"Conflict" is one of those words that can be misconstrued so easily.

Technically a disagreement is a conflict but it's using a strong word where a quieter word will do.

In the...

Safari Books Online is my big spend until my PC goes bang.

I treated myself to a 2nd 24" monitor.

To be honest, I don't spend money on tech until the old...

"Production" is a bit more nuanced than it used to be.

Would I endorse data scientists conducting experiments on a DB server providing critical services? NO.

Would I provide them with...

What impresses me is when Teradata was formed, what they set out to do and when they achieved it! 1992!

I was installing 20mb Western Digital file cards into...

I find that I rarely do things just once therefore scripting is my normal approach.

You can share a script and learn from one. A well written one has a...

It feels like things have come full circle.

At one time you scripted because that was all there was. Now you script because it's the best way of having a...

I'm not a Luddite. I stepped over the wall into management took a good look around and realised that the grass always looks greener on the other side.

A great...

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Wow, David. You absolutely blew me away with that rant. Just wait until your company comes and says they need something and need it quickly, and see...

I was aghast to find an old Clipper app still being maintained, although it didn't really need much maintaining. For next to no investment it was cheerfully generating £2million...

I'll give it a go as...

I've got a bit of a home lab but rarely use it these days. Frankly commute time plus an average of 9-10 hour days on top leaves little for...

I can recommend the rest of Patrick Lenceoni's books as well. They are a good warm up act to The Phoenix Project.

Democracy works on the principle of opposing view points. Perhaps your greatest asset is the one that disagrees with you because you have to think to counter their arguments.

Plato...

Having just installed Apache Spark and got it talking to RedShift through PySpark on Python 3 I can tell you that getting to the point of being able to run...

This is slightly off topic but I have some observations from the Big Data world.

Which source of information do you trust? Certain technologies are too new for there to...