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As IT professionals we frequently face the fact that the software we create is resisted by the users of the solution we designed and created. I for one have a particular sad experience in a previous employment, from which I learned a lot, and I’m sure I’m not the only one out there to haveContinue Reading

Consumers love the iPhone. Sales numbers and growth statistics confirm this. Many have wrote about the adoption of the iPhone. Many developers have taken the plunge and took their place within the iPhone ecosystem, thus creating over 200,000 Apps that fill the App Store. The iPhone is a powerful development environment, most people have theContinue Reading

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is all about making your site discoverable through the search engines. Whether you are new to SEO techniques, or a seasoned pro, it can still be difficult to create content on your site to drive traffic through the search engines. The activity of creating such content is known as SEO copywritingContinue Reading

At Lornit we deliver business functionality within a single application. We actively choose to integrate and embed software tools within one framework because it makes sense. Our customers don’t want to switch from one application to the other to do a task. They don’t want to have to learn different things on different software packages.Continue Reading

It is safe to say that most businesses and organisations today are using one or more software packages in their daily operations. And it is also safe to say that most businesses do not yet realise the benefits of having integrated software in their organisation. Here are some of the reduction in costs of theContinue Reading

Requirements gathering is part of an IT System development life cycle. We believe that the requirements gathering stage is the most important part of the system development life cycle. It is the stage that has most effect on the outcome of any IT project. In this stage customer expectations are set, project deliverables are identifiedContinue Reading

In our day there is a time when we are bright and full of energy and ideas, there are other times when we are tired and slow and there are those times in between. I’m refering to jobs like ours (software development ofcourse!) that require some form of thinking but this can apply to otherContinue Reading

The definition of cloud computing on wikipedia at the time of writing is this: “Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).” WhichContinue Reading

All the pieces of data that we have mean very little on their own, but when we add relationships to that data it becomes useful “data” or what we call information. Let’s consider these trivial pieces of data below as an example: 200, Borg, 99019901, Joseph, Merchant’s Street, Valletta, , The relationships seem so obviousContinue Reading

Smart objectives are considered to be:- S – Specific M – Measurable A – Achievable R – Realistic T – Time Bound Smart objectives is what we normally try to (or should try to) define before we commit to delivering a project. That’s the theory. However through experience we also realise that certain projects ofContinue Reading