Some of the posters here appear to have never seen a system that was put together by people who didn't know what they were doing. Windows tools are easy to...

Great article Phil, great comment Jeff. Windows is a windowing environment and I love my IDE. However, I agree wholeheartedly that this labor saving tool designed for systems professionals enables...

lol I will implement that website using an Excel workbook as database. For a tenner. In cash.

I have expertise in management fads. It does not surprise me that management fads extend into technical areas. I advise all technologists to analyze all fads to find the nugget...

The overriding concern for any IT project is staffing--finding and hiring the right people. Running PostgreSQL on Linux, great idea, if you have the needed expertise at hand. By comparison,...

That is a good point, it likely that there are database optimizations baked into Windows Server. At least that is what my testing shows, like performance spikes in the connection...

premature optimization - I like that. I code for clarity, find performance bottlenecks and optimize them until they scream. I leave everything else alone.

When architecting an application, you should always start by specifying needs for persistence rather than any particular technology. Once fully specified, implementation becomes easy to detail. For many, a SQL...

Tom and Barry said something like, If you pick good you get all three--Yes this.

True but I like Jeff's point, always shoot for good. Client satisfaction follows, leave it out...

I am a business application developer, no engineer. I could write a program to capture a license plate number from an image. If you need it to do 10k license...

There is nothing wrong with making an effort to find more women, advertise with professional organizations, etc.

The best way to improve diversity in an IT operation is to implement virtual...

Lol no Eric, the troll part is true.

Great article Erin, thanks. Experiencing the emotion of gratefulness is about as good as it gets. I try to spend as much time in this emotion as I can.

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The more versions you skip, the more incompatibilities in the codebase. Eventually the labor cost of upgrading is higher than the value of the system. If you choose not to...