The Ranter
- Dec 14, 2022
The Strange Case Of The Missing NHS Org Chart
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...
OLTP Head
- Jun 21, 2021
Whatever happened to accurate data and reliable software?
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...
the historian
- May 17, 2021
Fortran's back! Take to the hills!
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...
The Author
- Feb 21, 2021
Bill Gates and Moore's Law
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...
The Ranter
- Feb 18, 2021
'The' NHS is actually 22,000 organisations
On the 12th of February Charlotte Trueman published an interview with Chris Parsons of NHS Digital in the respected journal...
The Author
- Feb 8, 2021
Who writes open source code? Why?
I recently posted I would summarize research into who contributes to open source software projects and why. I would have included such...
The Author
- Jan 22, 2021
Who codes open source software?
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...
Trend spotter
- Nov 13, 2020
And now ........ USB 4.0
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...
the historian
- Nov 8, 2020
Programming Back In The Day
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...
OLTP Head
- Nov 8, 2020
At last vendor independent standards for blockchains
As this blogger has said elsewhere the history of blockchain databases is probably fated to mirror the history of relational databases....
