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The last project I ran here at Red Gate was on SQL Compare / Data Compare 11 project. SQL Compare is a superficially simple product designed, as it’s name suggests, to compare Microsoft SQL database schemas. Its cousin, SQL Data Compare compares the data in the tables. Like the product itself, the Compare 11 project…
On 26th May 2014, the RSGB Contest Committee announced a Whitepaper containing proposals and suggestions for various rule changes. [Whitepaper] I really welcome this development. It’s great to see the Contest Committee so engaged and keen to hear feedback, and also I like having a clear timetable for the decision-making process based on this feedback.…
As many of you will be aware, one of my many volunteer roles is as an Outside Broadcast Engineer at Cambridge 105, Cambridge’s Community FM radio station. There are essentially two types of Outside Broadcast music events that we run: those where we do the live music mix, and those where we just take an…
(or what happens if you mash-up a Software-Defined Radio, a radio microphone, a Belkin Wemo, a fridge, Yammer and the Microsoft Exchange Server API) Every few months at work (Red Gate), we have a ‘Down Tools Week’. This is a chance to divert ourselves from normal product ideas and to look instead at other things…
One of the things I like to do shortly after a DXpedition is to do some fairly detailed statistical analysis on my log. This helps highlight openings or areas of the world I might have missed, and helps me consider improvements for the next trip. It can also help identify where propagation predictions did, and…
As many of you will be aware, I’ve recently returned from operating as VP9/M0BLF in Bermuda. Overall, it was a great trip but it was marred on a few occasions by some discourteous and unruly operation by a small proportion of the DXing community. A lot has already been written about pile-up behaviour but I…
As many of you will be aware, I’m currently on a DXpedition to Bermuda, operating as VP9/M0BLF (other operators on the same trip are VP9/G3ZAY, VP9/M0VFC and VP9/G7VJR). About half-way through the week, we’ve made over 6000 contacts, which is a great result for a part-time holiday-style operation. That is, we’re having time to do…
I’ll be part of a group of five operators from the Cambridge University Wireless Society (along with M0VFC, G3ZAY, G3VFC and M1BXF), operating from Ascension Island as ZD8UW next week. Here’s the ‘official’ announcement: ASCENSION ISLAND, ZD8. A group of operators will be QRV as ZD8UW from Green Mountain from December 2 to 6. Activity will…
My colleague, Simon (aka The Agile Pirate), has written a post on his blog about how our team’s Scrum Board has evolved over the past year. Until I Simon’s summary, I wasn’t quite concious of how much we have achieved since January. It’s probably worth supplementing Simon’s post with something about the aim of the…
[This post continues from Reflections from Agile Cambridge: Day 2] Real Options in the real world (Chris Matts) This was a fascinating keynote investigating how we can consider the options we face in project management as being Options in the financial sense: they expire, they have a value and we should avoid committing to them…