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In IT, we search the Web constantly. Everything we need is literally at our fingertips, just an Internet query away. This is interesting because IT professionals tend to make a big deal of knowing things by heart. Can you calculate subnets off the top of your head? Do you know these OS commands (and all of their…
Larry Wall (creator of the Perl programming language) famously said, “Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.” In one brilliantly succinct phrase, Mr. Wall took three traits commonly understood to be character flaws and re-framed them as…
What do you do when your employer says no more training? What do you do when you know that your organization should move to the cloud or at least some discrete components? How do you stay current and not stagnate? Can you do this within the organization, or must you go outside to gain the skills you seek? This is a huge…
The only constant truth in our industry is that technology is always changing. At times, it’s difficult to keep up with everything new that is being introduced while you stay active in working your day to day duties. That challenge grows even harder if these new innovations diverge from the direction that the company you…
How should somebody new to coding get started learning a language and maybe even automating something? Where should they begin? It's probably obvious that there are a huge number of factors that go into choosing a particular language to learn. I'll look at that particular issue in the next post, but before worrying about…
In our pursuit of Better IT, I bring you a post on how important data is to functional teams and groups. Last week we talked aboutnti-patterns in collaboration, covering things like data mine-ing and other organizational dysfunctions. In this post we will be talking about the role shared data, information, visualizations,…
A few years ago I was working on a project as a project manager and architect when a developer came up to me and said, "You need to denormalize these tables…" and he handed me a list of about 10 tables that he wanted collapsed into one big table. When I asked him why, he explained that his query was taking four minutes to…
Well hey everybody, I hope the Thanksgiving holiday was kind to all of you. I had originally planned to discuss more DevOPS with ya’ll this week however a more pressing matter came to mind in my sick and weakened state of stomach flu! Lately we’ve been discussing ransomware but more important, lately I’ve been seeing an…
The Cloud! The Cloud! Take us to the Cloud it’s cheaper than on-premises, why? Because someone in marketing told me so! No, but seriously. Cloud is a great fit for a lot of organizations, a lot of applications, a lot of a lot of things! But just spitting ‘Cloud’ into the wind doesn’t make it happen, nor does it always make…
Automation is the future. Automation is coming. It will eliminate all of our jobs and make us obsolete. Or at least that is the story which is often being told. Isn’t it true though? I mean, who remembers these vending machines of the future which were set to eliminate the need for cooks, chefs, cafeterias! That remarkably…
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