Tavis Reddick (12/9/2015)

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Could there be a tendency, over time and in a successful devops team, for individuals to learn new skills from the 'other' side, to the detriment of learning...

Good advise Eric, thanks.

Having recently been unemployed for a long period of time, I had many interviews. (Most by phone, some Skype or WebEx and those that were local were in person.) I...

Argh!! Steve, please stop writing articles that interest me so much. Ones that I want to respond to. Believe me, I want to respond to this, but better not.

So tomorrow,...

markedconn (12/2/2015)

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Agree 100%. To many job descriptions are written by HR. I have seen some that look like they were pulled off of some generic web page list as...

aggiekev02 (12/2/2015)

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Steve, you touched a lot of topics that irk me. Because all those points are right.

Worked for a company for 8 years that never did anything but provide lip...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/2/2015)

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Rod at work (12/2/2015)

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Oh Steve, man have you said a lot here that I'd like to respond to. But I think prudence forebears me from...

Oh Steve, man have you said a lot here that I'd like to respond to. But I think prudence forebears me from saying everything I'd like to. Generally speaking I've...

1000 plus/likes/etc. David!

This is a very good follow-up to yesterday's article on Technical Debt. They really dovetail nicely. At my new job I'm on a team that's developing a framework that we...

Quoting from your article:

Getting management buy in is for me one of the most crucial things of all of...

Yep, I'm one of those effected by a shrinking budget. Starting in 2008 the place I worked at before began a series of layoffs and trimming services we offered, by...

In my old job where I was at for many years, we made very little use of schemas. Mainly we just didn't get it. Then one day it sort of...

Jeff Moden (11/10/2015)

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GilaMonster (11/10/2015)

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I've recently seen a system with many user-defined functions, each with thousands of lines of code, often calling each other. Tests or no tests, I'm not touching...

I completely understand those developers you spoke of who were afraid of modifying some VB6 code. I've known of some code I was afraid of modifying as well. Perhaps a...