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...

My 6 year old niece managed to download some ransomware onto her mother's tablet in an app aimed at children. That's just vile.

Going after hospital records is beyond the...

Cost, but it isn't straight forward to quantify what it is.

The benefit of being able to spin up equivalent environmentsand to do so quickly more than pays for the cost...

I've found that Google Authenticator is practical for authenticating onto AWS.

I wish I hadn't put a strong password on my phone. The number of times I've wanted to use...

You are only as strong as your weakest component.

If you want zero downtime then your components have to support that. To an extent you can engineer around some limitations.

There...

As usual the simple ideas are the best. Good article.

From the forum comments I notice that the different versions of SQL give different results thereby illustrating that the SQL...

powell_todd (2/10/2016)

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Nice article, and I always love to get scripts that help me understand whether or not I'm doing the right thing in my DBs. One question/point... In...

Moneysupermarket started off in a...