Simon Munro is a Senior Practice Consultant with EMC Consulting. Currently doing solution architecture on the Microsoft stack, Simon has spent more than fifteen years straddling the line between application and database development. Over the years he has worked on a wide range of database solutions from transactional to data warehouse and various volumes and loads.
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I am working with an SME customer at the moment that is big enough to have a high dependency on their website but not big enough to have an operational team available feeding and watering their systems all day, every day. This type of customer is not only common in the self-service cloud, but is ...
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Underpowered machines chosen by a faceless Excel user are the bane of developers in corporate environments. How can we get them to understand that they are simply not qualified to make decisions about the tools that we need? My late grandfather was a carpenter by trade and I grew up hearing stories ...
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The recent furore that erupted over Microsoft’s ‘shifting’ of focus for Silverlight and their somewhat wishy-washy attempts to clarify their position illustrates a fundamental disconnect between the Microsoft machine and the lives and careers of the developers that use their tools. An enterprise ...
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On of the problems when working with spatial data is figuring out what to GROUP BY when aggregating data spatially. I’ll talk more about this in a future post and, for one of the approaches I tried, I needed the ability to draw an arbitrary geography polygon (square in my case) that is yay long ...
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There is little doubt that organic farming is the right way to farm – how could it be otherwise? Organic farming does not rely on toxic input anywhere in the production chain and results in a product that is better, healthier and more natural for consumers. Even though it is practiced on a smaller ...
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