In Yorkshire I believe both are called a Learning Bat.

Joking aside it takes considerable time and energy to...

djblyth (9/8/2016)

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Yeah, I wanted to say the same but i thought it might sound too 'high brow'.

Actually though, I think techies often begin with the expectation that a non-techie...

Some of the best training I have had has not been technical. It has been soft skills related. I learned an important concept called "managing up". This...

Excellent editorial.

I am an Aspie so life is one long foot in the mouth experience. One of the hardest lessons to learn is that something I am passionate about...

A lot of companies are transitioning to DevOps. The delay is likely due to cultural issues although certain traditional software is highly resistant to scripted deployments.

From what I can...

In a past life I worked in a company that provided web sites using CMSs. At the time these things had quite complicated infrastructure requirements if you wanted to...

The phrase I would use would be "choose files over database tables". That isn't slamming the door on using tables, its just saying that in most cases would be...

Has anyone had any experience of an NDA/NCA being enforced?

Yes we sign these things up front but what happens from a practical stand point if they are breached? Not...

I can remember when vb.net came out. I was in a development role at the time and two of my colleagues had honours degrees in software engineering. Very...

My definition of good enough would be significantly lower if the"we promise to fix this if it causes problems" was a firm commitment rather than an outright lie.

There's nothing like...

I've not taken holidays because job changes meant that I've lost holiday allowance but I cannot think of an occasion when I've thought "I'm glad I didn't use my holiday...

Indianrock (8/31/2016)

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Absolutely correct. I don't know why we don't have load tools so that a prod-like load can be tested in QA. The need has been there for...

Indianrock (8/31/2016)

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Is this relevant? Hardware may be cheaper than experienced developers and DBAs who could actually develop the sophisticated procs which could handle complicated business logic.

In many of these...

I strongly suspect that developer antipathy to stored procedures is rooted in organisation structure rather than pure technical arguments.