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The future of automation products - 2020 July 21
What does the future of automation products look like?
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The great RPA rebranding - 2020 July 21
Computers and the IT industry have literally been built directly on top of automation. As such, Robotic Process Automation (often referred to by the acronym RPA) is perhaps one of the most interesting rebranding stories that the IT industry has ever seen.
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Automation has a narrow window of recognition - 2020 July 20
Automation has a narrow window in which it is recognized. Too far back and things are taken for granted and too cutting edge means things are not proven or not known about at all. This leaves only a small window in time where people immediately recognize successful automation projects.
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History of the automation industry - 2020 July 19
Computers and the IT industry have literally been built directly on top of automation. So why did it take so long for automation and more recent branding of the industry Robotic Process Automation (often referred to by the acronym RPA) to go mainstream?
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Today I learned about poaceae - 2020 July 14
Today I learned about the poaceae, which is perhaps better known as the family of plant species of grasses. Turns out there's a lot more species of grasses than I realized, including some plants that you might not think would be in that category.
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Fixing the bug with the series sort order - 2020 July 12
The plug in I was using to make series of posts on here doesn't actually sort them the way I'd want so I made some changes to fix this.
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Natural sorting and pelican series - 2020 July 12
Looks like the plug in I was using to make series of posts on here doesn't actually sort them the way I'd want.
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I'm freezing new long form articles for a while - 2020 July 12
I'm putting a freeze on new long form content in an effort to clear out a growing backlog of drafts of long form content.
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Cache invalidation and UX - 2020 July 11
The use of caches in systems presents some challenges for a good user experience, I ran into a great example of these frustrations the other day.
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A handy git command - 2020 July 11
git pull --rebaseis quite a useful command, I use it a lot when I'm working on this blog.
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