We've found what we call 'retired folks wine, being pretty inexpensively priced. Yellow Tail wine imports of Australia, mostly cab, merlot, and shiraz. Latest liking is a...

Well, for you guys planning your retirement, I have one piece of advice. You need to plan on the ongoing expense of a bottle of your favorite wine daily...

dennis.oconnor (3/26/2015)

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At age 75 I am valued and respected by management and users. So I have not noticed any age discrimination in my experience, but believe that my attitude is...

sarafian_developer (10/21/2010)

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I have noticed the same, on me but on others.

As a developer, you can't but notice the enthusiasm of youth and the get the work done approach of a...

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I think they have tried to give guidance in different ways. Certainly they don't limit things and some of their arguments are shaky, but they don't necessarily say the cloud...

Is there any difference between this and the SQL function ISNULL? For simplicity and to avoid 'mindclutter' why would we not call it the same? I'm just thinkin'...

I've always advised the best way to avoid bugs or get them fixed is to force those who develop products, IT or other, to use their own products, with only...

A real true developer, as opposed to a coder, will be humbled and mortified to have bugs found by others. You should know your code and be creative enough...

I spent 42 years as a developer in various languages and as a DBA heavily involved in producing SQL code. Due to my own testing as I worked, I rarely...

Well, I think we just proved cloud service is NOT 'always on', regardless of the claims.

I personally would NEVER have committed my company's data to off-site or remote servers. ...

This is just another chapter in my forthcoming and growing book to be titled 'Do We Really Need To Do This Sh!t?'. Trouble is, I keep adding so many...

I say this after having been an IT manager for 11 years early in my 42 year IT career. A good manager will realize that the sheer fact that...

Andy Warren (12/29/2014)

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Jessica, I hope you enjoyed the discussion all the more after commenting! Thanks for reading and commenting.

All - thanks for your thoughts. I continue to try to sort...

"We have to write code in a particular way so the next programmer that has to work with it after we leave can make heads or tails of it."

Well, this...

Hope your easing into retirement is good for you. I'm in year 4 and I love it. Still PLAY with my computers daily, still design db's and write...