Failure
This week Steve Jones has a poll to make you think based on Tim O'Reilly's look back at how he succeeded and failed with his company.
2014-05-16
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Editorial
Why Don't We Have Better Practices?
It seems as though the quality of much software isn't very good. What is that? Couldn't we do better? Certainly some people write much better code. Why can't the rest of us imitate them?
2014-05-15
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2014-05-14
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Better Training
What are better ways to train people to work in the technology field? Steve Jones has a few ideas.
2014-05-13
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Just Enough know-how
As a professional, our knowledge of a given task should extend, at a minimum, one level deeper than is strictly necessary to perform the task. Anything deeper can be left to the ridiculously smart, or obsessive, or both
2014-05-12
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Calling Local Speakers
Steve Jones asks for more of the local people to help teach, train, and grow the community.
2014-05-12
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Backup Responsibility
Backups are important in most companies and today Steve Jones asks who has the responsibility in yours.
2014-05-09
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No Handwaving Away the DBA
Steve Jones doesn't think that companies can just do away with a DBA. Apparently there are people on the NoSQL platform that agree.
2014-05-08
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Managers
Steve Jones thinks that the attitudes of managers need to change if we want to be more productive in the future.
2014-05-07
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Vocation or Career
Do you have a vocation or career? Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference today.
2014-05-06
159 reads
Blogs
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Adding a Lot of Seconds
When does this code work and when does it fail?
DECLARE @BaseDate DATETIME = '1900-01-01'; SELECT DATEADD(SECOND, 2147483648, @BaseDate) AS [MaxIntSecondsAdded];See possible answers