The title field is colour coded. Books are coded in red and chapters are colour coded in orange. Everything else is simply black.
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 | WEB | ED | League_Tables_and_other_diseases_of_the_Mind_Aug2023.html |
Greg Warr , Les Hatton | 2022h | Life: If meaning is ambiguious, Inequality Appears Inescapable | WEB | ED | ESSAY_Meaning_versus_distinguishability_12-Nov-2022.html |
Les Hatton | 2010h1 | Defects, defects, defects ... | WEB | ED | 20100720_Tesco.html |
Les Hatton | 2009j | Adventures with Vista | Unpublished editorial | ED | A45.html |
Les Hatton | 2008c | The Wobbles of Windowdom | WEB | ED | wobbles_of_windowdom_2004.html |
Les Hatton | 2007x7 | Bases of Knowledge: Plumbing the infinite with a toothpick | Unpublished editorial | ED | LH_Nov2007.html |
Les Hatton | 2007w6 | What's your password sir - damned if we know. | Unpublished editorial | ED | A44.html |
Les Hatton | 2007w5 | To design or not to design | Unpublished editorial | ED | A43.html |
Les Hatton | 2007w4 | So long and thanks for all the phish | Article in IT Week, July 2007 | ED | A42.html |
Les Hatton | 2007w3 | Wi-fi, the media and the dangers of innumeracy | Article in IT Week, June 2007 | ED | A41.html |
Les Hatton | 2007w2 | Inhuman Interfaces | Article in IT Week, May 2007 | ED | A40.html |
Les Hatton | 2007w1 | The Sorcerer's Apprentices | Article in IT Week, April 2007 | ED | A39.html |
Les Hatton | 2007w | Boring but expensive | Article in IT Week, Mar 2007 | ED | A38.html |
Les Hatton | 2007v | Only the ones who are left don't do it for the money | Article in IT Week, Feb 2007 | ED | A37.html |
Les Hatton | 2007r | Let the games begin ... | Article in IT Week, Jan 2007 | ED | A36.html |
Les Hatton | 2007q | Not a good year, but not surprising | Article in IT Week, Dec 2006 | ED | A35.html |
Les Hatton | 2007m | Snap, snap, bugger, no images ... | Article in IT Week, Nov 2006 | ED | A34.html |
Les Hatton | 2007l | Help, I need somebody, (not just anybody, a firewire expert) | Article in IT Week, Oct 2006 | ED | A33.html |
Les Hatton | 2007h | Seek and ye shall find | Article in IT Week, Sept 2006 | ED | A32.html |
Les Hatton | 2007g | Digital television: quality matches content | Article in IT week, August 2006 | ED | A31.html |
Les Hatton | 2007b | Vroom, vroom, ..., crash | Article in IT week, July 2006 | ED | A30.html |
Les Hatton | 2007a | Disconnecting for Health | Article in IT week, June 2006 | ED | A29.html |
Les Hatton | 2006u | Now that's what I call a phone bill, innit | Article in IT week, May 2006 | ED | A28.html |
Les Hatton | 2006r | Please wait or please slit your throat | Article in IT week, April 2006 | ED | A27.html |
Les Hatton | 2006p | The Bower of Tabel | Article in IT week, March 2006 | ED | A26.html |
Les Hatton | 2006o | Spreadsheets: 'spread' as in 'middle-age ...' | Article in IT week, February 2006 | ED | A25.html |
Les Hatton | 2006m | Buy me and stop one | Article in IT week, January 2006 | ED | A24.html |
Les Hatton | 2006j | Garbage in, money out | Article in IT week, December 2005 | ED | A23.html |
Les Hatton | 2006i | Budgie on a swing | Article in IT week, November 2005 | ED | A22.html |
Les Hatton | 2006h | IT, offshoring and skill atrophy | Article in IT week, late October 2005 | ED | A21.html |
Les Hatton | 2006f | Spam flitters | Article in IT week, October 2005 | ED | A20.html |
Les Hatton | 2006e | Knock, knock - its my friendly internet burglar | Article in IT week, September 2005 | ED | A19.html |
Les Hatton | 2006b | Super-market but inferior-IT | Article in IT week, August 2005 | ED | A18.html |
