I totally agree, Louis! Once I had a coworker who hated naming anything like VoucherServiceCode. She insisted that all columns in tables had to be abbreviated, so in this case...

Ken,

No one here has any experience with Dapper. We could learn Dapper, but it would be additional time spent not developing while we're learning. And I've got a feeling my...

Eddie,

I'm impressed with what that previous company you worked for. I like the disciplined approach they used.

I don't know who the original developers were of the old PHP app, but having the SQL strings in it with no stored procedures, is exactly how they did it.

I...

This question is so relevant for us! Our current environment has been individual developers working on a project alone. The majority of deploys are done from the developer's PC. A...

Ant-Green and Brian,

Personally, I'm in favor of leaving the data in the MySQL database, although it is (so I understand) an old version of MySQL. The arguments against leaving it...

Sean,

I believe you are correct, that the insistence of a degree is, for some companies/organizations, "...for keeping people not like us away".

David,

I love what you said here. In particular, "It...

Crazy Eights - too funny i work a government job too! I am beginning to read about Vertical structure organizations versus Matrix Organizations. Work here comes in from the...

This is a very timely article because I foresee us possibly adopting code reviews soon. At this point we've never had a formal code review process. In fairness to my...

This is a good reminder that any routine to move code or data from one place to another is a pipeline. However, I am tired of the manual pipeline approach...

I might do that. I confess I've reached a point where I've learned not to ask. Asking tends never to get an answer, only stares. So, learn helplessness.

Still, I'd like...

Always? Every time? Hell no.

Frequently? Yeah, probably. If you're doing new or different functionality, then it's probably a good idea to have different structures to appropriately support that functionality....

I thought I had. Well, I'll...

I really like your suggestion of putting the data used for creating a test database into SQL scripts with INSERT statements! That does make it possible to put it into...

Very good point, Rick.