VLDB – We’ve Moved! Returning To Our Founder’s Roots
Myself and the rest of the Liverpool-based members of VLDB recently moved offices. This move represents a 30-year journey back to where I started. Allow...
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The Exploration of Programming Languages – Standards of a Coder
Having been involved in IT for 30 years I have often been left bemused by the standards used by some programmers and sometimes imposed by...
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30 Years In I.T. …You’d get Less for Murder!
A few weeks ago marked 30 years since yours truly started out as a graduate IT trainee at Royal Insurance (now RSA) in 1988. Back...
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Technology, Prediction, and the Problem of Change
Mini-disks, Sabre-toothed Chickens and Pizza Grease - a Deadly Serious Discussion of Technology and Prediction. “All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and...
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To Hadoop Or Not To Hadoop?
Is Hadoop Right For Everyone? Across many organisations we find ourselves answering the same questions around Hadoop technology.We understand that senior level executives read broad...
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Who will win the Big Data bake-off between Spark, Shark & MapReduce?
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