BCS Guernsey Branch

BCS Guernsey is an international section of the BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT. Membership of BCS Guernsey provides an opportunity to network with fellow IT professionals and keep up-to-date with the latest developments on and off island.

Itex wins award for Customer Service IT service provider Itex has won the Best Customer Service of the year award at the 2012 Egaming Review (EGR) B2B Awards Event. The results were announced at the awards night held at Wembley Stadium on Thursday 10 May attended by a large number of ... Itex Offshore 17 May 2012 08:19	Service Announcement - Essential migration work Due to essential migration work by Jersey Telecom, our Jersey helpdesk telephone number will be out-of-service for 30 minutes from 3am on Sunday 20th May. During this time, any support calls to the Itex Servicedesk in Jersey need to be placed using this ... Itex Offshore 15 May 2012 16:01	Crumbling over your cookies? As you are probably aware, the Independant Commissioner's Office (ICO) have indicated that they will be enforcing the much debated 'EU Cookie Laws' from the 26th of May 2012 - after a rather generous grace period following the actual introduction of the ... Matt Chatterley 15 May 2012 14:34
SharePoint projects need software architecture too I was reading Requirements–we don’t need them! by Andrew Woodward of 21apps recently, which talks about the importance of having a visionary product owner on your SharePoint project to ensure that it delivers the right thing. That all makes ... Simon Brown 15 May 2012 12:47	Digital Jersey - How a meetup helped create the official body representing the Island's digital sector It���s been quite a year since we launched Digital Jersey. ��When we set out to bring Jersey���s digital professionals together, we had no idea how successful the concept would be. Just twelve months later, Digital Jersey has become one of the focal ... Luke Szkudlarek 14 May 2012 12:28	C5-Alliance-acquires-Cronus Title: C5 Alliance acquires Cronus Comments: Channel Island IT consultancy C5 Alliance Ltd. has acquired Jersey based integrated IT solutions company Cronus Ltd. C5 Alliance 14 May 2012 11:39
Software architecture track at GOTO Copenhagen 2012 It's not long now until the GOTO Copenhagen 2012 conference and I'm really honoured to be hosting the software architecture track. The vision for the track is to get people in the software architecture role to share their experiences of how ... Simon Brown 11 May 2012 07:47	How do you design software? I recently set a challenge ... describe how you design software in the time it takes you to have a coffee break. I've posed this same question to a few people myself and answering it is really tough. And that, I think, is kind of worrying. ... Simon Brown 10 May 2012 10:26	How much up front design is just enough? I ran an interactive, gamestorming session a couple of weeks ago at Skills Matter to help us answer the question of "how much up front design is enough?". It was a lot of fun! Since the session was interactive, there was only a short amount of ... Simon Brown 09 May 2012 20:22
Software architecture training in Jersey, June 2012 For a second year, I'm pleased to say that I'll be running Software Architecture for Developers in Jersey. If you want to get a feel for what we'll be covering during this two day training course, take a look at the following blog entries. ... Simon Brown 09 May 2012 17:12	Apache to Nginx & PHP-FPM : part 1 Background The Ogre3D website has been running on a dedicated server for about 7 years now; this is relatively expensive, but when we moved away from the shared hosting that Sourceforge generously provided, but which we had outgrown, our initial foray ... Steve Streeting 09 May 2012 16:42	Cloud for Schools Pilot - 2 I ran session 2 yesterday where I introduced the students to looping and conditional statements. As with most things in IT, there are many ways to solve the same problem and, with that in mind, I started off by introducing Ruby's elegant ... Simon Brown 09 May 2012 16:25
System Center Cloud Services Process Pack I have noticed that some documentation for the Cloud Service Process Pack has been made available – http://technet.micro... Ronnie Isherwood 07 May 2012 22:02	Cloud for Schools Pilot - 1 I'm helping with the "Cloud for Schools Pilot" that has been organised by Julian Box of Calligo, which is a series of approximately 12 after school sessions where a small number of local software developers are teaching the students how to get ... Simon Brown 06 May 2012 09:24	Hyper-V 8 Beta Architecture Want a nice graphical overview of the new Hyper-V 8 Beta component architecture, that includes live migration, failover clustering, networking and a host of other features, well, voila! If you want the really big picture it can be downloaded from ... Jake Foster 05 May 2012 16:07
