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deathboyThe British Computer Society gets the arse on about standards in british IT. Funnily enough, they rather think that they should be responsible for standardised accreditation.
I joined (which you had to pay for) the BCS in '95, when, on the first year of my degree, I entered a programming competition for which membership was mandatory.
The only thing I remember about them was a small pile of junk mail I could well have lived without regarding the Y2K "bug".
Back in '95, they started the ball rolling by stating quite clearly (and regularly) that between then and 2000, there would be plenty of work in fixing the bug, so long as we could make sure we engendered enough fear in the market. Nice lads.
While I'll agree that there's a problem, as they state, in IT being central to much of business and life, and there's often a problem identifying a code legend from a lying shitbag, I don't really have much trust in these guys to create a solution.
I joined (which you had to pay for) the BCS in '95, when, on the first year of my degree, I entered a programming competition for which membership was mandatory.
The only thing I remember about them was a small pile of junk mail I could well have lived without regarding the Y2K "bug".
Back in '95, they started the ball rolling by stating quite clearly (and regularly) that between then and 2000, there would be plenty of work in fixing the bug, so long as we could make sure we engendered enough fear in the market. Nice lads.
While I'll agree that there's a problem, as they state, in IT being central to much of business and life, and there's often a problem identifying a code legend from a lying shitbag, I don't really have much trust in these guys to create a solution.
