This week there was a headline that said "Open Source Software Powers 96% of Modern Applications, New Study Finds" and if you stopped reading there, you might think, hey, it's not in the apps I work on. Or you might think that because you use OSS software, most of the world also does. Microsoft, Oracle, […]
2024-12-07
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What is a distributed monolith vs. a microservice architecture? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2024-12-06
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2024-12-04 (first published: 2020-05-05)
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AI seems to be invading many different parts of our life. Today Steve wonders how much we really need.
2024-12-04 (first published: 2020-04-20)
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Phil Factor's offers tips for longevity in the world of IT consultancy: listen well, humiliate no-one and convince others that it was their expertise that solved the problem.
2024-12-04 (first published: 2020-01-18)
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Building software can be hard and lots of people have tried various methodologies to improve the way their teams work. Steve notes a lot of the process is the same, but he has a preference.
2024-12-04
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I've been very pleased with the direction of SSMS the last few years. As it's been separated from SQL Server releases and gets updated more often, I think the changes from v17 though v20 have been improvements. There are still issues, but it's been better. Now we finally have SSMS moving to a modern shell […]
2024-12-02
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We have all heard the saying I based this week's editorial on. It has been credited to Benjamin Franklin and goes like this, “You can do anything you set your mind to”. This is such a powerful way of thinking when you are starting a task. “I can do it, no matter what anyone says.” […]
2024-11-30
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Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.
2024-11-29 (first published: 2009-07-15)
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2024-11-27
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