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  • RE: The Younger Generation

    xsevensinzx (3/31/2016)


    Gary Varga (3/31/2016)


    Jeff Moden (3/30/2016)


    It's not just the "younger generation"...

    Agreed.

    All comes down to passion really.

    As a younger guy, I'm starting to lose count in how many people fail to...

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    Gary Varga (3/30/2016)


    mjh 45389 (3/30/2016)


    ...continuous pressure on testing, passing exams and league tables children are often not really taught to learn but purely to pass tests/exams...

    Totally agree. People are less...

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    lloding (3/24/2016)


    mjh 45389 (3/24/2016)


    On a different tact I know that some younger people are discouraged from going into IT by its sheer ageism

    I'm in my early 50s, just getting...

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    chrisn-585491 (3/24/2016)


    I also notice that incidence of mental illness amongst the young is also on the increase. Whether it is better diagnosis or consistently greater stress levels I don't know....

  • RE: Track Your Consultants

    I have been wary of consultants since a previous company paid a lot of money for very little. Saying that I am also wary of people with Prince II certification...

  • RE: Byte Me: Database Migra(ine)tion

    SQLRNNR (3/26/2016)


    Steven.Grzybowski (3/23/2016)


    Gary Varga (3/23/2016)


    ...because the iTunes App would be such a better choice. :unsure:

    The itunes would be much worse- You'd get a u2 album stuck in your head...

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    ccd3000 (3/24/2016)


    mjh 45389 (3/24/2016)


    On a different tact I know that some younger people are discouraged from going into IT by its sheer ageism in many areas - seeing your father...

  • RE: SQL Server on Linux

    I will watch events with interest having used both SQL Server and a number of other RDBMSs under various Linuxes (and some Unixes) over the past few decades. My main...

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    On a different tact I know that some younger people are discouraged from going into IT by its sheer ageism in many areas - seeing your father and his friends...

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    The majority here are grey/greying. Last year we interviewed a number of younger people with a few years' post graduate (mainly Computer Science) experience and found most were quite poor...

  • RE: The Younger Generation

    Gary Varga (3/23/2016)


    ccd3000 (3/23/2016)


    ...I'm an MIS major myself and I can think of only 2 or 3 classes that I still value.

    I think that most of the degrees I looked...

  • RE: Byte Me: Database Migra(ine)tion

    I am getting database migra(ine)ation because someone keeps suggesting why no migrate to NoSQL and isn't grasping that it is a relatively small database that has taken years to evolve...

  • RE: The Matrix

    Once I passed 40 all my learning has been based on "read and practice" as although courses get talked about they never happen. I actually have my doubts about new...

  • RE: Reasonable Timeframes

    Wayne West (3/8/2016)


    A previous gig of mine was with a city municipality. When I started, they had an older IBM mainframe. At our weekly meetings, the guy in...

  • RE: Reasonable Timeframes

    Some years ago the company I was working for then brought in a new support manager whose experience was in engineering manufacture but not IT. He devised a new system...

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