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From a purely IT perspective, a lot more infrastructure to do with working from home is being thoroughly tested. Knowing how large numbers of home workers cope with the isolation a…

Firefox. Of all the browsers I keep trying it's the one I keep going back to, especially at work where we run a huge mixture of webapps some as old as 15 years, some only released …

Depends upon the driving factor, for work most of us have to pay bills so the requirement for hard cash is pretty strong motivator! That's even more true if you have any dependents…

As a 25 year career DBA, moving to a DB agnostic methodology has merits as it allows very re-usable code, however the downside is that you never get to realise the strengths a part…

Love it, passion for his subject and a great message.

I learned RDBMS systems via Oracle, the default is READ COMMITTED isolation level, seeing people from non RCI systems experiencing RCI is always interesting. Good little article.

The internet is now so ingrained in our lives, we can't really function without it. We use for bills, timetables, weather and we're so used to having info at our fingertips that we…

Some fungi are so insidious when you start looking into how they function. They need to land, spore and infect but keep the host plant or animal alive in order to keep feeding itse…

Certainly seen a huge rise in Python use in private banking sector where I work. The problem is that we get people who aren't devs writing Python code against source DBs, we once h…