I just switched jobs a couple months ago.  I went from one of the big fortune 500 companies to a smaller manufacturer.  The move was 100% about culture.  I...

Cheers. I was thinking of you (and a few others) as I wrote this.

I've joined the Great Resignation.  To be honest, I wish I had done so 3 years ago.  For me the COVID situation and having to work remotely highlighted something...

Notifications should be working again. I caught this as I was heading out on holiday and filed the issue.

What I got back over the last few  days (while gone), was...

And in other news....I have taken the plunge. After almost 25 years as a developer I have just accepted a new position as a full time DBA. Even more...

And in other news....I have taken the plunge. After almost 25 years as a developer I have just accepted a new position as a full time DBA. Even more...

It doesn't matter if it's ZOOM or not... meeting usually flat out just suck because the person who is supposed to be running the meeting is one of the...

Test response

Me either, and of course, since I don't, I didn't see this. jeff emailed me and I forwarded as an issue. There is some suspicion that too many subscriptions (me,...

Optics (aka perception, marketability). Sure a process is simple and it takes only a few seconds but if making a user do it leaves them with the feeling, "It's...

Asking around how colleagues handle it or web search for a minute, especially nowadays, chances are someone already 90% published of what you need. Although I must admit: "what...

Even a complicated manual task performed rarely can be helped by automation as this has the effect of "forcing" the author to properly document the process (well it should...

Bueno. Je etudie francais et japonais

I think GO (GoLang) is a good one to learn.  It was designed to balance fast compile, fast execution and ease of use.

It has its unit test capability built...

There was an update to WP (Security) and Project Nami (SQL Server port of WP) deployed. This updated the minification designed to compress the response code sent to the browser....