I recently discovered the JTBD framework at Business of Software: what I learnt made me swear that I’ll use it from now on in every customer interview I need to do in order to understand their underlying needs and support our product pipeline. It is that brilliant. It’s like a targeted, systematic guided interview... Read more
Writing HTML can be a chore – making sure elements are closed properly can be annoying without proper IDE support, and CSS markup often requires repeated patterns of nested divs and spans in order to get the layout working properly. There are various templating languages and engines available for dealing with this problem. Probably... Read more
Neil and Simon We founded Redgate* in 1999, and, until recently, we ran the company as joint chief executives. Simon is now the CEO, with responsibilities that include developing the leadership team and making sure everything runs smoothly day-to-day. After sharing the CEO role for over 12 years, Neil is taking time off from... Read more
In the late summer of 1999 I made one of the most important phone calls of my life. It was to my good friend – one of my best friends – Simon Galbraith. When I called him, Simon had been working for Shell in Holland for a couple of years. I was working for a... Read more
Compliant Database DevOps
