Because I am a 0.4 week employee and the buzzword is NoSQL my chances of attending the charged for days are zero. I will try and make the Saturday on...

To me motivation comes from within. I have had managers who have used "carrot and stick" but this never works for any period. The only time I got demotivated was...

At times I get both framework and database fatigue from going around in ever decreasing circles. The current buzzword is NoSQL. Two of us with over sixty years of SQL...

I think each application has to be thought through beforehand so that more than data for data's sake is being collected. Also sensors need to be much more reliable. I...

After an embarrassing disaster one organisation introduced proper quality procedures with proper documentation for all stages. This included peer reviews of all code (which had to follow guidelines) and a...

I started my IT career proper (1984) using Unix and some DOS (company legacy). Various flavours of Unix were use over the next ten years (my favourite was IBM's AIX) when...

In my early days in I,  mid80s - mid 90s, the project managers tended to do a good job based on their experience in their industry. I managed a few...

I have always found it slightly difficult to keep up to speed with new developments because of the pressure of work and limited facilities to practice a new skill -...

About 15 years ago I was doing some work for a bank. They had a new employee who had come from an environment where '9' took you to the switchboard...

Whilst excited by the prospect of MS-SQL under Linux I would only recommend evaluating it to my management on a supported Linux platform like RHEL. Having been down a freebie...

Think I will have to catch up with PowerShell this year. I last used it about five years ago and although powerful it was very complicated to use at times...