Month: May 2010

• May 30, 20102010 World Cup, Blog, ICT Sector

  A Software Engineer’s view of the 2010 World Cup

  by Prof Barry Dwolatzky It’s upon us!! The long awaited much anticipated FIFA 2010 World Cup is here. Everyone’s focus has moved away from the stresses and pressures of making […]

• May 30, 20102010 World Cup, Blog, ICT Sector

  Ticket Chaos – an ICT failure or FIFA greed?

  by Prof Barry Dwolatzky Ninety thousand “new” World Cup ticket went on sale at 9:00am on Friday 28th May at FIFA ticketing centres around South Africa. Such is the passion […]

• May 24, 20102010 World Cup, Blog, ICT Sector, Industry news

  I’ve found a 2010 ICT story – are there others?

  by Prof Barry Dwolatzky About 2 weeks ago I asked readers of the blog if they knew of any examples of AMAZING stuff that the South African ICT Sector would […]

• May 18, 2010Blog, ICT Sector, ICT Skills

  SA ICT Professionals: Jacks of many trades, masters of none?

  by Prof Barry Dwolatzky Did you know that people doing technical work in the South African ICT Sector carry out, on average, 6 different job functions?

• May 13, 20102010 World Cup, Blog, ICT Sector

  In search of our 2010 ICT story …

  by Prof Barry Dwolatzky   In 2006 the 2010 FIFA World Cup was more than 1,500 days away. I set my 4th year Engineering students a challenge for their final […]

• May 4, 2010Blog, ICT Skills, Improve Performance

  Are you a ‘good’ programmer? I’m not!

  by Prof Barry Dwolatzky I’ve been writing computer programs for close to 40 years. I wrote my first program – in Fortran IV – in 1971. I wrote my most […]