stop fixating on the device. look to the real future

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Blue-chip enterprises are doing it, technology providers are doing it and networking giants are preparing for it: the smart guys are already moving from a mobile strategy to a multi-device strategy. Long gone are the days when you would expect...

November 1, 2010 11:48 AM Read Full Post

Tags: apple, convergence, devices, ipad, layered architecture, mad, mad - multiple access devices, mobile, mobile applications, mobile development, mobile internet browsers, multiple access devices, mutliple access devices, presentation layer, software development

Can the BBC afford to take their eyes of HTML5?

Most of the IT world is preparing to switch to HTML5, apart from the BBC

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You sometimes read an opinion that stands out and stops you in your tracks - and the below sentiment from a senior BBC executive about the next major revision of the HTML standard left me stunned. “I have concerns about...

October 21, 2010 2:48 PM Read Full Post

Tags: adobe, air, applications, development, flash, front end, front end development, graphical user interface, gui, html5, modern web technologies, presentation layer, ria, rich internet applications, user interface, user interfaces, uxp & ria, web 2.0, web technology

Apple vs Adobe: Round two could herald the knockout blow

Is Flash fading?

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Seconds out, round one! Once the best of friends, technology giants Apple and Adobe have more recently been involved in a fistfight that would do the heavyweight boxing division proud. In the red corner, Apple - an experienced but...

October 19, 2010 9:17 PM Read Full Post

Tags: adobe, air, apple, applications, development, flash, html5, plug-in, ria, rich internet applications, silverlight

Fat client, rich client, mobile client

make sure your web-based developments allow you to serve your savvy customers

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It’s a given that you’d better get online if you want to reach out to your customers. With more and more people having mobile access to the internet, firms need software that can help clients to interact on the move....

October 15, 2010 2:47 AM Read Full Post

Tags: ajax, architecture, collaborative web platforms, customer experience, devices, front end, front end development, graphical user interface, gui, mad, mad - multiple access devices, mobile, mobile applications, mobile development, mobile internet browsers, multiple access devices, presentation layer, service oriented architecture, software development, user interface, web 2.0

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