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The IT Skills Shortage – It’s Back!

Here is a very interesting story I have just come across from CIO Magazine’s Ross Storey, MIS Asia, entitled “Historic IT recruitment reversal” http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/depth/DFC18A4D92BDED3ECC2576AF006BF91B According to the story and recruitment and human resource outsourcing specialists Robert Walters, “the Asia Pacific is currently experiencing what is likely to be the fastest turnaround in the IT recruitment market [...]

One way to obtain Free WiFi

By way of accident really we have discovered a nifty way to get free WiFi if you are in and around Wellington New Zealand. The technique described below may work for other cities in the world, but at this stage without significant international travel, or feedback from you we are not sure. As chance would have [...]

Recessionary IT

Despite the recession, there is plenty of evidence world wide that IT skills are still in short supply.  In these recessionary times, some shortsighted organisations are letting extremely skilled and hard to replace IT staff go without I suspect an assessment of whether they will need them in the near future. For a company in trouble [...]

World Recognised Intranet

Maxsys has been acknowledged for the part that it played in the Ministry of Transport intranet which has been named as one of the top ten intranets in the world for 2008. The development company concerned was Provoke Systems, and Murray Wills of Maxsys worked for the Ministry in several roles throughout the development lifecycle [...]

Computing Rap Anyone?

Came across this in my web travels today. It is actually quite good. Who said computing can’t be a happening thing! Murray