The fact that people lie to get jobs doesn't surprise me. Take a look at the current leadership in political, business and media in most of the world and tell...

The only "Passive Server" would be one that had no-commercial software requiring paid licenses. This would exclude any offering from Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc, but I believe PostgreSQL running on...

There are a myriad of problems including security. What about accountability? IMHO service bureaus and ASPs aren't as reliable as need be as the more common utilities like electricity and...

The only issues I have about working in the office are the commute and interruptions, neither which are that bad. Other than that, it's really more effective if I'm on...

It seems that most people really want their employees, or co-workers, to meet some minimum level of competency, continue to improve their skills, and do their share of the work....

I'm a data jack-of-all-trades for a small software and service company. My roles include developer, backup sysadmin, third tier support, data analyst and human ETL machine. My current monitoring system...

One of the very few perks of my job is that I have an office with a door. It really helps when you are dealing with code, bad data or...

I think the need is the automation of the reporting and analysis, so you don't have people stuck doing drudge work. The problem is getting people that really do understand...

There's more than 3. One of the ones I hate is the smart slackers that expect you to do...

Very good article Jeff!

As a side note I'm always having to explain to clients and coworkers that phone "numbers" and account "numbers", etc are character fields, not numeric fields...

Speaking of code smells, I often deal with data and code sanitation! 😛

I wish I had the military's budget! :w00t:

We focus on the hardware and the software and the data, but we tend to forget about the people, the most important, most expensive, most fragile part of the disaster...

Due to the nature of the data we deal with, remote access on an admin level is forbidden and these devices are not certified to access the network. The most...

Efficiency is a good goal and one I strive for as a developer. But I always take time to make sure my code is maintainable so someone besides myself can...