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...

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)