January 1st is the beginning of a new year thanks to Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII. This date is somewhat arbitrary, and many religions and cultures celebrate their own beginning of a new year at different times. Even though these celebrations don’t fall at the same time, I think the sentiment is similar. The […]
2019-12-28
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Today Steve asks if there is anything you'd want as a gift that would make your job better.
2019-12-27
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A new technique developed by Microsoft is designed to help AI/ML models get trained with minimal data.
2019-12-26
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2019-12-25
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On the first day of Christmas my new DBA sent to me A table with a primary key On the second day of Christmas my new DBA sent to me Two Foreign Keys, and A table with a primary key On the third day of Christmas my new DBA sent to me Three stored procs […]
2019-12-24
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Steve notes that math operations are places where many developers have made mistakes in the past. A little test code might help here.
2019-12-23
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This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
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Today Steve Jones looks at the relative cost of hardware and how we sometimes cause ourselves issues by not spending enough.
2019-12-20 (first published: 2016-11-03)
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2019-12-18
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Today Steve looks at a research project from Microsoft that provides some better protection from firmware security issues.
2019-12-17
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Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
By Steve Jones
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For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
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