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Best Practice. What does it mean?

Best Practice. What does it mean?

As a software solutions architect I often find myself communicating and clarifying ideas between different teams, backend, mobile apps, micro-servcies and across various departments, engineering, legal, marketing. I have learned to be wary of words that are ambiguous and easily misunderstood– or differently understood between teams and departments. “Best practice” is one such term. This

Ready to order a Chat Bot?

Ready to order a Chat Bot?

So your business has been offered a chat bot; or perhaps your competitor is using one. The excitement behind these chat bots– they are supposedly powered by AI. A talking Artificially Intelligent agent seems futuristic and perception has been driven by the many Sci Fi films we have watched over the years. Marketing a chat

Creating a Windows 10 Base Box for Vagrant with VirtualBox

Creating a Windows 10 Base Box for Vagrant with VirtualBox

I recently decided to create my own Windows 10 base box for Vagrant. VirtualBox is already allowing Windows 10 virtual machines as of version 5.0 (though Windows 10 is not officially supported). So I decided to go ahead and create a base box for Vagrant for Windows 10 Professional.

Sound Transit, The Flickr for Sound

Sound Transit, The Flickr for Sound

Sound Transit is a collaborative site where individuals upload high quality audio recordings of every day sounds, called field recordings, together with a short description of the main activity contributing to the recorded sound and their location, city and country.

Computing On The Road? Get Ready!

Computing On The Road? Get Ready!

With the Intel Atom and the Core i series of processors, laptops featuring up to 7 hours of battery life are now available. Which means you can leave the power supply home and walk out with your laptop into the sun or go to a coffee shop. In fact I’m typing this article sitting in