2019-10-31
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Editorials
Falling Behind and Digital Bankruptcy
The challenges of information overload can weigh on technology workers.
2019-10-30
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Rogue Software Changes
Today Steve Jones wonders if software developers would make changes to software on their own, without direction from management.
2019-10-29 (first published: 2015-11-16)
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Contracting for Work
The decision to work for yourself instead of full time for an organization can be a hard one.
2019-10-28
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Become a Technological Historian
This week Grant muses on how history can impact our decisions moving forward, and having a little empathy can be useful when re-examining the past.
2019-10-26
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Taking Notes – Paper or Keyboard?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. When you need to take notes, how do you do it? Have you thought about it and experimented? Read on to see what Andy Warren does.
2019-10-25 (first published: 2012-01-31)
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Have a Think
It's easy for most of us to get caught up in work and not stop to think about the larger picture, or the longer term. Steve Jones thinks you should make time for both of these.
2019-10-24 (first published: 2015-10-01)
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The K8s Overview
Kubernetes is a technology Steve thinks will be important in the future and knowing a bit more about it can be important for your career.
2019-10-23
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Losing The Security Game
Losing the security game is no fun when data is involved. Steve points out some things you should be doing.
2019-10-21
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Protecting Data from the Inside
Phil Factor on the difficult task of guarding against the theft of data from within an organization.
2019-10-19
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
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