2020-07-06
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Career
2020-07-02
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A 2020 Look at Software Developers
The results of a survey on software developers has some interesting insights.
2020-07-01
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Evaluating Life at Work
It can be hard to evaluate your career and job situation, but Steve has some ideas today.
2020-06-19
107 reads
Are You a Gatekeeper?
One of the problems that I've seen in many parts of life is the belief that things must proceed a certain way. I caught an article on ways teachers have made school less fun for kids because they adhered to some rule or belief too tightly. I think many of those stories are true because […]
2020-06-12
177 reads
Sabotage at Work
Some of the work habits that might sabotage an organization appear to have been adopted by some of Steve's former employers.
2020-06-01
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The Challenges of Working Under Quarantine
It's been nearly two months since the Redgate Software offices closed. I am not normally in the office, but I did cancel a trip that I normally would have taken to touch base with a number of teams. That's a minor change for me, but a still a change. It's much less than the disruption that […]
2020-05-28
97 reads
Enriching Your Life
As I was looking to build career goals for the new year, I think mostly about technical topics. That makes sense, given my focus and job, but I ran across an interesting thread on Hacker News that asked about skills to work on in 2020, and not necessarily technical ones. I did find it interesting […]
2020-05-26
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The Life List
Today Steve notes that having a list of things to do before you die can be a driving force for you.
2020-05-22
95 reads
Investing in Speed
Much of what we do to improve ourselves is an investment in our work. The same thing could be said about businesses. Today a little advice about making an investment.
2020-05-20
118 reads
Blogs
Daily Coping 8 Jul 2020
By Steve Jones
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Don’t be afraid of No
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Spark .NET - Spark ML TF-IDF
By Ed Elliott
Spark ML in .NET for Apache Spark Spark is awesome, .NET is awesome, machine...
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