Declining Work for Mental Health
A busy year got a little too busy for Steve and he is taking steps to improve his work life balance.
2023-10-20
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Steve Jones
- Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball
- Twitter: @way0utwest
- Website: https://www.voiceofthedba.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest
Practicing (Annoying) Better Security
Steve has had to change his security, which is good, but annoying.
2023-10-18
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The Code Review Checklist
Code reviews are a part of many software development processes, but not used that often with database work. Today Steve has a few thoughts and asks if you have any formal code review process.
2023-10-16
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2023-10-14
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You Always Have a Software Pipeline
If you build software for customers, you have a pipeline. It might not be good, but you have one. Steve recommends you work to make sure this is a repeatable, reliable pipeline.
2023-10-13
47 reads
Modern Development
In some ways, development tasks haven't changed much in decades, but in others the way we build software has changed a lot, especially with regards to data.
2023-10-11
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How Much Code Can You Review?
Code reviews are a part of many developers' lives, but is there a limit to what you can do effectively?
2023-10-09 (first published: 2017-01-27)
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2023-10-06 (first published: 2017-01-30)
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Building Bonds with Entertainment
Over the years I've had the chance to work in a lot of companies, and I've seen a lot of different team-building attempts take place. In restaurants, these were often nights out with too many adult beverages. At a power station, we had some large outdoor BBQs, where again, sometimes there were too many adult […]
2023-10-04
69 reads
The Need for DevSecOps
DevOps is great, but Steve thinks we need to ensure we include security is a part of what we do when building and deploying software.
2023-10-02
55 reads
Blogs
Using ThinOptics to Read Data
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