Well, I was feeling the lack of a Blog—my last one was with Reg Developer. This is going to be a lot of random jottings, based on some 30 years experience with, mostly dysfunctional, IT. My usual POV is of someone who has heard most...

So, it's now Day 2 at at IBM RSDC (Rational Software Development Conference) 2008, and what are my impressions so far? Well, first, if you are one of the small (?) group of people who have written Rational off as impossibly clunky and so not...

So, I've got up at 6 for the analyst breakfast, after having heard Bob Dylan's son play at the RSDC Telelogic Welcome Party last night (he's not a patch on his Dad IMHO)—but what did I see at RSDC that I didn't expect to? That's always the...

So, RSDC has this team of hero programmers fighting the Dark Side of programming—using the Sword of Jazz and the Shield—or hiding behind something looking like a Second Life avatar..... It's all so cool—but the...

Regularly, we seem to get scare stores about the skills shortage in IT (for example, in Computer Weekly for 10 June 2008 we read that the number of computing student numbers in universities and colleges has dropped nearly 50% since 2001 to below...

Ah, before I forget, some news for the Informix fans out there. It hasn't escaped my attention that some ex-Informix people aren't entirely enthused by the IBM takeover and doubt IBM's real level of commitment to the product. My...