This is so true with much of IT. I have a development stack that has been selected more through successive clients' choices than any selections of my own.

As far as...

Helping out a few people on the forums here. There was nothing special about what I did. There are many here that do it. A lot of people contribute a...

Happy New Year everyone!!!

I think that the RT ideal is great...as an ideal. I think that experience shows that being able to reuse components (in some form - that is a interesting and...

Time.

No-one can help but see things from their perspective and, therefore, we have seen a very US-centric point of view on this i.e. the US Government targets US citizens, the...

Well, well. That explains why I started receiving email to an email account setup for communications solely with Adobe. I Tweeted Adobe and was ignored. I had missed this hack...

BWFC (12/23/2013)

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I'm very new to the world of SQL and BI and I'm certainly interested in getting some form of qualification under my belt. The situation at my place...

Have a go.

Come across issues.

We'll help with the issues.

Sorry. Too busy to do your job as well as mine 😛

Just as with Design Patterns (see Gamma et al), the context of use is required together with when it is both appropriate and inappropriate to apply. Examples help too. The...

Compulsory shutdown is when you are forced to take some annual leave at a particular time. This often occurs in the manufacturing industry when they have a furnace that they...

In December 2014 many people will make predictions for 2015.

Some will be humourous. Some will not.

(I am in the UK.)

In 1999 I decided that I was either going to get myself certified (MSCS or something like that at the time) or get myself a Masters...

Certainly. Never say never. Rather...

This issue exists throughout IT. Just ask a developer/programmer/software engineer etc 😉

Different companies have different structural setups both with regards to IT infrastructure and team responsibilities. Also it depends on...