People should be exposed to programming and then decide if they want to pursue it as a skill or career. There are plenty of gateways to this now days from...

Phil Factor (11/5/2016)

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MUMPS? Good grief, that is an amazing survival. I wrestled that fiendish system in the eighties. It is true, though. If you curl up your nose at something...

ODBC as a protocol has saved me time after time. Client has some weird data store based on MUMPS? ODBC for the win!

I'm quite pleased when clients know what batch files and scripts are. But it's more common to have to explain or add an additional task to my project than it...

"Zombies" are the "code word" for fear of desperate fellow citizens/looters after civil order breaks down. Like good admins with backups and tested restores, there's a plethora of folks preparing...

You can do ETL and SSIS without C# or other language skills, but eventually you will need to know some programming beyond TSQL.

I need to update my home technology. Both my laptop and workstation are several years old. My ham radios and RaspberryPi are newer and probably more powerful. I'd like to...

Mostly true. There are folks that use these tools as part of...

I personally don't like complex tasks that require many steps in GUI application. It's probably why I don't care for much of SSIS quirks. Or the fact that Microsoft decides...

99.99 percent of the internet is fragile. Why?

Nobody wants to spend the money and pass the laws make security seriously. We have millions of unpatched computers, consumer gear with...

I like much of what I see from Microsoft, but most of the issues I have with Redmond, aren't technical issues or a reflection of engineering ability, but management decisions.

I don't trust black boxes:

Automotive: Look the mess that was Toyota's code. GM's ignition switches debacle. Also I personally had a Ford car that would reset while driving. They couldn't...

Even when pipeline issues are resolved, there is a lot more that is required. It isn't enough that scripts will run; the scripts have to be easily editable in a...

Design choices that impact the database matter.

I made some suggestions about an upcoming product several years ago, indicating that it would have problems scaling after a few years of...

I don't tar all developers with this brush but I do see a certain amount of myopic lazy coders who seem to thing that it is just C# code and...