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I've been playing with Hadoop both locally and in AWS and although a newbie to it I've had a few reality checks with it.
Firstly, it is still in the early...
October 16, 2012 at 1:56 am
When I wrote The danger in hiring stars[/url] it became apparent to me that a "star" employee exists within an whole ecosystem.
If you take the star out of that ecosystem...
October 10, 2012 at 1:37 am
Its funny looking back at a debate 5 years ago and seeing what has changed (very little). If you saw this first time around chances are your company has...
October 4, 2012 at 1:37 am
In the UK employment law prevents an NCA restricting a person's employability.
My NCA and employment contract says that I cannot work for a competitor in the specific line of business...
September 28, 2012 at 1:49 am
I had a long discussion with a tech lead regarding pair programming and productivity. There is an aspect of you can't change a thing but you can change your...
September 27, 2012 at 12:14 pm
hakim.ali (9/17/2012)
Good reading, thanks. The NoSQL movement is more than 20 years old? Didn't know that...
I think NoSQL is a new name for a much older concept.
In fact I think...
September 18, 2012 at 6:09 am
All done on a PC that we would all toss today.
Moon landing 1969
IBM PC 1981
I'm not sure if they even had 8bit processors back in 1969. I...
September 13, 2012 at 2:47 pm
This is where distributed computing comes in. If the mountain won't come to Mohammed then Mohammed must go to the mountain.
One of the examples given for "Big Data" was...
September 13, 2012 at 1:59 am
Some how we have to get to a meeting of minds. I know what I consider documentation and I have consistently said that if I am called up at...
September 10, 2012 at 2:08 am
My kids have reached the age where I can go out for a night on the town every now and again and I've found it a culture shock.
The behaviour of...
September 6, 2012 at 3:17 pm
CI is a God send in a large development shop where you will have a team of developers working on something.
The idea is that a check-in to the source control...
September 2, 2012 at 12:32 pm
I see companies get increasingly interested in BYOD (Bring your own device).
There are a number of senior business execs who like the portability of iPads and the ability to intersperse...
August 31, 2012 at 10:41 am
I don't have a problem with either approach but problems comes when there is overlap between the two.
In effect you end up with Central and Shadow operating as if they...
August 29, 2012 at 4:37 pm
cdonlan 18448 (8/20/2012)
I can't imagine any sane bank, insurance company, or trading house putting a transaction system in the Cloud.
Chances are the system that does your salary cheque is...
August 20, 2012 at 12:21 pm
j_e_o (8/10/2012)
Quite frankly, in my experience with agile techniques, particularly SCRUM, the methodology negates most conflicts regardless of titles or roles.
Yes it does, but getting the culture of the business...
August 11, 2012 at 1:54 am
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