In a blog post in 2021 this blogger pointed out, with full references to the data source, how 'the NHS' in reality consists of 22,000...

Back in the day when working on OLTP systems there was a simple rule. All data presented to end-users had to be up-to-date and if it was...

In the TIOBE index for May 2021 Fortran is in the index at 20th position, up from 34th spot a year ago. Fortran, which emerged from IBM...

If when I published my book I had been aware of Bill Gate's 1996 quote ...... "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the...

On the 12th of February Charlotte Trueman published an interview with Chris Parsons of NHS Digital in the respected journal...

I recently posted I would summarize research into who contributes to open source software projects and why. I would have included such...

When I wrote "The Programmer's Odyssey" I hoped to include research in it about the programmers who give their unpaid time to create open...

The old joke that the good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from is still relevant today as USB 4.0 appears on...

This is such a great picture of a commercial programmer working on her program design back in the day. Her design tools are a pencil and...

As this blogger has said elsewhere the history of blockchain databases is probably fated to mirror the history of relational databases....