when they require employees to be in the office. That's it. Four times a year.

They are going all in on work from home, allowing employees to be in any place...

I was stuck in a traffic jam on the day this news item broke, and only going on what was not said, I suspect that:

• they didn't use an 'enterprise'...

The problem is (even more for Devs like myself) that, if your team can work from home, anywhere, then people anywhere can be on your team.  So companies don't need...

"For some of us, the refocus on the cost of systems may give us some help in pushing developers to write better code from the beginning,"

Somehow, teaching database design is...

I have refused to interview for remote positions.  I have looked for years for a job with (a) a team of fellow developers of at least 4 and (b) a...

I'm a Developer whose role has usually included DBA work.  Thus, I usually say that I write websites, ones that need to marshal a lot of data from a database...

Does anyone outside safety-critical industries (eg aerospace) actually work with proper test sets?  Perhaps it's just my (30-year) experience, but I'm yet to work anywhere which has proper test data...

The rumour here in the UK, about the British Airways systems failures, was that they had disbanded a existing, long standing team, in favour of outsourcing the work to India...

A while...

You must, must, must... try and get north of the Great Glen. The scenery is EPIC, and there's a train (you can hire at Inverness). There should be...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/21/2016)

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Stephanie Giovannini (7/21/2016)

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I don't understand why code re-writes cause so much fear, both among developers and management. It's the code equivalent of cleaning out the...

peter.row (7/19/2016)

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I'd say that developers are only afraid to touch old systems because they know they will not be allowed time to refactor or remove technical debt because there is...