Again, the desire to avoid a subject lest you get shackled to it is an interesting point.
I find that to be good at something you have to immerse yourself...

A new tool is released and its purpose isn't widely known.  To compensate the vendor tries to give an example to which the target audience can relate.  Unfortunately the examples...

Perhaps we should turn this discussion on its head.  Is old stuff worth teaching?  I think that's the important question because it means those of us who have walked up...

Every step taken, whether mistake or true, made me what I am today.  The past has a far greater influence on us than we are aware or would be comfortable...

Some of the worst code I've seen is mine but I didn't know it was bad at the time I was writing it.  The Daily WTF site[/url] is good at...

I notice that Trello is now part of the Atlassian suite (Confluence, Jira, Bamboo).  I quite like the Atlassian tools.

I would be curious to know whether people find...

I'd say delayed gratification makes financial sense.  Using HDTV as an example.  When they 1st came out I could have bought one on credit but I didn't, I saved up. ...

It's a real discipline to consider both what the data is and isn't showing.  Sometimes approaching something from the opposite angle grants a whole new perspective.
I've had a senior...

Just got to share this.
A colleague was asked to write a query to retrieve information from a MongoDB database.  Fair enough, but when he came to do so he...

Singular is less typing.  Clarity of intent trumps all.

When working with Python we use Flake8 as a style cop.  The beauty of using a mechanical style cop is...

Point in time restores and even diff backups.  These should not be cause for nostalgia