The convention over configuration discussion when designing a data warehouse often leads to fanatical discussions by technical people over the ‘best’ approach to do things. Convention can be used to define the standard way to design…
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In my consultancy assignments, I usually work in large organisations that have outsourced IT departments and very formal processes for everything. One aspect of this is version control. In such an organisation every document contains a…
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The agile manifesto and it’s underlying principles set out four key values for developing software solutions: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan If an organisation is…
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An interview for recruitment company Connections who ran an occasional series entitled “Connections – A Life In The Day” – and yes it was deliberately backwards Download Connections – A Life in the Day of David-Walker now
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Sequent was a hardware vendor that pioneered high-performance symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) open systems between 1983 and 1999 when it was acquired by IBM. I was lucky enough to work for Sequent between 1992 and 1995. In its heyday it operated by…
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