A week’s work – experience beats education
Monday Site Operations: On the first day of my time at Micro Focus I was taken around the building... View Article
Tag Archive: Skills
What does a good IT Skills strategy look like?
Jackie Anglin from Micro Focus reflects on a recent SHARE.org IT Skills webinar. In part 2 of this series... View Article
COBOL: The original language for business – and a continued chart success!
This month’s TIOBE.COM index ranks COBOL - the pioneering and continually pacesetting programming language - at number 20 in terms of global computing language activity. But why is a 50-year-old language climbing the charts? Derek Britton investigates.
Unified AppDev – DevOps Mainframe Efficiency
While the DevOps methodology appears to promise significant improvements in efficiency, it relies on significant changes to internal practices in environments which are – frankly – quite hard to change. In his third blog in the series Derek Britton explores whether taking a smarter approach to mainframe DevOps might bring the goal of development efficiency within reach
IT Skills: Crisis? What Crisis?
The much-discussed IT skills shortage is a relative concept, argues Derek Britton from Micro Focus, as he examines what this talk about a “crisis” really means in this fascinating blog post. Read on.
Modern tools: the language of development skills efficiency
Paula Willis, Visual Studio IDE Development Team Leader, looks at the options available to those who face arguably the biggest challenge in an IT organisation – the developers themselves. They work at the coal face of organisational application development and understand the staffing challenges better than most.
Visual COBOL: Innovative, future-proof – and award winning?
Melissa Burns at the Micro Focus HQ explains why we've got the champagne on ice. The Inquirer has shortlisted Visual COBOL for ‘Best Developer Tool’ in their Tech Hero Awards 2015 and SUSE Linux has scooped a prestigious Network Computing Awards award.
Schools (almost) out for Summer! My work experience with Micro Focus
Food for thought Being a teenager, working in an office is portrayed as a job with minimal excitement or... View Article
Language school: getting COBOL back in the classroom
This blog deconstructs the misconceptions around COBOL and addresses the ‘University Challenge’ of getting COBOL on the curriculum. The Micro Focus Academic Program is on a mission to create enough COBOL-savvy developers and programmers to serve the big businesses that still use COBOL to drive 70% of all business data processing.
Bring the Force to development efficiency
So are you a Star Wars or an Empire Strikes Back person? It’s not a new discussion and there... View Article