Eric M Russell (3/14/2016)

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I use the term "BlackOps deployment" referring to those scenarios where IT performs an undocumented operation in production without going through he offical change control process. Sometimes...

If it is within your power then design stuff to be automated.

I've just spent months trying to get a system that will be run by a very small team to...

Whether they are targeting Oracle or MySQL they are targeting Oracle.

Where's the growth for SQL Server going to come from if you stick with Windows only?

My experience with MySQL suggests...

One of the key things for an open-source product is to have a strong gatekeeper.

Linus Thorvald fulfilled the role fantastically for Linux, Shay Banmon did the same for Elastic Search.

Provided...

Gary Varga (3/10/2016)

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The development teams often want to selectively choose which pieces they want to apply as both teams and individuals.

The management teams often want to selectively choose when to...

I still haven't found a use for Yammer but it seems to keep the HR department amused.

Can you integrate your development tools with Skype for business/lync?

The messages we had flowing around were when someone was working on a code branch, submitting or updating stories to Jira,...

A 3rd party introduced Flowdoc to us which follows a similar principal

We found that it speeded up communication dramatically and cut down on email.

We didn't have a timezone challenge so...

Way back in the 1990s I worked with a guy who used to say that the more expensive the software the more the bugs. In general I have found...

Humans are good at spotting patterns even when there isn't one.

An algorithm will be applied consistently and with out bias or prejudice.

Can you fool them if you understand...

I haven't got the passion...

If I bought Eddie Van Halen's guitar it wouldn't make me a great guitar player.

A great programmer can come up with something amazing on surprisingly limited kit where as a...

Safe harbour regulations are undergoing scrutiny at present.

There are quite a few businesses that thought the fact that business is ahead of regulations would mean that the legal aspect would...

So what are your views on Apple resisting the FBI'S request to unlock that iPhone?

Just so my colours are nailed to the mast I'm against the phone being cracked.

Once a...

We experimented with Hadoop to build a personalised product sort order.

5million customers x 250k product variations produced a huge dataset.

We had an impressive poc, and were experimenting with Apache Spark...