For a while, I have been unhappy with my blog. I don’t know if it’s just me being picky or what. I have gone back and looked at some of the posts, and I am very disappointed in myself for “creating” such … drivel. Anyway, that’s not the focus of this post. One of the bigger things I have been
Kids, it’s 2020. That means it is way past time to stop kicking the can down the road. Most of us in IT have been around long enough to see us shift from a centralized CPU (mainframes) to decentralized (client/server) architectures back to a centralized approach again (cloud). That means we have encountered problems and we have ignored problems, and
Everyone has seen the meme that the cloud is just someone else’s computer. Or that people don’t understand the cloud. I think either has become too simplistic of an explanation. The fact of the matter is, we all have embraced the cloud in some fashion. No ground under the cloud What happens to your music, documents, pictures, or SQL server
I have worked in an office environment for a long time. Going on twenty years in fact. I have worked in a number of different types of environments, but cubicles have been the standard. In fact, in my career I have only had a walled office a couple of times – shared an office for 5 years and a private
I had a flash of brilliance this week, and that’s a rare thing for me. I came to an understanding with myself that I can’t solve all the world’s problems, most people disagree with me, and if I want to continue to discussing heated topics than I need to remain open minded because odds are, they won’t. So back to
I’m going to start off this post with an apology, I am sorry for the rant that is to come. I don’t like posting rants on this blog site, I usually do that on my personal blog. So why break protocol and post it here? Well, because this rant is directed at the data professional community and management of every
Having been in the IT industry for a while, I’ve learned a few things. One of those so called things is, Microsoft and Linux are different worlds. I mean, every other computer operating system is POSIX based but Windows. In fact, back in the Ballmer days (circa 2001), Linux was deemed a cancer. So obviously, when it was announced that