At the QCON 2014 conference there was a very senior guy who said that he detested the term best practice because it implies that it's as good as it's going...

Really good (easy to use) music notation/sequencing software, high end sound card and interfaces to my digital piano.  Plus a tutor/mentor to teach me to use it properly.

You get what you bonus for.  It is very hard to design any benefit or incentive scheme that achieves its aim without highly undesirable consequences.
An example would be Payment...

I think SQL Server on Linux will present Red-Gate with some interesting challenges.  With the shift to Linux servers comes the rise of the Macbook as the developer hardware of...

I think I've been lucky in being a developer before choosing the DBA route.  The debate about whether something belonged in the DB or app never occurred because I was...

Preaching to the choir!

I think a substantial part of the problem is the lack of leadership, mentoring and guidance.  The biggest accelerators for my career have been a...

Hi Solomon, I've no idea where the commas came from so it's a typo.  
When you get a Virtual Box image it puts the template for the image in your...

Many years ago my wife and I discovered our youngest son's love of "The Italian Job" DVD may not have been appropriate when he told his Grandpa that he "was...

That's great.  I'll have a look to see if I can get DbFit working with Vertica

I'd be starting at the absolute beginning as I haven't touched Azure.  I don't think I've touched Microsoft tech at work for over 3 years

I can understand why developers like JSON.  For passing simple payloads between services it is fine, if a little bulky.

As a recipient of JSON for uploading into a...