Why big systems fail
It’s a puzzle that perplexes time after time – why, with the full might and mind of experts, corporations and governments focused on the task at hand, do efforts to produce large scale IT systems, more often than not, lead …
It’s a puzzle that perplexes time after time – why, with the full might and mind of experts, corporations and governments focused on the task at hand, do efforts to produce large scale IT systems, more often than not, lead …
Sometimes they can drive you mad, but in the end they pay your wages. The customer really is always right.…
When I began developing websites in 1995, there was no WordPress or Magento. CSS didn’t exist, PHP was in its first iteration, ASP was a year away and Javascript was still to be standardised. The practical tools available were HTML …
It’s a shame. Sometimes you work hard on a project and it just fizzles out. Through no fault of your own the remit changes, the budget gets reallocated, someone decided they don’t want the site, widget, whatever, after all. What …
I’ve been wrestling with the Intel XDK to create hybrid apps for a few years now and it’s been rewarding and difficult in equal measure. The key issue is I only pick it up every few weeks or so, as …
I’ve been developing websites for twenty years, and over that time I’ve installed and used many of the most popular CMSs available on Apache and IIS. I’ve had close contact with Joomla, Umbraco, DNN, Drupal, Textpttern, Moodle, Magento, Prestashop to …
Before leaving Dartington we introduced a new box office system from Spektrix, to replace our ageing Databox system.The primary factor in deciding to move away from Databox was their failure to notice the internet coming. Not uncommon among die-hard …
Just a small note to say there’s nothing like good photography to transform a site. It can be very frustrating for designers and developers to produce what should be a great site only to have it visually mangled by crappy …
In about 2005 I inherited an ASP (now known as Classic ASP) site from Research in Practice. Not my favoured platform I have to admit, and it was easy to see why it was overhauled soon after. My primary bugbear …