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Johnny Read 25/02/2019

Machine Learning Fun

A January Friday we had a machine learning research day, a team of Village Engineers got together to look at an industrial machine learning problem.   Everybody likes a …

27/11/2018

Which Power BI license should you use?

In this post, you will learn about the licensing plans in Power BI and at the end of it, hopefully, you will have a better idea of what will fit the bill for your busines…

09/10/2018

The Twelfth Man: Why Software Systems Give Companies The Critical Edge - Part II

In the first of this two-part series, we discussed why modern organisations need to understand and adapt to the technological landscape they find themselves in. In this s…

14/09/2018

The Twelfth Man: Why Software Systems Give Companies the Critical Edge

Integrating new IT systems into existing organisations has long been notoriously difficult, expensive and error-prone ... but ... one stubborn issue seems to remain ...

Ste Griffiths 30/08/2018

How I learned to love unit testing

The idea of unit testing used to rob me of the joy of programming. So what changed for it to become one of the most fun parts?

Ste Griffiths 21/08/2018

Practical steps to get started with agile supply chain

Agile supply chain is all about responding to change in a highly-variable commerce environment. We work with B2B companies who have high-variability settings and have lea…

14/08/2018

Navigating the Evolving Web - Part IV: VueJS

VueJS is unique amongst the frameworks represented here in that it is not backed by a multi-million dollar company but rather by a small team. Evan You was working at Goo…

Dominic Bisset 13/06/2018

Celebrating Margaret's 25th year at Village

Last week we celebrated Margaret’s 25th anniversary at Village. From her accidental fall into programming many years ago while inventing a function-like notation for knit…

25/05/2018

Navigating the Evolving Web - Part III: React

React was very much a product of its time. The technological turbulence of 2013 brought with it tectonic changes. Mobile had risen to become the No.1 digital consumer pla…