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Top 3 Developer Takeaways from WWDC 2015 | Datacom Blog
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. Top 3 Developer Takeaways from WWDC 2015. June 19, 2015. IOS 9 running on iPhones. Image credit: Apple. By now, technologists have likely heard about what Apple unveiled about WatchOS 2, iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan during WWDC last week. There was plenty of buzz in Apple’s keynote for consumers, as we talked about in an earlier blog, but here are our top three things developers should know about the event. 1 iOS 9 iPad Multitasking. 2 Stack View for iOS.
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Day One at WWDC 2015 | Datacom Blog
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. Day One at WWDC 2015. June 10, 2015. June 10, 2015. By Husain Al-Badry and Calvin Lai. More recently, the event has focused more on Apple’s software changes, and this year was no different. Needless to say, the keynote did not disappoint on news from the technology giant. The highlights were:. Announcement of OSX 10.11, El Capitan, containing a series of enhancements focused on user experience and performance. Announcement of Swift 2, now becoming an open...
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15 minutes with Hololens | Datacom Blog
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. 15 minutes with Hololens. May 2, 2015. May 4, 2015. Above: The HoloLens demo we participated in. Yesterday I was lucky enough to receive an exclusive invite for a 15 minute HoloLens demo at Microsoft Build 2015. With only one hour’s notice, I rushed to the Intercontinental Hotel where Microsoft had taken over one of the floors. 6 observations from 15 minutes with HoloLens:. 2) Motion sickness – unlike other VR technology, there was no dizziness or m...
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. Why change management is critical to cloud success. March 8, 2016. And other lessons on cloud adoption and management. A move to public cloud especially will most likely change the nature of some people’s jobs which may have been performed the same way for many years. Some functions will stay the same, some will transform, and some may disappear. (Some may of course be passed onto a service provider.). So people will need to reskill and think differently ...
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Cross-platform mobile app development with Xamarin | Datacom Blog
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. Cross-platform mobile app development with Xamarin. November 27, 2014. February 25, 2016. There are many choices available for delivering a mobile solution across diverse platforms today. The right choice can depend on many factors: the required functionality, the target user, and the available budget. Xamarin can be a good choice this blog discusses why and when. There are many other alternatives, so why would we single out this technology? One of the ob...
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Don’t plan to build a Content Management System – plan to build a website | Datacom Blog
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. Don’t plan to build a Content Management System – plan to build a website. February 26, 2015. February 27, 2015. When a CMS is delivered the job is only half done. For a web site to be successful, you’ve got to have high quality, responsive content to put into the new CMS structure. Where are my staff? Without stock and staff people won’t find what they want, have a good experience or return for more. In the real world this wouldn’t happen. Teams who ...
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15 minutes with Hololens | Datacom Blog
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. 15 minutes with Hololens. May 2, 2015. May 4, 2015. Above: The HoloLens demo we participated in. Yesterday I was lucky enough to receive an exclusive invite for a 15 minute HoloLens demo at Microsoft Build 2015. With only one hour’s notice, I rushed to the Intercontinental Hotel where Microsoft had taken over one of the floors. 6 observations from 15 minutes with HoloLens:. 2) Motion sickness – unlike other VR technology, there was no dizziness or m...
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. Changing payroll systems not just for the brave? July 6, 2016. July 6, 2016. How scared should you be? High profile payroll implementation failures in the education and health sectors make changing payroll systems seem like high risk projects. It’s therefore often not until a critical incident occurs or significant pressure builds on the people, processes or technology involved that the need for change overcomes the appetite for risk. Moving to a modern p...
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Why you need to upgrade Windows Server 2003 | Datacom Blog
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. Why you need to upgrade Windows Server 2003. December 18, 2014. December 18, 2014. Microsoft’s support for Windows Server 2003 ends on July 14 2015. If your organisation has some of the estimated 22 million computers still running the about-to-be-obsolete operating system, it’s time to plan your upgrade now don’t wait a further six months and think you’ll be OK. There are two main challenges for organisations needing to migrate from Server 2003:. 1 Knowin...
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10 hacks to combat technostress | Datacom Blog
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Thoughts and insights on technology and business. 10 hacks to combat technostress. June 3, 2015. By Wasim Anwar and Daniel Groenewald. You are sitting in a promising presentation when suddenly the presenter’s face turns pale, an icon spins on the overhead projector, the mouse is clicked with murderous enthusiasm, the audio drops out, the screen freezes and the presentation keels over and dies. 8220;I’m so sorry,” says the presenter. “It was working fine in the office.”. While tech failure is the most vis...
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