Dog Food
Should you dog food your own software? Steve Jones thinks this is a good idea if it works for your particular product.
2012-10-03 (first published: 2007-09-28)
643 reads
Editorials
Remote DBAs
There's still hope for all you DBAs out there looking for a telecommuting job that allows you to work in your pajamas. Someone sent me this case study about remote DBAs and I decided to pass it along. It's a one page PDF, and it's a fluff piece to some extent for Bluewolf, a company that has outsourced IT staffing, but has a section on remote DBA work as well
2012-10-02 (first published: 2007-09-19)
1,371 reads
Challenge Yourself
Challenge yourself to find new tools and use them in your work. That's today's message from Steve Jones. (This editorial was originally published on Aug 5, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is away on the SQL in the City US 2012 tour.)
2012-10-01
307 reads
Fragmentation Fear
Index fragmentation can certainly cause performance problems, but should it really dictate the way we design our clustered indexes?
2012-10-01
396 reads
Outsourcing Security
Companies may look to outsource security in order to take advantage of experts' skills at a lower price. What will that mean for data professionals?
2012-09-27
113 reads
Pair Programming
Today Steve Jones talks about pair programming and when it might make sense for data professionals.
2012-09-26
197 reads
Trade-offs
When working on a project, you have to make trade-offs. Unfortunately, some managers don't realize this. Steve Jones says we need to help them understand that doing things the right way, and working with trade-offs, makes for better systems.
2012-09-25
137 reads
IT is Looking Good
The forecast for IT work is growing. That's good for those of us working in the field.
2012-09-24
170 reads
Rewrite the Coding Rules
If we rewrite the coding rules, will software be more secure? Steve Jones thinks it might and that we should be constantly looking to change the techniques, patterns, and skills we have.
2012-09-24
211 reads
Teammates
This Friday Steve Jones wants you to have some fun and compare yourself to an athlete or media figure, or even a fictional character.
2012-09-21
139 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
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Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
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Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
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