I heard some good career advice which I really think is relevant to everyone

Find something that you love doing - get good at it - and then figure...

I think xsevensinzx hit it on the head - cloud services have automated the request process for asking for more hardware or services - that process alone in some organisations...

I'm probably with wear what is appropriate for the situation.

I can understand that if you are in public service some kind of uniform is better. It allows the...

Surely in most domains there should be professionals for whom this should be a large part of their remit?

What exactly are we hiring accountants, quantity surveyors, actuaries, mathematicians,...

I ve been fortunate enough to have redesigned sections of some of my systems periodically over the years mainly because the systems have been successful and the remit has expanded...

I've seen a few projects fail because of a lack of weakness in a specialist area or because they've just run out of funds so I am sympathetic to the...

I use Alexa at home and it is just great for playing music. At the moment I haven't got it set up well for things like surfing the net and...

Good suspense piece.

Did you get the job?

I can see a new post in the offing

Financial Controller of Cloud Services?

Bagsy I'm not it.
Definitely good practice to check your statements though. I've come...

"There seem to be so few ER diagrams in the real world, especially from vendors, who should always produce one for clients."

I'm working on a database migration now...

Certainly its in the future but I'm cautious at the moment I've had too many cars and devices that have had dodgy sensors - I have a relatively new car...

Probably Microsoft just accepting Economics

I'm on record as thinking that the additional features that are added to software tools although good are not significant enough IMHO to prevent continual eroding...

Google are clearly working on this as best they can. I expect them to improve significantly on their present ability over the next 5 years.

In the meantime - joining a...

I think this is a massive topic - enterprise application development is massively lagging behind your more mainstream application development (google play and app store host roughly 2 million programs...

I am hoping that maybe fully hosted applications can really take off - a lot of government applications while not particularly computationally challenging are complicated and obscure - add to...