Alan Millar

By Alan Millar

Friday 3rd Feb 2012

What's in a name?

Here at GCD we have a great record in taking on projects with start-ups, or existing businesses with new ideas. When it's a brand new product or service it’s very exciting to see it take off and be part of that process from the beginning. We recently started a mobile project with a client who had a simple but great idea; I’ll not reveal it here as the project is still in development but I’ll leave the suspense hanging. Although the client had the concept mapped out and well thought through, with a clear direction...

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Andrew Gough

By Andrew Gough

Developing tomorrows programmers

Monday 5th Dec 2011

Developing tomorrows programmers

Last week I was given the privilege of speaking to 5th & 6th form pupils at Banbridge Academy. I was asked to speak about my experience in starting a business, about entrepreneurship and a career in IT. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience but it made me acutely aware of how hard it is to actually prepare young people for a profession in IT. When asked what subjects one should study, I answered Maths and Physics. In my opinion they are, contrary to belief, more beneficial at that level when persuing a career in this industry.  I never studied IT at school,...

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Andrew Gough

By Andrew Gough

Unifying Apps and the web

Friday 2nd Dec 2011

Unifying Apps and the web

There is much debate in the tech industry about Apps on mobile, and whether they are simply a trend, which will pass and that eventually all apps should be web apps. I don't want to get into this argument today. But regardless of what side of the fence you sit, it is undeniable that in modern Smartphones people use apps and lots of them. An average iPhone user has 40 apps installed on their device. I personally use about 12 apps at least once a week, but many of them every day. There are many different types of apps available on...

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Cathair Doherty

By Cathair Doherty

The trouble with the cloud

Wednesday 16th Nov 2011

The trouble with the cloud

Just as I was starting to extol the virtues of Google docs as a very functional replacement for Office, this happens! Now it strikes me that 99.99% uptime is pretty good, and in fact we've all had 'down time' with offline files too. For example opening files over network shares, file corruption, file versions etc. The most frustrating problem when a service like Google Docs goes down is that you don't know what the problem is and you don't know how long it will be down for. Right now I need to know if I should go back to Excel for...

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Greg Dalrymple

By Greg Dalrymple

Thursday 13th Oct 2011

Congratulations to Alan and Family

Late Monday night Martha Kate Millar entered the world; no doubt with Alan’s big grin to greet her! Both mother and baby are doing well, and we wish Alan a quiet paternity leave (as if!).  

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