I think people are beginning to realise just how much damage malicious activity can do.   I think there is burgeoning awareness of what machine learning can reveal about individuals from...

I try and keep an open mind with new ideas, especially as some of those ideas are actually old ideas in a new context.

I find it useful to...

I think bcp could do with enhancements.  As a high speed import/export tool it has served me well.  The ability to handle parquet/Orc files would be fantastic.  Far more cross...

They have their uses but in my experience are rarely driven by requirements.  The ones I've seen tend to be massively over engineered and have been put in place by...

ML for marketing and advertising doesn't particularly concern me.  There's an old joke that half of all advertising revenue is wasted, the problem is no-one is sure which half.

For GDPR Article 17 "Right of Erasure" may require you to have a mechanism to delete all forum posts and private messages for a particular user.
I don't think  "Right...

Tom Thomson is now even more right in a GDPR world.  With a €20millon fine hanging on it you want to make sure that all steps to prevent exposure of...

I continue to muddle through but I make a point of capturing my muddlings on Confluence so the next poor sod has at least a strong starting point.

The...

Natural language processing of forum posts, complaints emails, OCR feeders from scanned communications.  Scans of competitors print adverts.  All can be processed much more simply than before.
CCTV footage ,...

In the UK the electricity meters get read once a quarter.  Smart metering (if the public accept them) enables continuous monitoring and potentially down to specific devices.
In theory it...

There are some unexpected consequences for fitness apps http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42853072

I really dislike the "it's not web scale" argument against RDBMS.  Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, NetFlix genuinely need web scale technologies which is why they invented their own.
The majority...