I was shocked on a company away day into the local hills by how unfit a lot of colleagues half my age were.  I was worried that I wouldn't be...

I know of a company that paid an astronomic sum to keep a warehouse distribution system supported on obsolete hardware and a long obsolete version of the software.

They had a...

We use Flake8 for Python coding. It enforces a whole range of coding rules including coding style.

I wouldn't call SQLPrompt a linter but its features achieve many of the same...

If you are not one of the ones the powers that be listen to then study those who are listened to.

• What do they do that is different?
• What have...

I know, from working for a documentation company, that there are guidelines based on studies that say how much can be proofread within a given time period.

I can't imagine that...

I think we have to ask what we want from a peer review.  I think there is value in someone validating the approach and the techniques.

If you are looking for...

When I was in college a teacher said "if your IT project doesn't have executive buy-in, its not going to make it to market/production". Over the years I've learned...

It is a lot easier if the company reputation hangs on being seen to do the right thing with regard to customer data.  If the company reputation forms a large...

I have gone through this and the question to them...

In my organisation the DBs are under source control so every morning it is a case of

git pull
./launch-latest.sh

If you try and control everything not only do you become the bottleneck you limit the lessons that others learn.

It's not for everyone but I find being an approachable mentor...

I enjoyed playing with Elastic Search, Spark, Python, Docker, Cloud technologies.

For me the quote that sticks in my mind is that change is inevitable but change for the better is...

@GeorgeCopela

A DBA in a London Bank I remember used to occasionally carry a lightening bolt made from papier mache and painted fiery gold when the Developers did something that...

This comes close to Two Stops Short of Barking.  Looking the part = like someone who has made slightly more successful and profitable decisions than the...

There's acquiring expertise and then there is acquiring recognition for expertise.

The first one requires passion, hard work and opportunity.

The 2nd one is trickier and in this day and age involves...