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Smartphone & Tablet Apps – Should they be better documented ?

  Smartphone/Tablet Apps – Should they be better documented ? It’s a sad fact that many of the Android and iOS apps that I’ve come across in my travels have been poorly documented and leave the novice user perplexed as to how they work…. I began to wonder why this might be the case quite soon after starting to use smartphones & tablets myself. Having authored quite a bit of software myself over the years (for pcs rather than mobiles), some of which was produced to support work projects, and was extensively used by professional colleagues in the Pharma industry, I had some prior knowledge of the coding process - and more importantly, what goes into validating and documenting an app.  This provided some insight into why developers might find it hard work to provide full instructions for their apps. It also provided some clues as to why early releases of some apps have a habit of crashing when first used by an unsuspecting 'victim'. I wanted to explore this a bit further, s...
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Whither our UK NHS ?

The NHS is 75 years old, and one of our most prized institutions. As you'll see from the analysis below, it is now  sorely in need of medical assistance   itself . How can we save it from its terminal decline ? Editors note: This blog was first published in August 2022 - in view of the steady deterioration in the service since then, which has now reached crisis point, not least because of the ongoing industrial action, I've  updated it to reflect the changes. The Election result introduced some real soul-searching amongst politicians as to why the current organisational model of the NHS is failing...unfortunately this is likely to be a tough nut to crack without a radical change in its funding model, which is based entirely on taxation - any Labour government will find it difficult to square such a change with its ideology. We shouldn't therefore expect much progress in this direction, despite Labour's large majority. Indeed, despite claims that waiting lists are fallin...
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