I was very sceptical about data in the cloud, mainly because the early software implementations I saw were very much based on functional requirements with scant concern for non-functional requirements...

There's so much in software that seems to be in the way of achieving an end goal.

I can sit in almost any car and know that the right pedal is...

There's a bloody mindedness in software that is hell bent on doing things differently just on principle. Apple uses window controls on the top left, Windows on the top right....

I had a friend who was a UX specialist. He used to spend days with the real users of the system, simplifying things, getting it to the stage when it's...

I used to work for a company specialising in delivering AAA rated information websites. Accessibility wasn't difficult, it was an attention to detail thing. A lot of our work was...

One of the reasons I like Python is that one of its design goals is readability.

I've always found SQL to be highly readable too.

I really took Bob Martin's Clean Code...

We've used miro.com as a whiteboard and I believe this can be licensed as an app for use with teams.

With any cloud based resource make sure you have the privacy...

I am no longer a DBA.  Depending on how you define the role I probably never was.

I think my role has mainly be that of a data engineer with a...

I was fortunate in that the operations team at Moneysupermarket had put in a huge amount of work pre-COVID to ensure that remote working was well supported and that we...

For me working from home has been a time of healing.  There has been a few years of turmoil both professionally and personally.  The quiet time without distractions has been...

Let's face it standards articles and forums are coke and mentoes

100% with you on consistency. Having mechanical tests for consistency helps. People so argue with machines they argue with other people.

Understanding the "WHY" of a standard is as important as...

When one of us is working from home its fine. With two of us video conferencing starts to break down. When my son wakes up and fancies some online gaming...

I was fortunate in that one of the last MeetUps I went to was about remote work.  It wasn't so much the hints and tips that were valuable as the...

Very much with you on the lack of focus thing.

I'm finding that this is also an issue for me with online meetings.  Unless I am presenting I prefer to take...