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Upgrading Legacy Systems: Don't Migrate - Convert!

Tel Hudson, Bloor Research — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Modernising a legacy system is a problem. This article describes an effective alternative to the conventional migration techniques. [Read More...]

Can You Make Pigs From Sausages?

Tel Hudson, Bloor Research — Tue, 02 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100

Converting legacy assembler programs into modern code is daunting - but Software Migrations can take away a lot of the pain. [Read More...]

Black Box to avoid software crashes

Tel Hudson, Bloor Research — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:00:00 +0100

A big problem for problem solvers trying to diagnose a problem is often that the reported problem is not the actual problem thus creating a problem in identifying the root cause... which is a problem! [Read More...]

Microsoft Office 12: is it a winner?

Tel Hudson, Bloor Research — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:00:00 +0100

Office is so big and rich that even those of us who use it every day for a living cannot see half of it. But now the entire functionality can be exposed without overwhelming the user. [Read More...]

In search of shareware

Tel Hudson, Bloor Research — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Software is an expensive commodity. When you start a new project it makes a lot of sense - especially if you are a practising freelance programmer like me - to see if part of the work has already been coded. [Read More...]

Java - not my cup of tea

Tel Hudson, Bloor Research — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 06:00:00 +0100

Java was developed for a most laudable purpose. It was to make a fully portable language that can be used for web applications. It is unfortunate that the language was hijacked by people with an axe to grind. [Read More...]