Text File Formats – ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB Delimited Text (2009)

ASCII delimited text solves the problems exporting and importing structured text files and is part of the design of the character set. Unfortunately a lot of people and systems use CSV and other p… | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 6 years ago

Our Software Industry needs to step up to the crease and tell the world that we can write code

8 years ago I had a very embarrassing meeting. I laughed at a major global company that had invested over $ 600 million in a shared system. It took 5 years for the companies representative to talk to me again. I did not actually laugh initially. I did something much worse. They e … | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 12 years ago

Caching is king or how to make a fast web app

Your developers have created a brilliant new application, and you are new starting to get some traffic, but it is collapsing under the load, and you are having to throw hardware at the problem. A solution is at hand in the form of caching. Varnish is the first thing to give your … | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 12 years ago

Understanding the cloud

First it has been around a lot longer than you think and in a lot of different formats. The modern cloud came about from the requirements of online companies to solve the problems of providing 100% uptime and security on cheap hardware. Mainframes solved these problems a long tim … | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 12 years ago

The Government Needs to Answer back

One of our more noisy US colleagues recently stated that the UK Government needs to do more in the cloud. Given our experience the UK Government is doing lots in the cloud, they are just not doing it with our US colleague. So I thought it would be helpful to provide a few example … | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 12 years ago

New email system is brilliant

@UK PLC new cloud email system is brilliant and orders of magnitude faster than exchange at dealing with hundreds of thousands of messages. | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 14 years ago

Duncan Conjecture

Duncan Conjecture that the original Big Bang black hole had a high speed evaporation phase via quantum tunnelling of a postulated high energy escape particle. | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 14 years ago

Bye Bye Gas Guzzlers – revisited

In 2006 we got rid of our gas guzzlers, and it was clear that we could do a lot more through our business. We have now made a breakthrough in quick calculation of environmental impacts down to the individual products that are purchased, which make is easy for us to measure the im … | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 14 years ago

Eternity

Some analogies for Eternity | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 14 years ago

Unix on Jamie’s Laptop

A quick review of current unix distributions. Ubuntu was the best of those tried for a novice desktop. FreeBSD was the only other system with network card support. | Continue reading


@ronaldduncan.wordpress.com | 15 years ago