Some years ago in my IT career I had the opportunity for my first bit of public speaking at the annual IT symposium of the Institute of Programmers and Analysts. Not being the outgoing type that was a terrifying prospect,
Switching A Server Off – A Close Call
Server uptimes have long been a badge of honour in operations departments, and working with both Linux and Windows server teams over the years has provided the Linux contingent with the chance to laugh and deride the sometimes weekly Windows
I Love SQL
I’ve been a SQL user for many years, building all sorts of data warehousing solutions in various roles, and I occasionally end up trawling the net for some inspiration for a particularly challenging data transformation. At times like this I
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Joe to Nano to Vim Throughout my Linux career I have been a long fan of the editor joe, it was there on my first production system based on Slackware, I loved it because I was familiar with Wordstar (remember