I work from what used to be my sons bedroom.  I don't go in that room at the weekend.

The bit I found hardest is when the natural breaks don't occur. ...

If you read Fred P Brooks he cites a colleagues belief in small iterative deliverables rather than big bang projects. I remember thinking that sounded like one of the approaches...

Are you talking about hacking the VM from the physical host?

At a previous place of work we looked at whether storage used by one VM could be accessible unintentionally after...

As a FoRG I've had some interesting calls with the Data Catalog team.  The RedGate Data Catalog will pick up these values from the database as well as supporting many...

In my case I...

A couple of colleagues and I have been pushing automated data testing and deployment testing techniques and local workstation builds.  We've been equally amazed and dismayed at the lack...

I'm British so am familiar with the concept of the "gardening" sheds owned by many previous generations of gentlemen.  These sheds always contained a comfy chair, a radio (tuned to...

Confusing pricing, limited hardware choices, and a feature mix that is different.

The king is dead, long live the king!

I can remember a heated debate about scaling out a DB and the DBA asked "why the hell would I want to scale out for a load this small"?

If your...

My fitness tracking watch varies depending on the amount of exercise I do.  The thing buzzes when you achieve certain goals and also when certain distance units are achieved and...

Professor Goodenough might be of interest.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_battery.

Yes that could happen.  You...

Every now and again one of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto will tweet something short and to the point.  Usually I breath a sigh of relief because it realigns...

I've learned that the biggest assumption is that there must be a technical solution.  I've seen a few that look like an attempt to automate the devising of Captain Stupid,...

My company would never do something like this, it is a sad running joke that managers do not learn peoples names in the first three months as the turn...