I'm in a similar boat as Doctor Who 2, except I'm FedGov.  I could probably ask about getting a raise, but I'm 98% sure it'd be a case of "we...

Hoo boy, I need to stop joking about living in "interesting times."

We're a small team, 8 people (as of right now, keep reading,) we had 9 (one guy got moved...

I have seen the IT profession fragment from a discipline into many disciplines, each with its own interface point, allowing us to proceed in ignorance of that discipline's inner workings. ...

At this point I take any "AI is going to take ALL the jobs" sort of headlines with a very, very large grain of salt.  Typically such articles seem to...

So much out there relies on video and audio. As a deaf person, this is a whole world I struggle to interact with.

As an experiment, turn the sound off...

Jo, we're going camping that weekend, oh yes!  We already cancelled our planned trip this weekend, because of the likely weather (rain, so much rain)

You know what's annoying?

When you've got a family camping trip planned, but there's also a SQL event that weekend that finally put up the schedule and has several topics you...

See, this is why I always (usually LoL) skim the directions for something before getting started!

It's amazing, though, how enough "little frustrations" can quickly add up to becoming a "I...

Oh...

Been there, done that, didn't get the t-shirt...

My run-in with "filling big shoes" came not long into my current position, I was hired as an MS SQL Server DBA, to...

Enjoy the time Steve!

My employer is fairly generous with leave time, we can carry over up to 240hrs of leave a year and how much you accrue per pay period...

Went to Chattanooga, TN for the weekend for a writers convention and discovered...

Scenic City Summit was taking place for at least one of the same days.  Wish I'd known about...

Make sure all your consumers are also in the cloud ( to avoid traffic costs ! )

Check bundle prices / volume prices, maybe multiple SQLVMs come better than installing...

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A bit of a vent and a bit of a question ahead, feel free to skip this, but I need to vent somewhere...

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In the parlance of a particular Reddit sub-reddit,...

I could possibly get behind a more "Trade Union" sort of union for IT, think similar to what electrical workers have, something where if someone is a member an employer...