Take it. Redo your resume, sell them...

Eric M Russell (8/24/2015)

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It seems to me that, even in the event of a catastrophic computer system failure, an airplane should still be functional enough to make an emergency landing...

The developer, other developers, whoever. If it's not, change it. Tests aren't, nor should they be...

Wow some great lists. This might be a good thread to compile into an article.

Glad to hear a few of you find value in a VCS. I certainly have many times, and even when I haven't, I'm glad it's there in case I do...

This is why I am pushing unit testing. The things that Tom mentions are true. We don't have huge verification budgets, nor time, and mistakes will be made. However if...

Yanks in first, Rockies in last, a mixed year for me.

Not sure how the playoffs will go, but it will be an interesting ride. Will KC do it again in...

I wish I could make these .2 points. It feels unfair as a trivia question, but I did think about trying to bring some awareness to the proliferation of tools.

I had someone ask recently about seeing more dev articles, especially T-SQL based ones. Anyone up for doing some one-pagers that solve some of the things you've done in the...

From a command prompt, net user [username] gives it in details. You could get this from xp_cmdshell, but you'd be parsing things. Get-ADUser in Powershell can help as well.

There's no good way to handle this unless you know the month, date, and year that are being entered. If I enter 19122011

Is this

Nov 20, 1912 or Dec 19, 1912?

Surely...

I...

I'll take a look, probably not until Monday

kiwood (8/20/2015)

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Actually, what is really missing is the thought that all these will appear as a mistake in the short term (or even a mistake at all).

"...If you've ever driven...

Jeff Moden (8/19/2015)

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One of my previous bosses said that "If you don't make mistakes, I'm not pushing you hard enough".

While I agree with that, the place to experiment and make...