In the UK there are restrictions to do with company financial state and length of operation that prevent smaller players from being considered for government contracts.

When the contracts come in...

In my experience the solutions are over engineered and under provisioned.

The over engineering...

For a census the app simply collects the post from a web form and persists it.

Given that it is a once every 10 year thing with fixed questions you are...

I have been on the receiving end of 3rd party partnerships with IT vendors.

I wanted to feel like a customer, not a conquest.

After the high-ups have been wined & dined,...

Troy's article is frightening and horribly believable. The case was a senior marketing guy saying that because his company used SSL stuff was secure even though the web feature...

Gary Varga (8/22/2016)

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I see the abandonment of rollback scripts as more of a cultural hurdle than a technical one. All too often I see too little effort put into these...

One of the benefits of releasing a little and often is that a deployment is rarely big enough to cause major headaches.

The advantage of robust automated testing is that a...

Revenue generation and in particular short term revenue generation will...

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665375/the-6-pillars-of-steve-jobss-design-philosophy

Absolutely agree that clarity and simplicity is a major weapon in producing a secure system.

It also leads to more easily maintained and understood code and thus it becomes obvious where...

The UK government provides a mixed experience with regards to usability. The open data stuff is great. HMRC (The UK equivalent of the American IRS) still have a...

Once the mortgage is paid and the kids are earning their own money I'll have enough money to do anything but not enough to do nothing.

I don't mind hard work...

I have become convinced that a robust data model is more important in schema on read DBs, not less.

Having worked for two information aggregators I'm used to data flying at...

I have become convinced that a robust data model is more important in schema on read DBs, not less.

Having worked for two information aggregators I'm used to data flying at...

What I see in corporate data defies rational analysis.