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Writing from PicNet's engineers on AI, software, cloud and the systems Australian organisations run on.
A fantastic shift is occurring in IT Management
For a while, there had been predictions of the death of the internal IT department. Wrong! There had also been predictions about the death of the IT Manager and CIO. Wrong! What is just occurring, in my view, is a…
Solid Principles: Part Two - Open Closed Principle
'Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension but closed for modification.' [R. Martin] The OCP is a set of strategies based on inheritance and polymorphism that aims to make code…
Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it's nearly everything
Productivity is the efficiency with which an economy (or a company or a business unit) transforms inputs into outputs. At a high level, improved production efficiency can generate higher real incomes and lead to long…
in Productivity
Solid Principles: Part One
Over the coming weeks I plan to do a bit of a study on the SOLID principles. SOLID stands for: The term was coined by Robert Martin [http://cleancoder.posterous.com/]. The five principles if used judiciously should…
Windows 8 Preview
With the upcoming release of the Windows 8 "release preview" in June and the full release of Windows 8 rumoured to be set for October, I thought now would be a good time to have a look at the next iteration of…
in Microsoft
Increase Productivity - The main reason to invest in new technology
A new survey by the Australian Industry Group and Deloitte has found that "by far and away the most common reason for business investing in new technologies over the past three years has been to increase productivity…