I use AWS RedShift on a daily basis which is based around PostGres 8.  I like the reduced DBA headaches but there is nothing like using another DB to make...

There are genuinely good reasons for adopting some of the NOSQL solutions.  The trick is to understand where the proposal to adopt a NOSQL solution is to satisfy a real...

I think many job descriptions aren't worth the paper they are printed on.  My role varies so much you could write it as "Do stuff with data for money.  Mentor...

Someone once said to me that what you get when you buy expensive software is a bigger bug list.

I think the logic is that something like Microsoft Word...

There's what users want and there's what users need.  If you are lucky there is a lot of overlap between the two.
I find that over customisation has many causes

The Mrs didn't like receiving an aged based communication that said she was NaN.

The dog and I went for a LONG walk that day.

It helps if you have tools like OWASP AppSensor.
You don't know what you don't know so anything that automates code inspection is extremely useful.  By the time you have...

I'd say we need to hire white hat hackers.  I knew one.  To say he was greatly unappreciated by the powers that be would have been an understatement.

You'd...

Mostly agree with you Grant.  Poor decision making and then the work effort to correct it getting ever larger over time.  A stitch in time saves 9, 81, 729 etc....

The British Airways outage was as frustrating for IT professionals as it was to customers (some of whom were IT professionals).
When these big disasters occur there is an opportunity...

I'm glad you called out that stuff on monitors doesn't necessarily work well on projectors.

The use of pail text on pastel colours simply doesn't work on projectors.
You...

If you can use DNA to store data and you can incorporate that into a life form then you have an auto-backup facility.

Computer code is really just data...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/08/ibm-built-an-atomic-hard-drive/

I bought a 2nd hand car without knowing it had voice recognition. I nearly got run off the road by a lady in an arrogantly driven Porsche.  I  hit what...