The Power of the System Metaphor
"Life is like a box of chocolates. "You never know what you're going to get." Forrest Gump In one short and sweet statement, the character played by Tom Hanks was able to sum up life's…
Plan & Prevent: The Secret to Overcoming a Ransomware Attack
Last May, we watched in bewilderment as our already crippled NHS was dealt yet another blow — an unprecedented cyber attack was causing chaos and disruption in one in five NHS trusts across England, and…
A Common CMS Is Taking Bespoke Software to New Heights
While the advent of cloud computing has served to greatly raise the bar of convenience and portability, as luck would have it, developers of Software as a Service (SaaS) systems tend to fall into one…
Can We Hack the Human Brain?
Although we love to think that our technology is highly advanced, there is much that science is only just beginning to understand about the universe. From the greatest depths of the oceans to the furthest…
Why We Advocate Test-Driven Development
Gerald Weinberg, an American computer scientist, once famously stated that "If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, [then] the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilisation." While this was far from a…
Paving the Way for Startup Success: Our Two-Week Method
If you like to keep up with tech news, you will have undoubtedly heard of the freshly pressed Juicero debacle. In a viral video, Bloomberg reporters demonstrated how the company's expensive juice packs could easily…
Is Faceted Search Right for You?
Although nowadays, if you google “hp zbook vs elitebook,” you will instantly find relevant results, during the internet’s humble beginnings, we had to click and scroll through countless pages. Of course, at the time, search…
RFID: A Swiss Army Knife for Visionary Companies
Every now and then, our customers require a little more than software code to fully realise their creative objectives. In these cases, while we do not claim to be hardware manufacturers, Software Planet Group are…
Programming Technologies: The True Cost of a Wrong Choice
Just as in the fashion industry, the development world is prone to occasionally give in to fleeting trends. New and exciting programming languages often take companies by storm, spawning in the whirlwind a flurry of…
The Internet of Things: Where Hardware and Software Unite
Who can forget the joyously nostalgic opening scene from The Lego Movie? In addition to getting the hit song "Everything is Awesome" stuck in our heads for days, the film unrelentingly reminded us of all…