“I attended one of Matt's webinars about MS SharePoint and then had a 1:1 follow-up session. It was extremely helpful. I'm confident that I can now go and set up my SharePoint and Teams so that I can give my clients and project teams somewhere to collaborate easily. Matt clearly understands his stuff and is very helpful. I'd recommend him to anyone who needs help with any aspect of their IT setup.”
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How can your IT strategy stay competitive?
A key problem here is that the organisation doesn't appreciate that IT strategy is something that needs constant consideration over the life of the business, if -- of course -- that business is in a place where it wants to be on a path of continuously improving efficiency. This requires senior leadership to "push down" to the organisation the message that IT is strategically important, and provide tools to empower anyone within the business to contribute to how that strategy is formed and implemented.
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How do you overcome risks when using outdated programming languages?
Older technology usually means an older codebase, and older codebases usually point to less rigour around cybersecurity hygiene because there was historically less appreciation of how important defensive measures within the code was. If you're seeing an older codebase, the first step should be assume that there are problems to be found, and task someone on the team with finding them. (Offering some sort of "internal bounty" can be good here. Using a more junior member of the team to give them insights into older practice can also be beneficial.) It's good to do this as a "solo" mission, especially as working on old codebases are not seen as being "as cool" as working on the new shiny.
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Death of the PC
The Platform
See publicationWe can all tell the PC is dying. Sales have been in decline. But are we ready for an era in which technology is changing so fast the stalwart of the tech revolution has its days numbered?
Surely we need our PCs — but these new devices, smartphones and tablets, are not toys. They make us laugh and let us cry. They become woven into our lives and become something we can’t live without. But why?
In his book Death of the PC, Matt Baxter-Reynolds — author, columnist, and technology…We can all tell the PC is dying. Sales have been in decline. But are we ready for an era in which technology is changing so fast the stalwart of the tech revolution has its days numbered?
Surely we need our PCs — but these new devices, smartphones and tablets, are not toys. They make us laugh and let us cry. They become woven into our lives and become something we can’t live without. But why?
In his book Death of the PC, Matt Baxter-Reynolds — author, columnist, and technology sociologist — will take you through why post-PC devices speak to people and how they change their work and home lives. Importantly, he’ll show you how the enterprise PC industry will still let technologists make a living despite the chaos of change. -
Multimobile Development
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Technical review of Matthew Baxter-Reynolds technical book on developing a mobile platform and services across all the top mobile devices (iOS, Android, WP7, Blackberry)
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MOHAMMED FARIDY
Summer’s over and school’s back in session… So let’s get technical about software contracts… Specifically, there are 7 things I look for in every software contract I review… Watch the video below to find out what they are… And don’t forget to check out The Deal Desk, the link is in the comments below… #softwarecontracts #negotiation #thedealdesk
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Jack Dotchin
WHEN THE MEDIA ASK YOU A SERIES OF SEARCHING QUESTIONS ABOUT FLATDOT'S 5 YEARS TO HELP US CELEBRATE... It's a bit like populating the details of your CV in a 2 page document to have to think back and recall questions like "your biggest challenges?" Given where we are in 2024 with AI and other changes, the SEO landscape is constantly evolving which provides a challenge to all SEO professionals. We understand how to stay on top of these developments but the most important aspect is being transparent with clients on what this means to their performance. Another challenging moment for us was a pivotal one...boxing clever and collaborating with other experts to provide additional skills around technical SEO and planning ROI-driven content strategies. The above has enabled us to immerse ourselves within a client's technical business to make sure we understand how their customers search for their products or services. Will forward details of the full interview when complete. #SEO #manufacturing #knowsley
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Loghman (Mohammad)Zadeh
🚫 This isn’t a Black Friday deal. In the following webinar, I will team up with Richmond Alake (Developer Advocate (AI/ML) at MongoDB and Eric Arthur Allen (partner at gravity9) to explore a high-impact use case for Gen AI: "Enhancing Contract and Supply Chain Management with AI Agents". We’ll demonstrate how to set up a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system with MongoDB Atlas to power an AI agent that can answer questions on contracts and supply chains—or even edit data directly within the dataset! 📅 November 14, 2024 | 17:00 PM GMT 💡 Register now to secure your spot 👉 https://lnkd.in/eaUxhnQY Looking forward to seeing you there! And who knows—after the webinar, you might even be ready to build your own AI agent to help you find the best Black Friday deals! #MongoDB #gravity9 #LangChain #LangGraph #AIagents #SupplyChain #RAG #GenAI
