For programming languages we have https://www.codeconvert.ai/ and https://rosettacode.org/

It would be great if there was the equivalent for mapping functionality of various technologies, whether it be wearable tech, digital musical instruments,...

One thing I think may be leading to the reduction of Ransomware is the reduction in Email as the form of communication.  Slack, MS Teams (and similar) are my primary...

I've seen excessive parameters being requested as a result of badly configured ORMS.  The exception I can remember is a table that got too wide and stopped working.  It had...

One of the downsides of a Polyglot DB world is that having worked out how to do a large deployment reliably for a particular DB platform you end up having...

Years ago the company I worked for did a set of Saturday boot camps.  We were introduced to the very basics of Linux.

About a decade ago I did the equivalent...

Jeff Moden called it a Consensus Engine, which I thought was a brilliant description.

It's pretty much at peak hype in the hype cycle.  It is genuinely useful, just not the...

Below a surprisingly large scale it just doesn't make sense to build a data centre.  In my experience you will end up butting up against the hard limits on capacity...

I was part of a cross business function team that had to put together a company glossary.  Even though the glossary was signed off at the highest level and put...

I worked for a company that had several different lines of business, all acting independently.  This meant that recording the customer contact details was done in ways that each line...

One of the things I learned from this site early on (2 decades ago) was that if you get your data model right it works, performs and lasts.

When I worked...

Eric, https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-ceo-artificial-intelligence-b2302091.html

If you can replace engineers you don't need the people who manage them.  You end up with a cascading collapse.  I've got a friend who had...

Take a look at the Billy Joel video for the song "Turn the lights back on".   The song is played as if it were 4 different stages of his career...

There are a lot of good points in that article.

I've found that nurturing a relationship with people who are already trusted is what pays dividends.  When you earn the trust...

I've seen a post from Jeff Moden calling AI a Consensus Engine.  There is a lot of truth in that.

One would hope that AI wouldn't decide to eliminate its own...

I've been attending a lot of DataBricks webinars and AI meetup groups.

There has been a lot of talk about agentic behaviour, that behaviour that acts like an AI agent.  There...