Writing is a form of communication and communication is one of the "soft skills" that are highly valued in the tech world.  Having said that, as much as I loathe...

It's apparent that a lot of UI/UX developers have never heard of Ben Shneiderman's "Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design."  If everyone kept those rules in their minds when developing,...

My employer has slowly shifted over the past 8 years or so towards virtual training and conferences whenever possible.  I was excited to be able to participate this year--while I...

I started learning R when I began working on the Data Science professional program that used to be offered by Microsoft.  Students had their choice to chose R or Python...

In addition to what Chris mention, technical people should always try to talk in a language that non-technical people can understand.  Non-technical people get confused and intimidated when technical people...

I hate writing documentation but I do it--not only to teach the others who support the software and processes but as I get older, it helps me remember how all...

I work for a small company that has three people who work with SQL and VB.net. We are very interested in learning how to use a Version Control System,...

I've had a bunch of restaurant jobs, a few of which lead into management positions.  Although I worked at at McDonald's for over 6 years and was a manager of...

To avoid an overflow, truncate and shrink the transaction log before flushing.

Thanks for such a great article--I'm surprised that I hadn't stumbled upon it sooner.  This is going to aid me in qc'ing my own programming.

Where I work, we're allowed to sell back vacation (we get separate vacation and sick leave) at the end of the year as long as we still have 40 hours...

I've been at my current job for over 12 years (it's the only job I've had where I haven't gotten bored because I get to do both application development and...

In the last few months, I've been taking even more steps to make my home environment the same as my work environment.  For my keyboard, I have an eMachines keyboard...

I work in a small company where one guy and I share DBA duties, even though he's the one who has DBA in his title.  I'm the one who has...