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Justin O'Connor
Code is getting cheaper and cheaper to manufacture. So, what does that mean for developers? Here is your call to action: become an expert in your business and your customers. Orchestration of people and computers will be the future of development. This means we all need to get more skilled in not only executing on coding tasks, but understanding why we are doing what we are doing. - Who is my customer? - How does our business meet those customers where they are? - What am I building and how is that creating value? I think the smart money is for companies to invest in: - Building great experiences that delight customers - Investing in technology that helps drive greater employee satisfaction and productivity - Educating people on the business and the value they create What are your thoughts? How should new developers be getting ready for a world where AI can handle most of the coding tasks? #ai #experience #developers
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Paul Ryan
I've made this point before but it's becoming more and more stark. The people that should be dominating platforms like this are the people with the real hard skills to code, develop and implement solutions. Instead it's dominated by relentless strategy and sales conferences, posts , talks and forums. Never has the true tech engineer role been more diminished at a time when they are truly the only ones that can make the change happen. it's oddly unique to tech roles as well. It's like having a team of trained qualified architects and engineers but instead of them discussing their problems they send the marketing team out to find out what everyone else is doing. If I'm down for heart surgery I want to talk to the surgeon , the anesthetist , the senior nurse. Not the finance team. I'm not dismissing the finance team but the ones I want best informed and strategizing are the product owners and engineers. Firms with a defined tech product at their core need to be driven by the software engineers with finance , marketing , HR reporting into them. Then you become truly tech and innovation led.
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Martin Small FCCA
https://appforanswers.com Gaining more clients is important more many professional firms. By subscribing for shares in App for Answers Ltd you own a marketing tool, made even better with 50% tax relief under SEIS. Do ping me a comment and perhaps we can chat.
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Jeremy Sisselman
"Can you see if you can find anything interesting going on in the Utilities sector?" A client asked this mid-demo last week. No prep. No warning. Just a real question, about a sector of interest. If we found something relevant, the client could immediately put it into use in client discussions. What happened next took the clients by surprise. We didn't just find one idea - we we uncovered multiple key developments in secondary market flows within the Utilities sector - within less than 5 minutes of looking. Not only had no one noticed these developments prior to us spotting them on Bondway.ai - if they'd been tasked with the same question, it might take hours to find anything relevant to share independently. The old tools simply don't let you look for ideas and then find them - it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. This isn't a one-off story... It happens almost every time we look at the market together with clients. Why? Because when you can instantly analyze thousands of bonds with reliable pricing, patterns emerge that would be impossible to see without these brand-new technologies. The best part? Our most successful clients now find these opportunities themselves. Daily. That's what happens when you give bond market experts the right tools.
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Richard Eaton 🥷
Last week I ran one of my "Build your MVP in a week" projects for a client. We went from a blank project on Monday morning to a fully functioning web app by Friday 🚀 We even added some useful additional functionality as we were ahead of schedule! 🤯 I'll share some demo videos later this week but this project included the following and more, so it wasn't just a simple landing page or similar! ✅ Registration, login, and profile management ✅ Dashboard of key data (including time period selection and charts) ✅ QR code scanning ✅ QR code generation ✅ Event management (and auto generation) ✅ Contact management (fuzzy searchable by name, company, sector) ✅ AI generated messages (tailored to each contact and their history) ✅ Built to be scalable and secure This week it's going through testing and tweaks. And then it launches on 20th October 🚀 Software doesn't have to take months and months to be built and be launched as we have proven many times now. Realistically, I only have the capacity for one more of these client "Build your MVP in a week" projects this year. If you're interested to know if I can help you, drop me a message.
