Obfuscation: The action of making something obscure, unclear or unintelligible. I had such fun with my last two words of the week that I decided to keep the theme today. (For the developers, now you know where the term “code obfuscation” comes from.) Recently someone asked me about the concept
Password hygiene is important – we all know that. We know about the importance of POPI and GDPR. But this week I discovered some problems when I tried to improve my password hygiene.
If Lewis wasn’t such an outstanding Java lecturer, I’d want to hire him as a handyman. He enjoys DIY tasks, and does them with the same precision as he does everything else. (If you’ve attended one of his courses, you’ll know what I mean. I draw a vague shape on
Sometimes I feel that I do a lot of work, but I don’t make much progress. Part of that is lockdown. (Part of it is dealing with the MICT SETA, which means I really didn’t make much progress.) And part of it is the need to remember one of life’s
There is no comfort zone in our current Covid-centric reality. We know life is uncertain, but we used to believe we could plan for the future. The pandemic proved us wrong. That lack of certainty about the future has kept us off-balance. We all had to find ways to deal
Every industry has its own jargon. Jargon is terminology understood by people in a certain group – and often meaningless to anyone outside the group. I think the IT industry is way ahead of other industries when it comes to jargon, buzzwords and weird acronyms. Perhaps that’s because IT changes faster than
In 2017, the Saturday Night Live show produced a hilarious advert for a fake device called Alexa Silver. It’s a version of the Amazon Echo, intended for the elderly. I only saw the video recently, but it was funny enough to watch a few times. My parents, aged 88 and 93, live
Tom deMarco and Timothy Lister wrote a superb book called “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”. It’s a book that has had a profound influence on software management. It is a book you must read, and read again. The premise is clear: the real issues in software development are human, not technical.
The DBE planned robotics curriculum On 26 Feb 2021, ITWeb reported that the Department of Basic Education will pilot its coding and robotics curriculum in schools this year. I don’t have a child at school, but I still have concerns about this.
Most of us in IT are working long hours. There are always more fires to put out, and less time to prevent the fires from starting in the first place. But we all know that sometimes we must spend time on what is important, even if it isn’t urgent. Which is why I’m
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