Michael J. Babcock (10/18/2016)

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Eric M Russell (10/18/2016)

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One thing that can be said for single tier development tools like MS Access and FoxPro, they allow a developer to quickly stove pipe...

Jeff Moden (10/17/2016)

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skeleton567 (10/17/2016)

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David.Poole (10/17/2016)

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I was aghast to find an old Clipper app still being maintained, although it didn't really need much maintaining. For next to no investment it...

David.Poole (10/17/2016)

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I was aghast to find an old Clipper app still being maintained, although it didn't really need much maintaining. For next to no investment it was cheerfully generating...

Eric M Russell (10/17/2016)

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I occasionally encounter SQL that was originally coded back in the early '90s, even though it has been migrated to newer hardware and RDMS platforms several times...

Two points about old code:

I started writing COBOL back in 1969. In those days there seems to have been a fair demand for programmers and lots of them were...

MalD (10/9/2016)

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I'm a firm adherent to the principals contained in "Give the man a fish - feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and where...

Well, I would be against any kind of rating decision by anyone, Steve included. I prefer to make my own evaluations without the precondition of anyone else.

Gail Wanabee (10/6/2016)

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Steve:

The best people to support code are the people that created it. No one else on the planet will know as much about it as they do, and...

I spent my last twelve years before retiring with a company which during that time took on a major country-wide development project, first using a number of consultants and then...

netmikem (9/11/2016)

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This topic really resonates with me.

About 10 years ago, I was the sole developer supporting an important user group in a growing firm. As we brought on new...

Well, I guess I did it backwards. After only a few years in IT in three separate jobs I moved to become manager of a small IT shop which...

Well, I haven't used a cursor in years. Of course, I've been retired for a number of years too. :-). Anyway, I'm not sure I would use...

When I started writing code as far back as 1969, the accepted method was to add 5 to one place to the right of the desired result length and then...

Eric Mamet (4/25/2015)

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I just saw a (new?) book entitled "Mastering SQL Server 2014 Data Mining"...

Following Microsoft BI developments, I was under the impression that "on Premise" SQL Server data...

This article brings up a topic which I thought about for a number of years. We get into our work and find the things that we really enjoy and...