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Rod:
I had the same experience for many years of the lack of company involvement in furthering your IT skills. One good solution is to take it upon yourself to...
July 11, 2014 at 10:26 am
It's not a sad day to see better coders if you contributed to making them so. Mentoring is a benefit and pleasure of being the oldest and most experienced.
July 11, 2014 at 5:24 am
david.wright-948385 (5/15/2014)
skeleton567 (5/15/2014)
Then along came the likes of COBOL which made so-called 'programmers' of those who weren't and shouldn't have been.
Horses for courses: if you produce a product using Cobol,...
May 15, 2014 at 7:46 am
Ralph Hightower (5/15/2014)
Try programming in APL. That is one bizarre language!
I'm not sure without researching it if APL and what we called in the old days Assembler Language are the...
May 15, 2014 at 7:30 am
Koen Verbeeck (5/15/2014)
skeleton567 (5/15/2014)
Gary Varga (5/15/2014)
May 15, 2014 at 6:15 am
Gary Varga (5/15/2014)
May 15, 2014 at 6:02 am
Some techies should not be managers, and I was one of them. At one point I was hired to start up a new IT shop for a fairly large...
May 7, 2014 at 7:10 am
Ed Pollack (4/29/2014)
Comments posted to this topic are about the item <A HREF="/articles/Duplicate/109019/">Duplicate Detection and Management</A>
First of all, check for the existence of a created/changed timestamp you might use to...
April 29, 2014 at 11:17 am
How long needs to tempered by a responsible DBA constantly reminding folks that equipment and software are aging, becoming obsolete, impossible to support or fix if broken. Don't commit...
April 11, 2014 at 9:48 pm
David.Poole (4/6/2014)
Carla Wilson-484785 (4/3/2014)
Stephanie J Brown (3/31/2014)
April 6, 2014 at 2:56 pm
And when something DOES affect you directly, it's easy to lose your objectivity.:-)
April 2, 2014 at 11:42 am
Tom, you make good and valid observations about the supply of technical people when I (we?) started in IT. My college had a small computer, but it was buried...
April 1, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Goofy, please understand that the concept of socioeconomic status has been around for decades and is a legitimate sociological term ( Sociology was actually my degree field ). Just...
April 1, 2014 at 3:18 pm
GilaMonster (4/1/2014)
skeleton567 (4/1/2014)
Let me relate my real own experience with yardsticks. The largest salary increase I ever achieved without changing jobs was by using MY OWN yardstick.
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April 1, 2014 at 11:35 am
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