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Shaz Aziz
Latest Business Networking Clubs Updates by Latest Business Offers. Title: Lancashire Online Networking For Accountants | Go Connections Link: https://lnkd.in/eNMQAhru Are you looking for opportunities to connect with other industry leaders? Look no further than Go Connections! Our platform is designed specifically for Accountants. #accountants #accountantsnetworking #onlinenetworking #businessnetworking #uknetworkingevents #events #businesses #globalnetworking #lancashire
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Nathan Green
I had a really interesting chat the other day about how legacy software, while it devalues a business up for sale, can actually be an incentive to the buyer. I was speaking with someone who buys and turns around businesses for a living. Due to the potential investment of technology needed to transform a business, particularly one with bespoke legacy software, it’s possible to get some real bargains. They shared with me that business owners, when selling, often have the mindset of “if I was ten years younger I would make the changes.” This actually offers up quick potential wins for the buyer. Not only do they get to buy a business for a fair price but they have immediate opportunity to maximise on technology to increase the value of the business. It isn’t just about replacing the software though, it’s looking at the processes and how they can be improved first and then making appropriate strategic technology decisions. I can understand the business owners’ perspective of wanting to be done with the business. They’ve poured their heart and soul into it and now they want to move on. It’s worth thinking about legacy software as part of your exit strategy. Could modernisation give your business that little bit extra to make your retirement a lot more comfortable? It’s the same as when you sell your house, a little modernisation can dramatically increase its value. ▬▬▬ Your business needs may change. Our commitment to them won’t. When you want to assess your legacy software for exit: partner with Redox.
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Dave Chaplin
ACCOUNTING WEB: What really happened in the RALC IR35 case Here's the inside story of what happened behind the curtain of an IR35 tax case, which saw an IT consultancy take on the Goliath that is HMRC. My word count was 1000, and I could say an awful lot more. What happened in Gateshead, may stay in Gateshead. HMRC are likely to "win" this case, even though the facts suggest they shouldn't, simply because HMRC have unlimited access to the public purse. They win by default - using money and law. It's all very Post-Officey, isn't it. #ir35 #offpayoll
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Kim Scotland
This one mistake is hurting your website In the early days of running my business, way back when I was a tech VA, I shied away from the camera. My website was a mismatch of stock, flat lay images. Think tastefully arranged laptops and notebooks with a few paper clips thrown in for good measure. It wasn’t the worst website I’d ever seen, but it was lacking one crucial element. Me. Back in the day, I didn’t like having my picture taken. I’d always be the one snapping family pictures and you wouldn’t often find me in them. Until I heard the phrase (cliché as it sounds) “people want to work with people”. And with that phrase I looked at my socials and my website and realised that it was effectively anonymous. Yeah you could see my name, but nowhere could you see my face. And from then I gradually changed. Selfies started appearing on my socials. I started appearing on Instagram stories. I had a photo shoot and I updated my website with pictures of me. I’m now at the point where you can’t come into contact with my brand or business without seeing my face plastered everywhere. It feels really strange looking back to see just how far I’ve come. I’m not saying stock images are bad. Ultimately, if all you have are grainy, pixelated pics of you, using those will be worse than a few high quality stock images. Where possible, if you’re a personal brand business, you should be using high quality images of yourself on your website. Do you use pictures of yourself on your website? Image description: Pink graphic with Kim, a white woman wearing a yellow blazer and aqua blue t-shirt. This one mistake if hurting your website in bold black font.
