Posts by Dalkeith

Tech firms, come to Blighty! Everything is brill! Brexit schmexit, Galileo schmalileo

Partially agree with you - I wouldn't dismantle the welfare state in particular NHS and Education I would also whack up capital gains tack on property and land - its being used by investors as a bubble - too many people are having to pay most of their wages into renting property when the bricks and motor actually costs are very affordable.

You might want to read Kenneth Arrows - economist - he makes a good argument that free markets are poor when the vendor is very knowledgable and the customers are very innocent and lacking knowledge (eg health) (Govt IT systems)

Re: Brexit Schmexit and other Perverse Costly Abominations

I'm beginning to doubt whether political parties can do anything deliberately - accidental cockups is generally the order of Business.

Imagine every mistake you can make with a new software rollout...

To be fair public sector does specialize in procedures that have the most convoluted flows which can change overnight on political whims. Russian Visa system for independent travelers comes to mind.

Go DevOps before your bosses force you to. It'll be easier that way

Re: Doing DevOps before DevOps was a thing

Spot on Paul - that s my reading of Dev OPS

Sections are Responsible for Process AND Tools.

(I really don't think its a new idea ) - the first thing I would do is move people from separate IT departments to the sections they serve - ironically you don't want to get rid of the staff quite the reverse you probably want to hire more just put them in really diverse sections. As a result probably mainly beneficial to large organisations that have divisions and allow internal development. If you've contracted out all your development or you are a separate development shop for hire its basically almost impossible.

Also requires allowing your staff to really experiment and do in house development which companies have been fighting for years.

Cisco: The day of PCs is passing, cloud storage will dominate by 2019

Or alternatively the cloud could be a useful additional thing if you don't mind increasing your attack surface to the entire world.

I used to have one bike now I have four

I used to have one computer I now have four

Microsoft: Hey, small biz devs – Windows Store apps are for you, too

Re: Am I reading this right?

At least you can re-charge to client - as long as they get the code and don't have to repay.

I've seen that model where you develop in a technology and then the customer has to pay the tehnology company every year on top of your one of fee. I kid you not.

Step in the right direction but still think there's too much configuration for your average small business owner. They really need to get it so your granny can configure it.

Always welcome but I doubt take up will be massive still requires too much configuration for people that often don 't understand the listed concepts.

Can you trust accounting software numbers?

This is a massive problem with a number of professions. They haven't woken up to the fact that software is an integral part of their vocation.

Its particularly a problem with accountancy, law, quantity surveying and a range of other professions.

A domain specialist needs to have privileges to go through back end and double check inconsistencies such as this.

Full credit to your diligence and attention to detail the really scary thing is when decisions are made on wrong information. Collateralised debt is our generations shining example.

and yes tons of examples of wonky software.