Richard Gall

What do we really mean when we say that software is ‘dead’ or ‘dying’?

“The report of my death was an exaggeration,” Mark Twain once wrote in a letter to journalist Frank Marshall White.…

5 years ago

Can DevOps promote empathy in software engineering?

If DevOps is, at a really basic level, about getting different teams to work together, then you could say that…

5 years ago

Modern web development: what makes it ‘modern’?

The phrase 'modern web development' is one that I have clung to during years writing copy for Packt books. But…

5 years ago

6 reasons why employers should pay for their developers’ training and learning resources

Developers today play a critical role in every business - the days of centralized IT being shut away providing clandestine…

5 years ago

Listen: How ActiveState is tackling “dependency hell” by providing enterprise-level support for open source programming languages [Podcast]

"Open source back in the late nineties - and even throughout the 2000s - was really hard to use," ActiveState…

5 years ago

Machine learning ethics: what you need to know and what you can do

Ethics is, without a doubt, one of the most important topics to emerge in machine learning and artificial intelligence over…

5 years ago

The best business intelligence tools 2019: when to use them and how much they cost

Business intelligence is big business. Salesforce’s purchase of Tableau earlier this year (for a cool $16 billion) proves the value…

5 years ago

Why companies that don’t invest in technology training can’t compete

Here’s the bad news: the technology skills gap is seriously harming many businesses. Without people who can help drive innovation,…

5 years ago

4 important business intelligence considerations for the rest of 2019

Business intelligence occupies a strange position, often overshadowed by fields like data science and machine learning. But it remains a…

5 years ago