Security The US Government are upset at Intel Intel are in trouble with the US Government over Spectre and Meltdown, this is why the US Government are in the wrong.
HTTPS Why do I support HTTPS Everywhere? One of the things I'm passionately in support of is HTTPS everywhere. That is, every single website using HTTPS. It doesn't matter if it's a simple text site or if it's a full
War Stories Software is not a panacea - Part 2 In the previous article I raised the fictional scenario of a company wanting to automate a timesheet submission process. In this article I'd like to touch on some of the project processes that
Project Management The state of IT I came across the above article earlier today and I know that examples of the above problems are not just endemic to development process but instead seem to be buried deep into the
Security Security Industry Commentary Last night I watched the "Diana: Last Days of a Princess" documentary. I admit that I largely watched it just to moan about how much the British media is still concentrating
Security Nimda, Slammer and the like Now that Microsoft have released a patch for the recent DNS RPC vulnerbility IT Admins should be deploying it as quickly as possible - I was talking to a friend about this today
Commentary Task Switching Joel Spolsky writes a great blog over at . He has an insight into programming and development that a lot of companies sorely need. Recently he wrote a blog on why task switching was