As a functional analyst for web development projects, I have seen my role evolve over time. Coming from school and working on a first job, you tend to follow the guidelines you have been taught or those that are expected by your employer. A few years in, I have developed my own style due to changes in techniques and the release of tools to support those techniques.

Over the next couple of months we will see a variety of tablets showing up in the stores. Ranging from end-consumer overall iPad competitors like the Samsung Galaxy Tab to enterprise-only devices like the Avaya Flare.

These new tablets will mostly have differing sets of specifications packed onto a number of different operating systems.  However, there are a couple of common specifications we can safely expect in these newcomers

Not long after the announcement of the iPad we received word of the APad, a Chinese alternative running on Android.  Nowadays dubbed the iRobot, we managed to get our hands on one of these Chinese gadgets and we deemed it only fair to write down our first 5 minute impressions as to have a small comparison between the iPad and the iRobot…

Sustainability and environmental care… one of the major points of the past and future decades, without a doubt, also for oil companies… although with BP perhaps you wouldn’t think so right now.

We’ve been working for one of the largest oil companies in the world since a couple of years and recently we built an online tool that helps reduce carbon dioxide emissions in a very direct way.

The transportation sector is one of the major malefactors regarding the emission of CO2, and a company like our client is heavily involved in container transport and logistics.  So to reduce the impact on the environment as much as possible it’s a good idea to focus on the loading of the containers:  well stacked containers can hold more items which results in less transport and is both cheaper and greener.