If the product is free then your data is their revenue generator.

I've not tried R but have worked a lot with Python.  I think the ease of use and flexibility of data handling structures within Python make it extremely attractive to...

This is why it is important to develop good working relationships.  I get people bouncing ideas off me and I do the same with them.  It prevents a lot of...

I've been asked questions that seemed dumb until I tried to answer them.

As to the RTFM answers, anyone giving that response should pretend they know nothing and take their own...

If you are using Docker a container is a running instance of an image. 1 image can run many containers.

I would have a SQL2019 image and a SQL2016 image as...

Loosely speaking a VM behaves and has the same demands as a physical machine. It needs an OS and all the baggage that goes with it.

A container is ringfenced for...

Would I have listened to my older self when I was young?  It takes a certain maturity to listen.

I'd agree with Chris.  Tech comes and goes but people skills never...

It's unfortunate that people interpret his book/witings as that. ...

I worked for a documentation company that used Content Management Systems to build web sites.

The vendor documentation was so poor we ended up overusing the component that allowed us to...

Sadly Jeff I share your experience

Strangely enough my team have had an internal debate as to where to put documentation. After discussion we came to a few conclusions

• If the...

My company recognised that different people have different needs. There is not a one size fits all anymore.

Many of my colleagues are at a life stage where working from home...

Our security folk have a mantra, triple A, P.

• Authentication = Login
• Authorisation = What that login is allowed to do
• Auditing  = What that login tries to do, permissions/membership...

It's not so much tracking down and fixing a bug that does it for me as removing an annoyance and/or distraction.

Simply being able to decide for myself to fix a...

For a cloud vendor contributing back to the root project totally makes sense otherwise you'd have to reapply your fix every time there was an OS update. Also if you...

The whole point of DevOps is that it isn't a project, it isn't a team, it is a way of working and a culture.

Culture changes are the hardest to implement. ...