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Council member John Ellis, FIAP has some thoughts on Code Optimisation and Re-Factoring I’ve recently been working on adding new functionality and rules to a large ISA system. As part of these changes I was amending some Visual Basic code … Continue reading →

Council member John Ellis, FIAP has some thoughts on Code Optimisation and Re-Factoring I’ve recently been working on adding new functionality and rules to a large ISA system. As part of these changes I was amending some Visual Basic code … Continue reading →

Last November, Council member John Ellis, FIAP introduced us to his latest futurological thoughts and posed a few pertinent questions. Here he has a go at answering them. Using The Technology – First Steps: Let’s imagine  that we are at … Continue reading →

Robin Jones describes the philosophy behind the new IAP Student Software Development Prize. Over the last three decades, the Institution has been involved with a number of higher education bodies, both in the public and private sectors. It currently has … Continue reading →

Mike Ryan, the Director General, talks about changes to the IAP Council June 1st sees the start of the Institution’s new administrative year 2007/2008. This is the date when five members of the Council stand down by rotation and are … Continue reading →

Council member John Ellis, FIAP wrestles with his email and asks for your suggestions. Backing up my PC recently, I ran out of space on the backup device. Usually I would have purchased a bigger hard drive and offloaded the … Continue reading →

Council member John Ellis, FIAP continues his series of short articles on making Web sites accessible to those with disabilities. We’d like to emphasise that these are much more about raising members’ awareness of their responsibilities, not least under the … Continue reading →

Council member John Ellis, FIAP introduced, in March’s VSJ, some ideas about Web accessibility. Since then, in May, you’ll have seen Paul Lynham’s report on the presentation by Julie Howell from the RNIB to the Annual Symposium. Here, John takes … Continue reading →

New Web Site Features Have you visited www.iap.org.uk, the IAP Web site, recently?  It may look the same, but under the covers it has been totally revamped.  The features that were merely promised by the old site are now fully … Continue reading →