I've been part of a number of complete rewrites and re-platformings.  If you are moving to the cloud then make sure that everyone involved in the project has read at...

One of the tenets of agile development is that the team should be able to sustain the development pace indefinitely.

The important question for both employee and employer has to be...

People have different learning styles so finding training that matches your particular style requires some effort.

One of my ex-colleagues used to run lunch and learn sessions.  He had a knack...

I have kept an eye on https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

There are a few things to note

• The rapid tail off in the rankings as you progress down the list
• The...

I think it is important that juniors see seniors own up to mistakes, especially the embarrassing ones.  Lead by example.

The important thing is defining what the limits of what the BOT is allowed to do.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatbot-misinformation-what-travellers-should-know

Recruitment is a challenging occupation.  I've had candidates that were good on paper, interviewed well, passed recruitment tests but when they got the job their doppelganger turned up for work.

I've...

This is analogous to the increasing use of ML in the insurance industry to spot fraud.  The chances are there are a large suite of existing rules that have accumulated...

I do have a question though. In the jobs section, the "Check Pull Request Labels" has a runs-on: ubuntu-latest and then immediately afterwards in "Enable Auto Merge on PR"...

If you put this in a GitHub repository  .github\workflows\check_labels.ymlfile then you can make running this a mandatory check in the "branch protection" option in your repo settings.

            
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LGTM = Looks Good To Me?

My team has spent time working out if anything we do in a code review could be automated.  Linting and formatting to an agreed, enforced...

Many of our CICD pipelines build our apps into Docker containers and runs a vulnerability scan on the resulting image.  This is a pre-requisite before making the image available for...

Back in 2014 one of the talks at QCon was a talk from someone at NASA.  They said they had two problems that kept them up at night.

One was how...

On a car dashboard a rev counter is a dial with a red zone.  You don't need to be able to read any figures, just know where the needle points...

There are official GitHub certifications too.  https://github.blog/2024-01-08-github-certifications-are-generally-available/

If you work for a consultancy you may find you are expected to hold and keep a number of certifications.