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theoldgit
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About theoldgit
48 years or so in technology isn’t that easy to summarise, I’ve held almost every role in IT, from programmer to IT Director; I’ve matrix managed teams of over 200+ as a programme manager, implemented data centres, built e-commerce and trading platforms, worked with AWS, mobile and heuristic products, been involved in designing highly secure networks, worked on the development of network management systems, helped define standards, programmed in over 12 languages, specialised for several years in middleware development, primarily working on distributed systems and high performance transaction processing.More recently I have been working as a principal consultant in a very niche area, Track & Trace and mainly working with large scale ERP (read SAP) implementations (not my favourite technology it has to be said, but it pays a crust). And even more recently have started dabbling with Python and Go to get myself back into coding and now find myself leading an evaluation into how best we (my current employer) can use AI.
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That was always it's strength. I started programming in 1976, trained in COBOL and ICL PLAN, used punched cards, and mop terminals once we got out of training. 100% of our programs…
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Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism; it's exploitation without competition, innovation is slowly strangled if there is no free market, the wealth in the market accretes…
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I tend to agree. I have been working in IT for 48 years and it is not at all uncommon to come across developers who have a very narrow and niche view of software development. I hav…
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when I was programming in the 70s and 80s (in the UK), the term systems programmer applied to those people involved in the configuration, tuning, management of software such as CIC…