LGTM = Looks Good To Me?

My team has spent time working out if anything we do in a code review could be automated.  Linting and formatting to an agreed, enforced...

Many of our CICD pipelines build our apps into Docker containers and runs a vulnerability scan on the resulting image.  This is a pre-requisite before making the image available for...

Back in 2014 one of the talks at QCon was a talk from someone at NASA.  They said they had two problems that kept them up at night.

One was how...

On a car dashboard a rev counter is a dial with a red zone.  You don't need to be able to read any figures, just know where the needle points...

There are official GitHub certifications too.  https://github.blog/2024-01-08-github-certifications-are-generally-available/

If you work for a consultancy you may find you are expected to hold and keep a number of certifications.

You might find the following links useful.

• https://initialcommit.com/tools/git-sim
• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/learn-git-with-bitbucket-cloud
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/

I've been using git for a long time and have only ever needed to use a handful of commands.  Beyond the...

I find that there is the feeling of having to start from scratch when joining a new team.  It's uncomfortable but a spur to up your game until you bed...

Don't.  Had a driving day for my 40th birthday.

• Lamborghini.  My fantasy cracked and died.
• Ferrari.  Knackered Fiat until it...

Whether you are a Brent or a Jeff there are some pitfalls to watch out for to avoid burning yourself out.

Do others see you as a leg up or a...

Never assign to malice that which can be assigned to incompetence.  But in the case of the Post Office it is hard to brush it off as mere incompetence.

HMRC (tax office) has the guilty until proven innocent perversion too.  I didn't know a similar law was used for the Post Office.

Everything about this story stinks.  People were prosecuted...

Go for it, the only way is up!

If you research your subject, capture your method and your results then you have something that future you will thank you for, whether...

With very few exceptions I've stayed with my employers for at least 5 years.

• Merlin Gerin (electrical switchgear manufacturer)
• NEBS Business Stationery (business printing company)
• McCann-Erickson (advertising)
• Kudos-IDD (technical documentation...

Where a standard emerges it should represent that which the most people find readable.  Yes, something else may be better for you personally, but you are going for what is...

The linked article is long but well worth reading.  A lot of it dovetails with my experiences.

It's one thing to hire a great DBA, data engineer but you really need...