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  • Reply To: The Old Way or the New Way

    GeorgeCopeland wrote:

    I suspect anybody posting in this forum probably has a personality type that makes us extremely comfortable with change, so comfortable that we enjoy it.

    In my case I...

  • Reply To: The Old Way or the New Way


    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...

  • Reply To: A Dedicated Space

    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...

  • Reply To: Beating the Cloud Vendors

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

    The king is dead, long live the king!

     

  • Reply To: Moving away from an RDBMS

    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...

  • Reply To: Better Laptop Life

    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...

  • Reply To: Better Laptop Life

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

     

  • Reply To: The Appliance of Science

    gitmo wrote:

    OK, I like the new house you've built.  Let's move the front door to the front of the building.

    And we're going to need a basement.

    Yes that could happen.  You...

  • Reply To: The Appliance of Science

    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...

  • Reply To: Falling Over our Assumptions

    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,...

  • Reply To: Evaluating Life at Work

    Dyslexic BDA wrote:

    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...

  • Reply To: Evaluating Life at Work

    My organisation does this half yearly.  The aggregate results are available to all and the top 3 and bottom 3 items are emphasized.

    The CEO or immediate report runs a monthly...

  • Reply To: Other IDEs

    As I have to work with a number of different DB platforms I use Aquafold DataStudio.  It has the ability to act as an SSH client as well.

    I took some...

  • Reply To: I Read Quite a Bit

    On the top of every Confluence document I ever write there is a small 2x2 table

    • Last Reviewed: The date of review
    • Last Reviewer: The hyperlinked name of the reviewer

    This...

  • Reply To: Are You a Gatekeeper?

    I feel it is important to understand why the gates exist and just as importantly to determine if the gate can be replaced by a better mechanism.  Test driven development...

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