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...

There's a challenge in balancing security with accessibility.

In the UK just because a company holds data for one purpose it cannot legally decide to use that data for any purpose....

I've watched the carers of Alzheimer's patients. They work long hours on a pittance but from talking to them they find the work tremendously rewarding.

Think of all the rock...

Very much so. For those no-where...

Ok, here's a thought. We all know that there are several ways to write a query and that you might deploy any of those methods depending on the...

Again, it is interesting reading this a few years on and from the change of perspective that age brings.

The US election result appears to be a shout from those...

I predict massive DDOS attacks through insecure IOT and recall notices on many of the gadgets we got for Christmas.

I also predict an increase in recruitment agencies describing their...

The BBC used to reuse tapes because the media used to cost a fortune. Every now and again someone finds a copy of an ancient TV program hidden in...

I've read this article immediately after a piece on Professor John Yudkin, the author of Pure, White & Deadly. A man who had his reputation destroyed for his meticulous...

There are so many dimensions to "realistic" test data not least that data has natural hot spots. It's difficult to come up with test data that truly simulate the...

Jeff Moden (12/18/2016)

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It's funny that you brought this up in an article just now, especially the part about ETL.

Even as early as SQL Server 6.5, I built things in SQL...

A particularly well timed editorial given the massive failure of Yahoo to secure it's customers data or behave appropriately in response to an immense hack as reported on BBC news...

It's been awhile since I used hibernate.

It used to declare it's parameters at the length of the input so a value of "DAVE" would ne submitted as NVARCHAR(4), whereas a...

I've found that ORMs can be used sensibly and effectively. Hibernate is one of the more powerful ones.

Unfortunately I've rarely seen any attempts to configure them beyond a basic...