At Connect we have been building out control frameworks for pushing content to Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube, building on the frameworks we already have for Mobile IOS / Android Apps, Web Apps and Email. This is under my firm belief that for Financial... read more
One of the things I designed and built 20+ years ago was a middleware layer that took transactions, accounts and products, (TAP) and distributed them on a broadcast basis, so receivers subscribed to required data, and published any and all events they generated. This... read more
If you are just day dreaming about using a “real” machine whilst sat inside a bank trying to get your IE7 on Windows XP to actually browse anything younger than five years old, you are not alone.. When I started in Investment Banking IT, at Salomon... read more
Went to a Firestartr conference last night, and it was a very interesting event. There were a whole set of curious start ups, doing curious things, on the Internet. Reminded me of 2002, when everything was going to get done through the Net. 13 years on, and well, it... read more
Well back from the Apple Worldwide Developers conference, and I am still reeling from the sheer scale of the announcements made. To be sat in the room when the new programming language, Swift, was announced was a real privilege. But on reflection over the week this... read more