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Editorials

This section contains editorials I have written over the years in the field of computing. Although they are somewhat tongue in cheek, they attempt to make serious points about failures in the way we approach software and systems development. We could do so much better.

Early articles were produced at the invitation of Lem Bingley to whom I owe my sincere thanks.Note that the October 1996 article about neural networks is missing as it was so badly munged by Word 9-something that I couldn't recover it.

Author(s) Year Title Reference Category More details

Les Hatton

2023a

League Tables and other diseases of the Mind

WEBEDLeague_Tables_and_other_diseases_of_the_Mind_Aug2023.html

Greg Warr , Les Hatton

2022h

Life: If meaning is ambiguious, Inequality Appears Inescapable

WEBEDESSAY_Meaning_versus_distinguishability_12-Nov-2022.html

Les Hatton

2010h1

Defects, defects, defects ...

WEBED20100720_Tesco.html

Les Hatton

2009j

Adventures with Vista

Unpublished editorialEDA45.html

Les Hatton

2008c

The Wobbles of Windowdom

WEBEDwobbles_of_windowdom_2004.html

Les Hatton

2007x7

Bases of Knowledge: Plumbing the infinite with a toothpick

Unpublished editorialEDLH_Nov2007.html

Les Hatton

2007w6

What's your password sir - damned if we know.

Unpublished editorialEDA44.html

Les Hatton

2007w5

To design or not to design

Unpublished editorialEDA43.html

Les Hatton

2007w4

So long and thanks for all the phish

Article in IT Week, July 2007EDA42.html

Les Hatton

2007w3

Wi-fi, the media and the dangers of innumeracy

Article in IT Week, June 2007EDA41.html

Les Hatton

2007w2

Inhuman Interfaces

Article in IT Week, May 2007EDA40.html

Les Hatton

2007w1

The Sorcerer's Apprentices

Article in IT Week, April 2007EDA39.html

Les Hatton

2007w

Boring but expensive

Article in IT Week, Mar 2007EDA38.html

Les Hatton

2007v

Only the ones who are left don't do it for the money

Article in IT Week, Feb 2007EDA37.html

Les Hatton

2007r

Let the games begin ...

Article in IT Week, Jan 2007EDA36.html

Les Hatton

2007q

Not a good year, but not surprising

Article in IT Week, Dec 2006EDA35.html

Les Hatton

2007m

Snap, snap, bugger, no images ...

Article in IT Week, Nov 2006EDA34.html

Les Hatton

2007l

Help, I need somebody, (not just anybody, a firewire expert)

Article in IT Week, Oct 2006EDA33.html

Les Hatton

2007h

Seek and ye shall find

Article in IT Week, Sept 2006EDA32.html

Les Hatton

2007g

Digital television: quality matches content

Article in IT week, August 2006EDA31.html

Les Hatton

2007b

Vroom, vroom, ..., crash

Article in IT week, July 2006EDA30.html

Les Hatton

2007a

Disconnecting for Health

Article in IT week, June 2006EDA29.html

Les Hatton

2006u

Now that's what I call a phone bill, innit

Article in IT week, May 2006EDA28.html

Les Hatton

2006r

Please wait or please slit your throat

Article in IT week, April 2006EDA27.html

Les Hatton

2006p

The Bower of Tabel

Article in IT week, March 2006EDA26.html

Les Hatton

2006o

Spreadsheets: 'spread' as in 'middle-age ...'

Article in IT week, February 2006EDA25.html

Les Hatton

2006m

Buy me and stop one

Article in IT week, January 2006EDA24.html

Les Hatton

2006j

Garbage in, money out

Article in IT week, December 2005EDA23.html

Les Hatton

2006i

Budgie on a swing

Article in IT week, November 2005EDA22.html

Les Hatton

2006h

IT, offshoring and skill atrophy

Article in IT week, late October 2005EDA21.html

Les Hatton

2006f

Spam flitters

Article in IT week, October 2005EDA20.html

Les Hatton

2006e

Knock, knock - its my friendly internet burglar

Article in IT week, September 2005EDA19.html

Les Hatton

2006b

Super-market but inferior-IT

Article in IT week, August 2005EDA18.html

Les Hatton

2006a

Open source inevitably good

Article in IT week, July 2005EDA17.html

Les Hatton

2005v

So who says development is easy ?

Article in IT week, June 2005EDA16.html

Les Hatton

2005t

The supply of good engineers may dry up

Article in IT week, May 2005EDA15.html

Les Hatton

2005r

XP recovery and fairies in the garden

Article in IT week, April 2005EDA14.html

Les Hatton

2005q

Beware - internet bees

Article in IT week, March 2005EDA13.html

Les Hatton

2005m

Do you rely on spreadsheets ? Really ?

Article in IT week, February 2005EDA12.html

Les Hatton

2005l

Confuse your way to a small fortune

Article in IT week, January 2005EDA11.html

Les Hatton

2005j

Click, click, click, was that your train sir ?

Article in IT week, December, 2004EDA10.html

Les Hatton

2005i

Slightly Sepulchral Look

Article in IT week, November, 2004EDA9.html

Les Hatton

2004w

Windows for, gulp, warships

Article in IT week, October, 2004EDA8.html

Les Hatton

2004v

Forensic Software Engineering and not before time

Article in IT week, September 2004EDA7.html

Les Hatton

2004u

Scripting languages and the promise for business process automation

Article in IT week, August 2004EDA6.html

Les Hatton

2004t

Computers on wheels, the modern car

Article in IT week, July 2004EDA5.html

Les Hatton

2004s

Zero-defect software and other figments of the imagination

Article in IT week, June 2004EDA4.html

Les Hatton

2004r

Replacing Windows with Linux in an office environment

Article in IT week, May 2004EDA3.html

Les Hatton

2004q

Trouble with help lines

Article in IT week, April 2004EDA2.html

Les Hatton

2004p

Beware of standard terms and conditions

Article in IT week, March 2004EDA1.html

Les Hatton

1996l

The re-use of re-use

D3 magazine, November 1996EDD3_Nov96.html

Les Hatton

1996k

The avoidable, the unavoidable and the unforeseeable

D3 magazine, September 1996EDD3_Sep96.html

Les Hatton

1996j

Distributed Blame Systems ...

D3 magazine, August 1996EDD3_Aug96.html

Les Hatton

1996i

Object-Orientation and other mythologies

D3 magazine, July 1996EDD3_Jul96.html

Les Hatton

1996h

A Tale of Two PC's: a Mac and a P90

D3 magazine, June 1996EDD3_Jun96.html

Les Hatton

1996g

Small components AREN'T beautiful, continued ...

D3 magazine, May 1996EDD3_May96.html

Les Hatton

1996f

Small components AREN'T beautiful

D3 magazine, April 1996EDD3_Apr96.html

Les Hatton

1996e

Sacred Software Cows: Small components are beautiful

D3 magazine, March 1996EDD3_Mar96.html

Les Hatton

1996d

Sacred Software Cows: Software development is high-tech

D3 magazine, February 1996EDD3_Feb96.html

Les Hatton

1996c

Sacred Software Cows: Maintenance

D3 magazine, January 1996EDD3_Jan96.html

Les Hatton

1995d

Sacred Software Cows: linguistic quibbles

D3 magazine, December 1995EDD3_Dec95.html

Les Hatton

1995c

Dross ex machina

D3 magazine, November 1995EDD3_Nov95.html

Les Hatton

1995b

PC'd off by your PC ?

D3 magazine, October 1995EDD3_Oct95.html

Summary: number of books 0, number of invited chapters 0, number of other articles 0


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