I can remember building a logging solution and getting the response "this is a blame system with proof".

Also can remember someone trying t0 identify an anonymous employee survey respondent who...

You've got to be damn sure of your exit condition that's for sure.  Can be very expensive for certain cloud functions such as AWS Lambdas or GCP Cloud Functions.

Getting the granularity right on the Trello board is a bit of an art.

As we can filter the board on a number of attributes, including who took up the task,...

In my team we put small tasks on a Trello Kanban board. This gives visibility of all those things that consume time but aren't a fit for a JIRA ticket.

The...

My place of work is entirely Linux based with developers using MacBooks.  I installed Powershell and do find it useful for some things.

The problem is that although I find it...

Really good editorial!

I listened to a lecture on the insurance industry where the speaker said that when you buy insurance you are really paying for someone else to bear the...

If you have to make multiple changes per week on a regular basis, never mind multiple changes per day, there is something seriously wrong with your evaluation, design, coding,...

Cloud vendors have their own logging solutions and means to query those logs, even if that is providing a transparent means of querying using one of their data technologies.

One thing...

I'd be curious to know if what you see in an organisation is a single organisational attitude to IT or something more nuanced?

I read Ronald Damhoff's work on data quadrants...

Applying service packs used to be a process that was weeks in planning and rehearsing.

The number and sophistication of hostile actors these days results in pressure to patch frequently and...

Thank God there's no GOSUB in SQL.

There's a school of thought that gets sniffy at overuse of if statements in OO languages.

Such constructs feel like a vestigal organ like an...

As the Rush lyric goes "you're only immortal for a limited time".

A few months ago I was talking with a friend who was trying to tell his wife that they...

There's a tendency for the % missing skills to be off-putting at a lower figure for women than it is for men.

We spent a lot of time focussing on the...

In my organisation, regardless of whether it is web development, data engineering, DBAs, Data Analysts, Data Scientists everything gets put under a git compatible source control repositories.

Those repositories are viewable...

I've used a variety of ETL tools. SSIS is my least favourite by a long way.

There's an article for Python that illustrates why the CSVReader is so complex and it's...