I don't care about the cost or Windows/Linux, I care about ease of use.  Ease of use can negate a cost disadvantage, awkwardness can eliminate a cost advantage.   I'm...

For me the whole devops piece is a God send when done correctly.

We can completely rebuild any part of our infrastructure from scratch for any environment and know...

As far as I am concerned Big Data is a marketing term and a poorly understood one at that.  I've actually had a business person waxing lyrical over their Big...

I am behind the curve on this one.  A server collecting telemetry per se is only useful if it can send that data back to base.  Most production servers I've...

Where is IOT on the Gartner hype cycle?

I was in a trial with a telematics product for vehicle tracking.  If the device only tracked metrics when the engine...

From what I can see a lot of the programming frameworks abstract developers from what goes on under the hood, period.  It's not a situation limited to someone scripting something...

I loved the stack overflow cartoon https://static1.squarespace.com/static/518f5d62e4b075248d6a3f90/t/583aa5b1bebafb6551322268/1480238530975/?format=750w

These days a technical estate can be so diverse that no-one can understand it all but at the same time it is...

It's worth remembering the Dunning Kruger effect.  People of higher ability under-estimate their skill and assume that a task is easy.

Teaching is a skilled profession.  Writing...

Unless you are a proof reader the answer is "not very much".

Git diff and the UI on Github does at least tell us what has changed but it...

It's so easy to become rusty even when in employment.

When I was a department manager I tried to get my staff training or at least the facilities to...

Microsoft has to make money, the question is as to where the optimum pricing point is.

In Britain there used to be a 50% tax band.  It cost more...

Security is a concern for older platforms.  Data is gaining ever more prominence and it only takes one breach and regulatory fine to wipe out any saving you may have...

Way back, much earlier on in my career we had a series of sql Server Agent Jobs that polled the production DBs every 5 minutes to see if each data...