The modern idea of Business Intelligence (BI) has been used by big companies since the early days of data warehousing. BI didn’t start out as a complicated set of data analytics. Going back as far as there were people doing business, proprietors used BI to improve their odds of making a sale. The age of big data changed the rules somewhat, but that doesn’t mean that the game can’t be played by both big and small businesses. If you run a small business and think that BI and analytics are only for big corporations and only they can afford it, you couldn’t be more wrong. Read More
Being a programmer never gets easier. Many of your tasks end up being bigger time sinks than you expected, and in the meantime a backlog piles up. Sometimes, you can even feel like every time you complete a task, two more magically appear just to aggravate you, like some sort of confounding Tribble. Read More
Looking back into the dim recesses of my mind, I cast my gaze upon the short period in which I thought I was going to be a programmer. (We didn’t call ourselves software engineers at my college, I think because we didn’t want to be identified with the engineering college, which was in a building with a massive crack in its foundation and a developing tilt.) Read More
