From what I have heard, it makes a successful pickup-line nowadays to tell you are involved in Software Engineering (“hey, I am in Google’s Project Glass, you want something to drink?”). With so many innovations going on in mobile, social...
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Cybersecurity - from Hollywood to Washington
Ethan Hunt escapes from a Russian prison, with a remote accomplice opening and closing the doors of the facility through the Internet. John McClane faces a digital fire sale that step by step shuts down the entire national infrastructure.They...
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In my role, I live and breathe IT infrastructure. I spend my day thinking and talking about all of the hardware, systems and services that are best placed to deliver cost savings, business agility and workplace efficiencies. So in my world of big...
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The best lessons stay relevant forever. As an aspiring software engineer, I learned about Larry Constanine’s rules of low coupling and high cohesion and they would remain guiding design principles for decades to come. Alan Kay developed one...
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Imagine you are running a cosy, successful coffee bar in the centre of your old town. It’s the only one there and you seem to have built your own base of regular customers over the course of years. Then, one memorable day, Starbucks suddenly...
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