Do you have a database or just a bunch of data?
A nightmare scenario
You are at a large library to find a book you need to finish an important term paper. You are feeling tense.
Big Data, Black Boxes and WMDs
As someone who worked in the database field for many years and taught database theory and programming at the college level, I was initially enthusiastic about the Big Data phenomenon.
Alan Cooper – Persona grata
It has been over twenty years since I read Alan Cooper’s book “About Face – The Essentials of User Interface Design”. At the time I was working as a product manager for a division of a Fortune 500 company. I had become interested in programming
Microsoft Becomes an Internet Company
It’s almost 20 years ago now since I attended a noisy product launch at a dark, cavernous convention centre on the outskirts of Toronto. The event was to promote Microsoft’s new “.NET everything” strategy.
Start Dumbing Down Your Website
Google’s long talked-about “mobile first” strategy is now rolling out in earnest. Here is a quote from the Google Webmaster Central Blog of Monday, March 26, 2018:
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