Coming back! I'm like J Burrow and the Bengals. A bad start, but getting better.

Many years ago I was reading a column by someone who was lamenting the change in her searches.  She remembered searching for a term and the first few hits...

Rod, sounds like you want waterfall. Perfect customers.

Part of the reason for Lean, Agile, DevOps, etc. is that people don't know what they want. They often have suggestions when they...

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What is clear is that some people are on a spectrum with "suited to home working" being on one end and "suited to office only" being on the other. ...

I couldn't believe it when I ran across this pattern in someone's code with the ID as a PK

Part of the thing with DevOps is you are continually deploying code. A "release" might be lighting up a bunch of stuff that was deployed earlier behind feature flags.

One of...

Well, well, well, a pleasant surprise. I updated my lineup at the Pittsburgh airport Sun am, with very little confidence, but I guess this is why we play the game.

SQL Sat Pittsburgh was great and I really enjoyed seeing a few of you longtime community members there.

Hope I get to see some others soon.

Ha, I certainly make it work and make it fast.  The pretty part I have to depend on others because I'm lost beyond basic HTML, SQL tables, or stealing code...

For me, I often find I have a "test repo" or a "test pipeline" alongside the real one because I constantly run into things that I don't quite know how...

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There's also what we used to call the mythical phase 2.  This is where a problem of some sort is discovered and the PM/Stakeholder says "we will address that...

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I'm all for new technology... if it's useful and provides a good advantage over and old way of doing something.  Adopting the attitude of "we have to do something......

Thanks for the update.

Voted as well

To me simple doesn't mean a lack of moving parts, it's more that we can grasp/grok/understand it easily. We use known techniques, patterns, proven things. This is also why it...

Good software engineering is good software engineering. Technology isn't a panacea if you don't engineer things well. You can pay $$ and hide problems for a bit, but not forever.

Ultimately,...