Agile Software Robots
One of the first decisions we can face for each of our project implementations is “Which development methodology should we use?” These methodologies are a way to organise the work of software development, it is not a style of project management or a specific technical approach. The 2 most popular methodologies currently in use are:...
Let me start by saying that even though my background is in IT and the majority of my business life has been building and supporting systems in the financial industry, my knowledge of the facts about BITCOIN and the associated technology was very limited until the middle of last year. Its birth came out of...
For the techie and non-technical person, how to design a ‘good’ website always depends on some basic concepts – yes you can be baffled with terminology a we designer likes to impress you with, but remember KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). So with this in mind below is the first part of the list of...
In the previous blog I wrote about some software that is ‘free’ (not stolen, unlicensed or dodgy software) that you can use for your own / home business. http://ictexecs.com/blog/2014/09/18/top-5-free-starter-tools-every-person-needs/. This blow provides 5 more free to us (some open source) essential software products to use. I use all these on a daily basis, they are...
So you are just starting a business or been running it for a while and decided to start some of the tools available to help with your planning, emailing, websites or whatever. But which tools should you try out – simple start with the FREE ones. When I say FREE I do not mean stolen,...
In the not so disatnt past there was only one brand of smartphone on the shopping list for any business when it came to company phones – this was BlackBerry. Much has changed since BlackBerry’s fortunes have gone downhill, leaving the marketplace wide open for competitors to step in and pick up businesses’ smartphones. Now...
A good piece of accounting software package can help any small business – it is much much better than using spreadsheets! With a package you can automate most business processes and produce detailed reports on precisely how you’re doing. Deciding you need an accounting package is the easy part, of course – picking the best...
So now you have decided on WordPress and your web site name let’s get busy. If you want to test out what your website looks like for free on an actual WordPress platform, then use some free resources. The great thing about this is you can try most of the functionality of WordPress in a...
Following on from my previous blog http://ictexecs.com/blog/2014/09/11/use-wordpress-best-platform-building-business-website/ WordPress helped non-experts who want to build and maintain their own websites in a very cost effective (OK cheap) way. Before WordPress they had to either write their sites with clunky, proprietary site-builder software, or use expensive and difficult to learn packages like Dreamweaver which could require an...