Absolutely...but someone else can support it. (That's the point I was making or, perhaps, I was highlighting Steve was making.)

Rod at work (1/7/2016)

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...However, it isn't always profit related. I've mentioned here in the last few months that I've got a new job working for a state agency...but I was...

Website developers should code to the recommendations and use polyfills for non-standard implementations INCLUDING Google's prefixed implementations. That would mean more compatible websites and a clearer picture.

Unfortunately, that is not...

tkleinhans 1851 (1/8/2016)

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Hard to believe mankind trusted their lives with such ancient technologies. Almost 50 years after landing a man on the moon, today businesses today tolerate sloppy code. Why?...

I would recommend it being outside the points system...

CofW? (Challenge of the Week)

or if that is too much to start off with how about

CofM!!! (Challenge of the Month)

In business they often talk about "Value Added" by an entity, be it a company or an individual. For me this applies to most of life and is about where...

peter.row (1/11/2016)

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...The reason that some sites fail is because the web is ironically doing the only-works-in-IE6 trick again. That is CSS for example only uses the webkit- prefix of certain...

I have trouble with all browsers that I use. Frankly as someone who has/does web development I put most of it down to poor development by web developers or unmaintained...

First off, I think that xsevensinzx describes a critical problem of learning a new skill when it will not be continually used. I used to be quite good at PowerShell...

Yes.

So are many employers.

Ideally the worst employers get the worst employees and vice-verse. Strangely enough this is what I have tended to see. The worst employers lose all their decent...

The potential has been there so long that when it started to appear viable I just could not believe it. It is a bit like the cold fusion of the...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/16/2015)

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Nyteshades (12/14/2015)

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No, we're not engineers. Software and the IT industry move to fast to allow for the rigor of an engineering discipline. It is both...

...are we sure? Really sure???

We have many systems that provide "eventual consistency", however, it is often the lax attitude to this consistency issue that causes problems not the "eventual consistency" itself.

Often fanbois and fangrrrls...