Useless Hackathons
Are hackathons a good way to get a project started? It's not clear to Steve that open ended events are good.
2021-06-14
173 reads
software development
2021-06-11
171 reads
Agree or Lose Features
Forcing users to agree to a new EULA or removing features seems like a bad idea to Steve.
2021-05-26
145 reads
Should You Learn R or Python?
Both Python and R have become very popular languages in the last few years, especially among data professionals. Which should you learn or use? Steve has a few thoughts.
2021-05-21
369 reads
Holding Code in Your Head
Steve has a few thoughts on software development and coding today when working in teams and trying to keep the entire solution in your head.
2021-05-03
436 reads
No-code Software Engineering
The idea that software engineers might be better with no-code tools is a direction Steve thinks is misaligned with the problem. We should help developers learn to be better.
2021-05-01
164 reads
2021-04-26
108 reads
2021-04-15
164 reads
2021-04-14
40 reads
Generating Art
Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
59 reads
Blogs
Slides from SQL Saturday Los Angeles 2022
By Steve Jones
If you attended my talk at SQL Saturday Los Angeles 2022, then you can...
Creating a HEAD utility for Windows 10
By Steve Jones
One of the things I did often in my first career job was create...
Distributed Replay: The Little Engine That Almost Could
Honestly, sincerely, no kidding, I love Distributed Replay. Yes, I get it. Proof positive...
Forums
SELECT * FROM ( ... ) X
Hi all! I'm trying to understand how does this work. I've read a thread...
Would like to understand a better way of updating data that a cursor if possible
I have a need to update some data and also create a record of...
SQL Question - Column References
Hi. Looking for someone to help with a query I'm tring to run. I...
Ask SSC