Working remotely, or from home can be a bit tricky. Here are some tips on working effectively from home, and using Microsoft Teams. — Working from home is going to be new for a lot of people. I’m writing this in March 2020, where working from home is the new normal. …

Getting a self contained container platform running on your Windows machine. — What we’re going to cover In this tutorial, we’re going to cover installing Docker on Windows, enabling Kubernetes, installing helm and testing it all by running a machine learning notebook server. And then we’ll cover a few extras like docker-compose and Visual Studio Code Extensions. Getting Started Firstly the example environment I’m setting this up in has…

A look at a whole range of cloud object storage options from multiple providers. — There are a lot of providers offering cloud storage for businesses, they all use a REST API for access data objects. …

A look at a whole range of cloud compute pricing options from multiple providers. — If you look at the normal pay as you go pricing for many cloud providers you’ll find a pretty varied set of pricing. The big three Amazon, Azure and Google are all pretty similar with quite a large variation both higher and lower from the other smaller cloud providers. To…

Being a productive writer on the go can be difficult. Here's a breakdown of the writing toolkit I use when travelling. — If you’re like me, the few times you can get a serious amount of uninterrupted writing done is on holiday or sneaking off to a coffee shop for a few hours. …

The causes of stress may be many and varied, but we can help reduce its effects on us. — If you talk to most of my friends they will probably describe me as very calm, and I don’t let stress and anxiety get to me too much. Don’t get me wrong it’s is still there, some level of stress is part of the human condition is always going to…

How to get the Spark analytics platform running on your desktop, ready for industry-ready big data exploration. — We all read these articles about how big data is taking over the world. One of the tools widely used for this large scale data processing is Spark. Spark is a big data analytics agent and is the base framework of a lot of machine learning and data science used…

A case for celebrating the unconventional intellectual magpie within us all. — We are all born with a curious nature, the world is new and wondrous. As we grow we start to see rich veins of knowledge and experiences stretching off in all directions. We learn, we explore, and we taste everything. And then just as we are leaving adolescence and embarking…

Given the limited options for coding on your phone is it even possible to learn to code on a phone? — Given the limited screen size and options for programming on your phone is it even possible to get a good grounding in a programming language just from a smartphone? The benefits of learning to code have been pushed heavily to people of all ages as an option for upskilling or…