Prosperity 24.7 invites you to “KYD – Know Your Data – HP Storage & the Private Cloud Breakfast Brief” “KYD – Know Your Data HP Storage & the Private Cloud”    Prosperity 24.7 Breakfast Brief Pomme d'Or Hotel May 22nd 2012 8am – 10am   Struggling with data sprawl, dislocated data management, regulatory ... Prosperity 24.7 04 May 2012 16:31	Bank Shareholders Fight Back Reblogged from Ledwidge: The past few weeks have witnessed several instances where shareholders have rejected executive compensation packages proposed by bank boards. Is this the dawn of a new era in corporate governance? Many years ago when I was ... Paul Every 04 May 2012 15:14	Consumed by FATCA? What is FATCA? The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) is a new US law aimed at Foreign Financial Institutions (FFIs) and other financial intermediaries to prevent tax evasion by US citizens and residents through the use of offshore accounts. FATCA ... CBO Projects 04 May 2012 13:27
It's about more than just the price What sets you apart from your competitors? If it's just the price-tag, there may be trouble ahead. While it may seem obvious, it's still worth saying. If the only advantage your business can demonstrate over others in the same marketplace is price, you ... Matt Chatterley 04 May 2012 09:40	BPM – where is your organisation on the process maturity journey? “Brilliant process management is our strategy. We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes. We observe that our competitors often get average (or worse) results from brilliant people managing broken processes.” Source: a ... Paul Every 04 May 2012 08:59	Quick tip: Access Denied when editing navigation (areanavigationsettings.aspx) in MySites If you encounter an issue, specifically in MySites, where you get an Access Denied error trying to edit the navigation, check whether you have the publishing feature enabled. I had this same issue when “Enterprise features” were re-enabled at ... Matt Thornton 03 May 2012 20:03
Are we set to see a new generation of cloud infrastructure providers? This blog post first appeared in CloudPro, April 5th, 2012 Cloud providers have struggled to meet demands for enterprise-class ... Calligo 03 May 2012 18:27	World-Government-Solutions-Forum Title: ​C5 showcase States of Jersey web strategy project to international audience Comments: A States of Jersey project has been showcased to an international audience this week, in a presentation by C5 Alliance’s chief operating officer Rob Leader and ... C5 Alliance 03 May 2012 15:04	HP “Our 3PAR kit can fit twice as many VMs into your server” HP is so confident that its 3PAR storage arrays will double a server's virtual machine count it is guaranteeing it – and will pay for any extra 3PAR storage needed beyond what it replaces to get to the 2x VM count number. The HP Get Virtual ... Prosperity 24.7 03 May 2012 09:47
Betley Whitehorne helps launch theQROPSreport.com website Recognised QROPS expert Rex Cowley, of NewDawn consultancy, has released an authoritative report to the QROPS market, significantly just at a time when big questions are being asked about the product following recent rulings by the British Government over ... Betley Whitehorne 03 May 2012 08:30	Oh no, not a ‘Best of’ collection? Well, yes – and my apologies if you’ve already seen these.  In celebration of the new blog and before I’ve polished any new entries for it – I often write & refine my posts over several sessions, I find the content is better ... Steve Streeting 02 May 2012 13:21	John Bridge adds the Ethical Hacker feather to his technical skills cap Prosperity 24.7 is proud to announce that John Bridge, a Senior Business Consultant, has recently passed the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker exam. What is an ethical hacker? To beat a hacker, you need to think like one… Ethical Hacking is often ... Prosperity 24.7 30 Apr 2012 17:29
Blog revamp As I promised, I’ve given this blog a bit of an overhaul in anticipation of posting more often again. For those who are interested, here’s a run-down of the updates: New responsive design Responsive design is all the rage these days; in ... Steve Streeting 29 Apr 2012 16:57	International SharePoint Conference Slides A great three days at the International SharePoint Conference in London – lots of great content and good to see a lot of the usual faces, always love meeting more of the SharePoint Community. Serious props to Steve & Zoe and the rest of the Combined ... Aonghus Fraser 28 Apr 2012 18:25	How do you design software? A big thanks to everybody that came along to the Why do software projects fail? session last night, it was a really fun evening! The slides from my talk are available to download/view online. As I said in my talk, here's my challenge to ... Simon Brown 27 Apr 2012 09:36