@TomThomson

The problems you listed aren't business problems because they aren't about customer relations or accountancy. Business has no use for the things you have mentioned.

Just kidding (obviously I hope!) business...

IceDread (4/20/2015)

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Just because a system would use an ORM does not mean that the ORM itself can not use stored procedures.

Jeff Moden (4/18/2015)

To coin a phrase, "If you don't think...

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Indeed. It was surprising to me to see even a few seniors agreed with the mentality that they shouldn't be bothered as much or it's not really their problem.

For...

Exemplified by this fierce debate at TDWTF:

http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/junior-developer-woes/8707

"As a growing company, we recently hired a new Junior developer. The guy didn't have any work experience, but he did have a fresh...

I think it's been natural for me to slow down in terms of churning out work. I have more of a take stock of things, get things going properly, offer...

IceDread (3/24/2015)

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I didnt use to use GUID's /UUID's as primary key and I still do not. However, I sometimes use it as an alternative key or temporary id.

Imagine you...

DEK46656 (3/22/2015)

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Though I have known about Service Broker since its initial release, I never had a reason or chance to work with it… until recently. I am trying to...

Not many coming through nowadays at my current gig fortunately, at least not that I understand! It's kind of part of my job to help people do it better so...

In general I would say definitely bad comments - they can confuse or obscure what is going on. Typically when...

Interesting and informative, also wholly correct AFAICS 🙂 thanks.

Many of us bear those sorts of scars Eric...

We go with both approaches for different circumstances. State based typically working between dev and stage, migration based to production for anything very complex.

Typically though we will dry run...

phonetictalk (2/23/2015)

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At some point I'm sure he will discover games and will have to learn self-control and moderation. But, given that he's not yet expressed interest on his own, I've...

Nice editorial and a subject I'm very interested in - how to let children use computers in a way that works best for everyone really.

My children have not got on...

Gary Varga (2/19/2015)

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Given that I have learnt to avoid using third party tools wherever possible and stick to what the majority of my clients use. This means that I don't...