What Counts as Work - in Software Development
Bill explores the consequences of people not seeing the value in doing things that are crucial to the success of projects.
2013-12-11
547 reads
Bill Nicolich
- Interests: E-commerce data. Set-based operations. Automation programming. Architecture of public interfaces and private interfaces within classes. Managing complexity. Evolutionary psychology. Classic literature. The author Joseph Conrad. The author Marianne Moore.
Insensitivity: A Good Technique?
This article explores the place of emotion among knowledge workers doing team-based design activities.
2013-04-05
182 reads
Holidays and other Social Technologies
A look at what passes for technology from Bill Nicolich in our guest editorial.
2012-12-18
121 reads
SharePoint - Subversive?
A reflective editorial on how SharePoints and other collaborative work spaces are getting used.
2012-01-02
234 reads
Visualize Tech Skills
Is your area of responsibility starved for resources? Is it difficult to get a raise? If so, don't despair. You're...
2011-02-24
1,806 reads
Queries for SSC Community Participation
Bill Nicolich uses T-SQL to look at the community participation of people at SQLServerCentral.
2010-12-23
1,597 reads
The Real Purpose for Kindle
It finally dawned on me why people would bother getting a separate book-reading device like Kindle - and why it might...
2010-12-22
1,234 reads
The Development DBA Role
The Development DBA role, though not as common as the more prominent DBA and Database Developer roles in the database...
2010-12-01
4,492 reads
Query-generated Column Expressions
A technique from Bill Nicolich that allows you to target columns by data type for the same custom expression and easily build complex queries.
2010-05-25
8,643 reads
SCRUM Training with Alistair Cockburn
I wanted the SCRUM Master certification this year, and could have gone local, but I wanted to get the training...
2010-04-30
2,100 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
Forums
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Writing as an Art and a Job
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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