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  • RE: Rethinking Hiring

    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...

  • RE: The Biggest Data Breech (For Now)

    1000 plus/likes/etc. David!

  • RE: The Biggest Data Breech (For Now)

    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...

  • RE: Technical Debt

    Quoting from your article:

    However the suggestions given require some discipline and buy in from management...

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

  • RE: Shrinking the Budget

    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...

  • RE: Custom Schemas

    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...

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    Jeff Moden (11/10/2015)


    GilaMonster (11/10/2015)


    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...

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    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...

  • RE: TOAD and TFS, do they work together?

    Thank you, Anthony.

  • RE: Positive or Negative

    Eric M Russell (10/23/2015)


    Rod at work (10/23/2015)


    I very much prefer using IsActive, or simply put Active. I am adamant about this because at my previous job the guy who set...

  • RE: Positive or Negative

    I very much prefer using IsActive, or simply put Active. I am adamant about this because at my previous job the guy who set up the database was completely inconsistent....

  • RE: An Out of Date CAP

    I've never heard of the CAP Theorem before. Very interesting reading!! I can see its application. And I'm quite impressed that it could be proven rigorously. Thanks for writing this...

  • RE: Where should middle tier business logic be stored?

    I quite agree, Ben. And I'm quite fine if no one agrees with me, so long as it's done amicably. 🙂

  • RE: Where should middle tier business logic be stored?

    Oh Ben, you sure know how to pick a hot topic for Friday. 🙂

    Well, I can honestly say that I've been on both sides of this issue. At my old...

  • RE: The Counter Offer - Part 2

    Dale, et. al.,

    Speaking only for myself this long running thread just brings to mind the fact that the thing I've never been able to do is direct my career as...

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