I do not agree that "self-service" is synonymous with "self-serving" or that the term "self-service BI"...

The dress code question was rhetorical.

Jeff Moden (6/19/2012)

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Consider the following. I'm trying to hire and two people with the same knowledge as Gail Shaw are the last two folks being considered. The two...

Michael G (6/19/2012)

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I hate to point out the obvious: The entire global economy is in a mess. Even way down at the southern tip of africa people are having a...

Almost every...

Speaking as a programmer who has never pursued certification due to the cost and dubious value:

Certifications don't show problem-solving ability, which is arguably more important in The Real World than...

I wouldn't say that software development...

Cade Roux (6/15/2012)

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Future businesses and jobs are created by entrepreneurs and innovators, and only indirectly funded by investors. All demand comes from the bottom, having consumers being able to...

As a developer with rudimentary hardware and DBA skills, I +1 this.

@DBA_ANDY (4/27/2012)

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The real question becomes this, and it is one that many of the posters here have danced around: "If you won XXX million currency units from a lottery/inheritance/whatever, would...

I have used computers for most of my 36 years. For me, it has always come back to programming and application development. I studied seven different programming languages at an...

Excellent point. Perhaps someone could start by harnessing that heat to make the staff's coffee.

For those who take offense at the resurrection of old threads, I apologize, but there is an important issue that has arisen with the passage of time. Microsoft now says...

Unfortunately, the code I developed is the property of my employer, so I'm not at liberty to share it. I would be interested in helping to develop an open-source solution....

I ended up developing a framework for the SQL Server system that I develop and manage. I just happened to observe patterns in the processes I was developing and built...