I recently wrote about my experience building a time tracking app using Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration. It generated some questions about the tools I use and how I use them, which is fantastic: I’d rather take part in Read More …
“Data-driven decision making” has proven to be more than just a trend. Many organizations are realizing they must get on board to maintain an edge in an increasingly competitive landscape. This marks a shift from the traditional model of setting Read More …
My long years in the tech industry have given me some perspective on how software is produced today. The developers who have just started working professionally might not be aware just how radical the change has been from the waterfall Read More …
DevOps has been on the top of my mind lately, thanks to plenty of inspiration from the recent all-day DevOps Conference. Now that we’ve got some real data and case studies showing what DevOps can do, the business case is Read More …
For IT specialists on the bleeding edge, the recent All Day DevOps Event was a blissful 15 straight hours of high-quality learning. Honestly, it was probably more useful than many live all-weekend conferences I’ve attended. I won’t attempt to point Read More …
As an outside IT specialist, we can get called in on some dangerous missions. Fixing a network is always a unique challenge. But when angry people on both sides get their guard up, you could be walking into a minefield. Read More …
For enterprise companies, Wi-Fi is not the slow, dumpy cousin of network connections any more. Had I made the same claim a year ago, or even six months ago, it might have been pretty contentious. As of mid-July, given the Read More …
Does your team already have the skills required to get the job done? That, in a nutshell, is the first question you ask before you hire a technical person. But the natural follow-up question is just as important to ask: Read More …
Devops (development and operations) is a type of agile relationship between Software Development and IT Operations supporting it Most organisations producing software have, by now, implemented an agile development strategy. Their customers expect to have input, get frequent access to feature updates Read More …