I love statistics. The part of me that wishes I was a rock star is very unhappy about me admitting that in public, but there it is. Of course, the cool kids are calling it analytics these days, but it’s still statistics. It’s a bunch of numbers that can tell… Read More
There’s one surefire way to determine if someone is a great programmer, or if they are merely good: their attitude towards automated testing. In fact, their attitude towards testing will tell you a lot about their attitude towards programming, design, project planning, almost every other aspect of a technical project.… Read More
I have a Nokia N95 mobile phone. I’ve generally liked Nokia’s phones from way back when I used to sell them for a living. They always used to have a better user interface, and generally provide a better user interface, I thought. Not any more. Right at the moment, I… Read More
Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is something I know very little about. This is a shame, because I’ve been maintaining this website, or previous incarnations of it, since about 1995 when I first got Internet access, yet almost no one has heard of it. Apparently. I was at university then,… Read More
So you’ve just signed another check for a couple of million dollars of storage hardware. Just what is everyone keeping on there? If you’re anything like me, you’ve got a PC chock full of old email, digital photos, your mp3 collection, a bunch of old shell scripts, stock photos for… Read More
It seems I have come almost full circle in my search for a new web application server framework. While attempting to find an alternative to Zope2, and Zope3, I stumbled across Grok by way of Pylons. I’ll explain. Spot the Difference TurboGears, which I gave my impressions of in my… Read More
TurboGears is my first choice for a new webapp platform, as both it and Django seem to have a reasonable following. TurboGears seems to suit my ethos for a webapp platform more than Django for a variety of not particularly conscious reasons. It just feels more like what I want.… Read More
I’ve been contemplating moving away from Zope 2 as a web framework for a little while now. Once upon a time, I had high hopes for Zope. I thought that it might provide me with all the Role Based Authentication and template based stuff I might need, and with Python,… Read More
Check out this video of how you can use VMware with NetApp storage to provision 100 virtual Windows machines in under 15 minutes. Wow. Imagine linking this stuff with a change management framework like ModiPy instead of just writing some custom shell scripts. Read More
Over the years, I’ve had some frustrating times at work due to the… shortcomings… of some people who purport to be IT professionals. Once upon a time, a project team was in a dither about a ‘performance problem’ with the storage their application/system was using. I was working in the… Read More
