If I were going to dress up for Halloween, I'd wear a black hoodie with one of those white "Guy Fawkes" style hacker masks. As a prop, I'd carry around...

For my personal email, I rely solely on MS Outlook app on my iPhone. I like the new feature where it consolidates all email accounts into a single view with...

Honestly, I don't even open 90% of the mail that lands in my personal Hotmail account, and the same goes for work email. I can judge the relevance of an...

I've been a full time employee for most of my career, but what makes contracting appealing for me isn't necessarily the prospect of more money but rather the opportunity to...

This is why we should comment our source code and version control checkins - so those who follow us can better understand why we did things the way we did.

Cloned or masked environments are not generally for production support. They are typically for development, QA, or maybe production reporting purposes. For the scenario you've described above, it would be...

Our development and QA teams use Redgate SQL Clone for doing a lot of the stuff that was previously done using full database restores. It saves disk space and also...

"..I wonder how many of you worry about employment as you get older.."

I have a handful of observations and opinions about this.

1. The average lifespan of an IT employee today...

Using initials for column names and then having a document at your desk for reference - that is so retro '80s RPG/COBOL.

I too would recommend implementing the database using a...

I'm willing to tolerate inconsistent naming conventions - so long as the same column is named and typed consistently across tables. Also, I expect the column to be unambiguous in...

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So, if you've pulled off on the side of the highway, and the battery is dead or the car won't start, then the rear view cameras won't work?

However, I don't...

The office park where I work happens to be located in a city where everyone is required to carry to carry a gun.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/us/kennesaw-georgia-gun-ownership/index.html

The introduction of self serve online trading back in the late 90's changed the role of stock traders and personal financial advisers somewhat - but it didn't lead to their...

I don't sign into websites using my Google or LinkedIn ID, and I also I don't browse the web while logged into these things. I try to log out from...

Back in the 1980's, most US states passed versions of the "Library Privacy Act" and "Cable TV Privacy Act" - and those laws are still on the books. Folks were...

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