jasona.work (12/1/2016)

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But, you still have to consider, WHY would an employer hire someone from such an organization? The "image" of having a "board certified" programmer? Would that be...

David.Poole (11/30/2016)

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What I'd like to see is a framework to support whistle blowers.

By all means insist on evidence but whistle blowers need protection. Most companies have a whistle blower...

Oh WOW, Steve, have you brought up a big topic! I'm sure we all have something to say about this.

First I'd like to mention that the Association for Computing Machinery...

David.Poole (11/28/2016)

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What puzzles me is that developers aren't much better at data modelling. Surely you have to be pretty good to come up with a decent object model in...

Very good article, Steve. The last sentence of your article states, "Hoping that the average DBA or C# developer can just 'pick up some tips' is a recipe for project...

Speaking as one who is the...

My experience is probably not typical. Having worked at the same place with only a couple of IT workers, whenever we hired, which was very rare, it was always a...

Timely article, Steve. Something has happened here, which I'm not involved with, that really emphasizes what you've said. An apt word, what you've written here.

Interesting article. Normally I wouldn't comment on this topic because in a way its very cut-and-dry. However, this week I've witnessed the importance of that. The week of the November...

Love these Friday articles. Always something to just think about before the weekend.

I agree with you, but not 100%. We're living in the age of the geek and having STEM...

RTM == Read The Manual

David.Poole (11/7/2016)

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The problem with the new "shiny bobbles" is that no-one really knows how to use them except the people who wrote them and those people aren't necessarily the ones...

First, I've never seen that quote by C.S. Lewis. I love it!

To answer your second question, what I do with others trying to learn something I know is determine what...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/6/2016)

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Doctor Who 2 (11/5/2016)

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This article has me wondering about my own account. I have an account with Wells Fargo. Naturally they've been sending out emails...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/3/2016)

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Ralph Hightower (11/2/2016)

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I don't think that a computer system could have detected the fraudulent activity at Wells Fargo. This was a systemic problem across the...