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My website started as html in 1995, vanilla html, not even css or Javascript. It has evolved to accommodate stats, and at some point (whenever it was that it was first released) I …

I'm somewhat surprised that strategy is only mentioned once (at time of writing). Strategy is vital for any leadership role. Sun Tsu is a classic, but can be difficult to assimilat…

Linux is not an option for me. I think I've heard the "just move to Linix" thing more often than I've brushed my teeth. I'm staying with Windows both because I've been using Micros…

Admittedly I'm a greybeard. Wrote my first app in 1984. Moved through the ranks, from support to dev roles, application architecture, enterprise architecture and finially process o…

>> You’re not an expert in your field, otherwise you wouldn’t be publishing in a blog, but writing papers and giving interviews. >So there is no need for teachers and textbook auth…

GDS did a great job building gov.uk, but everythig else they touched was an abject disaster. From the Diabetes project at the NHS, the fiasco that was the Office of the Public Guar…

Always had a thing for radio control, so eventually in 2015 or so I had a look online and discovered crawlers (1:10 scale replicas of 4x4/AWD/rock crawlers). There are quite a numb…

Thanks I didn't know that. Happily the only ASP.NET I work with is my website, which will stay with the stack I have until/unless my ISP demands an upgrade. Although being a litera…

Thanks for the update. It's a timesaver.

Top comment here is how many I interact with react when they discover my love of VB. net. Some food for thought, then: I wrote my first complete computer program in 1986. Since the…

Well, apparently the story was conceived by a German, in which case the social system would catch him, provide the health care he needs, and when recovered he'd be back on that bea…

This started out as a password mangager. It evolved into a graph database coff after reading Linked - How Everything is Connected to Everything Else https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Wo…

Disagree 50%. Before you write any code (Corp World) you need a few diagrams detailing what and how you're going to build a thing. These lead to discussions and are refined/evolve …

I struggle understanding cloud-based storage on anything personally mine. I want my music where I am. Same for video, and ESPECIALLY documents. Still using Windows Media Player, to…

I've been doing architecture since 2003 and I've written down the things I do regularly as an architect - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/work

I have a home-baked system like this, mostly just files in folders and in some cases HTML-based indexes. It's not perfect and nowhere near as usable as Recall looks, but it works f…

Well put. He's my 2nd favourite composer, behind Dvorak. Also this excerpt from the article made me smile - " which makes one regret that Rachmaninoff neglected chamber music in hi…

I've done so much work in this space that I wrote up a patern that I modify as needed. The only data-specific issues you'll encounter are the underwriting rules - each insurer has …

Indeed so. I've been following nuclear in Germany ever since those railroad protests when they tried to transport nuclear waste from somewhere to somewhere else which I thought was…

These are technical controls - are you sure they're the right ones for your organisation - - or even needed? Organisations that comply with the GDPR typically employ a data protect…

I was in that self same queue and also made it through surprisingly quick, only for my flight to Frankfurt being cancelled. Back at LHR now for round two.

I note that many blog on their personal web site. I decided against that back in the early 2000's, when it got popular - I just didn't want to face not having a clue what to write …

I use Windows Explorer. Simple folder names like work, with subfolders for employers. Another folder for car, identity, one for medical, another for my son with subfolders for repo…

They were ideas of the top of my head. And what if he/she DOES enjoy that aspect? I'm a snowboarder and love it. The point is to have an open mind. Like it? Great. If not, also gre…

The caveat, I think, is that what he describes is quintessentially American. I'm pretty well travelled and have only seen such overt and absolute polarisation in the US. I'm sure t…