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It's been a long time since I posted on one of your editorials. For almost 30 years now, I have either worked globally or lead a very diverse global team...
April 7, 2021 at 6:11 pm
As with a lot of posters in the forum, I disagree with Steve's assessment of the ability to be hired without a degree (the 2 of the 3 companies I...
July 1, 2015 at 7:18 am
I was a math major in university but never really got an opportunity to use more than simple business math in programming for several years. However, I was working...
May 29, 2015 at 10:05 am
I use Oracle VirtualBox for VM's. The primary reason when I started using it is that it is open source and installs its own virtual machine so you can...
February 14, 2014 at 8:17 am
Insane. Two of the best (most productive, most sublime, etc) developers I have ever had the privilege of knowing are both women... One I worked for 20 years...
August 28, 2013 at 7:53 am
document. Put him on a PIP (performance improvement plan) and if he continues as is, get rid of him.
August 16, 2013 at 4:06 pm
pdanes (2/22/2013)[ There are plenty of tasks that need attention, without inventing silly make-work like replacing fully functional existing code.
Absolutely agree! If it works, requires no maintenance, and you...
February 22, 2013 at 3:19 pm
In high school, my algrebra and physics teacher had 2 TRS-80 computers (I believe they were Model I's). He would let us play on them after we did our...
February 22, 2013 at 6:43 am
Innovation is one of the primary values of my company. They truly believe that innovation provides break-through results. Some management still only give it lip service or think...
October 12, 2012 at 4:27 pm
We host Innovation Days based on FedEx Days -- 1 day every other month to work on whatever you want that could potentially have a benefit to the business. ...
September 12, 2012 at 12:52 pm
For the last couple of years, my job function has only been to implement new large projects. However, I still spend 10-20% fixing issues on old code as we...
August 24, 2012 at 7:05 am
4 - development, test, production, dataguard (read-only). This doesn't include the cubes for data warehouse which you could arguably say is another.
August 3, 2012 at 4:03 pm
I work for a large company now, but did consulting work for SMB's for several years and still do some volunteer work for non-profits.
Having internal resources do IT...
July 24, 2012 at 9:54 am
We usually see a movie on Memorial weekend as well. I haven't seen many movies lately, but did go see the Avengers. I'm looking forward to Prometheus next...
May 25, 2012 at 5:51 am
I moved into management a while back. I still lead projects and I try to stay up on the technology side but it gets harder and harder each year...
May 14, 2012 at 9:59 am
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