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An IT contractor by design, is a person who can enter a client's site and very quickly become the expert within that entity, It is a requirement that we become the most knowledgeable person within that particular infrastructure or our clients would benifit more by training up an FTE.

In the words of Albert Einstien:

When asked for his telephone number, he walked over to a telephone directory, and looked it up saying to a rather surprised onlooker " An intelligent man is not a man who can store information, but a man who knows how to find it".

With experience we IT Contractors understand better than anyone how technology and heterogeneous environments communicate, and knowing how to find information makes us experts in our chosen fields.

This allows us to be the greatest benifit to our clients. I hope you enjoy this site.

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Contracting in the UK

Written by David Noel-Davies
Sunday, 02 March 2008
Historically when you first entered the world of contracting in the UK, one of the first pieces of advice, or instructions, that you would receive would be – “you must form a limited company”. The reason for this is that, pre-IR35, if you contracted through any format other than a limited company, you could have been deemed to be an employee of the agency or even of the end-client company. The legislation that created this possibility was contained in a 1988 piece of UK tax legislation. Alternatively, if you were contracting short-term or if you couldn't be bothered with the hassle of your own limited company, you may have been given the option of joining a “composite” or “umbrella” company.
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Where are the new features in VMware ESX Server 3.5?

Written by David Noel-Davies
Thursday, 28 February 2008
the latest version of VMware ESX is the recently released 3.0.2 Update level 1. While the 3.0.2 U1 release notes offer a number of bug fixes, there aren't many new features. But what does ESX 3.5 have in store for us? Here is the feature list for VMware ESX Server 3.5: ...
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Top Ten Hacks of 2007

Written by David Noel-Davies
Thursday, 28 February 2008
The polls are closed, votes are in, and we have ten winners making up the Top Ten Web Hacks of 2007! The competition was fierce. The information security community put 80 of the newest and most innovative Web hacking techniques to the test. The voting process saw even some attempts at ballot stuffing, but to no avail, and very few techniques received zero votes. The winners though stood head and shoulders above the rest.
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