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  • RE: Creativity

    An idea: Apply this on Friday afternoon after lunch, when you're probably not going to accomplish much in-the-box work anyway.

    Friday afternoon? That's when project managers that have been sitting on...

  • RE: Creativity

    Exactly, that's the reality at most IT shops today.

    I'm going to try to work for one of these "creative" IT shops, but it'll be in another lifetime. By then I'll...

  • RE: Creativity

    I have a long list of projects that would make clients and coworkers more productive. It's buried under a list of production ToDo's that keep the company and clients operational....

  • RE: The Dream Machine

    My personal laptop is more powerful than many of the servers at work and with my MSDN membership, I probably have more server licenses/keys and experience than the IT department....

  • RE: Ridiculous

    I've not seen this behavior at the SQL Server events I've gone to, but then again I'm not female. Hopefully DBAs and database developers are a bit more mature...

  • RE: Shadow IT

    I've always been a shadow IT guy. Central IT is undermanned and often under trained. Like the others here, I've also done task for clients that their IT deparments didn't...

  • RE: Fix v. Create

    I spend most of my time fixing other peoples data/code. 50% of my work load would be reduced if people would give a $h!t, follow simple instructions or at least...

  • RE: Better Bosses Needed

    The two worst bosses I've had were MBA's and were both retired miltary. :w00t:

  • RE: Write Better Code

    Steve Jones wrote:

    . Managers need to allow more time for code to be written as developers learn to implement the patterns and frameworks that result in secure code. Management needs...

  • RE: Starting to Program

    As a programmer, three skills I suggest are: version control, project management and documentation.

    As for a .NET language to use with SQL Server and it's features, I hate the...

  • RE: Scripting Languages

    On a more personal note I'm looking to learn a scripting language that I can deploy on free operating systems (BSD, Linux, etc) so I can run my easily partitioned...

  • RE: Password Help

    I'm not surprised.

    I knew a couple of years ago that Linkin was going to have security issues considering their lack of response to several rounds of spam and other annoyances,...

  • RE: Pioneering with PowerShell

    My main wish is that instead of creating YAPL (Yet Another Programming Language), Redmond could have leveraged a non-cryptic scripting language like Python. I enjoy learning, but the number of...

  • RE: Technology Guilt

    What exactly is scary?

    The last time the US income disparity was at this point was right before the Great Depression. :w00t:

    Imagine the economy as a database server. Right now the...

  • RE: Technology Guilt

    "What I want is the people who buy into the claim that "wealth redistribution" will fix all the world's social problems to understand there is a difference between "needs" and...

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