The following trilogy of articles investigates the benefits and drawbacks of cloud hosting in comparison to the more traditional ‘all singing, all dancing’ hosting solutions of dedicated servers. It aims to discuss why enterprise consumers in particular are so tempted to migrate...

The UK government recently released a map of the country’s local authorities, colour coded to indicate the number of children in each authority that are eligible for, and in need of, adoption. The map demonstrates the areas of the country that are therefore struggl...

The third part of this article introduces two more rivers which empty into the Thames from the north. The first could be seen to be the most important river, the River Thames aside, in the capital’s history, the River Walbrook. The other is a river which still flows ...

Having provided an overview of the three most common PHP based CMSs in the preceding installment, the following begins with two of the most ...

From the first time online publisher to the multinational corporation, a significant proportion of the websites that exist on the world wide web today, perhaps around a third, are constructed using what are broadly known as Content Management Systems or CMSs. There are a vast array...

The final instalment in this series of articles focussing on the past and present rivers of the city of London looks at two form the south bank of the Thames; one of which is still prominent along its course, the Wandle; the other now lost underground to development, the Effra...

Having previously looked at the overarching definition of what constitutes a lawyer in the UK, and then the more specific definition of a solicitor with their particular responsibilities, the second instalment of this article focuses on the comparative definition of a barrister,...

The second part of this article introduces the largest of London’s lost rivers and one which can be considered to be integral to the growth and success of the ancient capital, the Fleet; a river which has been subsumed by the development of central London on the northern banks o...

Since the dawn of the financial crisis in 2008 - a crisis that continues to affect the health of our economy, and therefore the prosperity of each one of us today - there has been much discussion as to the best ways to minimise government debt whilst, at the same time, encourag...

London is one of the most famous river cities in the world with the River Thames being its lifeblood down the centuries and key to its success as the hub of the biggest empire ever seen. However, if you ask people to name any other rivers running through the UK’s capital they ma...