The New Men of IT
According to the New Men of IT, the industry changes so frequently that experience and qualifications quickly become obsolete and irrelevant. The argument won't wash with Phil Factor.
2016-03-21
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Phil Factor
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Testing times with SMO
SMO gives every appearance of being a great example of over-reliance on automated testing at the expense of manual exploratory testing.
2016-03-07
64 reads
IDEs sweet but beguiling
IDEs are wonderful, but tend to lull you out of the good habits of thinking up front about how the code you write will be monitored and tested. So argues Phil Factor.
2016-02-29
88 reads
SQL, and Ye Shall Find
Phil Factor reflects on how hard it really is to develop a really effective database that meets the SQL Standards, and how as a result we are only beginning to realize fully the vision of relational orthogonality in databases.
2016-02-08
114 reads
The SQLite alternative to NoSQL
Phil factor argues that if you are within the SQL and relational mindset, there is no good technical reason to have to change, since SQLite takes care of all the small stuff and the new breed of NewSQL takes care of the jelly-masses of unstructured data.
2016-01-04
2,309 reads
IT Data Governance and the Insider Job
Good IT data governance is about crime-prevention as well as crime-detection. Legal action runs war a close second as being one of the more futile and debilitating of human activities, so prevention is always better.
2015-12-07
116 reads
Giving Thanks
Phil Factor is gratified to see just how much many developers and DBAs give back to their technical communities as well as society in general.
2015-11-30
48 reads
On Learning from Experience and Misfortune
Phil Factor on learning from mistakes. Preferably other people's.
2015-10-19
137 reads
The Reality of Data Governance
Uncovering how the data 'works' in a business is harder than you might think. You can't get this knowledge second-hand from the IT department. You have to speak to the business at large. However, many people are fearful of the 'bod from IT' and the change that their IT initiatives will bring.
2015-10-12
126 reads
2015-09-28
123 reads
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