One thing we talk a lot about is how important it is, for costs, to stick to problems which have already been solved. Get fancy and do something new, and your costs have rocketed away.
A developer has just done a nice little piece on spellchecking. In 1984 it was ferociously hard. In fact, if you wanted a decent spellchecker in your custom application you had to pay dearly for the priviledge. Today it can be accomplished in a few lines of code. Read more
Bit of an unusual post this one, but when we uncover kit that my girlfriend says “haven’t you chucked out that museum piece yet?” I tend to call up the Museum of Computing in Swindon. Consequently they’ve got a few random oddities from my IT past including an old Sinclair QL and the very rare QL Monitor that came with it, as well as the tiny and unpopular Rex card sized organiser.
Anyway, the whole point of this post is to raise awareness of their need for a new home by the end of July. If you, or anyone you know, has the capability to offer some real and useful help then they’d love to hear from you. IT industry firms are probably the best candidates.