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Brennan Van Heerden
The good old "Please vote for me" scam is doing the rounds again. Seems they have targeted WhatsApp as well now, which was harder to do pre business API days. I guess that thinking the scammers wouldn't try to socially engineer us into giving up a code or a password once the chat platform allowed broadcast messaging was naive. I currently have a long-lost contact asking me for the Telegram code that was SMS'd to me. I even got a cheeky after-hours Voice Call to draw my attention to the chat if I wasn't answering the chat fast enough. My long lost contact "Another Scammer" has some impressive omnichannel capabilities available to him/her, so keep your wits about you folks. If a chat suddenly appears in your inbox and has no contact details, it's a red flag that someone has blindly messaged you, and is not in your contacts. WhatsApp will also notify any contacts that are listed on your long lost contacts list, that they are changing their number, and allow you to manage the existing and new number in app if he/she was legitimately changing their number and are still using WhatsApp. Another Red Flag is asking you to share a number, screenshot, code, token, link etc with them once you have received it via SMS, e-mail, ChatApp etc, in order to vote for, promote, or otherwise help, through a small act of kindness, your long lost contact. No legitimate business dealing with sensitive data would ever follow this process. A more subtle Red Flag is a thoroughly populated WhatsApp Profile, "Another Scammer " has just removed their Profile Pic, I think they know I am onto them... Real people have NickNames, Quote Poetry, Leave Inspirational Messages.....and legitimate businesses never call after hours or on weekends or public holidays.... Stay sharp out there, it's a digital jungle sometimes...
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Neil Pepper
I have some downtime so in between mountain biking, drinking lots of tea and Christmas shopping, I'm having a look at React Native to see if it's as good (or bad) as other multiple platform tool chains I have used. Wish me luck. Any tips ? So far quite impressed with QR code generated in terminal <geek>
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Nicholas Alexander
🐍 Have you experienced a software projects that went over budget? The UK Government famously cancelled an IT project after spending £10B. 😱 Any company that has tried to write a web based business application has to consider: 🔵 Budget 🔵 Revenue 🔵 Expenses 🔵 Administration 🔵 Hiring resources When invited to quote or consult on a project, how do you solve the burning question "how much will it cost?". The old 🌰 about the length of a piece of string is not the correct answer 😠. You give a realistic estimate and then work within that estimate so that a measurable result is delivered 😳. Simple? If you want to know how much your project will cost, simply arrange a free consultation meeting to see if we can help 😴. https://lnkd.in/ejspZAHa ps: The link says 30 minutes but if the meeting is going well, we book it for 45 minutes. You do not have to buy anything but if you do, you will not be charged for the free 45 minutes. 🤔
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It’s worrying how many businesses don’t realise that their company WordPress Website needs daily security + maintenance: it does!! If the site is on cheap shared hosting then you will likely get hacked at some point, don’t doubt it, but instead change it (protect it) with Trinity Web Design Ltd based in Teesside - we serve the entire UK… Visit us to start a discussion about affordable industry-best hosting services to protect and serve your website’s health - because when it’s gone, it’s gone for good - please don’t allow that to happen: https://lnkd.in/eMXWTD64 #Teesside #TeesValley #SMES
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Mica (Meesha) Bell 🔔
I get asked relatively frequently what the market is like now for Developers, so here's my take... 2024, for me, has been considerably better than 2023, but that wasn't hard. Last year was horrible. The market seems to be picking up, slowly. Companies are hiring a little bit more but they do seem to be more selective than they were pre-pandemic. More and more companies are going from fully remote to hybrid, and more and more candidates are looking for local hybrid companies over fully remote options. This has increased quicker and to a larger extent than I'd anticipated. This shift seems to largely be because they miss seeing people IRL and want the flexibility to easily get to know their colleague *properly*. (This isn't to say that you're not able to do this remotely, but it does require a really good set up with everyone on board to make it work well.) Salaries offered and expected seem to be decreasing from the dizzying heights of 2021/22, during the post-pandemic hiring bubble, which is to be expected. Although, this hasn't levelled out completely and there does appear to be a bit of a disparity across different sizes/locations of companies and some candidates whose lifestyles crept with their increased salaries who now can't afford to move/ expect the same amount moving forwards. This is already quite a block of text, so I think I'll leave it there. Any thoughts/comments/ additions/ questions are welcomed :) I hope this helps! #recruitment #jobmarket #devjobmarket #devs #hiring #careers #hottake #devrecruitmentmarket
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