Les Hatton | 2006a | Open source inevitably good | Article in IT week, July 2005 | ED | A17.html |
Les Hatton | 2005v | So who says development is easy ? | Article in IT week, June 2005 | ED | A16.html |
Les Hatton | 2005t | The supply of good engineers may dry up | Article in IT week, May 2005 | ED | A15.html |
Les Hatton | 2005r | XP recovery and fairies in the garden | Article in IT week, April 2005 | ED | A14.html |
Les Hatton | 2005q | Beware - internet bees | Article in IT week, March 2005 | ED | A13.html |
Les Hatton | 2005m | Do you rely on spreadsheets ? Really ? | Article in IT week, February 2005 | ED | A12.html |
Les Hatton | 2005l | Confuse your way to a small fortune | Article in IT week, January 2005 | ED | A11.html |
Les Hatton | 2005j | Click, click, click, was that your train sir ? | Article in IT week, December, 2004 | ED | A10.html |
Les Hatton | 2005i | Slightly Sepulchral Look | Article in IT week, November, 2004 | ED | A9.html |
Les Hatton | 2004w | Windows for, gulp, warships | Article in IT week, October, 2004 | ED | A8.html |
Les Hatton | 2004v | Forensic Software Engineering and not before time | Article in IT week, September 2004 | ED | A7.html |
Les Hatton | 2004u | Scripting languages and the promise for business process automation | Article in IT week, August 2004 | ED | A6.html |
Les Hatton | 2004t | Computers on wheels, the modern car | Article in IT week, July 2004 | ED | A5.html |
Les Hatton | 2004s | Zero-defect software and other figments of the imagination | Article in IT week, June 2004 | ED | A4.html |
Les Hatton | 2004r | Replacing Windows with Linux in an office environment | Article in IT week, May 2004 | ED | A3.html |
Les Hatton | 2004q | Trouble with help lines | Article in IT week, April 2004 | ED | A2.html |
Les Hatton | 2004p | Beware of standard terms and conditions | Article in IT week, March 2004 | ED | A1.html |
Les Hatton | 1996l | The re-use of re-use | D3 magazine, November 1996 | ED | D3_Nov96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996k | The avoidable, the unavoidable and the unforeseeable | D3 magazine, September 1996 | ED | D3_Sep96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996j | Distributed Blame Systems ... | D3 magazine, August 1996 | ED | D3_Aug96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996i | Object-Orientation and other mythologies | D3 magazine, July 1996 | ED | D3_Jul96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996h | A Tale of Two PC's: a Mac and a P90 | D3 magazine, June 1996 | ED | D3_Jun96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996g | Small components AREN'T beautiful, continued ... | D3 magazine, May 1996 | ED | D3_May96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996f | Small components AREN'T beautiful | D3 magazine, April 1996 | ED | D3_Apr96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996e | Sacred Software Cows: Small components are beautiful | D3 magazine, March 1996 | ED | D3_Mar96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996d | Sacred Software Cows: Software development is high-tech | D3 magazine, February 1996 | ED | D3_Feb96.html |
Les Hatton | 1996c | Sacred Software Cows: Maintenance | D3 magazine, January 1996 | ED | D3_Jan96.html |
Les Hatton | 1995d | Sacred Software Cows: linguistic quibbles | D3 magazine, December 1995 | ED | D3_Dec95.html |
Les Hatton | 1995c | Dross ex machina | D3 magazine, November 1995 | ED | D3_Nov95.html |
Les Hatton | 1995b | PC'd off by your PC ? | D3 magazine, October 1995 | ED | D3_Oct95.html |
Summary: number of books 0, number of invited chapters 0, number of other articles 0