I think this is a good and timely editorial, and I think its equally good to encourage people to have balance in their lives, but I also think today's generations...

Buy a new chair??? With hundreds of companies going out of business and still more laying off workers, you are going out and buying a new chair? Man,...

Thanks very much for this very timely article. We just ran into this problem a few weeks ago and it was just great timing that your elegant solution was...

If codes and algorithms can be created, they can be reverse engineered. We need to recognize there is no perfectly secure method, and never will be.

As well, though we...

I read a lot of work-related books (and technical papers) per year, but I get very little time for enjoyable reading so I probably only manage about 3-5 'fun' books...

What troubles me about this sort of discussion is the more general question; do we need to keep "improving" databases? Or maybe said another way, are these things really...

I tend to agree with most of the older posters here... Being in the business for 30 years now, Certifications have proven two things to me over my career...

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One of my pet peeves with technologies today is that the generations that came after mine will buy anything if its "cool", even if in fact its almost totally useless....

3 critical things you can do that Phil did not mention...

Network, network, and then network some more.

There are thousands of people out there each vying for the same positions. ...

A very timely editorial Steve...

A few weeks ago I was sitting on my deck with a few friends, two of whom, like me, began their careers as developers. We...

Here in the northeast we recently had a data breach at the parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshalls. In this breach a couple guys simply drove through the...

Sometimes its very easy to be totally stupid and not realize it. It just becomes "normal" and then it becomes "accepted practice". Here's a simple example...

Anyone who pays...

Building software is a robotic task like it or not. Any developer listening to the kind of music listed in the editorial runs the risk of leaking emotion into...

For God's sake, lets go a bit easier on Brian who was clearly talking about the holiday side of Independence Day. I find it very unfair to go after...

I often hear people talking about how they "relieve" stress and I find this very curious because it presumes that stress is something that is required. Its not. ...