NHS IT 4 Years Late
It will be at least 2014 - four years later than planned - before a single NHS electronic patient records system is in place in England, say auditors.
What the hell? This was started in 2002. It’s going to have taken 12 years to deliver a patient records system?
But an NAO […]
I’m personally a Firefox and Opera fan, but the majority of the world is Internet Explorer.
When you install Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), you lose Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). You can’t have both installed. And when IE8 comes along, you won’t be able to run it alongside IE7.
For the vast majority of the world, this isn’t […]
via The BBC
Universities have seen applications for computer science degrees fall off, schools do not encourage students to do computing at GCSE and A Level and primary school children are trained as users not as programmers.
I think Bill’s working on some old figures. According the admissions tutor for Computer Science at Southampton University:-
At the University […]
Between now and the Mac being returned, and a new laptop arriving (there’s a Dell with a good reputation for dual-booting on Ubuntu), I decided to have a go at seeing if I could get Django installed on Windows.
So, I’ve followed some of this, while I keep going through the jolly good Django Book. I’ve […]
Nice to see it’s already installed.
Something I should add from an earlier post is about using the latest version of OSX, Leopard.
This isn’t a criticism of Leopard in any way, but I have noticed that some of the open source tools aren’t playing too nice with it. Installing the Python/MySQL library meant editing some source code using some tips on […]
Stephen Pollard in The Times
Last Thursday Microsoft, whose name is synonymous with the existing model of copyright protection, underwent a revolution. It suddenly released more than 30,000 pages of previously rigidly protected software protocols. Microsoft recognised that instead of always fighting to hold on to some of its intellectual property, it can do even […]
From The Register, a review of Choose and Book, the NHS internet booking system. Read it and weep…
Here’s a few of my own comments about what they’ve written:-
Sending out a password similar to “admin-password” is bad for security, and random passwords are not exactly rocket science or expensive to generate.
Giving people an option (like appointments […]
This week, Microsoft announced a new feature that’s going into IE8, which seems to be causing a stir amongst web developers.
The idea is that by putting in a meta tag on an HTML page, you can tell it which version of Internet Explorer you’d like it to be rendered like (or by not putting it […]
From the BBC
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said the government has a “long way to go” on its IT strategy. He told Commons committee chairmen that public and private firms had to come to terms with IT security issues.
That’s a cute attempt at diversion over this issue. The private sector aren’t perfect, but I’ve yet […]
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