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Did Clayton Christensen predict Twitter in 2004?
Professor Clayton Christensen has written some very interesting books outlining his theories governing disruption in industry, where new entrants to a market using seemingly inferior […]
EU Cookie Directive. Damaging the competitiveness of UK and EU companies.
When I started this blog I never expected I would end up writing an article about a European Community Directive. Let alone one with such […]
User experience, alcohol and Buddhism
Last Thursday I attended an event hosted by Red Gate Software with the topic “User Experience in Software Development”. I also met with Roger Atrill […]
The Six Waves of Computing
Last year I was lucky enough to be present in the audience when Hermann Hauser gave the keynote speech for the Discovering Startups talks presented […]
Humble in the presence of greatness (or how to feel inadequate really quickly)
Last week I had the pleasure to attend a conference organised by Cambridge Wireless at Cambridge University Møller Centre, Cambridge. The event was free to […]
Banks are clueless about online security
During November I met Dave Collins from Software Promotions. I saw him presenting two talks on effective Adwords marketing and common mistakes you can make […]
DLL Version Finder
Sometimes you need to find all locations of a particular DLL on your machine and then check the version numbers. Use Windows Search then right […]
Problems when subclassing controls
I’m developing a graph control for use in our Memory Validator software tool. Tracking a mouse One of the requirements was that we need to […]
Don’t try this at home – custom control time sink
There are times when writing a custom control will waste your time like nothing on earth. I’m going to share with you a particularly painful […]
59 seconds with Eric Ries
Yesterday I had the pleasure to visit TechHub to listen to Eric Ries talk about the lean startup. Like some others attendees I could not […]