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...

I see that 3DES is now regarded as crackable

Back in the 1980s car theft was rife in the UK and insurance costs rocketed.

There used to be all sorts of crook locks on the market.  The ones...

Thom A (1/11/2017)

SQL Server on Linux is a good starting point.

Where it will get interesting is if IS/RS/AS or equivalent features become available on Linux. BIML across platforms. That's potentially...

If you can download and install software for free, access a wealth of quality knowledge for free and it turns out to be pretty good then you are on to...

Programming the 6502, Kernighan & Ritchie Programming in C.

Simpler times but with an emphasis on writing efficient code. Quite a few of these books lay down the principles that...

The underlying tech and look and feel may be old but from a customer perspective this site works.

That said the new look and feel is a welcome upgrade.

I think there...