Monthly Archives: November 2015


First to five

I think it is very telling when you get a new PC or laptop – what are the first 5 apps that get installed ? Why are they so important that before any others you need them ? In this case with a new MacBook Pro – the first five OSX apps I installed were […]


Living with the Enemy ?

As part of projects we are finding more and more that clients are looking to mobilise data and systems to make them accessible to end users in the field. Xpages facilitates this through the mobile controls and other third party approaches such as Xcontrols. However when the issue becomes the fact that the application needs […]


A simple powerful equation editor

Recently I needed to generate some mathematical equations for use in schoolwork and remember bad experiences with Microsoft’s office tools I decided to look for something standalone. That turned out to be the Lite (sic)  version of MathMagic which also has paid for personal and pro versions. For my needs the Lite (sic) version was more […]