A very thought-provoking editorial, Steve. I work at a large state government department, where I've felt for years, DevOps would help tremendously to improve our systems. But the political pressure...

I agree that knowing the basics is very important. Recently I interviewed with a company I had hoped to get into. I didn't get past the first interview. Upon hearing...

We are having a work conference this week at Redgate. In previous years, we rented a space for a few days and literally ran a conference. Booths were from...

A very good friend of mine, used to talk about something with a name like "Dev Pack", or "Business Pack", or something like that. Unfortunately, he...

Thank you, Grant. Guess I'll look again at an MSDN license. The Enterprise license, especially to establish the license, is exorbitant. At least for an individual. Perhaps the Professional level...

I like your point of view, Sean. I adopted the same, "know something about everything and everything about something", although I didn't put it so succinctly. For me, though, a...

I really like your article, @Grant. It succinctly states the dichotomy between needing to keep learning and the subject one's learning constantly changing. It's tough, but I understand your desire...

The proponents I've seen for low code/no code encourages allowing the "citizen developer" to write low code/no code applications. They are the domain experts. They understand the problem. Under...

Low code/no code really interests me. I like Richard Campbell's quote, "Ignore them [low code/no code] at your own peril". I believe there's a lot of truth there.

The proponents I've...

I am an introvert as well.... And after taking advantage of many online conferences over this past year, I don't see myself flying and staying in a hotel...

Grant, I agree with a lot that you said, but want to play the Devil's Advocate in this response.

Like you, I am an introvert, in that I prefer to work...

This topic has me concerned with a couple queries I've been working on recently. I'm working on a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) app. We use Entity Framework (EF). (I know...

The large state department has changed in some ways, but not in others, from my point of view. There are portions I know little about, such as the help desk....

In this case I sometimes wonder if I'm a part of the problem rather than a part of the solution. When writing Windows apps for several years I've preferred to...

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Oh, Steve, you've picked a topic that I'm passionate about. I'm going to do my best to keep my response as short as I can.

In my previous job, where I...