It’s been wild ride these past years producing software solutions for a myriad of interesting clients (inlcuding some innovative, in their day, WBS products along the way) but the passion has not subsided one iota. Truth is, I am more invigorated than ever in this fast paced world of technological and business change. is truly an exciting time to be a technologist.
The original mission statement on this site mentioned "breaking down the technical and financial barriers between business and the Internet". I am happy to say that the old order of Business versus Technology is crumbling and now the accepted view is transparency, collaboration, and co-operation between all skillsets in a company to achieve a common goal.
I like to think I have played my part in that for the clients I have served. The plan now is to continue this journey by implementing technology advances to facilitate new, exciting and innovative business opportunities.
Feel free to contact me to discuss a requirement or opportunity. I will get back to your just as soon as I can and will arrange a suitable time to speak and/or visit you on-site if desired.
I'm rarely without an opinion and if I can steer you in the right direction I am happy to do so.
...about Graph Databases
lately particularly Neo4j & Cypher (mostly because they're really accessible and have a large following).
I can see applications in the mainstream and even have some (either totally genius or totally naive ideas) of my own!
For the average company I still think they have a journey ahead to truly offer a viable alternative to the more popular NoSQL and RDMS approaches but
I am confident they’ll be mainstream very soon albeit as part of Polyglot solutions.
Been testing out Python and .Net client libraries - pretty decent. It’s still a specialized world, though, so caution is key – i.e. don’t let any muppet loose on your data.
...about the whole “Big Data” movement in the average enterprise. Data has always been the key asset but also a problem to tame - us
technologists have spent years separating, for the sake of bandwidth and space, the “noise” from, what we perceived to be, the valuable data.
Today problems of bandwidth and space are largely a thing of the past so the possibilities are opening up to us.
But I think we’re still in the “searching” phase trying to figure out how all the data we can access will provide value.
Of course, the key technology here is Hadoop but I'm loving Microsoft’s
HDInsight platform because, again,
it makes this world extremely accessible.