As time passes I find that my efficiency has improved when considering the whole SDLC. Many developers can churn out more code and quicker. Once you take into account defects...

I think it is simple. Analyse the situation, report the situation upwards offering solutions and identifying issues and allow management to manage.

Whenever management says JFDI (Just Do It - for...

Ninja's_RGR'us (10/18/2010)

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Matt Miller (#4) (10/18/2010)

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Ninja's_RGR'us (10/18/2010)

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How would you guys react? I still have full access to all source codes and their backups. I have no intent to destroy...

Steve Jones - Editor (9/21/2010)

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Does that...

Steve Jones - Editor (9/21/2010)

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Eric Russell 13013 (9/21/2010)

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I hope society never advances to the point where an understanding of relational set theory by the average person is required just to...

Nevyn (9/21/2010)

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blandry (9/20/2010)

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How can you write software without some SQL knowledge?

Even gaming software requires storage, retrieval and use of data!

But alas... Each time we post ads for new developers,...

blandry (9/20/2010)

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How can you write software without some SQL knowledge?

Even gaming software requires storage, retrieval and use of data!

But alas... Each time we post ads for new developers, inevitably...

krowley (9/20/2010)

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There is just so much to learn along with there never seeming to be...

As a developer I agree that developers need to learn relationship theory, set theory and application of SQL.

Fortunately, I have covered all of these in my education (sometimes by active...

Having been asked to develop many a system that can be used remotely as well as at the clients' offices (sometimes multiple sites) it would be far simpler for these...

As usual people want more than is offered. This is human nature and I should imagine occurs frequently by parties either side of the fence. It certainly does in the...

As a freelance developer (Solutions Architect etc) I always recommend it is implemented, however, even before unit tests proper logging/diagnostics/monitoring (including performance measuring) is the first thing to go into...

If I was referred to as young, thank you.

In the UK one of the major accounting packages of the late 80s/early 90s was Sovereign (from Sage). This also had everything...

I think that an important point is not to highlight those that do it worse (lowering the bar) but highlight where it could be, and arguably should be, better (raising...

Spoooooooooooooooon!!!

Assuming you...