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...

Thank you, Anthony.

Eric M Russell (10/23/2015)

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Rod at work (10/23/2015)

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

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....