As our business gradually expands, we ask ourselves why has no-one tried connecting analysts to software? One reason is that is that the core of our product, the database, is an original invention. Another reason occurred to us the other day as we heard about the...
Are you thinking of migrating to a new database? We all know that, whatever size of house we have, sooner or later we’ll run out of space. At least that’s what will happen to most of us, except those infuriating people who are so well organised that they take time to...
It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that there are problems with spreadsheets – others have done so better than I can – for instance here or here. So how do we go about ensuring your spreadsheets are future proofed? But if spreadsheets are so dangerous, why do...
Recently I’ve been thinking more about architectural principles, why some projects get in a mess and why some don’t. One thing that keeps cropping up is the cost of cleverness in pretty much any area of an IT project. It could be code, supporting software (e.g....
