How (not) to speed up the system

Electronic components manufacturer's shipping system is having problems, but the original programmer is long gone, so…

Urgent!

This contract programmer pilot fish frequently gets urgent requests from IT shops that farm out software…

Well, one of the problems anyway

Help desk pilot fish takes a support call form a user whose opening statement lays out…

Finished, redefined

Flashback to the 1980s, when computer-aided software engineering methodologies are all the rage for major mainframe…

Throwback Thursday: Get the picture?

IT director pilot fish at a daily newspaper is reworking the company's entire network. Why? "There…

Why do we even bother paying these IT guys, anyway?

It's the late 1990s, and this pilot fish is working as a tech-for-hire for small businesses…

Think of it as meeting the needs of the company

Flashback almost three decades, to when this pilot fish is hired as a systems analyst --…

Wait, how can you be unclear on the concept of HEAT?

Consultant pilot fish is called in to deal with this company's newly installed WAN network equipment.…