Why big systems fail
It’s a puzzle that perplexes time after time – why, with the full might and mind of experts, corporations and governments focused on the task at hand, do efforts to produce large scale IT systems, more often than not, lead …
It’s a puzzle that perplexes time after time – why, with the full might and mind of experts, corporations and governments focused on the task at hand, do efforts to produce large scale IT systems, more often than not, lead …
When I began developing websites in 1995, there was no WordPress or Magento. CSS didn’t exist, PHP was in its first iteration, ASP was a year away and Javascript was still to be standardised. The practical tools available were HTML …
I worked at Dartington for seven beautiful years. I met my wife there and turned my life around. I’ll be forever grateful to all the great people I worked alongside. If you ever get the chance you should go. I …
In about 2005 I inherited an ASP (now known as Classic ASP) site from Research in Practice. Not my favoured platform I have to admit, and it was easy to see why it was overhauled soon after. My primary bugbear …