2019-09-20
105 reads
Editorials
A Good Reason to use a VCS
Steve has a good reason to use a version control system. It's a different kind of backup that you might need.
2019-09-19
175 reads
Beware, More Ransomware is Coming
Ransomware has become a large problem in the last few years, and Steve thinks this will continue to increase because of insurance payouts.
2019-09-18
192 reads
What You Should Know About Coding
Today Steve thinks about the skills and approach we ought to be taught before we start building software as a career.
2019-09-17
275 reads
The Crazy Times of Year
Do you have busy times of the year that recur regularly? In some positions I've held, we had certain events or processes that always caused additional stress and headaches for employees. As a bartender, certain holidays (New Years, Halloween) were extra crazy. In one company, every quarter was an adventure involving a late, or a […]
2019-09-16
136 reads
2019-09-14
189 reads
Staying Focused
Finding the zone, working in the flow, these are the most efficient times for us, but they can be hard to find.
2019-09-13
155 reads
The State of DevOps Report for 2019
It seems like just a few weeks ago that I went over the 2018 results with Gene Kim. That was an exciting few weeks for me, running over the report in prep and then having the opportunity to host a webinar with Gene Kim. Exciting times, but it's been almost a year and the 2019 […]
2019-09-12
82 reads
MTTD
Achieving high availability is hard. Today Steve discusses the challenges of five nines of uptime.
2019-09-11
138 reads
Business Pressures
The business pressures can often change how we work, or even how we build our software. A few notes on Github from Steve Jones.
2019-09-10 (first published: 2015-08-12)
260 reads
Blogs
Quick Blog: Making the Power BI PowerShell cmdlets easier to use
By Aaron Nelson
One of the top reasons I love PowerShell so much is that from the...
Trouble writing? Join the club. #JustWriteTech
By Jen McCown
I was talking with a couple of excellent SQL people* recently, and we were bemoaning...
Check Query Progress with Live Query Stats
This is something I touched on back in 2017 a little after the Live...
Forums
Is Data the Future of the Vibrant Web?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Data the Future of...
Best way to write query that shows orders that\'ve purchased 2 specific products?
Basically, I just want to write a cleaner query than what I have, which...
slow database performance
Hi All, Last week we got users complaining about specific database performance and they...
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