Really worthwhile article on handling adversity…useful reading during these volatile times.

91% Of Hiring Mangers Use Social Networking To Screen http://t.co/altfKbIv (via @RWW)

Cross post from Seth Godin’s blog People don’t like deadlines. They mean a decision, shipping and risk. They force us to decide. Deadlines work. Products that are about to disappear, auctions that are about to end, tickets that are about to sell out–they create forward motion. Deadlines make people do dumb things. Every time I [...]

Just a little bit of tinkering with the GoogleMaps API and some geocoding stuff…should show a googlemap centered on home on which you then search for other locations, get directions etc etc Loading…

Just arrived in Terminal5 on my way to Vancouver for a week’s workshops on a new project I’m taking on and other than the odd bit of hastily erected hoarding to shield one’s eye’s from unfinished partitioning the place seems pretty much done to me ! Firstly and of particular interest to me, is it’s [...]

Much of my day-to-day involves putting together solutions that do a bit of data extraction, transformation and loading somewhere else (That’s the ETL bit). So that’s the transactional bit, at then end of the production line, once we’ve speont all this time, money and effort loading and validating this info you then need to quantify [...]

Tomorrow evening I’ll be having a few drinks with colleagues and friends I’ve known and worked with over the last 4 years at my current employers. My wife was asking me how I was feeling about it given that I was basically a week away from leaving my job for good…I had to admit that [...]

What’s better than working for the #2 UK Bank ? Why yes..! I believe it’s working for the #1 UK Bank <grins> Well I’m finally saying goodbye to RBS after more than 4 years. It’s had it’s ups and downs but more of the former than the latter I’m happy to say. I’ve worked with [...]

Here’s the eternal question…how do you get technologists to intimately comprehend the business process and function in order that their finely-honed code can help do things quicker, cheaper and more accurately ? This is largely the role of the Business Analyst. I’m getting heavily involved with my employer’s BA cadre grinding out a Best Practice [...]