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Gartner Hype Cycle

Change is the only Constant!

November 9, 2010

The Gartner Hype Cycle is a convenient way of looking at trends - what technology is delivering; what is emerging; and what is over-hyped!

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Excel for Managers

Excel: Reversing a List

November 9, 2010

It has always come as a surprise that Excel lacks a reverse method, because everything from LISP in 1956 to Perl/Ruby/Python today has one, usually applicable to both strings and lists!

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devvalue

Are you getting value for your software development budget?

November 9, 2010

Government computer projects seem doomed to fail: the press and public heap scorn on the very visible problems of eNATIS and CIPRO. But are corporates any better at managing the development process, or are they just more skilled at burying their failures?

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Excel for Managers

Excel: Maintenance-free Drop-down Lists

October 8, 2010

Drop down lists save both typing and typos. There are a few ways of creating them, but I prefer to create dynamic lists. That way, list items can be added on the fly, and will appear in the list from the moment they are inserted.

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Head in the Clouds

October 8, 2010

Remember everything. Isn't that what we all need? Read our list of “must have” Cloud apps below that we just can't do without!

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Do You Twitter

Do you Twitter

October 8, 2010

Facebook is where you lie to people you know. Twitter is where you're honest to strangers.

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Agile Projects

October 8, 2010

The Scrum Alliance held the Agile Conference in Cape Town on the 1st and 2nd of September, which gave KRS a chance to meet up with other Agile thinkers and practitioners in South Africa.

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